Events Gallery
Enjoy some of the special events and activities that go on at our school.
Steel Pan Workshop
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we enjoyed a steel pan workshop with Mr Lloyd. Each class enjoyed some time with Mr Lloyd learning about the history of the steel pans, learning how to play different notes, playing in unison and also playing musical...
A Caribbean Lunch for Black History Month
St. Mark's enjoyed a Caribbean themed lunch as part of our Black History Month celebrations. Mrs B cooked us jerk chicken, tomato chicken, rice, sweetcorn and peas and then a fruity pudding! It was enjoyed by all and we look forward to our next themed lunch!
Years 3 and 4 Dodgeball Competition
Well done to our Years 3 and 4 children who represented St. Mark’s in a dodgeball competition on Tuesday 8th October 2024. They played against St. John Bosco Primary School. Coach Kieran and Miss Morgan complemented how they played as a team, complimented the...
Open for Creation – Live Stream Prayer and Liturgy
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...
Poetry Day
Thursday 3rd October 2024 was Poetry Day. Each Key Stage 2 class was challenged with learning a new poem and performing it to other classes. It was a tough competition and the children really enjoyed performing to an audience. Well done to the children in Year 4 who...
Year 2’s Fire Fighter Workshop
Perry Barr Fire service came into Year 2 to discuss fire safety in the home and outdoors. The children had an opportunity to practice the stop, drop and roll procedure. It was great to see the children asking questions about their own homes as well as what to do if...
Year 6 Anxiety Workshop
As part of our Life to the Full lessons, Year 6 were very lucky to have some visitors from Compass Mental Health Team who delivered a workshop on anxiety and the feelings we experience when we are anxious. We talked about the ‘fight, flight and freeze’ response and...
Reception’s Early Reading Workshop
Reception did a great job at showing their parents how we blend with Fred. Following on from our phonics workshop in the Summer Term, showing how we teach sounds, parents joined in with our Word Time session today. Our parents learnt how we use our magnetic boards to...
Rule of Law Day
St. Mark’s celebrated British Values Day, in particular The Rule of Law. Here are what our classes got up to: Reception explored Rule of Law during our British Values Day. We were lucky to have a visit from PC Manns who told us all about his role within the local...
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Our Mini Vinnies planned and lead a wonderful Macmillan Coffee Morning for our parents and local community to raise money and awareness about cancer. It was a lovely morning where we were joined by our parents, local PCSO PC Mans, Mr Campbell from St Vincet de Paul's,...