A selection of our year 9 pupils participated in an IET Faraday Challenge Day. They had the opportunity to research, design and make prototype solutions to genuinely tough engineering problems. It provided them with an exciting opportunity to engage in STEM subjects and become aware of the benefits of careers within Science, Technology, Engineering and […]

On Friday morning a selection of our local primary schools came to show case their STEAM projects as part of the Big Bang Fair. Afterwards the pupils and our own Year 8 pupils enjoyed a Science Show on Space travel presented by Astrophysicists Scott Marley, with a few fun demonstrations thrown in! [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”33″ […]

The winners of the year 9 quiz were 9/49. Sophie Hollywood, Sarah Cunningham, Faolon Toal & Aoibh Murray

Today we were joined by pupils from schools in Armagh and Down, who had great fun designing and building bridges as part of the Sentinus Primary Challenge  which promotes STEM.   [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”22″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”1″ thumbnail_width=”300″ thumbnail_height=”300″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

On Friday we had the teachers and pupils from our local primary schools displaying their STEM projects that they completed over the last few weeks. In recognition of their hard work they had the opportunity to experience an exciting and interactive STEM show. Our year 8 Pupils also had this opportunity [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”21″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” […]

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. St Paul’s have been awarded a Certificate to acknowledge the hard work in promoting STEM through our curriculum.

Pupils from 08/67, 08/76 and their parents recently had a fun filled evening at St Paul’s making spaghetti – jelly baby structures and lots of other stem activities.  See below for some images from the event. 

Year 13 and Year 14 BTec Level 3 Applied Science students attended a course on Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) on Thursday 20th November. During the two and a half hour session the students were able to analyse the components of everyday painkillers using the facilities of the STEM module that are not available in school […]

Pictured students, Ryan Clarke, Callan Connolly and Matthew Clarke along with teacher Mr Donal Murray during their visit to BE Aerospace. Year 13 students interested in a career in Electrical and Electronic Engineering had the opportunity recently to work with students from other schools in solving complex problems, and visiting the impressive facilities of engineering […]

Year 13 student David Loye was selected to participate an an innovation competition in the Ulster Hall recently.  David writes below about his experience as a budding entrepreneur. Generation Innovation was an eventful night and showed young entrepreneurs that it is possible to become successful even in today’s economy. From Start to finish the night […]