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Sustrans Active Travel

Today our friend Johnny McCrystal from SUSTRANS came to school to award Level two certificates to the P6 pupils who took part in cycling training last month! Well done! He also announced an exciting event which will be taking place next week called "Ditch the Dark” day. More information will be sent home about this event. ...

The Sam Maguire visits St. Mary*’s P.S.

We had a surprise today on our return to school after the mid-term break when The Sam Maguire arrived as part of a special visit to Portglenone. All the classes had their photograph taken with the cup and some pupils even impressed us with their knowledge of its history!...

Halloween Fun

We had great fun today at our Halloween Parade. These are the winners of the best dressed competition, which as usual, was so difficult to choose. More class photos in the gallery....

A Sad but Fond Farewell

Today was both a happy and sad day for all of us here in St. Mary’s P.S. We were happy to finish for our summer holidays but sad because this was our school secretary Denise’s last day. Denise has worked in our school for 37 years and we will miss her terribly. We also welcomed back Jeanette who was a cleaner in our school for almost as long and Denise was secretary to wish both of t...

P7 Leavers 2018

Today we said farewell to our Year 7 pupils. Their last day was filled with Shloeur, cake, sweets, crisps and marshmallows with a little football thrown in. We have many happy memories to remember them by and wish them Good luck as they head to pastures new....

ICT Excellence Awards

Today St. Mary's P.S. received a Highly Commended Certificate at the ICT Excellence Awards which took place in the Merchant Hotel, Belfast. This is the second year that we have entered the competition and been highly commended. The judges visited our school in May to find out about how we use ICT in our school and they were very impressed with our work and particularly how the children t...

Junior Entrepreneur Showcase

Year 7 were invited to attend the Junior Entrepreneur Project Showcase in Dublin today. Our school was one of 120 schools invited to attend out of a total of 480 schools who entered the competition. This was a great achievement and was a wonderful recognition of the work that P7 carried out on their Slime Project. Three pupils attended along with Mrs Milner and Mrs Goldring and although they had t...

Youth Speak

Congratulations to Eimear and Molly from P7 who were selected to represent our school at the Youth Speak Competition in Ballymena this week and were runners up in a very close contest....

Girls Netball

The P5, P6 and P7 netballers took part in a tournament today in Magherafelt. Playing in Meadowbank Sports Arena in 31 degree temperatures and in 5 matches each! This was the first competitive matches for some of our P6 and P5 girls and they were fantastic winning 1 match and drawing in another. The improvement in skills for every single player was fantastic. Our A team won 4 matches and lost 1 m...

Boys Gaelic Success

A massive well done to all our P7 and P6 boys who won the Large Schools League Tournament yesterday. Playing in blistering heat and winning every match. Their team work was simply impressive and helped them secure the winning place. A huge thank you to Eoghan Doherty for his coaching and continued support of the boys Gaelic in school. Well done everyone....