As part of St Paul’s High School,Bessbrook’s long established International Projects, a group of senior students and staff are about to journey to areas in Kenya and Romania. The students, who are all in Year 13, have been fundraising over the last twelve months, and will bring a significant financial contribution to the areas they […]

The victorious U20 Ladies Football Team from St Paul’s High School The Under 20 Ladies Football team were crowned Ulster Colleges’ Champions after a thrilling Ulster Cup final at Crossmaglen, Armagh. Séamus McAleenan, from Ulster Colleges’ GAA reported from the match.   St Paul’s Bessbrook 5-16 Our Lady’s Castleblayney 5-5 There was so much to […]

Congratulations to recent past pupil and huge friend of St Paul’s, Darragh McNulty, who recently performed on the same bill as top music star Newton Faulkner. Darragh, who performed in many of our school musicals and variety shows, is working hard to pursue a successful music career and working with top acts such as Newton […]

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, students from St Paul’s History department were invited to debate the impact he has made on politics since. Anastasia Ní Riabhaigh gives an account of the event. I had the privilege of attending the annual debate for local high schools organised by the SDLP. […]

Students from class 0872, and their form teacher Mr Emmett McCaffrey. Instead of Secret Santa this year, 0872 decided that they would give a Christmas present to the Third World. The class collected an impressive £130 amongst themselves. After much discussion and debate on how the money should be spent, it was decided that giving […]

First Trust Youth Ambassador and Kerry GAA legend, Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper visited St Paul’s on Monday 20 January 2014 as part of this years’ First Trust School Bank Challenge. This competition is one of the largest schools competitions in Ireland. The First Trust School Bank was set up in St Paul’s in October 2013.  The […]

I was delighted to have the opportunity to invite our past pupil Rachel Mc Quade into St Paul’s to work with our Year 11 pupils of Art and Design. Rachel conducted and presented a seven-week work shop over seven Fridays teaching and working with our pupils. They learned about recycling and up cycling in the […]

As part of its annual fundraising efforts for the St Paul’s International Projects to Romania, Kenya and Lourdes, the students and staff of St Paul’s High School are well used to donning ridiculous costumes and making fools of themselves on the stage all in aid of a very good cause. And 2013 was no exception, with the […]

09/91 recently took part in a small form class project during the recent season of goodwill, this project was entitled ‘Single Act of Kindness.’ The class was asked to think about others around them and to do one single act of kindness during the Christmas season. Some of the students carried out small but extremely […]

Current Year 13 student has joined the ranks of Aimee Mackin and Aoife McCullough and has been awarded an Ulster Schools’ All-Star award. This is an amazing honour for Louise and of course it is very appropriate as Louise and her team mates prepare for the forthcoming Ulster Final. Louise is a member of the Shane O’Neill’s […]