Last week, St Paul’s High School, buzzed with excitement as we hosted the third annual Surefreight Post Primary Schools Joe Canning Blitz. The event brought together between 150 and 180 Year 8 pupils from across County Armagh, all eager to showcase their Gaelic football skills. The day reached its peak when St Paul’s clinched the […]
Our annual Year 8 Young Enterprise “Your School Your Business” event successfully ran over two days – the 9th and 10th of October. During the six sessions, our students got the opportunity to examine the business aspects of running St Paul’s High School. Students were given a great insight into the roles of two of […]
New Rules, who are currently a support band for the Little Mix tour, visited St Paul’s on Tuesday 8th October and discussed the different aspects and importance of respect within all kinds of relationships including family, friendships and romantic relationships. They also discussed the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships highlighting the important of respect […]
A Year 8 student in St. Paul’s High School, Bessbrook has managed to collect 129 Easter Eggs for local homeless charity, Newry Helping the Homeless. Student, Daniel Halpenny, came up with the “Give Up an Egg” campaign which he launched in school at the beginning of Lent. Speaking at year group assemblies Daniel encouraged […]
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 […]
Excellent environmental workshops were accessed by our Year 8/9 pupils this morning. The Bin It Campaign was highly interactive and the pupils thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to Mr Donal Murray for organising. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”29″ display=”basic_imagebrowser”]
Well done to these Year 8s who were winners in the recent Science Safety Competition. There was excellent scientific and artistic content in these entries.
Well done to these Year 8 girls, who were recently selected for the NI Rising Stars Athletics Programme. Pictured with Mrs Paula O’Hare-Armstrong.
St Paul’s Shared education is in partnership with, Newry High School, St Jsephs’s and Newtownhamiltion High School. For more information please read our 2018 Shared Education Partnership Newsletter. SESP Newsletter June 2018
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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