News 2025

Spooky Scary Halloween at St Mary's

The school has most definitely been in Halloween mode this week. The children had a fantastic day on Thursday as we enjoyed a Halloween parade with all of the children  from Nursery to P7 coming together to show off their amazing costumes! Well done to all the Mums and Dads who were up early painting faces and getting the costumes ready!  As part of our parade a boy and a girl from ea...

Mathletics Class Of The Month

Mathletics Class of the Month Well done to Primary 5 who won our brand new Mathletics Class of the Month trophy. This award goes to the class who have collectively amassed the most points within the mathletics programme. They were also delighted to find out that the winning class also gets 15 minutes extra playtime! Well done P5! Our drive for mathletics participation is linked to one of our...

Vikings Timesteps

Vikings Timesteps  We were so delighted to invite Freya (Stephanie) from Timesteps to our class on Monday to deliver a Viking workshop. She was fully in character as a Viking Trader and we were fascinated with the Viking artefacts that she brought with her; especially the weapons! Thank you so much Stephanie for such an engaging and informative learning experience!...

Principal Award Winners - Responsibility

Principal Award Winners  Well done to our Principal Award Winners who were chosen for showing the quality of RESPONSIBILITY. Well done boys and girls! ...

St Mary's PTA Quiz 2025

St Mary’s PTA Quiz  Last night, St Mary’s PTA hosted another fantastic evening of fun, laughter, and friendly competition at our annual Quiz Night! Once again, the brilliant duo of Tony Convery and Michael McCann kept everyone entertained with their quick wit, tricky questions, and trademark humour. From testing our general knowledge to revisiting the school curriculum and i...

Children's Day of Mission Prayer 

Children's Day of Mission Prayer  Thank you to our School Council for leading us in a prayer service today to celebrate Mission Month and the Children's Day of Mission Prayer. We prayed for all the children throughout the world and asked God to help us to spread his Good News to all we meet through our words and actions. We also took time to pray a decade of the Rosary this week in each...

Owen Daly Tournament Victory for St. Mary’s PS! 

Owen Daly Tournament Victory for St. Mary’s PS!  Today the boys from St. Mary’s Primary School were winners of the Owen Daly Football Tournament, contested by 18 local schools from the Ballymena area.  The P7 boys produced a superb display throughout the competition, remaining unbeaten in their 8 group games — winning seven and drawing once — to top th...

Principal Award Winners- Resilience

Principal Award Winners School Value: RESILIENCE   Congratulations to our Winners who have demonstrated resilience in lots of different ways! ...

Primary 6 Class Assembly

What a wonderful assembly our Primary 6 pupils did today in front of the whole school, their family and their friends. The theme was based around the Season of Creation and not only did they teach us about St. Francis and how we can care for creation but they also sang beautifully the song ‘Within God’s Creation’. Well done Primary 6! ...

Fun with Drums - ECO BEAT

James from Fun with Drums returned to St Mary's today and delivered two really fun eco beat workshops to primary 3 and primary 4. The children had been busy making instruments like drums and shakers from materials that they found round their house. Today they put them to great use in working together to make some music together. The whole school then came together for a fun assembly where w...