News 2023

Prize Giving 2023

We celebrated the Achievements of our Year 7 pupils on Friday 23rd June in the Annual Prize-giving Assembly. Everyone received their Records of Achievement and some pupils were awarded one of the school's perpetual cups in recognition of their achievement in an area of the curriculum. We would like to wish all of our leavers every success in their new schools and in their future....

Fun Day 2023

Our principal, Mrs Milner, treated the whole school to a fabulous fun day to celebrate her retirement and to say a special thank you to all the pupils. The children absolutely loved playing on bouncy castles, getting their faces painted, getting some ice cream and having a disco. The children are so thankful to Mrs Milner for the "best day of the year”. ...

Matilda

The Key Stage 2 show this year was Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda- The Musical’ and what a show it was! The primary 7 class chose the show from a list of great possibilities and worked extremely hard rehearsing and learning their lines.  On the night of the performance, everyone was blown away by the talent of our Key Stage 2 pupils, from the chorus to the actors. A great time...

Past Pupils Visit St. Mary's

St. Mary’s P.S. Portglenone enjoyed a special visit from three of their past pupils on Wednesday this week. Dearbhail Dobbin, Oisin Doherty and Dermot McAleese attended a special assembly held for them to celebrate Dearbhail’s recent success at All-Ireland level in camogie for both St. Louis’ Grammar and Antrim and to wish Dermot and Oisin the very best of luck in this weekend...

Sports Day 2023

We were lucky that the good weather held out for our three sports days. Miss Drayne, Joanne and the nursery children were first to take part and the sun shone for the children. P1, P2 and P3 had their sports day on Monday 19th June, the sun was not shining but it was warm and dry. Amazing sports skills on display in each class. The sprint race for each class, in both the boys and girls rac...

Nursery Visit to 360 Creative

The nursery children had a brilliant time visiting 360 Degrees Creative on Friday 21st April. They got to see printing machines, Oisín’s office and much more. A massive thank you to Oisín’s parents Michelle and Dermott for having us to visit! ...

Nursery visit to OB Construction

On Friday 28th April the nursery children visited OB Construction. They had a great time seeing all the different machinery they use, the cool Super Mario character cut outs, the big computers the staff use and lots more. A big thank you to Michael’s parents Damien and Shauna and all the staff at OB Construction! ...

Choir Trip

Mrs Milner and Mrs Brookman treated the choir members to a fun day out on Friday 14th June as a special thank you for all of their hard work and dedication this year. They danced and rolled the day away!...

Confirmation

Primary 7’s Confirmation was a wonderful day of celebration. The Choir and Mrs Brookman helped the Primary 7’s with the music. A big thank you to Fr Curran and Mrs Goldring as it couldn’t have happened without them. The P7 pupils from St. Paul’s P.S. joined our Primary 7’s on their very special day. We were privileged to be confirmed by Fr. Curran, our parish pri...

First Holy Communion

First Holy Communion for our P4 pupils was celebrated on the 27th May 2023.  We were all so excited.  For weeks before the big day we were practising.  The day finally arrived, the girls all looked so beautiful in their white dresses and the boys all looked so handsome in their suits.  Mrs McLaughlin said she almost didn’t recognise us!   The whole ceremony...