by Grace | Mar 11, 2024 | Literacy, News, Themed Weeks
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...
by Grace | Oct 26, 2023 | Community, Field Trip, Literacy, News
The girls from Ms McElhinney’s sixth class and Ms Quinlan’s fifth class were honoured to meet the famous children’s author Marita Conlon-McKenna on October 12th in Cobh Library. Both classes had the pleasure of reading Marita’s latest novel...
by Grace | Mar 7, 2023 | Literacy, News, Themed Weeks
World Book Day was celebrated on March 2nd and was a huge success in St Mary’s. Watch our highlight video to see the amazing book-inspired costumes!...
by Grace | Oct 13, 2022 | Initiatives & Programmes, Literacy, News, Parents, SEN
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...
by Grace | Mar 7, 2022 | Literacy, 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...
by Grace | Mar 2, 2022 | Facilities, Literacy
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...
