Lions Youth Award Success for Tara

Congratulations to Year 14 student, Tara O’Hanlon, who has reached the All-Ireland final of the Lions Youth Award scheme. Tara, who had previously won the Newry Lions competition, and was representing her local area. On Sunday 13th December in Banbridge she won the regional heat. Also in the picture are the three interviewers of the panel and […]

Events, News, Students, Year 14

St Paul’s students attend Victims of Conflict Conference

Year 12 Learing for Life & Work students recently attended the Victims of Conflict Conference in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh. Students were given the opportunity to meet a very wide and diverse group of people who had in one way or the other been involved in the conflict. These included Alan Bracknell whose father […]

Events, News, Students, Visits

Santa Run & Dodgeball raises a whopping £2800!

Congratulations to Mr Martin Rafferty and the A Level PE students who raised a whopping £2800 for St Paul’s International Projects by completing the annual dash to Camlough from the gates of the school – and back! Well done to Oisin Carnegie who was the first student Santa back across the line, and to Mr Benny McArdle, who […]

Events, International Projects, News, Staff, Students, Success, Year 13, Year 14

Well done Pupils of the Month in Art & Design

Year 8 – Aoife Tierney My name is Aoife Tierney.  I was selected as student of the month by my art teacher Mrs McArdle. The theme we are studying is self-portraits. I have done mine using shading pencils. For the parts that showed colour, I decided that if it was a light colour I would […]

Art, Art & Design, Art Pupils of the Month, News, Students

Newry Gateway Christmas Party at St Paul’s

Members of the Gateway Club in Newry had their Annual Christmas Party recently at St Paul’s High School. Organised by class 12/73, and their irrepresible form teacher, Mr Paddy McAvoy, this was a very successful and enjoyable night, with over a hundred people in attendance. Our school caretaker Mr Kevin Kearney supplied the music on […]

Events, News, Students

Caolan launches Anti-Bullying Twitter account

Caolan McCauley, a Year 9 student has taken it upon himself to create his own Anti-Bullying account on Twitter in order to help young people to use their voices to take a stand against bullying. Caolan is an excellent student, and St Paul’s Anti-Bullying mentor, Anita Dennison said ‘I am very proud that Caolan has […]

Anti Bullying, News, Senior Prefects, Students

GCSE Success rewarded at St Paul’s

Mr Jarlath Burns, Principal of St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, welcomed a large crowd of parents, friends and pupils, to the GCSE Prize giving. Mr Burns introduced the platform party and welcomed Mrs Eileen Fearon Chairperson of the Governors, Very Rev Father Seán Larkin, PP, Vice-chair of Board of Governors, Ms Katy McGovern, Student Office […]

Events, Exams Success, GCSE, News, Prizegiving, Students, Success

Craft work with Year 8 at St Paul’s

Mrs Michelle Toner, parent of Rebecca in Year 8 came to St Paul’s recently to speak to a group of Year 8 Art and Design pupils about her craft work and her involvement with autism at a local level. Michelle’s eight year old daughter Louise, a pupil at nearby Rathore School for Special Needs was […]

Art, Art & Design, Events, News, Students, Visits

IET host Faraday Challenge at St Paul’s

The Institute of Engineering and Technology hosted a Faraday challenge day at St Paul’s on Wednesday 26th November. The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The initiative is to encourage the pupils to study the STEM subjects and to consider careers within the engineering and technology […]

Events, News, Science, Students

‘Bin It!’ Road Show at St Paul’s

Recently, our Eco-group and class 10/78 took part on the ‘Bin It!’ roadshow. The big message from the road show was that we ruin some really beautiful places by being careless and littering. We also found out that chewing gum is good for us as it freshens our breath and can help us keep our […]

Events, News, Science, Students