Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• St Mark’s Day Celebration

  Sun 28 Apr 2024

  St Mark’s Day Celebration. Held today at St Mark's, Herston Church was a fabulous morning of worship, reunions, hymns, prayers and celebration cake! 
  Thank you, Rev.Dave, Carol and the St Marks’ church members for holding such a special service. 
  Our Year 4 prayers were read out, Mr Woolley and Miss Canning represented our school, and spoke about how St Marks School is a family, with core values of Love, Trust, Respect and Inspire… this was echoed by our School Governor, Carol. 
  It was a morning which  reunited past with the present.

  

• Would you know what to do in a first aid emergency?

  Wed 24 Apr 2024

  Would you know what to do in a first aid emergency?
  Our Year 6 pupils do!  Today, they had a  First Aid Workshop with Sally Blackmore from The British Red Cross. Together, they were taught  basic but life saving first aid skills.

  

• National Trust Director comes to our school!

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  This Tuesday, we welcomed the Director General of the National Trust (Hilary Mc Grady), to St Mark's to see firsthand our brilliant and growing work with our pupils and their families to better connect with each other and with nature. #forestschool 
  National Trust

  

• Purbeck Arts Week

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  PAW 2024: 25 May – 9 June

  We are so excited to be a part of this years PAW! 
  Today, local Purbeck Youth Arstist, Sophie Jenkins came into school to work with our children. As part of the school workshops and Community Project, work got underway creating art for the exhibition. It’s all go and looks amazing! 🎨🖌️

  

• Hive and Partners donate Easter Eggs to our PTA

  Wed 27 Mar 2024

  Our PTA were very egg- cited to be receiving some Easter eggs, donated from Colin James Cattermole from Hive & Partners. These will be wrapped up for our tombola at our Easter Fair tomorrow! 

  Let’s hope these Easter eggs are all they’ve cracked up to be and if you win you will need to eggs-ercise off all that chocolate. 🐣
  Sorry, we’ve got so many egg puns, it’s not even bunny! 🤣

  

• Year 3 RE lesson

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Today our Year 3 class took their RE lesson to St Mark's, Herston church. 

  Our children asked lots of questions,listened and engaged so brilliantly with Rev David. 

  The class, got to play the church organ, sing ‘Be bold, be brave’ and even got to ring the church bells! 🔔

  

• Eggciting news!

  Thu 14 Mar 2024

  Our PTA have been overwhelmed with all the Eggceptional nominations. 

  Tomorrow (Friday), the winners will be announced in our Praise Assembly. 

  We have nominations saying “ she’s a great friend”, “ they always help me when I’m struggling” and “they are really good at being a sports leader”. Our PTA found it so hard to choose just three, so listen out tomorrow… it could be you! 

  Thank you to everyone who took part and for all the amazing and kind words shared.

  

• Year 4 Football Festival.

  Thu 14 Mar 2024

  Well, today’s torrential downpour did not stop play at The Purbeck School year 4 Football Festival.

  

• Year 6 Maths Challenge

  Thu 14 Mar 2024

  Thank you, The Swanage School for inviting us to Year 6 The Maths Challenge. It certainly, made our brains work and pull us together as a team, we loved it.

  

• Year 4 Roman Trip

  Tue 12 Mar 2024

  What a super day, Year 4 had at The Dorset Museum in Dorchester.

   

  This trip brought together everything that has been taught in class about The Romans to life! Our keen historians, became Archaeologists, detectives and even got the chance to dress up!

   
  The final part of the trip, was to visit the remains of The Roman Town House which sits in the grounds of County Hall in Dorchester.