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Netball Success

Netball after schools club has been running since September with P4/5/6/7 girls all taking part. February 25th was our first match at home v Carniny PS. This was also our first opportunity to wear our beautiful new netball tops. We would like to thank our sponsors - Nisa, Clady Timber and McMullan Water, again for their very kind donations and support of our school.  Our first game was a g...

Team Callum and guess the Elephant’S name

St Mary’s Portglenone has been raising money for Team Callum. 13 year old Callum Boyd will be transported to England for treatment for cancer in the near future. Callum is a past pupil of our school and we wanted to help him. So we had a competition called "Guess the Elephant’s name”. Everyone brought in money to guess the name of the elephant. At assembly today the n...

Caring for the Environment

On Wednesday 5th February Rachel Conway, from the Butterfly Conservation Society and some volunteers helped members of our eco-committee to plant some fruit trees at the rear of the school. Therese’s daddy, Damien also helped the pupils to dig the holes for the trees. We planted a variety of apple trees and our first plum tree. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we see fruit on th...

Junior Entrepreneur Programme

  Term 2 in St. Mary’s is an exciting time for P7 as we launched the Junior Entrepreneur Programme in conjunction with Portglenone Primary School as part of Shared Education. This year we invited Mr. Philip O’Neill to talk to both P7 classes about setting up a business. Mr O’Neill was absolutely fantastic and answered all the questions prepared by the children. He gave...

Credit Union Quiz

On the 31st January 2020, Mrs Goldring accompanied 3 quiz teams from our school to the first chapter of the annual Credit Union Quiz which was held in Clady Hall. A P6 and a P7 team took part in the A Quiz which is for 10 years and younger and one team from P7 took part in the B Quiz which was for  over 11 years. All 3 teams did exceptionally well, leading at the top for most of the comp...

P6 Visit Mid and East Antrim Council

On Wednesday the 29th January, P6 had the opportunity to attend the Mid and East Antrim Schools Engagement event at the Braid Arts Centre in Ballymena. The Mayor was there and she told us a little bit about her job and the job of the council. However, the most exciting was when we got to watch and take part in activities which showcase the diversity we have in our local area. To celebrate Chines...

Christmas Outings for P1

On Thursday the 12th of December Primary one class set off on a short walk down to Fullan’s Food hall to post our Santa letters and meet Santa for a chat.   Santa met us at the door and walked us down to the back of the shop where his special chair and post-box was.  Firstly we had to sing Santa a few songs.  We sang Tapping away and It’s Christmas both of th...

Gaelfast Award

Starting last May we had Paul Law come in to coach the children in foundation stage and key stage 1 in Gaelic fundamentals. Paul then trained all the staff  so they could deliver the Gaelfast programme throughout the PE games curriculum.  Paul’s lessons were fantastic and he is continuing to support us in achieving our 5 star GAA affiliation status. We are hoping we can get the f...

Problem-solving Week

This year the whole school has decided to set aside a week each month to become ‘Problem Solving Week’. During this time we get to use lots of fun, practical materials to help us with our mental maths and problem solving. P2 have had so much fun with our Izak 9 resources. Firstly, Mrs McGurk told us to make a 1-9 wall.  The 1 had to be in the top left corner and the 9 had t...

Ralph the Reindeer

On Wednesday 11th December P1 and P2 took to the spotlight with Ralph the Reindeer. Since Rudolph was sick, Ralph the reindeer came to save the day! But there was one slight problem, Ralph couldn’t FLY! So after a wonderful song,  Ralph learns the  trick of how to fly, instead of counting to number 3, start at number 10 and count backwards! So in the end Ralph and Rudolph lead Sa...