In May 2014, after studying the geology of our local area, some of our Year 9 classes went on a field trip to Slieve Gullion. Accompanied by a geologist and an archaeologist, they became more aware of the unique and outstanding geology, archaeology and scenery in the Ring of Gullion area that we live so […]
Our Year 14 students and their guests had a great night at their Annual Senior Formal which was held at the Carrickdale Hotel, Carricknarnon, County Louth. Over three hundred students, staff and their partners let their hair down for the night and celebrated their senior, and final year, as St Paul’s students.
Students who excelled in their GCSE results are pictured along side Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns and Year Head, Mr Brendan McArdle. There were great scenes of excitement and delight in St Paul’s on Thursday 21st August, as GCSE students and parents collected results and called to enrol for post 16 Studies. Twenty-eight students achieved a […]
Principal of St Paul’s High School, Mr Jarlath Burns and Minister for Education, Mr John O’Dowd congratulate students who received their A Level results at St Paul’s High School. Minister for Education, John O’Dowd, was warmly greeted by staff and students of St Paul’s High School on ‘Results Day 2014.’ There was great excitement as students received their […]
The sudden death of our esteemed Year 8 pupil James Babe has shocked and saddened us all.
James was only at St Paul’s for one year, but during that short time he brightened our lives
Pictured above are the Year 13 students going on the International Project to Lourdes, along with Miss Kathleen Moore, Mrs Bridget McConville and Father Dermot Maloney. Pictured Year 13 students who organised a coffee morning and raised £700, which will be used to buy a wheelchair.
Staff at St Paul’s High School acknowledged colleagues who are moving on to new posts, and who have completed twenty five years service in the Bessbook school, at a special Mass celebrated by school chaplain Father Dermot Maloney, and afterwards at a special lunch in Canal Court Hotel. Principal of St Paul’s, Mr Jarlath Burns, […]
Mrs Úna McNulty, Vice-Principal, Mr Martin Canavan, Link Teacher and Mrs Julie Simpson pictured with individual prize winners from St Paul’s at the Training for Business awards Pupils from St Paul’s pictured at the Training for Business awards ceremony along with Mrs Úna McNulty Vice Principal, Mrs Bernie Rocks, Training for Business, and other St Paul’s […]
On Wednesday 19th March a group of students and staff from St Paul’s High School, travelled to Kirovsk in the Murmansk region of Northern Russia to establish a new school twinning programme and for the launch of the “Challenge of Change” project. The link between the two schools was originally initiated by a Newry and […]
Under-16 Frank Maguire Cup 2014 Ardscoil Naomh Pól 2-06 (12) Coláiste Feirste 3-11 (20) St Paul’s High School met Coláiste Feirste of Belfast in the final of the under-16 Frank Maguire Cup which was staged at St Gall’s GAC, Belfast. St Paul’s got off to a good start with a well-taken goal from Jarly Óg Burns to put the Bessbrook […]
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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