Pictured above are members of the Year 14 volunteering group who have reached the finals of the ‘Southern Health Excellence in Volunteering’ Awards.

The above pupils have been volunteering with the Southern Health Trust in a variety of settings such as hospitals and nursing homes over the past year and also during the summer months.

They will represent St Paul’s at the awards ceremony on the 5th December in Craigavon Civic Centre. A film crew visited the school recently and they carried out some filming with the girls to be shown during the awards ceremony.

The following are members of the Year 14 volunteering group.

Orlagh Feehan, Catherine McElvanna, Andrea Shannon, Emma Hetherington, Dara Quinn, Sabrina Zerai, Emer O’Reilly, Natasha McCabe, Rachel Kane, Cliodhna Treanor, Catriona Gallogly, Marie Claire Crilly.

Pictured above is students from the Year 14 Senior Prefect team, giving a talk to Year 11 pupils at Assembly about Cyber Bullying. 

As part of their Anti Cyber Bullying Campaign, the Senior Prefect Team at St Paul’s have been taking assemblies all week to ensure that awareness about the effects and consequences of cyber bullying is received by every student in the school. They believe this raised awareness will reduce instances of cyber bullying.

During each assembly, the Year 14 students delivered a power point they devised themselves and expanded on key points. They discussed examples of cyber bullying that students would be familiar with, the effects of cyber bullying and provided tips to students on how they should try to deal with it if they are a victim or a bystander. The students were also told about instances when other young people took their lives because the bullying got so bad and too difficult to deal with. Each assembly finished with a real life video being shown of a male student being bullied and how the bullies were traced and ended up in a young offender’s unit.

The key message is that cyber bullying should be reported & that this is the first step to ensuring that it will stop. The students were encouraged by both Principal Mr Mooney and Vice Principal Mr Burns to have respect for each other and never to engage in this type of behaviour.

All students were invited to enter the Creative Arts Competition that the Senior Prefect Team have set up, with the closing date being Friday 30^th November.

Pictured below is the poster the Year 14 Senior Prefect team created for the competition. For anyone looking to enter the competition you can follow the details on the poster.

Pictured above is the Senior Prefect Team at St Paul’s that launched their first ever Anti Cyber Bullying Campaign. Also in the picture is Vice Principal Mr Jarlath Burns, Head of Year 14 Ms Christine Fearon and Year 8 students.

As part of November being National Anti Bullying Month, the Senior Prefect Team at St Paul’s have launched their first ever Anti Cyber Bullying Campaign. Within their role as senior prefects, the team collectively earmarked cyber bullying as an area of focus for this academic year. They have set about putting together a presentation, highlighting the reality and dangers of cyber bullying, which they will deliver to all year group assemblies over the coming weeks. As an extension of the campaign, they have created campaign posters and displayed them throughout the school to raise student awareness on this issue. The team have also set up school based competition encouraging students to submit a poster, poem, drawing, video clip that send out a message about cyber bullying; again with the aim of increasing student awareness about cyber bullying.

 Year Head, Christine Fearon, praised the students’ efforts in planning this campaign on an issue that is becoming increasingly relevant to all young people. She said ‘it is inspiring to see how St Paul’s students are so active in their roles and willing to engage with their peers in an effort to make a positive difference.’ She is confident that they will be successful in passing on the message ‘Don’t be a Cyber Bully, Be Cyber Smart!’

Head of Year 14 Ms Christine Fearon, and Vice-principal Mrs Una McNulty at St Paul’s High School congratulate Head Boy Ciaron O’Hanlon, and Head Girl, Afreen Ahmed and the new Senior Prefect Team at the Bessbrook school.

A new team of senior prefects have started their duties leading the 1500 students at St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook.

The team, led by Head Boy, Ciaron O’Hanlon and Head Girl, Afreen Ahmed, will undertake a variety of duties during their year in office, including representing the school at various functions, assisting in the school’s Year 8 mentoring programme and liaising with the Students’ Council and the teaching staff.

Head of Year 14 at St Paul’s, Ms Christine Fearon, congratulated the students who were chosen after a rigorous application process including interview, and wished them well in their new year ahead.

The new senior prefects are:  Conor Sloan (Deputy Head Boy), Aislinn Lonergan (Deputy Head Girl), Jack Boyle, Conor Rodgers, Daniel Lewis, Ciara McDonnell, Dara Quinn, Kathy Toal, Sinead McKenna, Niamh McGovern, Maeve Morgan, Cliodhna Treanor, Michelle Morgan.

Following a formal application and interview process, the Senior Prefect Team at St Paul’s High School for 2010/2011 has been selected.

Grainne Savage and Ronan Sharkey have been selected as Head Girl and Head Boy respectively, with Michelle Murphy and Michael Keenan being selected as deputies. These leaders are also being assisted by eight other members of the student body who will act as senior prefects.

This is a tremendous honour to have been selected to represent the entire student body of St. Paul’s. Grainne and Ronan’s first duties will involve meeting Minister for the Environment, Mr Edwin Poots, MLA, to discuss his proposals on road safety for young drivers.

We wish the entire Senior Prefecct Team well in the busy year ahead.

On their new appointment as head of the Senior prefect team, Monica Mallon, head girl, and Niall Rice, head boy, talk about their plans for the year ahead.

So far, there hasn’t been too many events requiring their presence but they expect all that to change as the Student Council begin their work knowing that they will be heavily involved in all aspects of work within the council.

Currently both Monica and Niall are working alongside the rest of the Senior Prefect Team and are busy fundraising for the school trip to Kenya. The team leaves for Kenya on the 16^th of October and are looking forward to what is sure to be a trip of a lifetime.