Today, we took in beautifully knitted and crocheted blankets from local resident Sue McClain, who responded to a request from us to try and help keep our families warm in the colder months. 
When she delivered them, she described the blankets and the Swanage community as a ‘warm hug’ … Thank you so much, we know our families will appreciate them.

Thank you for all the amazing food donations for our Harvest Festival today. All the food has now made it’s way to St Mark's, Herston Church to be blessed and then taken to the Swanage Food Bank.

WE ARE THE PURBECK CHAMPIONS!! The Purbeck School
Yr 5/ 6 Girls team played 7 x matches, winning 6 and drawing 1🥇They were so excited with their medals. 
Thank you Mr Norman / super coach

Today, we were brave enough to try something new! 🧘
Our Puffins joined Explorers Childcare Group with some Yoga from JoYoga. 🧘

Following last year’s Dorset Coding Day success, we took part again on 10th October 2024. 
💻Coding benefits children by developing problem solving techniques, encourages creativity and collaboration and helps skills up in our increasingly technology driven world. 💻
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Great performance from our football team this afternoon at The Purbeck School and our kit was perfectly matched for the ‘Hello Yellow’ World Mental Health Day. 
The result - we came joint 3rd from 9 x teams! 
Everyone played superbly and we have more games ahead of us. 
Thank you to Mr Norman for the coaching. ⚽️

Half of our Year 6 class, took a trip to our local Library. They engaged in games, matching book titles to book covers and then working out which blurb went with each front cover. 
They shared their reading journeys and were encouraged to take the journey further with the support of Swanage Library. 

If your child is interested in joining the library (which is totally FREE and you can take out upto 20 books out!), please let us know as we came back with joining forms or pop down there and fill it in. 📕📗🤓📖

What a fabulous evening, celebrating with Swanage Carnival team and so many charities. Swanage is really quite a community and St Marks plays a huge part in that.  

Our school inspires, educates, supports and has the well being of every pupil and their families in our hearts! 

Today, St Marks received a huge donation of £1000 to help new projects within our school.
 
The donation was received by Miss Canning and Beth (PTA Chair), who thanked the whole carnival team, and all the supporters! Let the projects begin! 👏❤️👏❤️

Last Friday evening saw one of our St Mark’s Yr 6 pupils join two older students from The Swanage School on the stage at the Mowlem Theatre as part of the Planet Purbeck Festival. 
The ‘Celebrating Purbeck’ event saw the 3 young people interview Mr Johnson  about his work to help people better connect each other with nature. 
The evening also included inspirational films and other speakers about their work in the great outdoors!

The evening also included inspirational films and other speakers about their work in the great outdoors! What a wonderful night! Well done Mr J! 👏👏👏

🚴🚴‍♀️Friday - bike day!  🚴🚴‍♀️
Year 4,got to do their Level 1 Cycling Proficiency with Bike Ability. 
This course was off-road, and completed on our school playground. It teaches children how to prepare for a ride, control their bike, and pedal with confidence.🚴🚴‍♀️ Well done everyone 👏🚴👏