The tragic and accidental death of our esteemed Year 12 pupil JP Smyth has shocked and saddened us all.  The thoughts and prayers of the entire St Paul’s community go out to JP’s family and friends. JP’s infectious personality and his friendly smile endeared him to so many pupils and staff at St Paul’s. The […]

The under 16 boys’ footballers of St. Paul’s Bessbrook made history last Wednesday in Cloghan when they won the Danske Bank Ulster School’s Rafferty cup for the first time.  Having topped their league group with wins over St. Malachy’s Castlewellan, St. Patrick’s Downpatrick and Our Lady and St. Patrick’s College Knock the Bessbrook lads met Virginia College in the ¼ final.  A tight game […]

Susan Lynch, a local professional actress and a past pupil of St. Paul’s High School visited the Drama Department on Friday 13th December. Susan has starred in many film and stage productions and has lately written and directed a short film ‘The Bookstore’. She was so impressed with the drama students who presented their work […]

Our pupils enjoying their Christmas dinner yesterday in the canteen. Huge thanks to our hardworking Canteen Staff who helped prepare over 1600 dinners and desserts!

Well done to our Year 12 team. They beat Patrician High Carrickmacross, to win the Danske Bank Rafferty Cup Final. Final score 2-10 to 1-6. Further well done to Mr J Rafferty, Mr Geoghegan and Mr McSherry on managing the team to the final.

Thanks to the hundreds of parents, grandparents and prospective pupils who came to our Open Day today. We hope you enjoyed meeting us, as much as we enjoyed meeting you! Big thank you also to all of our students and staff who helped out with Open Day, it couldn’t have been done without you.

Our annual Interview Skills Day for Year 14’s took place the past Friday, where students took part in mock interviews with employers from the local area. Sincere thanks to all our friends from education and industry who participated in our Year 14 Interview Skills Day. Your contribution is invaluable in making the event so meaningful […]

Photographs from a phenomenal evening of talent at our St Paul’s Has Got Talent show! St Paul’s Has Got Talent was run in aid of our International Projects that are coming up soon – A huge well done to the organisers and everyone who participated. The winners were selected as the brilliant O’Keefe Brothers, who […]

Congratulations to all entrants in the competition. 14 pupils won through in class heats to present speeches on a range of topics, such as; inequality for women footballers in the GAA; the dangers in farming; and the tyranny of wigs, tan and make-up in Irish dancing. The standard this year was top-notch. The winners were […]

Recently, our Head Boy, Conor Cinnamond, travelled to Germany to take part in a UK-German connections programme. Below is a piece from Conor about his experience.   I heard about the UK-German connection youth seminar “Peacing it together 2” through both my French and Spanish teachers here in school. I applied for the programme as […]