11 November 2024 | Class Events, General Events, Our Faith |
Reception Reception heard the story of ‘a day to remember’. We learnt all about poppies and why we wear them. We completed our talk topic about this, completed crafts to remind us of this day. One pupil told a visitor to school “we wear a poppy to...
23 October 2024 | Class Events, General Events, Our Faith |
On Wednesday 23rd October, we enjoyed a ‘Vocations Day’ at St. Mark’s School. To celebrate this day, we learnt what a vocation is and how God calls each and every one of us to follow our vocation. We dressed up as something we inspire to be and what...
18 October 2024 | General Events, Our Faith |
October is the month of the Rosary. During this time, Reception have been learning the Hail Mary prayer and KS1 have been practising all the prayers needed to pray the rosary. In KS2, we have been praying a decade of the rosary every day and this year we have focussed...
17 October 2024 | General Events, Our Faith |
On Thursday 17th October, we celebrated our Harvest Festival Mass. Our Mini Vinnies planned and lead a beautiful Mass where all children brought in donations to send off to Fr Hudsons Caritas and SIFA Fireside. We have worked closely with Fr Hudsons in the past and...
4 October 2024 | Our Faith |
St. Mark’s joined a live stream One Life Worship with Dan and Emily. The children participated through song and prayers with many other schools around Birmingham to celebrate the end of the Season of Creation. Dan and Emily bought worship alive with their animated...
17 September 2024 | Class Events, Our Faith |
As part of our Mission Team work, our Catholic Life Leaders have been supporting the Columban Missionaries and supporting their Higanon Tree Planting Project. As we are in the season of creation, one of the team asked if they could plan a prayer service for the people...
17 September 2024 | Our Faith |
We enjoyed a special Mass celebrating the season of Creation. It was planned and lead by Year 5, who included their prayers from earlier prayer and liturgy. Year 3 arranged our prayer focus with different items that represented creation and Year 1 enjoyed singing a...
14 February 2024 | General Events, Our Faith |
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...
9 February 2024 | General Events, Our Faith |
Laudato Si Leaders worked alongside other children from across schools in Birmingham and Solihull today to plant tree hedges at St. Columban’s centre in Solihull. Look out for more work we are doing with St Columban’s to care for our common home. Back to Events...
6 February 2024 | General Events, Our Faith |
On 6th February, Jo and Kevin from Fr. Hudson’s led an assembly to launch the Good Shepherd Appeal. They told the children about the work of Fr Hudson’s and where the money raised by the Good Shepherd Appeal will be going. The Mini Vinnies have been...
