It has been a wonderful week at St. Mary’s, full of festive cheer!

On Tuesday and Wednesday our family and friends joined us to watch Primary 1 – 4 perform the story of the Nativity and Primary 5 – 7 entertain us with Christmas songs.  The pupils were absolutely wonderful and I was extremely proud to watch them on stage.

Primary 5, 6 and 7 have also wowed us this week wearing their finery for their Christmas parties.  They have all had a fabulous time dancing and playing party games with their friends.  A highlight was watching them perform the Gay Gordon’s to Bruno Mar’s ‘Uptown Funk’!

On Thursday we had our Christmas Lunch.  Our Kitchen staff work very hard and it was ‘all hands on deck’ to serve lunch for over 300 pupils!  The pupils enjoyed eating lunch with their friends and being served by teaching and support staff whilst listening to Christmas tunes!

Our choir entertained Morrison’s customers and senior citizens at the Water Palace this week.  We received lovely comments from members of the public about our pupils manners, appearance, behaviour and most of all their wonderful singing!

All of the staff of St. Mary’s are very dedicated and work extremely hard to organise events and activities throughout the year and we are very much looking forward to the festivities next week and our Christmas Mass on Wednesday before we finish for our Christmas break.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Elaine Fitzpatrick

Christmas cheer is all around at St. Mary’s.  On Thursday we had our Christmas jumper day!    Everyone was looking very festive in their Christmas finery.  The money raised from this goes towards the cost of our Christmas parties.

On Tuesday evening Fr. O’Brien came to school to talk to the parents of our Sacramental classes about the sacraments they are going to receive this year.  Fr. O’Brien explained the reason for the Sacraments and the importance of them.  The evening gave parents the opportunity to ask any questions and to find out what was expected of them, strengthening the home, school and parish partnership.

Our Primary 7 play leaders had a fun lunchtime club on Thursday when our active schools co-ordinator Laura Somerville, treated them to a afternoon of fun and games after all of their hard work as play leaders. We are very proud of our play leaders, Laura has been extremely complimentary about their leadership and mentoring skills when working with the younger classes.  Well done P.7!

On Friday afternoon we had a lovely time at the Baptism of 4 our Primary 3 pupils.  In front of their classmates and members of their family, Fr. O’Brien baptised the girls, welcoming them into the church.  It was a lovely occasion and a privilege for the school to be involved in the sacrament in such a special way.

We are looking forward to our festive activities next week and welcoming our friends and family to our Nativity performance.  I’m sure that it will be wonderful!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Elaine Fitzpatrick