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Friday 17 January 2025 Stay & Play session in Early Years This Wednesday 15th January we held an Early Years Stay and Play session. It was amazing to see so many parents attending the session. Stay and Play sessions help children develop social and essential skills through play-based activities while strengthening the bond with their parents. Parents benefit from engaging in their child's learning, building community connections, and receiving parenting support. Next session will be for under 3’s on Thursday 13th February. A chance for your toddlers to play with others and for parents to have a drink. Put it in your diary!
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Friday 20 December 2024 Celebrating Christmas at St Mark's
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Friday 6 December 2024 Chess Classic Tournament 30 Pupils from Years 4,5 and 6 took part in the annual ’Chess Classic’ chess tournament at the Emirates Stadium on Friday. They played against other schools, participated in a chess lesson and also got to meet and play against chess grandmasters.If that was not exciting enough, they got to experience all this within London’s greatest Football stadium, the Emirates stadium, the home of Arsenal Football Club.It was a memorable experience for all children who attended and they all enjoyed it and performed well. Special mentions need to be given to Trojit in Year 6, Jidcak and Ezra in Year 5 and Ezra in Year 4 who won medals for their performances.
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Spanish Science Workshop Some Spanish speaking children from Year 3 and Year 4 visited Reay Primary School to attend a Spanish Science workshop. Chil-dren worked with several Spanish speaking scientists that did experiments on gas, brain cells, light and colour change… all in Spanish! In the future we hope to attend Arabic and Portuguese workshops.
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Wednesday 4 December 2024 Visit to the Tate Gallery - Olive class Olive class has been studying the art work of Turner in our art class, so we visit-ed Tate Britain to see some of his paintings in person. There are loads of Turner paintings there. After ob-serving and sketching some of his works, we explored the rest of the gallery.
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Tuesday 3 December 2024 Unicorn Theatre Last Tuesday , Pupils in Year 4 Palm Class went to the Unicorn Theatre to see a performance of ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’ to consolidate their learning from last term on the Vikings. We read the text in class so it was a really nice way to bring their learning together.
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Friday 22 November 2024 Online Safety - Parent Workshop Our local Police Constable Chris Freeman came to speak to parents and children about the risks of going online and how to use the internet safety.
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Monday 18 November 2024 Poetry Winners During assembly on Wednesday, prizes were given to those children that won the poetry competition held during anti-bullying week. Please see below their amazing poems.
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Thursday 14 November 2024 Phonics Session This week Parents from Early Years had the opportunity to spend time with their children in our Stay & Play session.We also held a Phonics & Reading parents workshop with the aim to inform and equip parents to help their children to learn how to read.Thank you to all parents that were able to attend.
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Monday 11 November 2024 Anti-bullying week 2024 Anti-Bullying Week was held from Monday 11th November to Friday 15th November, with the powerful theme: Choose Respect.Throughout the week, children actively participated in various classroom activities designed to reinforce the im-portance of standing against bullying and promoting a culture of respect. During play and lunchtime, they were encouraged to engage in creative initiatives such as writing kindness messages, crafting kindness chatterboxes, de-signing odd socks, and participating in mindfulness colouring—all aimed at fostering empathy, understanding, and positive interactions.For this year's Anti-Bullying Week competition, children are to express their thoughts on anti-bullying and respect through poetry. This will allow children to reflect on the values of kindness and inclusion in a meaningful and artistic way. Poems are to be handed in by Monday,18th November.
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Friday 8 November 2024 St Mark's v Vauxhall Primary school On Friday lunchtime, footballers from Vauxhall Primary came to St Mark’s for a friendly match. A num-ber of girls and boys from Year 5 and Year 6 participated and it finished in a draw. During the next few weeks we hope to play more friendly matches against other local schools. Well done to everyone.
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Tuesday 5 November 2024 Literacy Lab Coffee Morning On Tuesday 5th November we had a coffee morning where The Literacy Lab team had the chance to introduce themselves to the parents of Year 1 and Year 2 pupils, explained who The Children's Literacy Charity is and what they do in Literacy Labs. Additionally, they provided parents who have children in other year groups, reading strategies to support their children at home. Thank you to the parents that were able to attend.
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Friday 25 October 2024 Culture Day at St Mark's
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Tuesday 22 October 2024 London Mithraeum Museum Olive class had the amazing opportunity to visit a Roman site as part of their Roman topic this term. Thank you to Parents that were able to come!
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Friday 11 October 2024 Roman Day in Olive Class
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Thursday 10 October 2024 COFFEE MORNING Last Thursday 10th October we held a Parents Coffee Morning about social interaction and communication.
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Monday 7 October 2024 Autumn Walk - Ebony class
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Tuesday 1 October 2024 Harvest Celebration
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Thursday 19 September 2024 Secondary Transfer Parents' Meeting On Thursday 19th September we held a Parent Workshop to go through the Secondary Transfer for Year 6.
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Monday 16 September 2024 CYE - Sycamore Class Children in Year 5 went to our traditional two days residential trip to Christian Youth Enterprises. The children enjoyed time together while experiencing adventurous activities such as sailing, canoeing and tunnelling.
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Tuesday 10 September 2024 Pizza Express - Willow Class Children in Year 6 had the opportunity to make pizzas and eat them after! They loved becoming pizza makers!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Summer Fair 2024
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Thursday 20 June 2024 Sports Day KS1 & KS2 - 2024
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Monday 17 June 2024 Oval Games - Sycamore Class Children in Year 5 had the fantastic opportunity of participating in the annual games that the Oval and to compete at one of the most historically significant sporting venues in the world; birthplace of both the Ashes and the FA Cup.
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Monday 17 June 2024 Artist visit from Van Gogh House Two weeks ago, Year 6 visited the van Gogh House, a short distance from St Mark's. We explored the house, learning about the time which Vincent van Gogh spent there and also about a young boy who hid his toys under the floorboards. We also explored the local pedestrianised street, taking rubbings of different textures from man-made and natural objects. This week, an artist from van Gogh House visited us for two mornings to collaboratively create artwork. We made more rubbings in our school playground, then chose one texture to make a plaster cast of in different pastel shades. We also made chalk patterns. On the second morning, we created cyanotype photographs using different objects, as well as crayon and watercolour postcards. All of our artwork will be displayed for the public to see on the weekend of 29th-30th June.
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Friday 14 June 2024 Father's Day Breakfast 2024 It is always nice to see so many families on Father’s Day Breakfast. Thank you to those able to come.
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Friday 24 May 2024 Tea Party More than 60 people came on Friday 24th May when we held an afternoon tea in the school hall for former students and staff as one of our events for the Bicentenary.
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Friday 24 May 2024 History of St Mark's
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Thursday 23 May 2024 2024 Lambeth Bash Cricket Day Yesterday some children from years 5 & 6 were selected to participate in the 2024 Lambeth Bash Cricket Day at the Oval Cricket ground. They played amazingly and reached the finals, winning second place out of 16 schools. Well done to Derek, Jeremiah, Benyam, Moriah, Makayla, Cruz, Aquinnah, Nahliyah and Erika (who also won a player of the tournament award) in Willow Class and Trojit and Hebron in Sycamore Class.
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