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Friday 13 June 2025 Fathers’ day Breakfast Parent Workshop
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Friday 13 June 2025 Father's Day Breakfast 2025
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Friday 28 March 2025 Mother's Day Breakfast March 2025
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Thursday 27 March 2025 Teachers & Parents Football Match Thank you to all that were able to join our Football Match on Thursday.We are looking forward to the next one on Thursday 22nd May!
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Friday 21 March 2025 Red Nose Day 2025 Today, St Mark’s participated in Red Nose Day and successfully raised an impressive £151.50. This amount will be donated to Robes, a local homeless charity. Thank you all for your generous support!
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Wednesday 26 February 2025 Anderson Shelter Year 6 went to an Anderson shelter that was used in WW2 to protect Londoners from being bombed. We also got to wear some artefacts and saw gas masks that people would have worn. It was a great end to our WW2 topic!
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Tuesday 25 February 2025 Science Day 2025 On Tuesday 25th Feb St Mark’s had a visiting Scientist who gave an amazing workshop.
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Friday 14 February 2025 Palm Class - Ancient Greece Day On Friday 14th February, we baked our own Greek bread from scratch, using our maths skills to calculate the measurements and weigh the correct amount of ingredients. We then held a mini Olympics after lunch where we competed in activities such as javelin, discus, long jump and relay races just like the Ancient Greeks did. Once we had finished our Olympic tournament we had a Greek feast as a class, where we tried our bread along with, humus, grapes, olives, ham and feta cheese, all washed down with red wine (grape juice) just like the Greeks.
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Thursday 13 February 2025 Oak Class - Super Hero Day On Thursday 13th February, Oak Class celebrated Superhero Day! For our class pebble treat, we dressed up as all kinds of heroes - from Spiderman and Thor to Lillian Bader and Mary Seacole!
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 Safer Internet Week During our collective worship this week the children learned about staying safe whilst using the internet. They considered how some people attempt to influence us online with ‘Fake News’ and some people try to deceive us through scams. They were encouraged not to share any personal information with people online who they do not know and not to be taken in through offers of fee gifts and benefits.
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Tuesday 11 February 2025 PORTUGUESE SCIENCE SESSION 10 of our Portuguese Speaking pupils in KS2 attended a Portuguese Science session in Henry Fawcett Primary School. They participated several Science experiments while using their Portuguese language skills.
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Wednesday 5 February 2025 Children's Mental Health Week
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Tuesday 4 February 2025 Cedar Class trip to Vauxhall City Farm
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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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