The annual Year 14 Interview Skills Day took place recently at St Paul’s. The event helps to prepare students for impending university and employment interviews. A wide range of our partners from industry and education were in attendance and participated in the mock interview sessions, advising pupils on their interview technique and making suggestions for […]

Congratulations to Year 14 student, Tara O’Hanlon, who has reached the All-Ireland final of the Lions Youth Award scheme. Tara, who had previously won the Newry Lions competition, and was representing her local area. On Sunday 13th December in Banbridge she won the regional heat. Also in the picture are the three interviewers of the panel and […]

Year 12 Learing for Life & Work students recently attended the Victims of Conflict Conference in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh. Students were given the opportunity to meet a very wide and diverse group of people who had in one way or the other been involved in the conflict. These included Alan Bracknell whose father […]

Congratulations to Mr Martin Rafferty and the A Level PE students who raised a whopping £2800 for St Paul’s International Projects by completing the annual dash to Camlough from the gates of the school – and back! Well done to Oisin Carnegie who was the first student Santa back across the line, and to Mr Benny McArdle, who […]

Members of the Gateway Club in Newry had their Annual Christmas Party recently at St Paul’s High School. Organised by class 12/73, and their irrepresible form teacher, Mr Paddy McAvoy, this was a very successful and enjoyable night, with over a hundred people in attendance. Our school caretaker Mr Kevin Kearney supplied the music on […]

Mr Jarlath Burns, Principal of St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, welcomed a large crowd of parents, friends and pupils, to the GCSE Prize giving. Mr Burns introduced the platform party and welcomed Mrs Eileen Fearon Chairperson of the Governors, Very Rev Father Seán Larkin, PP, Vice-chair of Board of Governors, Ms Katy McGovern, Student Office […]

Mrs Michelle Toner, parent of Rebecca in Year 8 came to St Paul’s recently to speak to a group of Year 8 Art and Design pupils about her craft work and her involvement with autism at a local level. Michelle’s eight year old daughter Louise, a pupil at nearby Rathore School for Special Needs was […]

The Institute of Engineering and Technology hosted a Faraday challenge day at St Paul’s on Wednesday 26th November. The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The initiative is to encourage the pupils to study the STEM subjects and to consider careers within the engineering and technology […]

Recently, our Eco-group and class 10/78 took part on the ‘Bin It!’ roadshow. The big message from the road show was that we ruin some really beautiful places by being careless and littering. We also found out that chewing gum is good for us as it freshens our breath and can help us keep our […]

Year 13 and Year 14 BTec Level 3 Applied Science students attended a course on Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) on Thursday 20th November. During the two and a half hour session the students were able to analyse the components of everyday painkillers using the facilities of the STEM module that are not available in school […]