Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns is pictured presenting the Bog Oak Trophy to Sarah Kilgallon, best overall student of Key Stage 3.  On Friday 28 August, St Paul’s was full of excitement and anticipation as our new Year 11 students were invited into school for Junior Prizegiving. Year Head, Mr Geoghegan warmly welcomed everyone back and […]

Pictured above are students that excelled in their A Level Results, alongside Chair of Governors, Mrs Eileen Fearon, Vice-Principal, Mrs Siobhán Bradley, Vice-Principal, Mr Dáithí Murray and Head of Year 14, Mrs Catherine Hughes. Thursday’s release of A Level results has brought news of further success to St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook. Speaking this week, […]

On Tuesday 31st March 2015 at 12 noon an all-inclusive marathon of fund raising took place in the student foyer of St Paul’s High School. Mr Bill Geoghegan and his team of spinners organised and achieved a magnificent fund raising activity for four worthy charities: Marie Curie, Southern Area Hospice, Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice and […]

A Year 13 student at St Paul’s, who juggles her busy school work with caring for both her parents has been recognised with a prestigious Diana Champion Volunteer Award. Siobhan O’Reilly was nominated by her Year Head, Mrs Laura Hollywood, for the extraordinary work she carries out caring for both her parents while studying 4 […]

A group of Year 8 students from St Paul’s, together with their Science teacher Mrs T O’Hare and classroom assistant Ms McElroy, achieved a Guinness World Record at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, on Tuesday 24th February. They were with Primary and Secondary school children from schools across Northern Ireland, who gathered together to take part in […]

Last week, St Paul’s Bessbrook was awarded Flagship Status as a school which promotes excellence in inclusion and the quality of its provision. It is the first post primary school in the area to achieve such an award and is well deserved recognition for how the school celebrates diversity and promotes the idea of ‘Quality […]

Spinning on a bicycle for more than twenty minutes is a challenge for most people, but what about keeping it going for twenty-four hours?  Well, that was the challenge undertaken by the pupils, staff, parents and community of St Paul’s in a huge whole-school effort to raise awareness and much needed funds for local cancer […]

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh was the auspicious location for this year’s Spring Concert.  The event, which is always a highlight in the school calendar, showcased the incredible musical and choral talent at St Paul’s High School. Director of Music at St Paul’s, Mr Colm Murphy, introduced a packed programme of recitals, ensemble performances, and choral […]

Pictured above is Hannah McManus, winner of the ‘Great Biology Bakeoff’ competition. The ‘Great Biology Bake-off’ was a Year 8 competition which was launched to coincide with Science week which ran from 13 – 22 March. Pupils were asked to make a bun or cake with a biology theme. The winner was Hannah McManus 08/06. She […]

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 […]