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

• Christmas Snow Globe

  Tue 20 Dec 2022

  Many thanks to Fiona from Eurospar Ardglass who arranged a Snow Globe for the children today. 

   

  Everyone had a fantastic time and this greatly added to the excitement across the school this week. 

   

  Thank you to Fiona and everyone at Eurospar for the continual support to St Mary's. 

  

• Santa Visits St Mary's!

  Tue 20 Dec 2022

  We had a very special visitor in school today as Santa came in to see all the boys and girls before the big day. 

   

  There was lots of excitement as he made his way through the school giving each child a lovely Christmas treat.

   

  Everyone was relieved to hear they are on Santa's nice list for Christmas!

  

• St Vincent de Paul Christmas Hampers

  Mon 19 Dec 2022

  Today we donated a magnificent ten hampers to the local St Vincent de Paul Society.

   

  Local representative Mrs Fitzsimons collected these and they will go towards helping those in need in our community over the Christmas period.

   

  Many thanks to all our parents, staff and the wider St Mary’s Community for their kind donations.

  

• Golf Lessons

  Mon 19 Dec 2022

  Adam Mulhall from Ardglass Golf Club has been delivering lessons to the children over the past number of weeks and finished coaching for the Term today.

   

  Adam has been teaching children from Primary 1 to Primary 7 the basic skills of golf and is extremely pleased with the progress and enthusiasm shown by everyone.

   

  There was a fantastic turnout each week for Adam’s lessons and everyone is looking forward to having Adam back into St Mary’s in the Spring Term.

  

• Cinema Trip

  Mon 19 Dec 2022

  Children from Primary 1 to primary 7 went on their end of Term trip today to Downpatrick cinema for a special screening of some Christmas movies.

   

  A great day was had by all with plenty of festive spirit in St Mary’s!

  

• Christmas Raffle

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  There was huge excitement in school this afternoon as the draw for our annual Christmas Raffle took place. 

   

  Our raffle was a great success and we are so grateful for the continual support we receive from our whole school community.

   

  Shown below are some of our main prizes winners;

  - Fiadh

  - Eva-Mae

  - Eabha

  - Ciara

  

• Christmas Dinner Treats

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  Many thanks to the fantastic kitchen team who treated the children to chicken and chips in a McDonald’s styled ‘Happy Meal’ box today.

   

  These went down a real treat!  

  

• ⭐️⭐️⭐ Christmas Dance Show ⭐️⭐️⭐

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  Well done to Olivia and Esmee for their achievements in the Jenna Finnegan Dance Company Christmas performance.

   

  Both girls won medals for their efforts! Well done 

  

• 🤩 Stars of the Week 🤩

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  Congratulations to our ‘Stars of the Week’.  

   

  Well done everyone! ⭐️⭐️⭐

  

• Carol Service

  Thu 15 Dec 2022

  We celebrated our annual Christmas Carol Service tonight in St Mary’s Church. Well done to our Primary 4 to Primary 7 children for their beautiful singing and fantastic readings and prayers.

   

  Thank you to all our parents & whole school community for coming out in such large numbers on a very cold night and we hope that you enjoyed listening to the readings and singing.

   

  We are so proud of all the hard work the children have put into their preparations over the last number of weeks and making the service so special.