SRC Awards Success for St Paul’s

Overall best pupil from St Paul’s, Nicole Bradley, pictured with the best pupils from other schools. Aislinn O’Hagan (Best pupil in Beauty) and Ciara Goss (Best pupil in Catering) pictured with best pupils from other schools. All St Paul’s SRC certificate winners pictured with Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns, Mr Paddy McAvoy and Mr Martin Canavan.

Announcements, News, Occupational Studies, Students, Success

LSC Success at Special Olympics Swimming Gala

Students from the LSC succeed at the Special Olympics swimming gala. Congratulations to all three competitors from 10/47 who won medals at the Special Olympics Swimming Gala held in Bangor at the weekend. Oisin Mee came home with 2 gold medals in freestyle and backstroke. Aodhan Doran won his first ever gold medal in the […]

Announcements, Competitions, Learning Support Centre, Students, Success

Great fun at Year 8 Boys’ Football Blitz

The Boys’ Year 8 Football Blitz took place on Friday 9 May in Carrickcruppen GAC playing fields. The competition took the format of an eight-team knockout tournament with each team being guaranteed three matches. In the first round Down and Armagh, Kerry and Cork, Dublin and Louth and Mayo and Galway played off. All games where keenly contested in windy conditions. […]

Events, Gaelic Football, Sport, Students, Success, Year 8

Shauna McCann Memorial Cup at St Paul’s

The annual Shauna McCann Gaelic blitz for Year 8 Girls took place on Friday 9 May. This Cup was presented to the school by the family of the late Shauna McCann, a former pupil and captain of St Paul’s Gaelic teams. There were 8 teams participating with each team kitted out in the colours of their […]

Events, Gaelic Football, Sport, Students, Success, Tribute, Year 8

Dance success for St Paul’s

The St Paul’s Junior Dance/Aerobic team travelled to Lisburn in March and won the prestigious Northern Ireland Dance Championships. The same bunch of girls, under the watchful eye of past pupil Sarah Hillen went on to compete in and take second place in Ulster Dance in April. The girls and Sarah should be commended for their hard […]

Dance, News, Students, Success

Netball success for Natasha

Year 9 pupil from St Paul’s, Natasha Mc Cann, who has recently been selected onto the Netball Northern Ireland Under-13 Southern Area final Squad. This team will play in The Annual NNI Under-13 Inter board Netball Tournament held in Antrim Forum every year.

Netball, News, Sport, Students, Success

Art success for Ursula

Pictured is student Ursula McClatchey along with Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns and Art teacher, Mr Brendan McArdle. Congratulaions to our Year 8 pupil Ursula McClatchey on her tremendous achievement in winning a ‘Special Merit award’ in the Texaco Art Competition. This competition is open to all children in Ireland aged 6 -18 and the work […]

Art & Design, News, Students, Success

Sean is All-Ireland Boxing Champion

Pictured All-Ireland Champion, Sean McGenity along with Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns and Form Teacher Mrs Kellie McShane. Congratulations to Sean McGenity of Silverbridge Boxing Club, who was crowned All-Ireland Boxing Champion on Saturday 26th April in the Boy 2 50kg weight class. Sean won convincingly in the final with a 3-0 win against Jake Shaughnessey of […]

News, Sport, Students, Success

AS Home Economics debating success

Recently the AS Home Economics students have been involved in a programme organised by the University of Ulster, Jordanstown called Ethics4schools. The programme was aimed at making pupils think and evaluate some controversial topics in science such as: • “Should genetically modified animals be used for food production?” • “Should vaccination be mandatory?”; • “Should […]

Announcements, Home Economics, News, Students, Success

Year 9 Irish students hit a million in Memrise challenge

Congratulations to the super Year 9 Irish students who have achieved over one million points on language learning website Memrise. The students have been using the innovative website to help with their new vocabulary acquisition and quickly racked up over a million points between them in less than three weeks. Students Michael Hillon, Darren Crilly, Ryan […]

Announcements, Gaeilge, Irish, News, Success