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Welcome to St Mary’s Secondary School Edenderry
Welcome to all of our visitors!
You are very welcome to the website of St Mary's Secondary School. We are delighted that you have logged on to find out more about or school. Please explore our pages here on our website as well as our twitter accounts (@SMESecondary ) and our App (stmarysedenderry).
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. We have an extensive and expanding curriculum and a wide range of supports.
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. We have a great tradition of achievement, academically and in extra-curricular areas. The successes in the classroom and exam halls are matched by magnificent achievement on the playing fields, stage, competitions and elsewhere. We put equal value on the quality of relationships throughout the school with emphasis on students' well-being and welfare. These are supported by policies and our daily practice.
St Mary's is implementing change and improvements all of the time. Our school has advanced in numerous ways in recent years. Development of our facilities will continue with a substantial extension due to start in summer of 2019.
We hope that our website can keep up with all of the changes on the ground. You are welcome to explore our site or our other media platforms. Feel free to contact the school for more information
Rob Halford
Principal
St Mary’s Open Evening 2018
October 24th saw the busiest and most exciting night of the year for St Mary’s so far. Over 700 people visited the town’s largest secondary school on the night to experience a glimpse of what school life has to offer. Parents and students were greeted by wonderful school prefects who yet again represented their school so well. Parents started the night by meeting school principal, Mr Halford. He presented two expansive talks to parents. He gave an overview of the school's heritage and proud tradition as well as an impressive range of recent developments. He also pointed towards the school's development of its long term strategy and the imminent extension to the school that includes additional science, technical graphics and general class rooms. The two storey extension will also accommodate a new state of the art Technology Room, a subject the school is excited to be offering from 2020. As well as the wide variety of subjects, Mr Halford discussed the extensive extra-curricular menu and the lunchtime clubs. He introduced some of St Mary’s students, from 1st to 6th year who gave a real flavour of what life is like for them in the school.
The GP was buzzing with a selection of the groups who help to make St Mary’s what is it, including the Student Council, Green Schools Committee, Meitheal mentor team, Student Behavioural Support team, Parents’ Association and the Foróige, ‘Big Brother/Big Sister group.
Visitors enjoyed some refreshments before taking a tour of the school. Every corner of the school was a hub of activity. In the school gym students could challenge themselves to the long jump, shoot some hoops, practice their football skills or just watch the fun unfold. The school welcomed back the very talented Daniel Flynn, Eoin O'Reilly and Aaron O'Neill who raised the bar for every student. The school choir performed some beautiful pieces including a rousing rendition of Follow your Fire by Kodaline. To keep the crowd entertained, beautiful, solo piano performances and fantastic trad music were on display. If you were feeling hungry again you could pop in to the Home Economics room, test your baking skills and enjoy the fruits of your labour with a delicious iced bun. The language departments kept visitors challenged to try out the cúpla focail Gaeilge, or parlez francais, or even hablas espanol.
As the evening went on, guests could indulge in a little theatre, with 1st years presenting a little pop up performance from Macbeth. If the ‘Three Witches’ performance was not explosive enough, visitors could check out the wonderful volcanoes on display in the Geography Department or visit the wonder world that is the school’s excellent Art room. The Woodwork room was adorned with some beautiful examples of student work. Both parents and students alike were challenged in the Maths room, with many trying their hand at the build a dice challenge. Finally, in the Wellbeing room parents could enjoy the art work from first year students who created a poster for each of the new indicators of Wellbeing focusing on resiliency, awareness and being active.
St Mary's is already well regarded for its consistently high academic results and its range of supports for students with additional educational needs. The main focus of the open night was on the school's growing emphasis on promoting and safeguarding students' wellbeing. Building and encouraging each student's resilience, optimism, confidence and ambition are central to the St Mary's new curriculum. Mr Halford asked for parents' support on this very important element of their child's development. He finished by wishing parent's well in making their choice of school and looking forward to welcoming the very large number of students who have already committed to enrolling next September.
October 24th saw the busiest and most exciting night of the year for St Mary’s so far. Over 700 people visited the town’s largest secondary school on the night to experience a glimpse of what school life has to offer. Parents and students were greeted by wonderful school prefects who yet again represented their school so well. Parents started the night by meeting school principal, Mr Halford. He presented two expansive talks to parents. He gave an overview of the school's heritage and proud tradition as well as an impressive range of recent developments. He also pointed towards the school's development of its long term strategy and the imminent extension to the school that includes additional science, technical graphics and general class rooms. The two storey extension will also accommodate a new state of the art Technology Room, a subject the school is excited to be offering from 2020. As well as the wide variety of subjects, Mr Halford discussed the extensive extra-curricular menu and the lunchtime clubs. He introduced some of St Mary’s students, from 1st to 6th year who gave a real flavour of what life is like for them in the school.
