There are still plenty of spaces available at East Renfrewshire Councils October Holiday programme. Many of the spaces are available free of charge with lunch provided if you meet the criteria. Further details can be found on the link.
Category Archives: Pupils
BOOK NOW FOR OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Looking for something to keep the kids entertained and active this October week, then East Renfrewshire Lesuire & Culture have made it easy!
- Choose an activity
- Book and pay
- Come along and have fun!
Multi-Activity Camp
Our multi-activity camp is the perfect opportunity to be active and creative during the holidays. Everyone gets a chance to try art activities and sport. Some of the oldest group will also have a chance to try some cooking skills in the school kitchen and prepare a meal for the other children on the camp under close supervision from our catering staff!! Healthy lunch included.
Multi-Sport Camp
Participants will enjoy a lively mix of sports everyday including dodgeball, football, badminton, tennis, rugby, athletics and more! On the final day, participants will get to show off their skills in a Mini Games! All children will also have a healthy lunch and lots of fresh air fun – weather permitting. Healthy lunch included.
For further information on activities, times, dates and how to book, go to http://www.ercultureandleisure.org/activities
St Mark’s Halloween Happenings
Tuesday 3rd and 10th of October 2017
9.30-11.30 am in St Mark’s Family Room.
Come long and have some fun with Parent Network Scotland and make some scary bits n bobs for Halloween.
Join in an arts and crafts session with your child!
Spooky goings on and gory refreshments…
Winners!
Congratulations St. Mark’s!
We are delighted to inform you that our school has been awarded a sportscotland Silver School Sport Award for 2017-2018.
The Silver School Sport Award is recognition of our school’s dedication to putting physical education and school sport at the heart of a school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Silver Award also highlights that our school has shown improvement across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.
Well done everyone!
Explorathon is back!
Explorathon is back!
Friday 29th September
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On Friday 29th September over 300 cities across Europe will celebrate research in a one-night continent-wide festival: Explorathon! All across Glasgow, get up close and hands-on with our world changing research. Discover the truth behind the headlines as we ask “Do you believe in Science?” at Kelvinhall. Sing along as we explore how Victorian novels are turned into hit musicals or join us for an evening of curiosity at the Riverside Museum, packed with hands-on activities. It’s all totally FREE! Check out the program and grab a ticket for your favourite event here: http://www.explorathon.co.uk/glasgow |
THE BIG LUNCH!
A reminder that this Friday is the ‘BIG LUNCH’. Come along, share a lunch and take part in some fun family friendly activities. Free and open to all!
What matters to you about your child’s school?
Through this short survey Scottish Government would like you to help them find out what matters to parents about their school and their child’s education, focusing on what needs to be done to make the improvements we all want to see. The survey will close on October 16th and will inform the annual report for the National Improvement Framework parental involvement driver.
https://response.questback.com/isa/qbv.dll/ShowQuest?QuestID=5022958&sid=bUQmcqOAPQ
Newsletter Aug-Oct 17
Dates for Diary Aug 17- June 18
Calling all parents….
Chi gong is an ancient Chinese exercise and healing technique that involves meditation, controlled breathing and movement exercises. … Chi is a concept from traditional Chinese culture that roughly means vital energy, information, breath or spirit.
One of our parents Mrs Kelly West, is a trained instructor and will be holding a series of 5 sessions in the school hall at 9-10am on Mondays 11th September, 18th September, 2nd October , 23rd October and 30th October. We would love as many parents as possible to take advantage of this excellent and relaxing way to start the week! Please let the school office or Mrs Hamilton know if you intend to join us or respond to the email/text that will go out about this opportunity this week.
The St. Mark’s Family Room!
Family Room
In listening to your views over this past year, this session we have started running informal family coffee sessions and so far these have been very successful. It has been a great opportunity for parents/carers to hear about the priorities of the school but also get to know other parents with children of a similar age. Already we have had lots of great suggestions about how to further develop genuine parental engagement in St Mark’s.
As you know last session we created and opened our ‘Family Room’ we would love this to be used as often as it could both informally and for more formal workshops.
The ‘Family Room’ will be opened Tuesday to Friday mornings from 8.45am until 9.45am if parents/carers would like to come in for a coffee with other parents/carers – it’s much warmer than the playground for a chat!
As a result of discussions at one of the coffee afternoons the Family Room is now opened from 3pm so that parents/carers and their children can use the room to complete homework in a relaxed environment without the distractions that can occur at home.
Many Thanks
Christine Healey
Depute Head Teacher
Primary 1 Induction DVD
Who better to welcome you to our school, than our super St. Mark’s pupils!
Skye’s Amazing Fundraiser!
Skye Murray from P2b, pictured her wth her mum and Susan Harrison from Marie Curie when they dropped off a cheque to the Glasgow hospice in June,
Skye held a fundraising event during the school holidays; a “blooming great tea party” in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. She invited friends and teachers from school, family, friends and neighbours and managed to raise £520 for the charity. It was all her own idea, she made decorations, posters, wrote invitations, baked cakes and collected money. We are very proud of what Skye has achieved!
Read about our fantastic ARTiculate success!
Something interesting to do on weekend of Fri 30th Sept and Sat 1 Oct at Kelvingrove and the Riverside Museum,
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ER Parent Pay
Reminder
P7 Lockerbie Manor Information Evening
6th September at 6pm in the school hall.
We will provide information on the accommodation, activities, what to bring and answering any questions you may have.
St Mark’s School Improvement Plan 2016/17
Free-Microsoft Office Pro
As part of the Education Department’s annual Microsoft agreement, staff and pupils can download and install 10 instances of Microsoft Office Pro Plus on personally owned devices. Please note that this includes 5 installs for desktop, laptop and netbook and 5 mobile installs for phones and tablets for each staff member and every pupil.
Disclaimer In order to qualify for this benefit, you must be an East Renfrewshire employee with a Glow account or a pupil attending an East Renfrewshire school. You must understand that you are entering into an agreement with Microsoft and not East Renfrewshire Council.
To access the Office Pro Plus installation file please follow the steps below:
- Login to Glow. (ASK YOUR CHILD FOR THEIR LOGIN)
- Click the Office Pro Plus tile located on the Shared Launch Pad.
- The next window will display the Install button as well as links to other useful information.
There is also guidance available on Glow: https://glowhelp.wikis.glowscotland.org.uk/Microsoft+O365+Downloads
School show Tickets
There’s still time to buy tickets to this year’s Summer Show. You can purchase tickets from the school office.
There will be two performances, taking place on Tuesday 21st June 1:45pm and Wednesday 22nd June 7pm.Tickets cost £2 for adults and £1 for children.
Primary 7 parents/carers won’t want to miss this memorable show!!
