All-Ireland Ladies Colleges’ Football Semi-Finals Ardscoil Naomh Pól 2-9 (15) Coláiste Íosagáin 4-22 (34) St Paul’s High School met Coláiste Íosagáin of Dublin in the semi-final of the All Ireland, which was staged at St. Marys’ Ardee GFC, Co.Louth. St Paul’s got off to a good start with a well-taken point from Aimee Mackin to […]
Newry & Mourne Mayor, Councillor Michael Ruane, pictured with Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns, Vice Principal, Mrs Úna McNulty and teacher Noella Murray. Along with students Aoife Malone (Head Girl), Peter Hughes (Head Boy), Cillian Campbell (Deputy Head Boy) Valerija Staselovica and Daniela Janikova (Year 11 Fluent Russian speaking students) Students and staff from St Paul’s High School,Bessbrook are visiting […]
Well done to Year 8 student Wiktoria Hebda who has impressed her teachers and fellow students with her animation skills. Wiktoria enjoys using animation software on her iPad to create little cartoons – and has impressed her Art & Design teachers. You can see one of Wiktoria’s animations below. We’re always looking for clever, innovative ideas […]
Careers poster competition winner Niall Mc Crink pictured with Head of Careers, Mrs Siobhan Kearney, Head of Art and Design, Mrs Siobhan O’ Hare and Year 10 Careers Teacher, Ms Joanne Leonard. Niall Mc Crink 10/03 is the winner of our Year 10 Careers Poster Competition. All year 10 pupils were asked as part of their Monthly Assessed Homework to produce a […]
St Paul’s Mathematics Department, in partnership with Dundalk Institute of Technology, recently welcomed STATSports to give a presentation to our Year 12 GCSE Higher Level Maths students about their company and the use and benefit of Mathematics and Science within their organisation. The event was organised as part of St Paul’s annual Careers Week. STATSports […]
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 […]
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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