Welcome

On behalf of the children, staff and governors of St Mary’s Primary School and Nursery Unit, I am delighted to welcome you to our school website.

St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School was established in 1964 and is situated in the middle of the town of Bellaghy. County Derry. Our Nursery Unit was opened in 2002, expanding our provision for the children of Bellaghy.

We believe that all children are life time learners. We know that children learn best when they feel happy, secure and well cared for. Therefore our first priority is the provision of strong pastoral care in a nurturing environment of catholic faith. We aim to develop in our children a passion and love of learning by providing an enriched, broad and balanced curriculum; that delivers a high quality, inclusive education for all, so that each may reach their full potential.

I sincerely hope that you will find our website to be an extremely useful resource, helping you to engage with your child’s educational journey through St Mary’s. Should you require any further information on admissions or would like to visit the school at any stage, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Mrs Mary McCann

Principal

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World Book Day in P.3

6th Mar 2026

P.3 celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite character. They...

World Book Day in P6

5th Mar 2026

P6 got into the spirit of World Book Day with their super costumes. They took part...

World Book Day P.1/2

5th Mar 2026

Check out the amazing characters in P.1/2 today! We had so much fun talking about...

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World Book Day in P.3 P.3 celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite character. They designed bookmarks and wrote all about their favourite character. Mrs Fegan and Mrs McWilliams swapped classes for a little while and Mrs Fegan read to the class which they thoroughly enjoyed. Well Done to our book marks winners!

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World Book Day in P6 P6 got into the spirit of World Book Day with their super costumes. They took part in a live lesson over Zoom from Dream Space, Dublin and W5, Belfast. Building on their skills taught in a previous by Sentinus, the children created games based on story characters by coding in Microsoft makecode. Fantastic work! After the annual costume parade in the school hall, P6 let their creativity flow again by making imaginative bookmark characters. They even had a visit from Gangsta Granny!

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Primary 4 Love World Book Day World Book Day is a special day where we can celebrate the joy of reading! Our P4’s love sharing stories, laughing at funny characters and going on adventures through books. Thank you so much for all the amazing costumes, we had a great day!

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World Book Day in Primary 7 Primary 7 had great fun today as they celebrated World Book Day. We had our annual parade where we showed off our fantastic costumes, read with our buddies and created looks of World Book Day arts and crafts. Have a look at our superb costumes. Well done everyone, you all looking amazing!

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World Book Day in Primary 1 Children in Primary 1 looked amazing dressed up as their favourite book characters. This week they enjoyed lots of activities to celebrate World Book Day - including a teacher swap for story time, an art competition, themed workouts and of course the school parade!

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Primary 5 Celebrate World Book Day 2026! Primary 5 had a fantastic week celebrating World Book Day 2026! We kicked off our celebrations on Tuesday with a special Teacher Swap Story Time. Mrs Carey visited our classroom and read us a wonderful story. Thank you, Mrs Carey — we loved having you with us! On Wednesday, the class enjoyed designing their own creative bookmarks. Everyone worked so hard, and we were very impressed with the artistic ideas. Well done to Thea and Michael, who were our bookmark competition winners! Thursday was all about sharing our love of reading. We took part in a class discussion about our favourite books and explained why we enjoy them so much. Afterwards, we recreated the book covers and wrote about what makes each book special to us. We also had great fun taking part in a World Book Day Kahoot! quiz. Congratulations to Hannah and Anna, who came out on top as our quiz winners! To finish off the celebration we attended a fun and lively assembly hosted by Mrs Fegan. We had the chance to parade around the hall and show off our fantastic costumes. Thank you, Mrs Fegan, for such an enjoyable celebration! Happy World Book Day!