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...
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...
Throughout the Spring Term, teachers have been delivering SPaG workshops. Parents were invited into school to complete spelling, punctuation and grammar activities with their children. Back to Events...
On Thursday 2nd March, all of the children at St. Mark’s celebrated World Book Day! We all came into school dressed in our pyjamas. Every class read the book The Invisible by Tom Purnell and completed a piece of writing all about the story. We all had a great...
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...
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...
As part of our topic of ‘on the farm’ Reception visited Ash End Farm. We spent the day with Farmer Joan and became farmers for the day. We helped her collect eggs from the hen house, feed the goats and sheep and sang ‘happy hatch-day’ to the...