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Category Archives: Achievement
K’nex Challenge
Well done to St Mark’s pupils who took part in St Luke’s K’nex Challenge on Friday. Building with a variety of materials encourages play and early engineering skills. A few benefits include:
- fine motor skill development
- pattern making/understanding
- understanding of cause and effect (build…fall down…)
- principles of engineering including beams, columns and load
- impermanence–something that gets built eventually gets taken apart
- cooperation–if working with peers
- working with a variety of materials
- testing and experimentation
- creativity and design process
House Points
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Fundraising
Cheques were presented to Yorkhill Hospital and CHAS this week. St mark’s raised £1000 for Yorkhill Hospital after completing a Santa Dash and Choir singing. Two enterprising pupils from Primary 6b also sold football cards and held a raffle to raise £255 for CHAS.
Well done, everyone!
Weekly House Points
Artwork
St Mark’s Artists have been very productive this year and a few pieces have been entered into Saatchi Gallery, London for their international art competition. If you follow the link you can view the images online.
Christmas Choir
In the lead up to Christmas, our school choir brought festive cheer to the staff and customers of Tesco in Barrhead! They sang a fabulous medley of Christmas hymns and songs and raised a whopping £109.42 for Yorkhill Children’s Charity. Well done and thank you to all of the children in the choir for their fantastic effort!
Lockerbie Manor
Primary 7 attended Lockerbie Manor residential outdoor centre last week. They were joined by Primary 7’s from St John’s and St Thomas’ and lots of new friends were made. The children enjoyed a week of abseiling, obstacle courses, zip wires, archery and so much more .
Tesco’s Helping Hands
St mark’s recently received a cheque for £500 from Tesco. We plan to use it on PE equipment for the school. Thanks, Tesco!
Provost Debate
Primary Seven developed their talking and listening skills by taking part in the Provost’s Debate at the Council Offices. Pupils debated the motion, “This House believes that all children should have a curfew” The children took on the roles of Councillors, newspaper reporters and the general public.
Easter Parade
Fairtrade
Art Show
St Mark’s Art Show will take place on Thursday 27th March, 2-4pm.
More details will follow.
Why is Creativity Important in Schools?
“Creativity is not an option, it’s an absolute necessity.” – Sir Ken Robinson
The Saatchi Gallery
St Mark’s has entered the Saatchi Gallery Competition. You can see our entries on the link above or view in our website Showcase page.
Erskine Hospital
On Wednesday 11th December 4 pupils from P7 visited Erskine Hospital to hand over a cheque for £150. They raised the funds by selling glitter tattoos, toys, bracelets and knitted school hats during playtimes and lunchtimes and at the Christmas fair. On the visit they got a tour of the hospital and met some of the residents. Erskine has been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916; re-building shattered lives, restoring dignity and providing first-class care to ex-Service men and women. In the past year the charity has cared for 1,100 veterans.
Ardentinny
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Christmas Card Winners
The designs below have been chosen to represent the school this year.
