Prize Giving
19.09.07
Our Prize-giving Ceremony this year provided us with a great opportunity to bring together our pupils, parents, Board of Governors and friends to celebrate the achievements of our pupils. We were delighted to welcome our Guest Speaker Ms Caitriona Ruane, MLA (Sinn Fein) Minister for Education. Ms Ruane presented the pupils with their Awards and spoke about the...
more >>
University of Ulster Science Step-Up Programme
16.08.07
On Thursday 16th August one cohort of Derry sixth year students not only received their long awaited A’ Level results but they will also graduate from the University of Ulster Step Up Science Programme.
Step Up is a unique and innovative interventionist programme which provides new learning opportunities in science for talented young people who attend schools...
more >>
Students graduate in the Microsoft IT Academy
25.06.07
On Monday 25th June, eighteen students involved in the Microsoft IT Academy at St Mary’s College graduated with their Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) or Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3). The students passed a combined total of fifty-six exams. Mr Tom Jackson, Schools Technology Innovation Centre (STIC) Manager for Microsoft Ireland presented the...
more >>
Success for Derry pupils in school bus safety drive
18.06.07
TWO Londonderry pupils who kick-started a campaign that led the Government to invest £37m to make school buses safer today spoke of their delight. The new fleet sees the end of the controversial "three for two" system on buses, making journeys to and from school safer for students all over Ulster. The new bus was yesterday unveiled at St Mary's College after...
more >>
St Mary's College take part in Microsoft Grand Final
26.04.07
On Wednesday 2nd May, five Lower Sixth pupils involved in the Microsoft IT Academy at St Mary’s College will be travelling to Microsoft Headquarters in Dublin to compete in the Microsoft Office Worldwide Competition 2007. The competition sees students from all over Ireland compete to prove their skills in Microsoft Word 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2003 to win the Irish...
more >>
Year 10 Engineering Experience
01.04.07
On Sunday 1st April eleven pupils from St Mary’s College, Derry, in a joint venture with Lumen Christi College, will leave to take part in the “Engineering Experience” at Harper-Adams, University, Shropshire, England.
During their stay the pupils will take part in a series of engineering challenges that will enable them to experience the world of engineering by...
more >>
St Mary's College at the 4th EMEA Innovative Teachers Forum
28.03.07
The Innovative Teachers Forum is the largest meeting for European, Middle-Eastern and African teachers that work innovative with information technologies to enhance learning for students.
This two-day event promotes the innovative use of information and communication technology in education and encourages participants to share ideas and best practices with their peers...
more >>
Creggan schoolgirl in line for top award
26.02.07
A CREGGAN schoolgirl has been named as one of the most selfless people in Ireland after reaching the finals of the Youth Volunteers of the Year. Lisa Sheerin (17) from Whitehouse Park, a student in St Mary's College, is one of 20 second-level students, out of 235 who were nominated, to be invited to Dublin for the first ever Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards...
more >>
Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service at St Mary’s
23.02.07
St Mary’s had yet another first when the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service visited the school on Friday 23rd February. Miss P Doherty said “that the organisation was delighted with the turn out and the enthusiasm shown on the day”...
more >>
Microsoft Office Worldwide Competition
23.02.07
Prodigy has officially kicked off the Microsoft Office Worldwide Competition 2007, which sees students from all over Ireland compete to prove their skills in Microsoft Word 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2003 to win the Irish final and be in with a chance to compete at the Global Final in Florida. Prodigy has also launched a new website - www.betheworldchamp.com - to allow...
more >>
Launch of Specialist School in Science Status
21.02.07
On Wednesday 21st February 2007, St Mary’s College will celebrate the launch of their “Specialist Science Status”. Baroness Susan A. Greenfield will launch the Science Centre which is situated in The Old Library Trust in Central Drive. She will then address pupils and staff of St Mary’s and their guests in the school assembly hall. Her theme will be “Girls and Science”...
more >>
Life through a lens
14.02.07
The challenge for this year's secondary schools Photo Competition is to capture on film how we can take action to be more Energy Efficient. Interested in photography? Concerned about our environment? Then this is the competition for you...
more >>
Mayor recognises winners of Business Excellence Awards
07.02.07
The Mayor, Councillor Helen Quigley will host a reception this week for St Anne’s Primary School in Rosemount and St. Mary’s College in Creggan to acknowledge their achievements in receiving Business Excellence Awards at the Guildhall.
Paying tribute to the management, staff, pupils and parents of both schools, the Mayor said both educational outlets were recognised...
more >>
A great success story in St Marys College
26.01.07
In its first year as an IT academy St Marys College in Derry are achieving outstanding results. This year has seen the IC3 and MOS courses integrate excellently and resulting in great first round exam results last week.Both teachers and students are very excited about what the Microsoft IT Adamey programme has offered to the school and its students...
more >>
St. Mary’s Day of Celebration
07.12.06
On 8th November, St Mary’s College in Derry claimed the top prize for organisations at the European Quality Awards in Budapest. This was St. Mary’s second time achieving this Award and to recognise this outstanding success pupils were asked, through their student council, how they would like to celebrate this achievement. In response to their suggestions a day of...
more >>
St. Mary’s College Science Centre
04.12.06
Maria Patton (Primary 7) of St Anne’s Primary School was the overall winner of the “Name the Science Centre” competition held in St. Mary’s College. She received a prize for herself and for her school. Maria suggested the name Sci4all (Science for All) as the new name for the centre. Mrs Martine Mulhern, Head of Science at St Mary’s College, felt that the name was an ideal...
more >>
Young Derry Girl Claims UK Media Award
14.11.06
St Mary’s College 5th Year pupil, Aoife White, has been named as Children’s Express UK member of the year. Aoife, who is 16, beat off competition from young people from London, Newcastle and Belfast to claim the award, which is presented to a young person on an annual basis by Children's Express...
more >>
Multimedia Exhibition launched by Children’s Express
10.11.06
Children's Express Foyle Bureau launched a multimedia exhibition in the VOID gallery entitled "Global Eye". The exhibition ran from 16th-23rd November.
Global Eye was the culmination of a year long development education project 18 young people from the Foyle Bureau had been working on.
more >>
St Mary's College win the EFQM Excellence Award
08.11.06
St Mary’s College, in Creggan, Derry is celebrating today in becoming the only public sector organisation throughout Europe ever to win the EFQM Excellence Award for the second time. The award is regarded as recognising the most rigorous standards of business excellence and is based on the European Foundation Quality Model.
more >>
Website Relaunched
01.11.06
St. Mary's College, Derry, has just relaunched its website which has been redesigned to make the school's information more accessible and relevant to pupils, parents, teachers and the general public.
more >>
New Principal Appointed
01.09.06
Marie Lindsay has been appointed as principal of St Mary’s College in Creggan. She succeeds Dame Geraldine Keegan who retires this summer. Dame Geraldine was appointed eighteen years ago as the first lay principal. Other past principals include Sr. Assumpta, Sr. Aloysius, Sr Emmanuel and Mother Gertrude.
more >>
