News 2018

Christmas Shows

This week the Nursery children and the pupils from P1-4 put on some Christmas entertainment for family and friends. Check out the gallery for more photos of each show....

Nursery and Primary School Admissions 2019

If your child is starting pre-school or primary school in September 2019, you can apply for their place online from Wednesday 2 January 2019. The closing date and time for pre-school and primary one applications will be 12.00 midnight on Thursday 31 January 2019. The post primary school admissions process for the September 2019 intake will remain the same as in previous years. Further information ...

Cumann na mBunscol Indoor 5-a-side

Congratulations to our P7s who fought a hard battle to win the Cumann na mBunscol Indoor 5 a-side tournament today. A fantastic achievement and a credit to our school and club, Casements. This was a first tournament for our current coach,  Ryan Convery. In the words of the boys, "We couldn't have done it without Ryan."...

Sustrans Ditch the Dark Day

Ditch the Dark Day 2018. ...

Sustrans Active Travel

Today our friend Johnny McCrystal from SUSTRANS came to school to award Level two certificates to the P6 pupils who took part in cycling training last month! Well done! He also announced an exciting event which will be taking place next week called "Ditch the Dark” day. More information will be sent home about this event. ...

The Sam Maguire visits St. Mary*’s P.S.

We had a surprise today on our return to school after the mid-term break when The Sam Maguire arrived as part of a special visit to Portglenone. All the classes had their photograph taken with the cup and some pupils even impressed us with their knowledge of its history!...

Halloween Fun

We had great fun today at our Halloween Parade. These are the winners of the best dressed competition, which as usual, was so difficult to choose. More class photos in the gallery....

A Sad but Fond Farewell

Today was both a happy and sad day for all of us here in St. Mary’s P.S. We were happy to finish for our summer holidays but sad because this was our school secretary Denise’s last day. Denise has worked in our school for 37 years and we will miss her terribly. We also welcomed back Jeanette who was a cleaner in our school for almost as long and Denise was secretary to wish both of t...

P7 Leavers 2018

Today we said farewell to our Year 7 pupils. Their last day was filled with Shloeur, cake, sweets, crisps and marshmallows with a little football thrown in. We have many happy memories to remember them by and wish them Good luck as they head to pastures new....

ICT Excellence Awards

Today St. Mary's P.S. received a Highly Commended Certificate at the ICT Excellence Awards which took place in the Merchant Hotel, Belfast. This is the second year that we have entered the competition and been highly commended. The judges visited our school in May to find out about how we use ICT in our school and they were very impressed with our work and particularly how the children t...