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 .
P6/7 made fairtrade banana smoothies as part of their Fairtrade topic.
Supporting Syria
Tomorrow is “Wear your Trainers” to school day. This is being held to raise awareness of the dreadful events happening in Syria. Any money raised is being sent off to the “Save the Children” charity. The Pastoral Council are keen to support their peers in identifying the rights and responsibilities of children and have recognised that in Syria children’s rights are not being received. They hope that the donation will help to deliver some of these rights to needy children.
Good news! We’ve been awarded Fairtrade School Status.
Last week, we had a very special Eco inspection to see if we could retain our 4th Green Flag. When the inspector arrived she went to the ICT suite to hear our presentation about all the work we do in St Mark’s. Different members from each pupil group told her about the range of Eco activities we are involved in.
Some of the Power Rangers then gave her a tour around the outside of the school, including the the garden.
The assessor then visited three classes in the school and the Fairtrade shop to hear what Eco work had been going on. She seemed very impressed!
At the end of the day the inspector called the power rangers to say we had passed with flying colours and we were to keep up the good work!
The Eco Committee
St Mark’s received an award from Chris Hines today! Chris Hines is the co-founder of the Eden Project and was at Rouken Glen Park to launch their Community Orchard. He also presented St. Mark’s with a certificate in recognition of our contributions to GoGreener in tackling climate change.
