GCSE Spanish Trip

October 19, 2013

GCSE Spanish students pictured with Miss Louise Mulholland, Mr Gerard McMahon and Head of Spanish Mrs Noella Murray.

On Sunday 20 October, forty GCSE Spanish students from St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook, will travel to the picturesque village of Mijas in the Andalucian region of Southern Spain for an educational visit.

The group are excited to use this opportunity to visit their link school in the area with who they have established on-going contact via video conferencing.

They have participated in a range of cultural and language development workshops both in the school and through trips to various cultural attractions including La Alcazaba, El Museo de Picasso, La Plaza de Toros and Las Ermitas de Mijas.

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.