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Welcome to St Mary’s Secondary School Edenderry
St Mary’s Secondary School is a large co-educational, voluntary secondary school serving the communities in and around Edenderry. We have 838 students following the Junior Cert, Transition Year, Leaving Cert and Leaving Cert Applied courses. In St Mary’s we seek to pursue excellence in everything we do. We encourage all of our students to set high expectations and to bring a positive approach to their learning.
St Mary's is implementing change and improvements all of the time. Our school has advanced in numerous ways in recent years. We hope that our website can keep up with all of the changes on the ground. You are welcome to explore our site.
Rob Halford
Principal
St Mary's Celebrate with great Junior Cert Results
St Mary’s Secondary school are celebrating today (September 12th) as 148 students receive their Junior Cycle Results. The results are very good, once again reflecting the students hard work and focus on this important chapter in their education. We are delighted to congratulate our students on their achievements today and over the past few years. We are delighted to celebrate with them alongside their parents and teachers. The school is very grateful to our parents for their support. We equally express our gratitude to our wonderful team of teachers who helped prepare the students for this process.
The Junior Cycle is a very important milestone in each student’s journey through education. It is the stepping stone to either Transition Year or to the Leaving Certificate Programmes. We wish all our students luck in the next step of their journey with St Mary's Secondary School. We are proud of what they have achieved this year and look with great anticipation to all that is to come.
The Junior Cycle is a very important milestone in each student’s journey through education. It is the stepping stone to either Transition Year or to the Leaving Certificate Programmes. We wish all our students luck in the next step of their journey with St Mary's Secondary School. We are proud of what they have achieved this year and look with great anticipation to all that is to come.
Magnificent Results for our Leaving Certificate Class of 2018
St Mary’s Secondary School is delighted with the quality of our results in this year’s Leaving Cert and Leaving Cert Applied. 150 students received results today with the vast majority matching or exceeding expectations. Several of our students attained high 500 points with Ciarán Holton and Adam Keyes breaking through the magical 600 points target. Equal credit goes to the many, many students who reached more than enough points to secure their place in college. Our school is best judged by the amount of the students who worked consistently hard through the year and got the results that perfectly reflect their ability and application. Our Leaving Cert Applied students maintained St Mary's very high standards with almost every student reaching the top Merit or Distinction grades. Well done to all.
We wish every and each one of our immediate past pupils the very best. Their results are the culmination of much hard work and sacrifice on their part as well as the dedication and support of teachers and parents.
It is important to remember that there is a path for everyone; that may be university, college, work, travel or an apprenticeship. There are many other things in life far more important than exams but for today we celebrate our results and congratulate our students and our teachers.
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1st Year Art Taster 2018
On Wednesday 29th August the 1st year group Shannon started their Art taster. Students embarked on an exciting and fun learning experience. The Art element of line was explored. Students created four large mark making sheets using objects such as twigs, straws, bottle lids and teabags with black paint. Miss Casey played five pieces of music and each student created a mark or line to represent the music. Students enjoyed the group activity. 
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St Mary’s Secondary school are celebrating today (September 12th) as 148 students receive their Junior Cycle Results. The results are very good, once again reflecting the students hard work and focus on this important chapter in their education. We are delighted to congratulate our students on their achievements today and over the past few years. We are delighted to celebrate with them alongside their parents and teachers. The school is very grateful to our parents for their support. We equally express our gratitude to our wonderful team of teachers who helped prepare the students for this process.
The Junior Cycle is a very important milestone in each student’s journey through education. It is the stepping stone to either Transition Year or to the Leaving Certificate Programmes. We wish all our students luck in the next step of their journey with St Mary's Secondary School. We are proud of what they have achieved this year and look with great anticipation to all that is to come |
Microsoft DreamSpace
Last Thursday 13th of September, forty Transition Year students from St. Mary’s Secondary school attended Microsoft DreamSpace at the Microsoft One Campus in Leopardstown, Dublin. One of those was Megan Farrell and she has written a summary of their trip: When we arrived we were warmly greeted by our tour guides, Amanda and Ben, who first of all brought us on a short tour of the incredible Microsoft One Campus including the amazing DreamSpace room. We then did some tasks, the first of which involved learning about code, how to write it and what it is used for. It was a fun task and really helped explain how coding is so important in our everyday lives. Our second activity seen us making a short film in our assigned groups by using mixed reality, a more advanced version of virtual reality. We created our movies with the help of 3D paint characters. Afterwards we presented our movies to our fellow classmates, teachers and tour guides. It was great fun and afterwards we were kindly provided with refreshments and snacks by the Microsoft team. The whole experience was hugely beneficial as it helped show us how important technology is to us and what life would be like working in this area. It was also extremely enjoyable. A massive thank you to our brilliant guides, Amanda and Ben and the whole team at Microsoft One for giving us the opportunity to attend Microsoft DreamSpace and for creating such a memorable experience. A special thanks to Mr. McEvoy, Mr. Mealiffe and Ms. Hourigan who organized the trip and travelled with us. |
