St Paul’s recently hosted a cultural awareness event which was funded through the CRED enhancement scheme. The CRED enhancement scheme has been designed to support school and youth settings in the implementation of the CRED policy. The criterion for funding is taken directly from the CRED indicators which accompany the Department of Education CRED policy. […]

Mrs Branagan, Mrs Graham and students James and Hannah Babe, and Aoife Donnelly and Tara Clarke from 11/29 who helped ensure Big Yellow Friday was a huge success. St Paul’s hosted its fourth ‘Big Yellow Friday’ in order to raise awareness of Childhood Liver Disease and to raise much needed funds for the foundation. Hannah […]

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland were recent visitors to St Paul’s History Department. Mr David Scott and Mr David Hume came to deliver a lecture on Unionism at the turn of the twentieth century. In an informative talk Mr Hume outlined the development of Ulster Unionism from their reaction to the 1885 Home Rule […]

Year 9 student Bianca Hughes talks about how the loss of a special aunt to cancer encouraged her to find out more about the disease and inspired her to raise funds to aid cancer research.  Bianca tells her special story below. Hi my name is Bianca Hughes and I am a Year 9 pupil at […]

St Paul’s High School was delighted to host exchange student, Hannah Wilhelm, from Kurfurst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Neustadt a. d Weinstrasse, Germany.  Hannah spent three weeks shadowing our Year 13 pupils, Laura McKeown, Niamh O’Hara and Anita Dennison. During this time she was able to sample school life here in Ireland, participate in various lessons as she […]

Year 12 and 13 students recently participated in an essay writing competition organised by University of Ulster.  The students were invited to discuss an area of ethical interest in science. We are delighted to announce that a number of the students received a certificate in recognition of their essay writing and also have been invited […]

Principal of St Paul’s High School, Mr Jarlath Burns, led staff and students in an emotional farwell to Head of English, Mrs Sinéad McKenna, who is leaving St Paul’s after eight years to move to a new position with the Education and Training Inspectorate. Mr Burns praised Mrs McKenna’s learner-centred teaching style and the relaxed […]

Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh, Éamon Martin, pictured with Principal of St Paul’s High School, Mr Jarlath Burns and School Chaplain, Father Dermot Maloney, during his recent pastoral visit to the Bessbrook school. The new Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh, Éamon Martin paid his first visit to St Paul’s High School last Thursday.  Archbishop Martin was greeted […]

Year 13 student Shauna Pentony, who represented Rotary Ireland in Strasbourg recently, photographed with Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns and Head of Year 13, Ms Christine Fearon Year 13 student, Shauna Pentony, recently returned from Strasbourg as part of a group of twenty-five students who represented Rotary Ireland. The focus of the Rotary Club is to […]

Gavin Boyd and Natalie Corbett, from the Rainbow Project and Head of Year 13 Ms Christine Fearon along with Year 13 students Keith Boyd, Oisín Groom, Amy O’Keefe and Charlotte Gibney at a recent workshop at St Paul’s to raise awareness of issues relating to sexual orientation.  The Rainbow Project recently delivered an extensive ‘Introduction […]