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

• SATs week - Good luck Y6!

  Mon 09 May 2016 Mr Bright

  Good luck this week Y6. You've all worked really hard. Show those markers all you have learned - show off those great skills!

  A big thank you to parents and staff for all their support for the children in the run up to this week's tests.

• Y4 Hooke Court Blog

  Tue 03 May 2016 Mr Bright

  Year 4 children and staff are really enjoyed their residential trip to Hooke Court this week.

   

  To give Year 4 parents a flavour of the trip and updates about the days, we published updates to a blog.

   

  New photos and videos added 3rd May.

   

  CLICK HERE to view the blog.

• Big Pedal fortnight update

  Tue 26 Apr 2016 Mr Bright

  Big Pedal fortnight started and on Monday we had over 100 children who scooted or cycled to school!

   

  Every journey to school by pupils, parents and staff on bikes or scooters counts towards our ranking against other schools locally and nationally. Journeys by bike also help towards our Bike It challenge.

   

  If you want to check out our position as the Big Pedal progresses, you can visit the Big Pedal website.

  As of Monday morning 25/4/16, these were the results:

  National position	School Name	Location	Daily score
  50	St Katharine's Church of England Primary School	Southbourne, Bournemouth Map	58.62%
  200	St Mark's Church of England Aided Primary School	Bournemouth, Dorset Map	41.00%
  413	St Luke's Church of England Primary School	Winton, Bournemouth Map	30.60%

   

  The more journeys, the more points we get and the more chances we have of winning our group for some fantastic prizes.

   

  Thank you for all your support.

  

• We're all running!

  Wed 13 Apr 2016 Mr Bright

  You may have seen recent news coverage of the 'Run a mile' initiative and the positive impacts which it is having on children in Scotland. At St Mark's we are always keen to find ways to get outside and enjoy our beautiful surroundings as well as finding new ways to be fit and active - Run a mile seemed like just the thing for us!

   

  This week we have begun taking a ten minute exercise break , at a time to best fit with each class (it may be a different time each day). Children will be encouraged to take a steady jog, to go as many times around the field as they can in the time.

   

  The regular exercise will have a longer-term positive impact on cardiovascular fitness and short-term benefits of increasing oxygenated blood flow to the brain, to help improve thinking.

  

• Photos - Sponsored Skip for BHF

  Wed 23 Mar 2016 Mr Bright

  It has been great to see so many children, in sporty mufti, raising money for the British Heart Foundation today. Beautiful sunny weather has been the backdrop to much skipping and enjoyment. The 'sporty mufti' theme saw many football kits and much sports wear - however, if there were a prize today, it would have gone to Jo in Y5 for wearing his swimming costume as his chosen sporty mufti!

  BHF was chosen as a charity to support by the School Council.

  A huge well done to everyone who has taken part and great big thank you to everyone who has given money in sponsorship.

  

• Gaming & Apps - What parents need to know

  Fri 18 Mar 2016 Mr Bright

  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Call of Duty Black Ops 3. Snapchat. Grand Theft Auto V. Assassin's Creed. XCOM2. Super Mario Maker. Instagram... Some of the hottest and most played games and apps around at the moment. But which ones should your child be allowed to play? How as a parent can you find out what you should let your child use?

   

  Help is at hand. There is a superb American website called Common Sense Media which reviews a huge selection of games, apps, books, films, websites and more. It tells you age limits and most importantly, what the content or potential use and risks looks like from a parental point of view. If you think Grand Theft Auto V is just a game about cars, or that Instagram poses no risks to children, check out the reviews at www.commonsensemedia.org.

  Get the inside track on the things which your kids think are trending.

• Septenary Games Photos

  Fri 18 Mar 2016 Mr Vacher
  Children from the 7 BST schools recently took part in a Septenary Games for gifted and able athletes. A great time was had by all and our athletes represented the school and themselves admirably.

  

• Mini BSO concert **World Premier**

  Fri 11 Mar 2016 Mr Bright

  We were treated today to the world premier performance of 'dreams', a composition created with members of our school orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The children have worked hard over the last few weeks to create their piece, which saw its debut performance today.

   

  We were also treated to some pieces of classical music by the mini BSO musicians (as well as a Pink Panther encore).

   

  Well done to everyone who took part. It was a fabulously creative experience!

  

• World Book Day photos

  Fri 04 Mar 2016 Mr Bright
  It was fantastic to see so many exciting book characters arriving at school yesterday. The children looked fantastic and we would like to thank everyone for making such an amazing effort to support World Book Day.

  

• Cleaning Twist 'n' Sip bottles

  Tue 23 Feb 2016 Mr Bright
  There has been some recent publicity about the Sistema Twist 'n' Sip bottle being hard to clean and leading to a build up of mould in the cap. Some social media sources are suggesting that this might be leading to illness. Sistema have produced some videos to help parents address this issue and clean the tops: click here to visit the Sistema website for more details.