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 […]
Congratulations to our Year 9 & 10 Eco-Group members who recently came runners up in the Wrigley’s Bin-It competition. This is a whole UK competition, which challenges young people to spread the message about keeping their area litter free. This group created an assembly, which they delivered to the year 10s, with a clear message […]
St. Paul’s High School Bessbrook is the largest education provider in our area, with almost 1600 secondary school age children enrolled. As our student population has grown, the diversity and needs of our students has changed. Currently 24% of our enrolled learners have a special educational need, most of whom attend mainstream classes on […]
Pupils are reminded that mobile phones and smartwatches are not permitted in the Exam Hall. The video below shows how the dangers of ignoring this important advice.
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 […]
St Paul’s Has Got Talent took place in the school Assembly Hall on Friday 27th April at 7.30pm. The event was held to raise funds for International Project and organised by the team who went to Russia in February.There were 12 pupil acts on stage who provided a variety of entertainment, for the supportive audience, as […]
Mr Burns and Mr Mooney present Fionnbar Walsh, father of the late Dónal Walsh, with a cheque for 500 euro. Fionnbar spoke honestly about how his son Dónal bravely fought cancer, before passing away tragically almost five years ago.
At the SRC Occupational Studies awards in the Canal Court Rachael McQuaid received “Best in subject” for Hairdressing while Shea McCreesh received “Best in subject” for the Asdan Programme. Both are pictured with Principal Mr Jarlath Burns and SPP Co-ordinator Mr Martin Canavan.
On Monday the St. Paul’s High School Intermediate Netball Team travelled to NI Centre of Excellence for Netball, Lisburn Racquets to play Glenola Collegiate of Bangor in the NNI Premier 2 Intermediate Netball League Final, having beaten Belfast Royal Academy in the playoff stages of this competition. The match was a close affair with St […]
Six junior pupils at St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook were ‘top of the class’ this week after winning the regional heat of the prestigious Opportunity Europe Euro Schools Quiz which was held in the Marketplace Theatre in Armagh. Competing against ten other schools the pupils demonstrated their general knowledge skills in all aspects of European […]
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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