Celebrating Our Faith
Here at St. Mark’s, we celebrate Our Faith in many different ways. Look at some of the special events that take place during our school year that have a particular focus or importance to our Catholic Faith.
World Baking Day 2023
Our Guardian Angels have been busy making cornflake cakes as part of World Baking Day 2023. They then sold the cakes at our May Procession to raise money for their chosen charity - Birmingham Children's Hospital. They were very successful and raised £71 for the...
Prayer and Liturgy in May
During the month of May, a group of children planned a prayer service. We looked at different images of Mary, sang Ave Maria, heard stories about Mary's life and prayed a decade of the Rosary.
St. Mark’s Feast Day 2023
On Tuesday 25th April, we celebrated the Feast of St. Mark. Father Matthew joined us to celebrate our Patron Saint's feast day and we were joined by our friends, family members and people from our local community. After Mass Year 5 showed us their Lion King dance and...
St. Oscar Romero’s Feast Day 2023
After the success of our Advent Challenge, the Catholic Life Leaders set a new challenge as part of our St. Oscar Romero feast day celebrations. They did an assembly for the whole school and set them a half term challenge to create something related to St. Oscar...
Y1 Prayer and Liturgy – Lent
Year 1 planned, prepared and lead a prayer service about Lent. The children sang beautifully, acted out Jesus' teachings and shared some important words for us to reflect on. Well done Year 1. "I chose the purple cloth and the sand because it tells me about when Jesus...
St. Mark’s Day of Fasting
On Tuesday 14th March 2023, St. Mark's School held a day of fasting to raise money for the CAFOD Turkey and Syrian Earthquake Appeal. We fasted from our usual luxuries and treats. Mrs Beresford made us a simple lunch and at playtime we went without our footballs and...
St. Mark’s Family Mass – Holy Name Church
On Sunday 12th March 2023, St. Mark's celebrated another joyous Family Mass at Holy Name Church, Great Barr. It was a wonderful occasion whereby the children lead the readings, carried the offertory, participated in liturgy and performed a hymn (complete with actions)...
Second Station – Jesus takes up the Cross
During Lent, St. Mark's has participated in a MAC wide journey of pupil and student led Liturgy. Each school has recorded pupil led prayer and liturgy for each station. Our first Station to create was the Second Station: Jesus takes up his Cross. A group of children,...
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service
On our first day back after the half term holiday, Y6 organised their own Ash Wednesday prayer and liturgy. They decided how to set up the prayer focus and how we could represent the ashes by using charcoal. They demonstrated what receiving the ashes meant to them...
Governors’ Prayer Time
On Tuesday 14th February 2023, before our Governors' meeting, some of our governors came early to join our SLT for some time in prayer. It was lovely for them to join us to reflect and pray together about the importance of our work, the difference we all make and to...