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School Poetry Festival

Today we held our very popular annual Poetry Festival. Congratulations to all those pupils who participated from Year 1 to Year 7 and congratulations to our winners. Our judges, from St Mary's University Belfast, had a very difficult task choosing first and second place. Check out our Gallery to view all the photographs from the Festival....

INTO 7 a-side Football Blitz

Our Year 7 and Year 6 boys had a great day representing the school at the INTO 7 a-side Football Blitz on Thursday 5th March at Creggan Antrim....

Salmon Release Scheme

Our Year 6 pupils have been enthusiastically participating in the Salmon Release Scheme, sponsored by the Irish Society. Over the past six weeks the pupils have been so lucky to have witnessed salmon eggs hatching within the special tank in the classroom. The pupils were then responsible for the  care of the alevins (newly hatched salmon). This morning we accompanied pupils from Portglen...

Ballymena Festival

Congratulations to all our pupils who participated in this year's Ballymema Festival. We had such a great turn out, from all year groups, for the Speech and Drama section. Caitlin Diamond also took first place for her song 'Ned of the Hill' in the Singing Section. Another great year....

Trocaire Easter Egg Winners

Congratulations to our Easter Egg winners this week. All money for tickets goes towards our Trocaire fundrasing this Lent. Remember to buy your tickets for next week's Easter Egg Raffle! ...

Peace Proms

Our school choir were so excited to take part in the annual Peace Proms in the Odyssey Arena Belfast. They were part of a choir of 3000 with members from schools throughout Ireland. The Peace Proms is run by Cross Border Orchestra Ireland....

Credit Union Quiz

Both Year 7 and Year 6 pupils were proud to represent the school at the annual Credit Union Quiz. Congratulations to both teams who not only learned alot but had great fun too!...

Dream House Competition

Congratulations to Aoife, Noah, Sarah and Maya who won the Dream House Competition by the Housing Executive. The pupils had to design their dream houses, which were out of this world! Congratulations to Sarah, who took first place and won her very own digital camera....

Environmental Youth Speak

Congratulations to our Year 7 pupils Megan and Marie, who came 1st and 2nd in the Environmental Youth Speak Competition. Megan will be representing the school in the Final on Tuesday 10th March in Lisburn. Good luck Megan from everybody at St Mary's!...

World Book Day

We really value Reading at St Mary's so to celebrate World Book Day all pupils participated in a variety of lessons, activities and competitions. Congratulations to all our Character Costume Winners, whose outfits were incredible! We raised an amazing £215 for Epilepsy Action. Check out the Gallery to see our pupils taking part in Extreme Reading!  ...