St Mary's Star Of The Sea Primary School

St Mary’s Star of the Sea Primary School on the Shore Road in Belfast was established in 1938 in the parish of St Mary’s Greencastle. As a Catholic school with a strong and positive pastoral care system, we aim to provide a broad and balanced child-centred educational experience for each child. With parental and other agency support, we aim towards our pupils achieving their fullest academic, spiritual and human potential. We provide planned and meaningful activities with variety and challenge so that our pupils learn the skills needed for life. We set high expectations of effort, behaviour and achievement.

We promote good manners, being considerate of all others and having a positive self image in order to help every member of the school community to succeed with confidence. In 2016 the Inspectorate found that The quality of education provided by the school is very good. The teaching is mostly very good. The school is meeting the educational and pastoral needs of the children. The school continues to demonstrate a high level of capacity for sustained self-improvement.

We are very proud to have been awarded the Silver Eco Schools award. We all work hard to recycle in school - such as food waste, paper and cardboard and plastic and to keep our outside areas clean and tidy. We are all very proud of our school and received a Commendation in the Best Kept Schools Awards in June 2015. Mrs Stewart and Miss McCrum are brilliant at keeping our school looking its best. We are a busy but friendly school, with lots going on.

This website aims to give you a taster of the school, as well as providing regular updated information for both parents and pupils. In the meantime, We hope you enjoy our website launched to coincide with our 75th anniversary of ‘Caring and Learning Together. ’Yours in good faith. If you feel that you would like to help and become more involved in the life of the school and meet other parents, grandparents etc, please feel free to come along to any of our coffee mornings were we would be delighted to see you.