News 2018

Senior Citizen Art Competition

All the children within St. Mary’s took part in the Senior Citizen Art competition which is held every year in the local community Centre. Annie the local organiser came in during assembly and presented the children with their prizes. ...

Spelling Bee Success

Congratulations to Eimear from P7 who came first in the County Antrim Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. Eimear won the school knockout competition and after much practising at home was successful at county level. Well done Eimear!...

Staff V Parents Netball Match

On the 23rd of March the staff of St. Mary’s played a charity netball match against some parents within our school. This is the second year it was held which seen the staff win last year! The children had a great time cheering on their teachers, assistants and also their parents. The parents lifted the cup to beat the staff. ...

A Visit from the Fire Service

Today a fireman came to visit our class. His name was fireman Stevie. He was in our school to teach us all about Fire Safety. He introduced us to lots of different characters. Some bad and some good. Two of the bad characters were called scratch and flint they were matches and a lighter. One of the good characters was called Beep, he was a smoke alarm. Stevie told us to check our homes fo...

Pirates of the Curry Bean

P7,P6 & P5 took part in the end of year show called The Pirates of The Curry Bean.  It was a fantastic show, to which all of the children took on their role so well. It was full of laughs, fantastic songs and great acting by everyone. It was a show to be remembered. Well done everyone! ...

Sacrament of Reconciliation

P3 children have been preparing for this special sacrament for quite some time. They listened and learned all about the Parable of The Good Shepherd. They learned their prayers, hymns and rite of Confession with the help of their parents at home.     ...

Green Day

On Friday 16th March we had some very special celebrations in our school to remember and celebrate our Patron Saint Patrick.  We came into school dressed up in green. Some people had green clothes, shamrocks painted on their faces, green hairspray there was green EVERYWHERE!  Our assembly was a very special one where the whole school was able to watch the different performances up in t...

Credit Union Quiz Time

On the 29th of January our school had three teams go to the Credit Union school quiz first round, in Clady hall. There were multiple rounds with six questions in each round and there was an A competition and a B competition. Our A competition team came 3rd in the A competition and one of our other B competition teams unfortunately got put out because of a tie breaker round, the other finish...

Trocaire

To date we have raised £791.12 for Trocaire. This is an incredible amount and we would like to thank you so much for your generosity. Thank you to our Y5 and Y6 pupils who have hosted their Bun Sales and congratulations to this week's Easter Egg Raffle winners.   The next Bun Sale will be hosted by Y3 on Friday 16th March....

K'Nex Challenge

On the 5th March 2018 two teams from our school participated is the K'nex Challenge. The two teams were selected in the heats in our school where we had to make a shopping trolley in an hour!. Mrs Milner chose the two winning creations  with the help of Mrs Goldring.  The two teams selected went to the K’nex  Challenge  semi-final in Ballymena Academy. We had to build ...