Anti Bullying Co-ordinator visits St Paul’s

Pictured is Mr Stephen Quinn, Ms Christine Fearon (Head of Pastoral Care), Leanne McGuinness (Head Girl), Joseph Mee (Year 8 Mentor), Anita Dennison (Anti Bullying Mentor) Blaise McKnight (Head Boy), Eimear Hoey (Year 8 Mentor) and Lee Kane (Anti Bullying Co-ordinator). Lee Kane, Anti Bullying Co-ordinator with NI Anti Bullying Forum, recently visited St Paul’s to deliver Peer Mentoring […]

Anti Bullying, Cyber bullying, News, Senior Prefect Team, Students, Year 8

Jersey Sponsorship for St Paul’s MacRory team!

Daniel McCartan (McCartan and McLornan Dental Surgery) presents a new set of Jerseys to St Paul’s MacRory Captain, Cathal Boylan and Principal, Mr Jarlath Burns. St Paul’s Bessbrook 2014/15 MacRory Cup panel. 

Gaelic Football, MacCormack, MacRory, MacRory, Sport, Students

National Poetry Day celebrated at St Paul’s

We love poetry at St Paul’s!  We love it so much that we stopped our normal schedule on National Poetry Day to spend an hour reciting our favourite poems to each other. Watch our special highlights video below.  Thanks to all our fantastic students and staff who shared their favourite lines of poetry – and to […]

English, Library, Students

Sydney-Marie heads to Florida!

Year 9 student Sydney-Marie Treanor is the lucky recipient of the holiday of a lifetime to Florida, USA! She and some other lucky young people will soon be jetting off courtesy of Dream Flight. Sydney-Marie has some medical issues that impinge on her routine every day but never allows that to get in her way. […]

News, Students

Students success at Irish public speaking competition

On Monday 22nd September, two Year 11 students, Niall Campbell and Cormac Feely travelled to Glasgow alongside Irish teacher Mr Stephen Mooney to compete in ‘Rí Chéile’, a public speaking competition of the Irish language and Gáidhlig na hAlbain (Scottish Gaelic). This came as a result of Niall finishing first in the prestigious Irish public […]

Events, Gaeilge, Staff, Students, Success

Year 8 Mass of Welcome

Year 8 students were officially welcomed into the St Paul’s community during a special Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Cloughreagh, concelebrated by Father Dermot Maloney, School Chaplain and Father Sean Larkin, Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors. The students, who were accompanied by their parents and families participated in a special liturgy, […]

News, Students, Year 8

Year 8 students celebrate Roald Dahl Day

Year 8 pupils celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday and the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The library displayed all his books and many pupils took part in activities in their English class on Friday 12th September. Here are some Year 8 pupils who took part in Roald Dahl day in the library.

Library, News, Students, Year 8

St Paul’s students selected for Living Law Programme

Pictured above are students Kinga Kwicien, Beatrice Mikutaite, Joe Heaney and John McAleenan. Also in the picture is Head of Year 13 Mrs Laura Hollywood. Four St Paul’s Students have been selected to attend a Living Law Programme that is organised by the Office of the Attorney General.  This is the first time St Paul’s has participated […]

News, Students, Success

GCSE Success in Native Languages

Pictured above are students Pawel Lewkiewicz, David Souza Dias, Kacper Janik, Daniela Janikova and Wiktoria Snopek. Also in the picture is Senior Leader, Mrs Noella Murray and Literacy Coordinator, Mrs Kelly McCormick. We are proud of the success of our bi-lingual pupils who excelled in GCSE Examinations in Polish, Portuguese and Russian in the Summer Series, […]

GCSE, News, Students, Success

Provincial representation for St Paul’s rugby stars

We are wishing Blaise McKnight and Tiernan Gonnelly the best of luck for the weekend. Blaise lines out as prop for Ulster’s Under 18 Team on Saturday in Navan, while Tiernan is competing on the Leinster Under 20 Team at Ravenhill Road. Principal, Jarlath Burns, and Director of PE & Sport, John Rafferty, wish them well in […]

News, Rugby, Sport, Students