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, […]
Are you creative and artistic? Do you love drawing? Have you got a great idea for a Book Cover that we could use for our 50th celebrations this year? Pupils from Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10 can enter the Design a Book Cover Competition and entry forms are available from the library. Closing date is Friday 24th […]
The Scholastic Book Fair arrives in St Paul’s on Monday 14 November for one week. Why not come along and be in with a chance to win a Nintendo 3DS and much more. Hundreds of books are available from as little as £2.99. Come along and help support your school library.
On 23 April, St Paul’s celebrated the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death with a Library Art Competition for Year 8 and Year 9 students. The theme was to draw any character from any Shakespeare play. Over 300 students entered the competition and the top spots were won by Year 8 student Lauryn McKeown and Year […]
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 […]
The Book Fair this year raised a total of £1161.50 and the library received £700 worth of new books for the fiction shelves. We would like to thank all those pupils, parents and staff who bought a book and supported the library. With the advancement of technology, it is great to see so many of […]
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 […]
Year 8 pupils celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday and the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The library displayed all his books and many pupils took part in activities in their English class on Friday 12th September. Here are some Year 8 pupils who took part in Roald Dahl day in the library.
Library Art Competition winners, pictured with Head of Art and Design, Mrs Siobhan O’Hare and school Librarian, Mrs Michelle Morgan. Mrs Siobhan O’Hare, Head of Art & Design presented the winners of the Library Art Competition with their prizes at assembly last week, This year for the first time, the Art Department has joined forces with Mrs Morgan, […]
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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