Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Junior Entrepreneur Programme

  Tue 25 May 2021

  Primary 7 have been working hard on their JEP Programme. The dragon's were so impressed with their presentations last Thursday they have decided to allow all three products through to production. See attached our brilliant poster advertisements then head over to the Primary 7 class page to see our fabulous video adverts. Copies of our order forms will go home with each child in the school. 

   

  https://www.stmaryspsdunsford.co.uk/p7/

   

  

• First Holy Communion

  Sat 22 May 2021

  Congratulations and well done to our Primary 4 children who made their First Holy Communion today. We are so proud of all your hard work in preparing for your special day. 
   

  Thank you to Fr McCloskey for leading the service today, our parents, cathechists from the ‘Come Follow Me’ team, Sean McAlea, Pat Clarke, Mrs Howland & Miss O’Hanlon along with other members from the school staff who all assisted the children in both their preparations and during the service today. 
   

  The children were wonderful and a credit to their families and our school. We hope you all had a lovely day.  

  

• Pupils of the Week

  Fri 21 May 2021

  Congratulations to our star pupils this week. Well done boys and girls we are very proud of you all.

  

• Dragons Den

  Thu 20 May 2021 Primary 7

  Today we presented our Junior Entrepreneurs project ideas to Mr Fitzpatrick and Mrs McGrath. We worked hard on our presentations and answered all the questions with confidence. The next step is to see who gets through to sell to the public. Please keep an eye out to see what products are available to buy very soon.

  

• TT Rockstars Competition

  Tue 18 May 2021 Digital leaders

  Last week our school took part in a TT Rockstars event. 

  Congratulations to everyone who took part in this event and congratulations to the students who placed in the top three in each class from P4 to P7. 

   

  A big well done to the overall top three in the school! 

  

• ETI Report on Remote Learning

  Tue 18 May 2021

  We are absolutely delighted to have been included in and been able to contribute to the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) Report on Primary Schools' Delivery, Monitoring and Evaluation of Effective Remote Learning.

   

  This last year has been like no other, the single most challenging year in our school's history. To have had our efforts throughout this time recognised by the ETI is a source of great pride to all the staff, children and stakeholders in St Mary's. 

   

  We hope that the account of our journey contained in one of the case studies proves to be helpful to colleagues in other schools and contexts.

   

  https://www.etini.gov.uk/sites/etini.gov.uk/files/publications/primary-thematic-report-on-remote-learning_0.pdf 

  

• Ardglass GAC Coaching

  Tue 18 May 2021 Digital Leaders

  Thank you to Paul O’Shea from Ardglass GAC for the weekly coaching sessions.

   

  KS2 children thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Gaelic games and activities. 

  

• Primary 7 Party Day

  Fri 14 May 2021 P7 Digital Leaders.

  Primary 7 pupils would like to thank everyone who helped make their Confirmation celebrations so special. We would like to give a special thank you to Mrs J McConville who created such a beautiful cake to help us celebrate.

   

  We really enjoyed it today during our party and had enough left over to share with the whole school community. We also would like to thank Mr Fitzpatrick and all the staff in school for the brilliant party day, we had movies, board games, party food and Domino’s Pizza.

   

  We also would like to thank all the Come Follow Me Team who gave us a beautiful card and some party food. We have had such a great day. Thank you everyone. 

  

• Sacrament of Confirmation

  Thu 13 May 2021

  Congratulations to all the boys and girls in Primary 7 who made their Confirmation this morning in the beautiful sunshine in Dunsford. It was a lovely ceremony and the children were amazing.

   

  They have worked so hard over the past number of weeks and this was apparent in their responses throughout the service, in their readings and in their knowledge of the Sacrament. We are so proud of all their hard work.

   

  Many thanks to everyone who made this day possible. We specifically thank Bishop Treanor and Fr McCloskey for a very special service, class teacher Mrs McGrath and classroom assistant Mrs Wills for all their hard work with the pupils over the past number of weeks, Mrs Mullan and Mrs McGrath for our music, Mrs C Mullan and Mrs Clarke for the wonderful flowers and Sean McAlea for helping prepare the chapel for the service. 

   

  I would also like to thank our parents who have been so supportive and patient over the last number of months, the catechists in the Come Follow Me Team who have worked with the children in their preparations with the pupils over a number of years and all the other staff in school who helped out in many different ways to prepare the children for today. 

   

  We hope you all enjoyed this morning and have a fantastic day celebrating with your family and friends.

   

  Well done boys and girls the whole school is so proud you.

  

• Pupils of the Week

  Fri 07 May 2021

  Well done to all our Pupils of the Week who received certificates for hard work, meeting specific targets and displaying fantastic behaviour this week.

   

  Keep up the great work!