Welcome to Literacy Week at St Paul’s High School! This week, we’re celebrating the power of reading, writing, and storytelling with a host of exciting events designed to inspire creativity and ignite a love of learning in all our pupils. Throughout the week, pupils will have the opportunity to participate in a range of competitions, […]
Pictured above are first and second prize winners with their teachers Mrs Mone, Mrs McCormick, Miss O’Rourke and Mrs Campbell (Head of English). Here was the challenge…. Deliver a story in and around 100 words that would entertain the reader. What was needed was a tight plot, colourful words and clear punctuation to draw the […]
We love poetry at St Paul’s! We love it so much that we stopped our normal schedule on National Poetry Day to spend an hour reciting our favourite poems to each other. Watch our special highlights video below. Thanks to all our fantastic students and staff who shared their favourite lines of poetry – and to […]
Principal of St Paul’s High School, Mr Jarlath Burns, led staff and students in an emotional farwell to Head of English, Mrs Sinéad McKenna, who is leaving St Paul’s after eight years to move to a new position with the Education and Training Inspectorate. Mr Burns praised Mrs McKenna’s learner-centred teaching style and the relaxed […]
Congratulations to Year 9 student Paddy McGrath, winner of the Library Hallowe’en poetry competition, pictured with ‘scary’ Head of P.E. Mr John Rafferty Paddy’s winning Hallowe’en poem is below. Remember to visit our Library News page for updates and information from our fantastic school library. The scariest thing that I ever saw Was last […]
Pictured above is the St Paul’s team that represented Year 8. Katie Burns, Sarah Kilgallon, Fionntan Evans and Mairead Campbell are pictured with Kids Lit Quiz Master, Wayne Mills. Twenty one schools participated in the Kids Lit Quiz in Belfast this year with the quiz master again being Wayne Mills, who comes from New Zealand every […]
Year 9 and Year 10 students travelled to London with the English Department on Thursday 20th September to Friday 21st September. On Thursday 20th September they attended an evening performance of the West End Show SHREK THE MUSICAL at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. The Musical features new songs as well as the cult […]
St Paul’s High School is a thriving, innovative educational community of almost 1500 students of all abilities, from children with learning difficulties in our Learning Support Centre to high calibre academic achievers in our AS, A2 and Applied Post-16 courses. All classrooms are equipped as standard with interactive whiteboards, and students and staff are encouraged to make the fullest use of technology for learning and teaching.
The school, which was established in 1966 with the aim of providing its pupils with a Christian education within the Catholic ethos, is situated on a modern campus in pleasant rural surrounding in the townland of Carrickbracken, County Armagh. St Paul’s High School was designated by the Department of Education as a Specialist College for Science in 2008, and the school was awarded the BECTA ICT Mark in 2009.
St Paul's High School, 108 Camlough Road, Bessbrook, Newry BT35 7EE
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