Our Year 8 boys made a fantastic start to their Mid Ulster Cup campaign today with an impressive 9-1 victory over St John the Baptist, Portadown. The boys represented St Paul’s impeccably, producing an outstanding team performance full of energy, skill and determination. Some excellent patterns of play were on display throughout the match, with […]
St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, will celebrate its annual Mass for deceased pupils and staff on Wednesday 18 November at 7.30pm in the School Assembly Hall. Family members, friends of St Paul’s and former members of staff are very welcome to attend.
All four nights sold out as 76 St Paul’s pupils staged Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the Assembly Hall, a sixtieth anniversary production that brought standing ovations at every performance and has been the talk of the community all week.
What an amazing turnout at our first ever MacRory Training Fund Night! We packed out the Flagstaff Lodge and Mr McMahon entertained the crowd with quiz questions and games. Cait Carragher was possibly the star of the night – beating a stunned Jarly Og Burns in one of the quick thinking mind games. It would […]
St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, is delighted to announce a new collaboration with local football club Gullion Youth FC, which has already delivered exciting benefits for pupils through the installation of new soccer goalposts on the school grounds. The goalposts were made possible through a partnership between St Paul’s High School and Gullion Youth FC, […]
Thirty-four Year 14 pupils from St Paul’s have completed the final stretch of the Camino FrancĂ©s, walking about 92 kilometres over four days from PortomarĂn to the Cathedral of St James in Santiago de Compostela, a new international project led by our own staff.
St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook has been presented with the Centre of Excellence Award for Financial Education by Young Enterprise NI at Queen’s University Belfast, becoming the first school in Northern Ireland to achieve the award.
Saint Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, is celebrating the outstanding achievement of Year 14 student Niamh Cunningham, who has recently been selected for the prestigious Netball Northern Ireland Under 19 Long Academy squad. Niamh’s selection is a testament to her dedication, talent and commitment to netball. Over many years, she has demonstrated exceptional skill, determination and […]
St Paul’s welcomed the Class of 2026, their families and guests to the school hall on Thursday 10 September for Senior Prizegiving, the first great occasion of our Diamond Jubilee year, with Bishop Michael Router as Guest of Honour.
As is tradition, our annual Junior Prizegiving took place as part of our Year 11 Induction on Friday 28 August, as our new Year 11 pupils returned to school for the start of the academic year. It is a ceremony that belongs to a particular moment. These young people arrived in Year 8 three years […]
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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