St. Paul's CBS Secondary School

The school will be holding an OPEN EVENING on Tuesday October 18th, 2011 from 5.30 -7.30 pm. Parents/guardians of students who are currently in 5th or 6th class are encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing you on the evening.

Welcome to St Paul’s CBS Website. Our school has been in existence since 1869. We are very proud of our traditions and are also very conscious of the need for change, to now reflect the times we live in.

We continue to provide all our students with the opportunity to develop and nurture their talents to the fullest in an environment of mutual care and respect

Whether you are a visitor, a parent, a pupil or a past pupil I hope you find something to interest you in the following pages.

Thank you to all those parents and guardians who attended St Paul’s CBS Open Evening on May 31st. We hope that you had an enjoyable visit and that you had an opportunity to ask and receive answers to your questions about our school.

We understand that it was not possible for all those interested in sending their sons to our school to attend. St Paul’s CBS, known locally as ‘The Brunner’ currently offers Junior Certificate, including the Junior Certificate Schools Programme (JCSP – http://jcsp.slss.ie/about.html). We also offer Transition Year which has proved to be a very successful and popular programme with students. For Senior Cycle our school offers Leaving Certificate (Traditional) and Leaving Certificate (Applied).

If your son is in 5th or 6th class and you are interested in enrolling him in St Paul’s CBS for the 2011-12 or the 2012-13 school year please contact the school on 8720781 or email our Principal Mr. Michael Blanchfield at principalbrunner@hotmail.com

Last Friday TY students paid a visit to the offices of Citi Group organised by Leslie Sweeney who works in that company’s Compliance Department. Leslie volunteered as tutor on ‘Success Skills’ which is one of the programmes offered to schools by Junior Achievement. It was a very successful programme and all at St Paul’s CBS would like to offer their thanks and appreciation to Leslie for all his work in ensuring that the programme was accessible and engaging for the students.

A number of photographs were taken by a photographer in Citi which we’ll post on the website as soon as they are available.

As part on their Business in the Community programme a group of St Paul’s CBS 5th year students paid a site visit to the offices of Cornmarket Insurance. Rachel Hyland and Stephen Copeland of Cornmarket arranged that each of the students received a tour of the various departments and that they got to spend some time with employees working in those departments, asking questions about their career paths, day to day duties within the company, etc. Our link with Cornmarket continues to be a great success due in no small part to the dedication of Rachel and Stephen as well as the commitment shown by Breda O’Sullivan of BITC and, of course, the students themselves. We look forward to continuing the programme with them.

Congratulations to St Paul’s CBS u14 Gaelic football team who, under the astute management of Mssrs. Stynes and McMahon, got this year’s competition off to a winning start with an excellent win over a gallant side from Patrician College, Finglas. It was a great team performance with William McAdams’ 4 goal haul typifing the quality and skill of the Brunner Boys. Little doubt that Pat Gilroy’s scouts will be out at the next match!

The Board of Management of St Paul’s CBS would like to welcome back all of our students and staff for the new school year 2011-2012.

We would also like to offer our congratulations to our Leaving Certificate class of 2011 on their exam results and to offer them the very best wishes with their future plans.