Year 12 Technology and Design students recently visited MJM Marine Ltd. with their teacher Mr Bill Geoghegan, Miss Aoidin D’Arcy (student teacher) and Mr Gabriel Morris (technician). MJM Interior Build was established in 1983 in Newry as a family-owned joinery business. However, MJM Interior Build has evolved into a leading international specialist in new build, […]
Mr Geoghegan’s Year 12 Technology and Design students recently visited AxBoard with Mr Ryan Boyle, Miss Aoidin D’Arcy (student teacher) and Mr Gabriel Morris (technician). AxBoard are a privately owned and managed company, based in Loughbrook Industrial Estate, which specialises in supplying furniture for kitchens, bedrooms, home studies and utility rooms. All their units can […]
Pictured students, Ryan Clarke, Callan Connolly and Matthew Clarke along with teacher Mr Donal Murray during their visit to BE Aerospace. Year 13 students interested in a career in Electrical and Electronic Engineering had the opportunity recently to work with students from other schools in solving complex problems, and visiting the impressive facilities of engineering […]
St Paul’s hosted an excellent A Level Sociology Seminar on Wednesday 11th April, which was delivered by Assistant Chief Examiner Keith Trobe. This is the first time the seminar has been delivered in the area and was attended by over 180 students from eight schools. Schools who attended were from the Area Learning Community and […]
Year 12 History students pictured with Mr Dominic Bradley MLA Recently History students in Year 8 visited the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont to investigate the workings of our regional government. The visit was sponsored by Dominic Bradley MLA, who welcomed us at the door. In the Assembly chamber itself Mr Bradley outlined the role played […]
Year 13 student David Loye was selected to participate an an innovation competition in the Ulster Hall recently. David writes below about his experience as a budding entrepreneur. Generation Innovation was an eventful night and showed young entrepreneurs that it is possible to become successful even in today’s economy. From Start to finish the night […]
Senior students from St Paul’s High School, including Head Boy, Peter Hughes, Head Girl, Aoife Malone, Deputy Head Boy, Cillian Campbell, and Deputy Head Girl, Aislynn Bagnall, accompanied by Vice-principal Mrs Úna McNulty, and Head of Spanish, Mrs Noella Murray, are visiting Murmansk in Northern Russia, as part of a delegation led by Mayor of Newry […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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