Events Gallery
Enjoy some of the special events and activities that go on at our school.
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...
Opera Music Workshop – Year 4 and Year 5
On 21st April, Year 4 and Year 5 enjoyed a workshop delivered to them by Welsh National Opera. They were exposed to a range of opera music, vocal exercises, singing opportunities and musical games. "I thought opera music was boring but actually it's quite cool." Y5...
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...
SPaG Workshops
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.
World Book Day 2023
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 day!
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,...
Reception Visit Ash End Farm
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 newborn chicks. We learnt...