Have A Lovely Christmas

We've broken up for Christmsa now after a snowy last few weeks. Thank you to everyone for the fantastic term we've just had, the brilliant performances from our children, the beautiful carol service in the garden and the wonderfully thoughtful carol service in the school hall with our friends and familes yesterday morning. All the staff would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has sent gifts and cards to school.

Christmas Mass Times

Christmas Mass times at St. Mark’s Church are as follows;

Christmas Eve 8p.m.

Christmas Day 8.30am and 10am

End Of Term

School closes for the Christmas Break tomorrow Parents may collect their children any time after 1pm. However school will remain open until 3.15pm as usual.

New Year Attendance and Punctuality

After our Christmas break we will be working closely with our Education Welfare Officer monitoring both attendance and punctuality. There are a number of children who are regularly coming into school after the bell at 8.50am. If you have a problem getting your child into school on time and would like to discuss this please call in and see me.


Can I ask that all children use their own entrance door when coming into school each morning. With the exception of our Reception class, unless your child is a morning helper no children should be in school before the bell goes at 8.50am. However, if the weather is extreme as it has been recently ,children will be allowed in before the bell goes.

Dinner Money

A reminder to parents that dinner money must come into school each Monday morning, this is when banking is carried out. Money should be placed in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and handed into your child’s class. In line with our school policy, if your child does not have their dinner money with them on a Monday, parents will be contacts and asked to provide a packed lunch for the rest of the week.


Please remember all cheques should be made payable to ‘Newcastle City Council’. Please remember it will be 2011. Thank you.

After School Clubs

There will be no after school clubs running the first week of term. We will keep you informed about which clubs will run in our first newsletter of 2011.

Christmas Card Re-cycling

As you know we pride ourselves on being very Eco friendly! So when we return in the New Year there will be a box ready for any Christmas cards you would like to send in to be recycled.

End Of Year Thanks!

Dear Parents/Carers


Well here we are, the end of another term and another year.

We have had another fantastic year at St. Mark’s. I would like to pass on sincere thanks to all our staff for their hard work, the parent helpers and friends of St. Marks who have so generously given up their time to come into school to help. A special thank you also to our children for all their hard work throughout the year.

Thank you to all those parents who came along to watch the children perform in their plays last week. I am sure you will agree both the staff and the children worked really hard, but their hard work certainly paid off. The performances were brilliant. Well done.

As you know we collected for St. Cuthbert’s Care at the end of each performance. The total amount donated was £157.08. Thank you.

Carols In The Garden

Thank you to all the children and families who braved the sub zero temperatures to take part in our Carols In The Garden celebration last night. It was a beautiful evening and everyone involved had a wonderful time singing Christmas carols old and new and keeping warm with hot chocolate, mulled wine and mince pies.