15 December 2023 – Christmas Newsletter

A note from Mr Applegate

I couldn’t be more proud or thankful for our school community. What a great end to term, celebrating Christmas together in so many ways.

  • Thank you to our FOSM team for their fun and efforts this term, and for your generosity towards our school.
  • Thank you to Pabulum – a great Christmas lunch, on top of their usual fab service.
  • Thank you to Nick Beere (Charlie’s dad), David Downer, and John for giving their time/ resources for free to get water and electricty to the farm and forest school. Just ‘wow’! :)
  • Thank you for your support of St Mark’s during our Ofsted. The emails sent and anonymous feedback given to Ofsted was just incredible, and broke Mrs Ford and I – in a nice way! Report is out in January.
  • Thank you to every one of our staff and governors, who really care and work so hard to make St Mark’s what it is.
  • Thank you to Kara and Sebastian’s mum, who has donated an oak tree sapling from Windsor Great Park, as part of the King’s coronation celebration. Will be planted at St Mark’s soon!
  • Thank you to Mrs Dummet, an ex-teacher of St Mark’s, who has given us a £500 gift.

We really are blessed. Have a wonderful Christmas! Mr Applegate :)

School returns Weds 3rd Jan 2024

See you then!

Book a farm slot 🎅

Especially to help over Christmas!

New Lunch Menu from January

 

Good Causes

Thank you from the Royal British Legion. You raised £741.75 for the poppy appeal!

 

Thank you from the Mudhouse Children’s Foundation. You raised £868.15 through the Christmas performances. Wow!

Pupil Safety First

We’re at over 500 signatures. Can we get to 800?! Please sign our petition here! We’ll be presenting this to the council really soon!

School Photoreel

Table Tennis Success!

Well done to Keegan, Elliott, Isla and Olivia for representing St Mark’s at the Table Tennis Basingstoke finals. They all played amazingly well. A special well done to Olivia who won the girls competition and will be heading to the County final in Southampton to represent our school.
 

PlanetEducation Update

I’m sorry to say that PlanetEducation have ceased trading as a business. They have provided great support to us over the years through clubs and during the day. We want to thank them for all they’ve done at St Mark’s, and wish their staff all the best at this difficult time. Unfortunately we won’t be able to replace their Spring term clubs at such short notice.
 

Christmas Services

 

⭐ Star Learners ⭐

⭐ Star Readers ⭐

⭐ Quietest Classes ⭐

1BB & 3D

⭐ Attendance Updates ⭐

Our target over the year is 97%. Last year’s attendance was 95.8% – above national levels, but we’d like it to be much higher.

Our current attendance percentage is 96.5%. Oh no :(

Weekly Attendance by Class

School Dates, Lunches, and Clubs

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 In worship this week…

Music of the Week

Carol of the bells

This piece of music was used in the popular seasonal film ‘Home Alone’.

The carol itself was originally based on a Ukranian song called Shchedryk which translates as ‘The Little Swallow’.

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