World Book Day 2024

World Book Day 2024

St Mary’s pupils really blew us all away this year with their creativity on March 7th when they dressed up as characters inspired by their favourite books. Our pupils also partook in Reading Buddies where they read with members of other classes and designed...
Spellings For Me

Spellings For Me

Here in St Mary’s, we are updating our spellings programme and are embracing the latest proven methods for the teaching of spellings.  Many other progressive schools in Ireland are now also using this programme which is essentially an individualised approach to...
Literacy Links

Literacy Links

We offer Literacy Links in St Mary’s.  Literacy Links helps students become better readers, including readers who are just beginning, readers with low phonological awareness, and readers with low English fluency.  Literacy Links is station teaching with literacy...
School Library

School Library

Our school has our very own library with hundreds of books, suitable for a variety of ages, interests and abilities.  Children visit the library with their class during the school day and can ‘check-out’ a book and take it home to read.  The library is a...