Thursday was a historic day for the Year 9 boys basketball team as they took to the court against St Ronan’s Lurgan. Unfortunately, on this occasion, the boys were not able to come away with a victory – losing by 10 points in a game that was close throughout. Going into the final 4 minutes there […]
The St. Paul’s U14 footballers bridged a 13 year gap since last winning an U14 Ulster football title when they secured the Danske Bank Ulster Schools Loch an Iuir shield before Christmas. After a slow start in the group stages that saw them entered into the shield competition the boys overcame St. Patrick’s Grammar School […]
The GLAMS; Cliodhna Mc Donnell, Caoiliosa Ni Dhuill, Hannah Quinn, Dearbhla Carragher, Mollie O’Hare and Caoimhe Feehan are role models in school to encourage their peers to become more active. They aim to engage more students to participate in PE, Sport and Physical Activity. We want girls to be physically active, it doesn’t matter who […]
Whenever the news filtered around to the class, everyone was very saddened to hear that Ellen, who had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, was the sister of our classmate Jack. Towards the end of the summer, we tried to make contact with as many classmates as possible and rounded up a group to participate in […]
As part of Young Enterprise and LLW, this year 9/100 created 3 mini companies and ran a minimarket in school. The pupils each bought shares in their companies to buy products, and sold pens and pencils, key rings, sweets and chocolates. After their initial investment was returned to the class, there was a profit of […]
St Paul’s High School Bessbrook recently teamed up with local company STATSports to launch their new jersey for the upcoming MacRory campaign. As part of the launch STATSports presented their new APEX Athlete Series product using a range of practical workshops and interactive presentations to the A-level […]
L – R Niall O’Hare, Sean Carragher, Carley McCartney, Maeve O’Hare, Sophie Harte, Ciara O’Hare Six St Paul’s Pupils took part in this years Ulster Schools Swimming Championship in Bangor, with Nail O’Hare and Sean Carragher matching their respective times in the 100M Backstroke and 50M Metre Butterfly. Congratulations to all that participated.
Well done to these Year 8s who were winners in the recent Science Safety Competition. There was excellent scientific and artistic content in these entries.
Well done to these Year 8 girls, who were recently selected for the NI Rising Stars Athletics Programme. Pictured with Mrs Paula O’Hare-Armstrong.
Principal Mr Burns pictured with the highest GCSE Achievers of 2018.
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
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