This video encapsulates some of the most poignant and beautiful memories from the History Trip to the Battlefields in Belgium and France. This collaborative project was unique in that it included St. Paul’s, Newtownhamilton High School and St. Joseph’s College Ipswich. The students also produced a ceremony of song and poetry at the Island of […]

Mr Teddy Colligan, MBE, visited St. Paul’s this week to chat to the Year 10 students who are travelling on a History Collaboration trip with Newtownhamilton High School and St. Joseph’s College Ipswich, to Belgium and the Somme. Mr Colligan who is originally from Bessbrook, was recently awarded an MBE and was custodian of the […]

The Debate Team was established this year in St. Paul’s and consists of students from both Year 13 and Year 14. The debate programme attracts students from a number of disciplines in the school – Science, Maths, History and Modern Languages and has been an extremely successful extra-curricular activity for our students. We were especially […]

Year 12 History students pictured with Mr Dominic Bradley MLA Recently History students in Year 8 visited the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont to investigate the workings of our regional government. The visit was sponsored by Dominic Bradley MLA, who welcomed us at the door. In the Assembly chamber itself Mr Bradley outlined the role played […]

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland were recent visitors to St Paul’s History Department. Mr David Scott and Mr David Hume came to deliver a lecture on Unionism at the turn of the twentieth century. In an informative talk Mr Hume outlined the development of Ulster Unionism from their reaction to the 1885 Home Rule […]

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, students from St Paul’s History department were invited to debate the impact he has made on politics since. Anastasia Ní Riabhaigh gives an account of the event. I had the privilege of attending the annual debate for local high schools organised by the SDLP. […]

Year 12 History student Niamh Cluett writes about an opportunity she and her classmates had to engage in local democracy. I was chosen with Conor and Luc from my History class to enter a debating team raising issues about whether Newry and Mourne is an age friendly society – that is a society fit to […]

Year 10 student Orla Garvey writes about a recent visit to Bagnell’s castle, where she and her classmates met Holocaust survivor Joanna Millen. Myself and four classmates, along with our friends in Newtownhamilton High School, travelled to Bagnell’s Castle to meet a lady who survived the Holocaust.  Joanna Millen had spent the first three years […]

The History students from St Paul’s High School at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Students from Year 13 recently visited Berlin as part of their AS Level History studies.  Accompanied by Head of Department Mr Emmett McCaffrey and History teacher Mr Neil McArdle the students enjoyed their time in the historical German capital.  Year 13 […]

St Paul’s Science students demonstrating an experiment to a P7 pupil and a parent at Open Day.    St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook held its annual Open Day on Saturday 25 January.  Prospective pupils from Primary 7 classes in our feeder primary schools and their parents visited the school in large numbers.  They were guided […]