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 […]

Congratulations to our Year 8, 9 and 10 pupils who took part in our EDL eTwinning project in September and October this academic year!  We received our first quality label based on their hard work. As part of the project pupils wrote post cards in French and Spanish and sent them to schools across Europe; […]

The students are keeping a live blog of their visit to Spain.  Please feel free to leave comments below. Day 5 – Thursday 23rd October 2014 Visitamos la Universidad de Málaga, luego viajamos a Nerja, antes de yendo a Miramar en Fuengirola. This morning everyone got up as usual, had breakfast and assembled in the […]

Head of Irish at St Paul’s, Miss Ciara McCoy, Irish teacher, Mr Stephen Mooney, Príomhoide, Ardscoil Naomh Pól, Mr Jarlath Burns, Year 10 student, Niall Campbell and Year 13 student, Anita Dennison, who both excelled at the recent Ulster Final of ‘Abair’ public speaking competition. Year 10 student at St Paul’s High School, Niall Campbell […]

St Paul’s students and their teachers are currently visiting Spain.  We’ve asked the students to keep a blog, which you can follow below. Day 5:  Thursday 24 October 2013 Jueves – Visitamos el Colegio Internacional de Torrequebrada y la ciudad de Málaga. This morning was our earliest start, and so many students were feeling a […]

GCSE Spanish students pictured with Miss Louise Mulholland, Mr Gerard McMahon and Head of Spanish Mrs Noella Murray. On Sunday 20 October, forty GCSE Spanish students from St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, will travel to the picturesque village of Mijas in the Andalucian region of Southern Spain for an educational visit. The group are excited to use this opportunity to visit […]

Day 6 Checked out of hotel at 10 .30 Headed to Oparinor shopping centre to spend our last remaining euros and experience French shopping. Checked in at 1. 30 pm for our return flight to Dublin. All arrived back safely but very tired at St Pauls at 7pm On behalf of myself and the other […]

Pictured above Students Saorlaith Ní Dhughaill and Ronan Davies, and Principal, Mr Oliver Mooney receive Sciath an Athar Uí Mhuirí (the Father Murray Shield) from President of Comhaltas Uladh, Mr Niall Comer. Pictured above are St Paul’s students along with Head of Irish Miss Ciara McCoy, Irish teachers at St Paul’s, Mr Dáithí Murray, Mr Jarlath […]

 Year 14 student, Lauren O’Hare, pictured with her certificate of proficiency from JLPT.   Last December Year 14 student Lauren O’Hare completed her Japanese language proficiency test in Dublin – an exam that’s held worldwide in 54 countries. Lauren began learning Japanese through her own self-study almost four years ago. She took the opportunity to […]

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 […]