The GP was buzzing with a selection of the groups who help to make St Mary’s what is it, including the Student Council, Green Schools Committee, Meitheal mentor team, Student Behavioural Support team, Parents’ Association and the Foróige, ‘Big Brother/Big Sister group.
Visitors enjoyed some refreshments before taking a tour of the school. Every corner of the school was a hub of activity. In the school gym students could challenge themselves to the long jump, shoot some hoops, practice their football skills or just watch the fun unfold. The school welcomed back the very talented Daniel Flynn, Eoin O'Reilly and Aaron O'Neill who raised the bar for every student. The school choir performed some beautiful pieces including a rousing rendition of Follow your Fire by Kodaline. To keep the crowd entertained, beautiful, solo piano performances and fantastic trad music were on display. If you were feeling hungry again you could pop in to the Home Economics room, test your baking skills and enjoy the fruits of your labour with a delicious iced bun. The language departments kept visitors challenged to try out the cúpla focail Gaeilge, or parlez francais, or even hablas espanol.
As the evening went on, guests could indulge in a little theatre, with 1st years presenting a little pop up performance from Macbeth. If the ‘Three Witches’ performance was not explosive enough, visitors could check out the wonderful volcanoes on display in the Geography Department or visit the wonder world that is the school’s excellent Art room. The Woodwork room was adorned with some beautiful examples of student work. Both parents and students alike were challenged in the Maths room, with many trying their hand at the build a dice challenge. Finally, in the Wellbeing room parents could enjoy the art work from first year students who created a poster for each of the new indicators of Wellbeing focusing on resiliency, awareness and being active.
St Mary's is already well regarded for its consistently high academic results and its range of supports for students with additional educational needs. The main focus of the open night was on the school's growing emphasis on promoting and safeguarding students' wellbeing. Building and encouraging each student's resilience, optimism, confidence and ambition are central to the St Mary's new curriculum. Mr Halford asked for parents' support on this very important element of their child's development. He finished by wishing parent's well in making their choice of school and looking forward to welcoming the very large number of students who have already committed to enrolling next September.
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Latest news and articles
halloween in st. mary's
Well done to our prefects who organised a non-uniform/Halloween Fancy Dress competition in the school. The event raised €400 for local charity Little Wishes. Well done to all involved and to the prize winners on the day.
welcome to our new 1st years
equestrian success for st. mary's
St. Mary's Secondary School are off to a flying start in this year's interschools competition coming home with rosettes in our first event of the year. It was an early start for the school's two equestrian teams in Coilog Equestrian Centre near Newbridge on Sunday 23rd of September. Our first team into the ring, made up of Anna Lacey, Amy Carroll and Ruby Steuvens had three clear rounds and were the second team into the jump off. Our second team, made up of Ellen Dunne, Lucy Carroll and Isabelle Lawless jumped excellently but unfortunately had one pole down. Two riders from each team qualified to take part in the jump off and both Amy and Ruby performed well against the clock earning their team 4th place in the competition. Our next interschools competition is in Mullingar Equestrian Centre on Sunday 7th of October.
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Open Night
We had over 700 visitors to the school on October 24th for our Open Night. The school was opened up for all potential 1st year students to come along with their families to get a taste of what goes on in St. Mary's. With the help of all staff and over 120 students the open night was a great success. We look forward to seeing you all again in January for the CAT testing.
1st year bonding dayThe entire 1st Year group from St. Mary's descended upon Croghan Hill last week to participate in a bonding day by taking on the Croghan Hill Challenge. It was a great success and as can be seen, all who took part thoroughly enjoyed it. A big thanks to the Meitheal Group who organised the day.
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 1st Year Art1st 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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sponsored run
Over 250 students descended upon Mount Lucas Wind-Farm on Friday before mid-term for our annual Sponsored Run which raises funds for our Extra-curricular activities. Thank you to everyone at Bord na Móna for looking after us and for the use of their fantastic amenity.
national schools visitSt. Mary's opened its doors to all 6th class students from the local National Schools to give them a flavour of life in St. Mary's. On their visit the students got to participate in P.E. classes, Science, Woodwork and also test their baking skills in the kitchens. We really enjoyed having you all and look forward to seeing you all again on our open evening.
ty achill trip
On Wednesday 28th September the TY class from St. Mary's made a trip to Colaiste Acla in Achill for 3 days of fun and adventure all through Irish. The TY class along with teachers- participated in all sorts of sports including surfing, cliff diving, bog hopping and hiking. The also participated in ceili's at night time. The group arrived back on Friday afternoon tired and weary but with very fond memories of a memorable trip to Achill.
ty's visit microsoft
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. |
