A Post 16 Information Session for Year 12 students and their parents took place recently. The event aimed to assist students to make informed decisions about their Post 16 options. Students had the opportunity to talk to Post 16 teachers and students about the range of subjects on offer in St Paul’s. Also in attendance […]
Pictured above are Year 11 students, Nathan McCaffery, Niall Campbell, Padraig Boyce and Ciara Jones who took part in the Stock Market Challenge, along with Principal Mr Jarlath Burns. Missing from photo is Alannah O’Grady. On Friday 6th March, five Year 11 pupils travelled to Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School to compete alongside over 20 […]
On Thursday 5 March, pupils from both Bessbrook Primary School and St Peter’s Cloughreagh came to St Paul’s for the first BestBall tournament of the year. BestBall is a cross curricular initiative being run by St Paul’s as part of the schools Shared Education Programme. For the past four months, two placement students David McCabe […]
Pictured above is the Northern Ireland Junior Dance Champions, alongside their coach Miss Kevina McGreevey. Congratulations to the St Paul’s Junior Dance team and their coaches Miss Kevina McGreevey and Mrs Catherine Hughes. They are now Northern Ireland Junior Dance Champions. Year 8 Amy Mackin, Holly Loye, Shannon Kelly, Niamh Taylor, Cliodhna Grant, Gemma Smith, […]
Pictured above is Mr David McQuaid (STARTSports & DKIT), Mr David McKenny (STATSports & DKIT), Orla Nutley (Student), Mrs Siobhan Bradley (Vice-principal), Caolan McCann (Student), Kevin Lawless (STATSports & DKIT), Ronan Lynch (STATSports & DKIT) and Mrs Elaine Cahill (Head of Mathematics at St Paul’s). Mathematics and Computing were the order of the day as […]
Science Wizards is an after school club which is open to Year 9 Pupils only. This takes place after school on Thursday’s and runs for four weeks, allowing pupils to expand their understanding of science through more informal methods with fun and unusual science experiments. Our first week was very busy with Chemistry and Physics. The pupils […]
On Thursday 26th February, Year 11 and Year 13 Irish students, accompanied with Miss Mc Coy and Mr Mooney, embarked on a 4-day trip to the Gaeltacht in Rann na Feirste, Co. Dhún na nGall. The trip was ran in collaboration with 3 other schools, Sacred Heart Grammar School, St Louis Grammar Kilkeel and Abbey […]
Pictured above are students Matthew McLoughlin, Hannah Rushe, Karen Murphy, Rebecca Munroe and Cliodhna Sloan. Also in the picture are teachers Mr Gary McKinley, Mrs Ann O’Hare and Mrs Clare Maguire. Congratulations to our ‘Banc na mBuaiteoiri’ team who won the Community Outreach Award at the regional finals of the First Trust Bank (FTB) Build […]
Pictured above is class 08/51 and science teacher Mrs Tracy O’Hare. Absent from photo is classroom assistant Mrs Anne McElroy. Class 8-51, together with their science teacher Mrs Tracy O’Hare and classroom assistant Mrs Anne McElroy, attended a Guinness World Record attempt in the Odessy Arena, Belfast on Tuesday 24th February. They were with Primary […]
Pictured above is Mr Neil McArdle, winner of the raffle. Also pictured is Hannah Babe, Aoife Donnelly and Miss Lorna Murtagh. St Paul’s hosted its fifth ‘Big Yellow Friday’ in order to raise awareness of Childhood Liver Disease and to raise much needed funds for the foundation. Hannah Babe, a Year 12 pupil co-ordinated the day […]
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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