St Mark's Catholic Primary School
St Mark's Catholic Primary School

Events Gallery

Enjoy some of the special events and activities that go on at our school.

Bike Ability

Bike Ability

Following the success of our ‘Cycle to School Week’, we are continuing our work with Bike Ability to enhance the personal development curriculum on offer to our children. Over the next few years, our aim is to ensure all KS2 children are able to ride a bike and know...

Anti-Bullying Week 2024

Anti-Bullying Week 2024

Our Guardian Angels worked with Compass Birmingham to plan, prepare and deliver our Anti -Bullying week assembly for the rest of the school. The whole school wore odd socks to raise awareness and raise money for a 'buddy bench' for our school playground. They...

Remembrance Day 2024

Remembrance Day 2024

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 remember the...

Black History Month Assembly 2024

Black History Month Assembly 2024

In October we celebrated Black History Month. To celebrate all of the people we learned about, children from each class presented what they had learned to the whole school community. It was great to see parents and community members join us, too! When you visit our...

Afternoon Tea with Mrs Linley

Afternoon Tea with Mrs Linley

To celebrate the end of a very successful half term, two children from each class were chosen to have a special afternoon tea lunch with Mrs Linley. They were chosen by their teachers for following our ‘Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe’ school rules, being...

Vocations Day 2024

Vocations Day 2024

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 we believe our...

October – The Month of the Rosary

October – The Month of the Rosary

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...

Harvest Festival 2024

Harvest Festival 2024

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...

Y5 Trip to The Butterfly Farm

Y5 Trip to The Butterfly Farm

On Monday 14th October, Year 5 went to Stratford Butterfly Farm to learn about the Ancient Maya Civilisation. During the visit the children learnt about, Mayan gods and temples. They learnt about food eaten by the Maya, sacrifices that they made and the Mayan calendar.

World Mental Health Day 2024

World Mental Health Day 2024

On Thursday 10th October, we celebrated World Mental Health Day. In the morning we explored what our mental health was and why it is important to look after our mental health and in the afternoon, we came off timetable. During the afternoon, the children split into...