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Sports Day

Sports Day 2026 We had a fantastic day at sports day this year and we had great weather to top it all off. Well done to everyone that took part...

Nursery Sports Day

Nursery Sports Day 2026 Our little sporting legends from Nursery. They were absolutely brilliant!...

Eco Schools Green Flag Award

ECO SCHOOLS GREEN FLAG AWARD NUMBER 8! 🌿💚 A Proud Day for St Mary’s! 💚🌿 We are absolutely delighted to share some fantastic news – yesterday we were notified that our Green Flag application has been successful once again! This marks an incredible milestone as St Mary’s has now been awarded its 8th Green Flag 🏆🌍 This achieve...

P7 Visit to Seamus Heaney Homeplace

P7 Visit to Seamus Heaney Homeplace Our primary 7 children had a lovely day learning more about the famous poet through hearing about his life and listening to his poems. They then spent time reminiscing about their memories in primary school and created a ‘Yearbook’ as a keepsake. Thank you to the wonderful staff of the Seamus Heaney Centre...

150th Anniversary Mass For St Mary's

150th Anniversary Mass  We were delighted to receive some fantastic photos captured by James School Pix of our 150th Anniversary Mass. Some great photos to add to our archives.🎞️ We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to making our Anniversary Mass such a special and memorable occasion. Our gratitude goes to all the staff of the s...

Saffron Óg Fanzine

Saffron Óg Fanzine We were delighted to be able to gift all of our families from P1-7 a first edition of the relaunched Saffron Og Fanzine. a dedicated GAA activity book, created especially for primary school children in County Antrim to celebrate everything brilliant about GAA in our schools, clubs and county. We are delighted to feature as the SW Antrim school in issue 1.  ...

Trocaire

Trocaire: Thank you for your generosity! We are so delighted to share with you that the School Council’s Lenten Fundraising Campaign for Trocaire raised an incredible £1940.80!!! As a Take 5 school, giving to and supporting others is so important for our pupils to learn.We welcomed Roisin from Trocaire to St. Mary’s this week to speak to all our pupils about how our fund...

Primary Six Cycle Skills

Primary 6 Cycle Skills - Walk Wheel and Cycle Trust We were delighted to welcome Johnny back from Walk Wheel Cycle Trust to take a cycling skills session with our Primary 6 pupils yesterday. Not only did he show us how to take care of our bicycles but we further developed our balance and coordination skills through a range of fun games and activities. What a great morning was had!...

Eco Committee's Special Delivery

ECO Committee receive a special delivery from Bulrush Thank you to Bryan Lennox from Bulrush who very kindly came to school and donated compost, flowers and some gardening tools to our ECO Committee through the week. We are very grateful for your support to the school. Bulrush Horticulture Ltd...

SW Antrim Cumman na mBunscol Camogie

SW Antrim Cumman na mBunscol Camogie Today we hosted the annual SW camogie outdoor tournament with the help of the wonderful Geraldines Camogie Club, Portglenone. The sun shone and the quality of camogie was very good. A huge well done to our P6 and P7 girls who represented our school with pride. They both made it through to the semi finals of the cup competition.  Thank you t...