News 2025

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...

Nursery Trip to OB Construction

Our Nursery children headed off on their annual trip to OB Construction on Thursday. The children and staff were treated like royalty and Mr Mullan was more excited than the boys and girls to get a chance to see around the fantastic facilities.   The boys and girls had a chance to see the steel works in Eden and the machines that cut and drill holes in the huge beams. T...

PTA Coffee Morning

Thank you so much for the support this morning at the PTA coffee morning, it was a huge success. There were so many yummy treats that were thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you to everyone who baked, donated and supported the cause. We are very lucky to have such a brilliant PTA and school community to support the work of the school. A special thank you to Annie McKillop, our Primary 1 c...

Thank you PTA! 30 New iPads for St Mary's

Our PTA has done amazing work in promoting and fundraising for our school since the start of the year. One of our main fundraising goals was to begin to replenish our stock of iPads that are used to support teaching and learning throughout the school. Today we were able to celebrate with some members of our PTA as we received delivery of 30 new iPads. Thank you very much for this amazi...