News 2025

Our New St Mary's Vision Mural

We are very proud of our brand new School Vision mural which we hope to have displayed around our school by the start of term in September. A lot of thought and consideration has gone into the details of the mural with input from parent, pupil and staff. Our school council have been pivotal to its creation and we feel that it encapsulates many of the things we hold dear in school. We hope you like...

We are a Take 5 School!

We are a Take 5 School! We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have received our Level 2 accreditation as a Take 5 Steps to Wellbeing School.  At St. Mary’s Primary School, the emotional health and wellbeing of all our school community is of the utmost importance to us; it is embedded into our school ethos. We have done so much this year to promote the Take 5 Steps ...

All County Success for St Mary's Girls

ALL COUNTY SUCCESS FOR ST MARY’S GIRLS  Our Primary 7 girls today became Antrim Champions in ladies Gaelic football and narrowly missed out on becoming county champions in camogie. Before they even left school this morning this group of primary 7 girls had made history as the first team to represent St Mary’s at County Finals day in the codes of ladies football and...

PTA Colour Run

🌈St Mary’s PTA Colour Run🌈 Saturday 7th June was our much anticipated PTA colour run. Despite a little bit of rain, the sunshine appeared at just the right time and it was another brilliant PTA event. Once again, so well supported and thoroughly enjoyed by all the boys and girls, adults and friends of our school who took part! A massive thank you to: ㉣...

Inspirational Woman in Education Award

🏆Inspirational Woman in Education Award🏆 Tonight our staff attended the Families First Education Awards to celebrate a wonderful teacher, a wonderful Vice Principal and a wonderful person!  Mrs Goldring was recognised for her hugely positive contribution to all aspects of school life in St Mary’s Portglenone. As she approaches the end of her final term this ...

P5 Trip to Bushmills

✨P5 Shared Education Trip - Salmon Hatchery Bushmills✨    This week our P5 pupils travelled to Bushmills, alongside P5 pupils from Portglenone Primary School, to visit ‘The Salmon Hatchery.’ The children spent time learning about the life cycle of salmon and had the opportunity to see them first-hand! Everyone had an enjoyable day out. ...

First Holy Communion Day

⛪️🙏🏻😇 FIRST HOLY COMMUNION DAY Today we enjoyed one of the most special days of the school year today. Our primary four children received the sacrament of First Holy Communion and reached the next milestone on their faith journey.  Thank you to Father Rooney for the beautiful Mass and for his guidance to the boys and girls as they prepared ...

Nursery Toddle Waddle

Our Nursery children and staff all looked amazing dressed up as superheroes for their toddle waddle around the school. Thank you to all the parents and staff for getting them dressed up so beautifully! ...

Nursery Sports Day

The nursery children took part in their first ever sports day!  What a great day they had and everyone did fantastic to bring home some medals! Future stars in the making! ...

Oliver with a Twist

Congratulations to all of our Key Stage 2 children who performed brilliantly over the past few days. Starting with our dress rehearsal for the rest of the school and some classes from Portglenone Primary School on Wednesday and then our morning and evening shows on Thursday, the boys and girls have been like professional actors and actresses.What a fantastic show they put on for everyone...