Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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🔥 Sacrament of Confirmation 🕊️
Fri 26 Apr 2024Congratulations to all the children in Primary 7 who made their Confirmation this morning in St Nicholas' Church. It was a beautiful ceremony and the children were absolutely fantastic throughout.
They have worked so hard in preparation for today and this was apparent in their responses throughout the service, in their readings, in their reverence during the service and in their knowledge of the Sacrament.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to today, specifically Fr McCloskey for a very special service, class teacher Mrs Devlin and Mrs McGrath for all her work in preparing the children with the music for today.
Many thanks also to Mrs McMullan and Mrs McLaughlin, our Primary 7 assistants for preparing the displays and presenting the children's work so beautifully.
We would also like to thank our families and sponsors who have helped the children enormously in their preparations for today, the Catechists in the Come Follow Me Team who have worked with the children over a number of years and all the other staff in school who helped out in many different ways to prepare the children for their special day.
We hope you all enjoyed this morning and have a fantastic day celebrating with family and friends.
Well done boys and girls the whole school is extremely proud you.
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🤸♀️ Gymnastics Success 🤸♂️
Thu 25 Apr 2024Well done to Nicole in Primary 6 who was recently awarded a certificate and medal for 1st place in the Northern Ireland Tumbling IRCCF Qualifier.🥇
Nicole was delighted to display her certificate and medal to the other children at our outdoor assembly today! 🤩🥇🤸♀️ 👏🏻
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🌟Stars of the Week🌟
Thu 25 Apr 2024Congratulations to our ‘Stars of the Week’.
Well done everyone! ⭐️👏🏻
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🚩🏴Red and Black Day🚩🏴
Thu 25 Apr 2024Today we had ‘Red & Black Day’ in school in support of the Down Senior Footballers who will be playing Armagh in the Semi-Final of the Ulster Senior Football Championship this Saturday in St Tiernach’s Park, Clones.
Children adorned their Down kits and their red and black clothing to show their support for the players and management and everyone in St Mary’s will be cheering them on tomorrow evening!
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🦋🦋🐛🐛 Life cycle of a Butterfly 🐛🐛🦋🦋
Thu 25 Apr 2024The past five weeks have been a buzz of excitement in Primary 1&2, with the children watching the life cycle of a Butterfly come full circle.
All the pupils in school have been watching with excitement as the butterflies came out of their chrysalis.
Today Primary 1&2 children let the butterflies loose in the playground to find their new forever homes.
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🙏 Trócaire Cheque Presentation 🤲
Tue 23 Apr 2024This morning at our special whole school assembly, Mark from Trócaire visited St Mary’s to receive a cheque for £500.
These funds were raised over the Lenten period with our School Council planning, organising and leading the fundraising events.
Mark spoke to the children about the amazing work that Trócaire do in Africa, especially Malawi – the focus of this year’s Trócaire Lenten campaign.
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🌍 Earth Day 🌊
Mon 22 Apr 2024Today we celebrated Earth Day 2024 in school.
Earth Day is a day of awareness, when we pay special attention to our natural environment. The children looked at the impact we are having on the Earth and what we can do to be less wasteful and defend our planet from activity that damages the environment.
The children spent time investigating the positive actions we can all take like litter picking, recycling and growing trees which will help to reset the balance with nature and our school Eco-Councillors organised an Earth Day poster competition with prizes for the best designs.
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🚢 The Titanic 🚢
Fri 19 Apr 2024Primary 7 have been studying The Titanic in their recent World Around Us Studies.
The class were tasked with creating their own Titanic ships as a home learning activity as part of their studies.
The finished designs were absolutely amazing. Pupils used a variety of materials for the project including aluminium, cardboard and wood and the level of creativity put into each and every Titanic replica was truly fantastic.
Well done boys and girls.
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⛪️ St Vincent de Paul School Donation 🤲
Fri 19 Apr 2024We have recently been in receipt of a very generous donation from the Parish of Dunsford & Ardglass St Vincent de Paul Group.
This donation will be used to benefit our children through Afterschool provision, School trips and Healthy Breaks.
We are extremely thankful for the continued support from the SVDP group within our Parish, especially in these challenging times.
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🏅 Dance Success 🌟
Thu 18 Apr 2024A huge Congratulations to Esmee who competed in the World Dance Masters Championship in Ballybofey, Co.Donegal last weekend.
Esmee received a medal for her achievements in the Championship – which is a testament to all the hard work she has been putting in with the Jenna Finnegan Dance Company over the last few months.
Well done Esmee!
