Heather Robinson, from Action Mental Health, visited St. Paul’s today to deliver mental health mentoring training to Year 13 Mentors and the Year 14 Student Leadership Team. The training further equipped these pupils to support others who are struggling. Thanks to Head of Year 13, Mrs C Hughes, for organising, and well done to everyone […]
Photographs from our Senior Prize-Giving Night 2019. Congratulations to all the winners!
Following on from the publication of Post-16 results at A2 and AS Level as well as BTEC and OCR Cambridge Technicals last week, Principal of St Paul’s High School Bessbrook, Mr Jarlath Burns paid tribute to all the students who had excelled in this year’s public examinations. “Once again our students have achieved exceptional results […]
The GLAMS; Cliodhna Mc Donnell, Caoiliosa Ni Dhuill, Hannah Quinn, Dearbhla Carragher, Mollie O’Hare and Caoimhe Feehan are role models in school to encourage their peers to become more active. They aim to engage more students to participate in PE, Sport and Physical Activity. We want girls to be physically active, it doesn’t matter who […]
Pupils are reminded that mobile phones and smartwatches are not permitted in the Exam Hall. The video below shows how the dangers of ignoring this important advice.
The Debate Team was established this year in St. Paul’s and consists of students from both Year 13 and Year 14. The debate programme attracts students from a number of disciplines in the school – Science, Maths, History and Modern Languages and has been an extremely successful extra-curricular activity for our students. We were especially […]
Congratulations to Matthew Boyle, James Reavey, Ann Carr, Mairead Campbell And Daniel Quinn for winning the Silver Presidents Award.
Pictured above is Year 14 student John Reavey with both awards. Congratulations to Year 14 student, John Reavey, winner of both ‘Best Director‘ and ‘Audience Award‘ for his short film that was part of his AS Level coursework. John picked up two out of the three awards available in his category and was recently presented with […]
The legacy of the development of Gaelic games initiated by former principal at St Paul’s, Mr Oliver Mooney, is being further developed by his successor and highly respected GAA official and television pundit Jarlath Burns in the announcement of the launch of the first second level GAA Academy on the 1st September. This pioneering initiative […]
On Friday 16 October, Dermot Kelly from the Armagh Diocesan Youth Commission visited St Paul’s to launch the 2015/16 John Paul II Awards programme. This award, which was created to commemorate the late Pope John Paul II, allows young people to understand that religion and faith are not just for learning, nor are they a list […]
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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