The Girls’ choir of St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, has been invited to sing with the prestigious National University of Ireland Maynooth’s Chamber Choir at their final concert in St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armagh, before they embark on their tour of North America. The NUI Maynooth Chamber Choir was founded in 1986 under Professor Gerard Gillen and was first […]

Pictured is the Under 16 Ladies’ team, after being welcomed back to the school by the staff and students at St Paul’s. Students and staff at St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, lined the school’s front avenue to welcome home the victorious Under 16 Ladies team who won the Kukri PPS U16A Final by defeating Loreto […]

Pictured is the St Paul’s Under 16 Ladies team celebrating winning the Kukri PPS Under 16A Ulster Final. St Paul’s Under 16 Ladies are Ulster champions after they defeated Loreto Grammar School, Omagh, in a pulsating U16A Ulster Final. This was the first year St Paul’s entered the ‘A’ competition and the ladies will now […]

To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 7th March and St Paul’s wonderful sporting achievements to date, the library is running a ‘Sporting Heroes Art Competition’. All you have to do is draw a picture of your favourite sporting hero and add a catchy slogan encouraging pupils to read or visit the library. Year 8 – […]

Pictured above is Paul Mc Crory from ‘Learn Differently’, delivering a Key Stage 2 show to pupils from our local primary schools.  Paul Mc Crory from ‘Learn Differently’, in collaboration with Queen’s University in Belfast, came to St Paul’s last week, to deliver an exciting road show entitled ‘Chemical Connections’ for our Year 8 pupils. […]

We’re very proud of our Under 16 Girls football team as they take on Loreto Grammar School, Omagh in the Ulster Final this Friday, with throw-in scheduled for 1.00 p.m. We would like to encourage as many supporters as possible to travel to Clones to support the girls as they aim to bring another Ulster […]

Congratulations to Year 9 student Amy O’Hanlon on achieving her second Blue Peter badge. 09/38 student Amy, has rewarded with a second badge from the popular CBBC programme after submitting a poem. Amy is very proud of her achievement and hopes to gain a gold Blue Peter badge in the future.

 Mr John Graham of the Ulster GAA Writers’ Association presented a special award to St Paul’s Bessbrook to acknowledge their achievements in 2012 of winning the Ulster Colleges’ MacLarnon Cup and the All Ireland Colleges’ Noonan Cup. The award was received by last year’s All Ireland winning captain, Michael Murphy and mercurial forward, Jemar Hall. […]

Pictured is Colleen Mc Veigh along with her Netball Coach Mrs Paula O’Hare-Armstrong, Head of Physical Education and Sport at St Paul’s Mr John Rafferty and Vice-principals at St Paul’s Mrs Una McNulty and Mr Jarlath Burns. Colleen, Year 12 pupil at St Paul’s, has been selected on to the final Netball Northern Ireland Under […]

 Pictured are key stage three pupils from St Paul’s, being shown a demonstration on how one of the machines work.  Key Stage three and Key Stage four pupils visited the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Bus recently and were given an awareness of what can be achieved in the areas of Engineering and Technology […]