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Nursery and Primary One Open Events

  See below dates and information pertaining to our open events. If you know of any families who have children of nursery/ primary school age next September please feel free to share this information with them. Register for one of the open afternoon slots by clicking the link below:   https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc56QwELIKf8bawRPz3se4FFpTVc8TrqwbjrREslZc58Es_4g/vie...

Art Competition Winners

Thank you very much to Hutchinson Engineering for allowing us to be part of their Halloween Art competition. Pictured are the lucky winners from the Primary 3 and Primary 4. They were also so generous and gave all the children a goody bag! The children were delighted....

Accelerated Reading and Mathletics Awards

At the end of the month assembly, we take time to acknowledge those children who have achieved milestones in Accelerated Reading and Mathletics. Well done to those who achieved the various levels in both Programs. AR is used between P4 and P7 and Mathletics is available to all children from P1 to P7.  Please encourage your children to keep reading and quizzing and when using tablets and devic...

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...