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A group of St. Mark eighth grade students helped paint a mural at Northwoods mall today.
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8th grade girls were invited to Caterpillar's Introduce a Girl to STEM Day yesterday. They used a 3D pen to draw designs, drove machine simulators, created a circuit card, and constructed a catapult. St. Mark's girls took 2nd place in the launch competition!
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Our students and teachers were blessed with the opportunity to visit the Community Festival of Nativities this morning in preparation for Advent. We started off with an explanation from Monsignor Brownsey about sacramentals, then students explored the many nativities on display.
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PSA has a meeting scheduled to finalize plans for the Santa Breakfast and is still looking for volunteers to help out!
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Today is the day! Giving Tuesday is here and we would love your support through our #IgiveCatholic page! And if you are a Caterpillar employee or retiree, you can make your gift count double through their 2:1 matching gift program!
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Consider SMS for iGive Tuesday! From Nov 27 to Dec 1, the Caterpillar Foundation is offering a special 2:1 match through their Matching Gifts Program! The match is on until Dec 1, 2023, or until $2M is reached. Don't miss this chance to boost your generosity!
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For over 125 years, St. Mark School has been serving our community through Catholic education. Our mission is to go and make disciples for Christ and your support enables us to continue to offer a Catholic education to our community. We serve families from many parishes in the Heart of Peoria and all donations received by St. Mark School during #iGiveCatholic will be used to make a difference in the lives of the families and students we are called to serve in our community and help us build the body of Christ. Please follow the link to donate. https://peoria.igivecatholic.org/.../st-mark-catholic...
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We wish you a Thanksgiving full of faith, family, good food, and love. School will be closed Wednesday, November 22- Sunday, November 26. We will see you on Monday, November 27th!
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We are so excited for our upcoming Santa Breakfast, hosted by the St. Mark PSA on December 3rd. There will be lots to do, see and eat and we'd love to have you join us!
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Thank you all that came out and supported the St. Mark PSA ornament fundraiser! We reached our goal of selling 50 ornaments and we had a lot of fun! The funds raised from this event will go to the classrooms of St. Marks to support classroom events! Thank you!
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Maybe we need a new mascot? 🐉
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Join us tonight for Ornament Craft Night, a PSA fundraiser for our school! Art at the Bodega will be here in our school gym with ornaments for you to paint! They will then take them to their business and glaze them and ornaments can then be picked up at school at a later date! Each ornament is $15, and will raise $3 that will go directly to funds for our school's classrooms! You do not have to RSVP, but if you know for sure that you'd like to attend and have not previously RSVP'd, you can email Sarah Hultgren at shultgren@saint-mark.net and let her know how many ornaments you'd like to RSVP for! Thank you and looking forward to a fun night with family and friends!
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Put this date on your calendar because you won't want to miss it! Our Annual Santa Breakfast is sure to be a great time full of yummy food, great friends and all the Christmas magic!
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Kindergarten and Fifth grade prayer pals joined together to make placemats for Sophia's Kitchen as part of their Thanksgiving service.
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Please join us for our November PSA Meeting tomorrow night!
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It was a busy week in 4th grade! We wrote letters to a veteran, presented our saint reports, and did a STEM activity related to the book Balloons Over Broadway. Students used the Ozo bots to code a parade route. They got very creative with it!
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There's not much better than being a preschooler on a 65 degree day with lots of leaves to play in!
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5th grade got to play a board game during Junior achievement with Mr. Kenny!
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St. Mark Student Council is hosting their annual canned food drive to benefit WestMark Food Pantry all next week! We are accepting all donations of food here at the school and would love your student's support.
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