Students complete their Silver President’s Award. « St Paul's High School, Bessbrook, County Armagh

Students complete their Silver President’s Award.

February 4, 2019

The students completed their Silver President’s Award / Duke of Edinburgh. Front row – Laura Mc Donnell, Sarah Geoghegan, Cigfa Mc Coy, Cara Conlon, Lauren O’Hagan, Clodagh Elshaw Back row – Aoife Phillips, Hannah Quinn, Korey Black, Jason Mc Verry Missing from the photo is Cliodhna Mc Donnell To achieve an award each student had to complete a personal programme of activities in four sections. These sections are:

Volunteering – helping someone, your community or the environment
Physical – becoming fitter through sport, dance or fitness activities
Skills – developing existing talents or trying something new
Expedition – planning, training for and completing an adventurous journey – 3 days and 2 nights camping.

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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