Today, St Mark students kick off our community service projects. Pre-K will hold their annual St. Jude Trike-a-Thon. K-4 has a pb&j and toiletry drive for Sophia's Kitchen. Our junior high students are holding their annual food drive in support of the WestMark Food Pantry.
Today at St Mark, we celebrate our Parish! We are filled with gratitude for all the support our St. Mark Parish provides to the school. Your prayers lift us up and we hope our prayers can lift you up today! It’s such a joy to celebrate with our church parishioners, too! #CSW22
Today, we kick off Catholic Schools Week with a School Mass at 4:30 on Saturday January 28th. Our school choir will sing and students will participate as Lectors, Altar servers and present the Offertory gifts. #CSW23 #smsmarksmen
Happy 101st day of school from the best puppies around! #smsmarksmen
Today in the STREAM Lab, students explored the process of weathering using the zSpace lab and used building materials to complete complex STEAM challenges. Some students worked on building a hydraulic claw too!
Our sixth graders went to Peoria Notre Dame yesterday. They participated in a Scholastic Bowl Match against other area Catholic Grade schools. They had a great time! SMS Alums and Student Ambassadors Anny Ahl, Ellen Dahlquist, Jesus Prieto, and Hadley Stecher were there to help!
Preschool students are learning about our community and the people who help our community. Mrs. Bencher came to talk about helping keep our smiles healthy. The preschoolers had lots of questions for her and they learned a lot about being a community helper!
We are taking time to focus on friendships and understanding God's call to be in community. Students are hearing that we need each other and that God wants us to encourage and build up each other.
It looks like the new lunch was a hit! White chicken chili was good to the very last drop!
We are t-minus 6 hours until the reservations open for the Illinois Tax Credit Scholarships open!
Today's the day to apply for the Invest in Kids Tax Credit Scholarships! Don't forget that reservations open TODAY, January 18 at 6:30 PM at empowerillinois.org.
Catholic Schools Week is coming up January 29th- February 4th and we are so excited to celebrate St. Mark School, our families and students! Here is our calendar of events for the week. Check in with your teachers for grade specific events as well!
Happy Kid Inventors Day! And what a great day to open our new STREAM lab at SMS! Here are a few of our kindergarten students exploring some of the new building and engineering tools available to use!
Don't forget to set your alarms, get your paperwork, and be ready for enrollment night tomorrow!
Set your alarms for January 18th! The reservations open for Empower Illinois and the Illinois Tax Credit Scholarships.
Did you hear the news? SMS has Monday off to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day! Enjoy your extra day and we will see you on Tuesday!
Our girls volleyball season is underway! These girls are working hard and having fun learning and improving on their skills.
Congratulations to our awesome 8th graders on their victory Monday! We celebrated the 8th grade basketball players and cheerleaders and then had a nail biter of a game, winning 42-36 in overtime! We are proud of all our 8th graders.
Our preschool through 2nd grade students had the opportunity to adore the Eucharist today with Monsignor Brownsey. He spent time talking about how Jesus loves us and wants to spend time with us. Learning traditions of our faith is one of the ways that makes St. Mark's great.
We are proud of these young men and their teammates who took home 2nd place in the Monsignor Livingston Memorial Tournament for 5th grade boy’s basketball!
