St Paul’s U14 team win the Danske Bank Ulster Schools Loch an Iuir Shield

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 […]

Announcements, News, Sport, Students, Success, Uncategorized, Year 10

Students complete their Silver President’s Award.

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 […]

News, Post 16, Students, Success, Volunteering

JP Smyth takes 1st place at SRC Skillbuild

JP Smyth is pictured with our Principal, Mr Burns and Mr Canavan SPP Co-ordinator. JP won First prize in the recent Skillbuild competition organised by the SRC. JP was competing in the Catering section against pupils from all SRC campuses. He is studying Patisserie and Contemporary Cuisine and is excelling at both. JP hopes to […]

Home Economics, News, Occupational Studies, Students, Success, Uncategorized, Vocational Education

The GLAMS (Girls Leadership and Mentoring Squad)

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 […]

Announcements, Cross Country, Girls Football, Handball, Health and Social Care, Netball, News, Sport, Students, Year 10, Year 12, Year 13, Year 14, Year 8, Year 9

Ellen’s Journey

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 […]

Announcements, Students

Young Enterprise

Year 10 students were very engaged this morning in their Young Enterprise Project Business Programme.  Students were asked to purchase raw materials, manufacture a product, sell it, bank some of their money  and then restock their raw materials,  manufacture and sell again.  The students allocated themselves different roles for this project.  At the end of […]

News

Young Enterprise and LLW donate profits

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 […]

Announcements, Charity, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, LLW, News, Students, Success, Year 9

Bin It Campaign

Excellent environmental workshops were accessed by our Year 8/9 pupils this morning. The Bin It Campaign was highly interactive and the pupils thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to Mr Donal Murray for organising.      

Events, Students, Year 8, Year 9

Mr McAlinden visits Beirut to experience Shared Education in action

Mr McAlinden from St Paul’s High School travelled from Belfast to Beirut to develop a High-Impact Teacher Network for Curricular Change between practitioners from Northern Ireland and Lebanon. The project was administered by the Department for the Economy (DfE) as a Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) award. Various workshops were held in schools across Lebanon. […]

News, shared education, Staff, Staff Development, Visits

2018 MacRory Team

                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 […]

Announcements, MacRory, MacRory, News, Sport, Students