Macmillan Coffee Morning
Our Mini Vinnies planned and lead a wonderful Macmillan Coffee Morning for our parents and local community to raise money and awareness about cancer. It was a lovely morning where we were joined by our parents, local PCSO PC Mans, Mr Campbell from St Vincet de...
Zoom Session with Author Hamza Yassin
KS2 enjoyed a very special virtual event with CBeebies presenter and author Hamza Yassin as he presented his fascinating new book, Hamza’s Wild World. We listened to information all about his new book as well as participated in an interview with Hamza, who...
Cycle to School Week
There was a real buzz in the air during w/c 23 September as it’s our first year participating in Cycle to School Week, and our Laudato Si Leaders are on a mission to make our school more sustainable and are promoting ways we, as a school and a local community,...
New PCSOs Appointed
Junior PCSOs is a leadership initiative developed by West Midlands Police and Neighbourhood Teams. The aim of the scheme is to empower school to tackle and educate in the issues of parking, bullying and litter around their school sites. It is also to raise awareness...
Positive Thinking Day
St. Mark’s celebrated ‘Positive Thinking Day.’ To celebrate this special day in school, each child was given a sticker to take home. Their challenge was to write a positive thought on the sticker, decorate it and wear it to school. In every class,...
Zoom Session with Author, Pari Thomson
On Wednesday 25th April, Year 3 and Year 5 enjoyed a Zoom session with Pari Thomson the author of Greenwild. We had the pleasure of listening to her speak about how she wrote her book, where her inspiration comes from and how she edited her work many, many times to...
Anchor Education Workshop
On Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th April, we had the pleasure of a visit from George from Anchor Education. Both KS1 and KS2 children had assemblies where George played his guitar and sand SPaG songs. Each class then had a workshop on a different aspect of SPaG. “I...
St Valentine’s Feast Day
Mrs B, our school cook, was very busy baking lovely cake for Valentine’s Day. All of our families had the opportunity to buy cakes to spread love to others and raise money for our St. Mark’s Friends (school PTA). A big thank you to everyone that got...