All are welcome to this years fundraiser quiz for St Mary’s NS. The quiz is organised by our Parent’s Association, and will take place the evening of Saturday, November 15. Join us at Drumcoura City for a fantastic evening of brain-teasers and fun!

We are looking forward to welcoming everybody back for the 25/26 school year. Over the summer the school had new flooring installed, and a fresh coat of paint to the interior.  All students now have new chairs, and we have a variety of new tables also in the Senior Room. We are also delighted to now have a dedicated sensory space in the school for the first time. 

A sensory space is a designated area within a school which can support a student with the individualised sensory input they need to regulate, so they can be better prepared for learning and engaging with others (NCSE, 2021). The overall goal of a sensory space is to optimise learning and participation in the school environment.

Sensory spaces can play an important role in supporting students to access the input they need to regulate their bodies and their minds. However, the everyday teaching environments can equally enhance regulation, learning, engagement and participation for all students. Visiting a sensory space compliments proactive foundational whole-class and whole-school approaches, but should not replace them.

Sensory spaces can:
• Be a calming and predictable environment, providing a space that offers reduced sensory input.
• Be a stimulating and alerting environment, offering increased multi -sensory feedback (Middletown, 2021).

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What a wonderful day we had on Friday, 27th September 2024. Our school was the flagship school to host European Schools Sports Day in Ireland. The pupils took part in Olympic Handball, FAI Soccer, GAA and plenty of fun games and activities. We welcomed Lauren Cadden – Olympic Athlete, Rafa Cretaro- FAI soccer player, Brónagh O’Rourke- Leitrim GAA All Star and James Holohan – Drumreilly GAA player. RTE News2Day, the Leitrim Observer and Sports Ireland joined us on the day! We hope all the pupils had a wonderful day. We thank everyone who made this day so special to showcase our wonderful school.

A huge congratulations to all the boys and girls in our Senior Room who won best overall school at this years North West Science Fair! With over 30 different schools represented on the day this was a brilliant achievement and well deserved. In total the school entered 6 different projects which are on display currently in school along with our award. A special shot out to our 3rd class boys who came 2nd in the intermediate category with their project on Bees!

The children have won the prize of a trip to the University of Limerick for their hard work where they will get the chance to carry out some cool science experiments! 

27th October 2023 

Take a look at some of the spooky haunted houses we made in school! 

Friday 29th October 2023 

We had great fun during this years European Schools Sports Day. Have a look at some of the races, games and activities the children took part in!

22nd October 2023

Thanks to everyone at Music Generation for coming in and setting up a great drumming workshop in school. All the children had great fun taking part in the workshop and even got to perform covers of some of popular songs!

Well done to our Senior Boys Soccer Team who took part in the Mini FAI soccer competition in Ballinamore last week. The boys were fantastic and played their hearts out. This is the first time the boys have taken part in this competition and we look forward to it again next year. Absent from the photos is Finnain. Thanks to Aisling and Louise for lifts to and from the competition. 

Thanks to the Parents’ Association for purchasing these wonderful new items for our sensory space in our school. 

Have a look at our wonderful book characters! We really enjoyed World Book Week with a visit from our local Librarian, Karen and having the Scholastic Book Fair at our school. Thanks to Ms. Kilkenny for organising a lovely week.