St Mary's Primary School & Nursery Unit, Portglenone
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World Book Day 2023

2 Mar 2023

Each year our school takes part in World Book Day and this year was no different. We know our parents look forward to it too!! We all go to the hall for a parade. We love seeing all the fantastic characters created by our pupils. The staff choose their favourites- something they find very difficult to do, but everyone still gets a treat from Mrs Milner for taking part. ...

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Everyone enjoyed taking part in this year's 'Ditch the Dark Day' by wearing bright or fluorescant clothing to travel to school. We all learned about the importance of being seen while travelling on or near the roads....

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Congratulations to our P6 and P7 quiz teams who were selected to represent St. Mary’s P.S. at the local heat of the annual Credit Union Quiz in the PEG office in Portglenone today. Both teams did exceptionally well and our P7 team were placed 2nd in the B competition. Well done!...

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Congratulations to all our winners of the Credit Union Art Competition. Maureen and Alex from the Credit Union joined us at assembly this morning to present the prizes. Well done to all our pupils who took part. We have lots of very talented artists in our school!...

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Football Success

18 Nov 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to our boys' Gaelic football team on winning the Cumann na mBunscol Indoor 5 a-side tournament today at the Antrim Forum!...

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Halloween Parade 2022

28 Oct 2022

On the 28th of October, the whole school dressed up as their favourite characters for Halloween. There were zombies, witches, wizards and lots more. We all had a big party in the hall after a contest where the teachers picked their favourite costumes and the winners got a prize of sweets and decorations from Mrs Milner, our principal. ...

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What is the European Day of Languages? The European Day of Languages is a celebration of the amazing number and variety of languages spoken across Europe. Schools and organisations mark the event every year with a European languages day to promote language learning and to celebrate the linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe. Each class in our school did something different to celebrate th...

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On Friday 24th June to celebrate the children working so hard for Graduation, we went on a walk for a very special treat - ice cream! We visited Ben’s Ice Cream Studio in Portglenone and it was delicious! The children all got to choose what flavour of ice cream they wanted and whether or not they wanted sprinkles. Lots of the children enjoyed telling each other about their previous trips ...

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Mrs Milner, accompanied by Siobhan McGrogan and three of our Eco Committee members, attended a very special event at Ballymena Showgrounds today to receive our Green Flag award. We are very proud of the work that we do in school to achieve this award, one that we have held now for over 10 years....

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This term, P.6. have been taking part in the Biodiversity Garden Project in partnership with Apex Housing and Eco Schools. We have planted apple trees, plum trees and pear trees. We also planted blueberry and raspberry  bushes. In the wildflower garden, we weeded the flower bed and then we planted wildflowers. The stems of the flowers have sprouted but no bulbs have shown yet. Hopefully some ...

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