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For St Mark's Students
St Mark's students - If you are overseas for results day...
Students should arrive between 10:00am to 12:00pm to collect results at the main school entrance on the following dates:
A Levels: Thursday 15th August 2024
GCSE: Thursday 22nd August 2024
If you are looking for a place in Year 7 or Sixth Form, in an outstanding local school, for your child from September 2025 we will be hosting a number of open events to invite you into our school to learn more about us and to support you through the application process.
Book a place to attend a Y...
Next week is National Apprenticeship Week 2024. St Mark's will be participating as part of our extensive careers and enrichment programme. Find out more at: https://naw.appawards.co.uk/
Y10 Student Helping Transform School Governance Nationally
Claire Pannell, Anthem Director of Governance and General Counsel and Cal Watson, Account Director, Denford Associates met today with Timi, a Year 10 St Marks student, to talk about the work Timi has done to promote student voice at St Marks and across Anthem. We had this meeting with the aim of pro...
Did you know we have an incredibly unique facility at St Mark's - a BMX race track?
The facility is managed and run by British Cylcing qualified instructors.
St Mark’s Academy celebrates another strong set of Key Stage 5 outcomes.
According to forecasted changes in national grading, tens of thousands of students face a likely drop in As and A*s as ministers aim to return results in England to pre-pandemic levels. Despite the national picture of falling grades, St Mark’s students have continued to overcome adversity and...
Thursday 17th August 2023 – BTEC L3 /GCE – Collect in person between 10:00am – 12noon – Results not collected on this day will be posted to the last home address on the Academy system.
Thursday 24th August 2023 – BTEC L2/GCSE/IGCSE - Collect in person...
Due to national teacher's strikes on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th March, school will be only partially open. All children not attending school on these dates should access their learning remotely, via Microsoft Teams.
Ofsted have announced a visit to our academy on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th March, 2023.
We're excited to have this opportunity to showcase the work of our fantastic community.
The application deadline for St Mark's Sixth Form is Sunday 8th January 2023.
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Find out more information by watching the video below or viewing the admissions section of our website.
We are in awe of the phenomenal work and ambition of our B.I.G (Black Is Great) student leadership group. Read their manifesto at B. I. G - a group of change! - SSAT (ssatuk.co.uk) or in this weekend’s national Sunday Newsletter.
Following the unprecedented success of last week’s KS5 outcomes, we are once again celebrating a generation of lives that have been transformed at St Mark’s.
St Mark’s Academy is celebrating its best ever externally validated Key Stage 5 results today. We have just watched students open envelopes that contain life changing grades with gasps and tears of joy.
On July 11, 2022 Year 12 students were involved in a workshop called 'Talk about the future' hosted by Talk the Talk.
Discussions were focused on students future learning and career aspirations and in support of the Academy's ambition to support the oracy f students across the ac...
Thursday 18th August: GCE/BTEC L3/EPQ
10am-12noon
Students to collect results from Canteen area between 10:00am – 12noon – any not collected will be posted to the last home address on the Academy system
Thursday 25th August: GCSE/BTEC L2
10am-12noon
Students to collect res...
The NHS will be hosting COVID-19 vaccinations for young people on our site on Saturday 12th February 2022. Please see the attachment below for more information and to book an appointment.
Today our High Attainers went to Royal Holloway, University of London and got the chance to immerse themselves into university life. Our students had a tour of the campus and even rose to the task of designing their own university society!
Former Student Tackles Housing Injustice Nationally
The St Mark's community are celebrating the incredible achievements of an ex-student, Kwajo Tweneboa. Kwajo attended the Academy between 2011-2018 before securing an offer to study Business at undergraduate level.
St Mark’s is once again celebrating another set of excellent GCSE outcomes, consolidating a 5-year trend of outstanding progress at GCSE. Our Provisional Progress 8 Score is +0.57, meaning on average our students achieve just over half a grade higher than national average. Despite the unpreced...
We’re delighted to announce that St Mark’s Sixth Form is celebrating the best ever KS5 and BTEC results in our history.
Please read our Press Release below for more information.
Leiann Clarke
St Marks has given me opportunities to thrive and do better as a student and a leader. In year eight I had the chance to become student council. Then in year nine I became chairperson and recently came a part of Merton youth parliament. These roles have helped me a lot with my c...
Due to the recent government announcement on national lock down the certificate evening planned for 7th January 4:30-6:00pm has now been cancelled
You are unable to come in to collect your certificates due to the restriction and we will be in touch with you hopefully in the near futur...
Latest COVID-19 Information
Safeguarding our students, staff and wider community is key to our mission at St. Mark's.
We hope you find this page useful in finding the information you require relating to our school's response to helping prevent the spread of COVID-19 throughout our comm...
Over the weekend there were several serious incidents in the local area, involving violence in which several people got hurt. The police are currently investigating and are working hard to ensure our local area is as safe as possible. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all those a...
For the third year running, St Marks progress 8 score of +0.38 ranks us an Above Average School.
We are proud to be consistently among the top schools for progress nationally.
This is testament to our incredible body of staff, the supportive families in our community and, a...
St Mark’s Academy is once again celebrating another strong set of GCSE results. Our Year 11 pupils have achieved a record 37 grade 9s, which places them in the top 3% of students nationally in that subject.
Our provisional Progress 8 score is an impressive +0.3, which means that students at...
Fantastic results for our sixth form! Click here for more information.
Great results day here at St Mark’s Academy. Attached is our press release. Nikas, Savannah and Olu are all going to study Medicine at King’s College London, University of Birmingham and Bristol respectively and Anisha will be studying Neuroscience at King’s College London. Many ot...
You may have had problems contacting us via phone and email this morning. Systems are back up and running but in the event something similar happens again, please call 07950506052 to contact us.
They woke up to a winter wonderland yesterday! They are enjoying the beautiful scenery. The camp out went well last night, albeit a little wet and cold but everyone is full of smiles and now on the bus back to the centre as they are abseiling today!
We have a slightly modified Academy day approaching in the lead up to the end of the Spring Term. We will be ending the term on Friday 5 April 2019 and we will be dismissing students early. Students will start being dismissed at 12.00pm. Food for students will be available at break time on...
Headed to university when you leave school? Considering getting a job instead? Just not sure? Share your future career plans and you could win great prizes!
The UK University & Apprenticeship Search Fair was attend by the Year 12 Sixth Form students at the Emirates Stadium on 01 March 2019.
It was a fantastic opportunity for students to choose which university or apprenticeship is right for them. It provided year...
25 Jan 2019: School is open as normal, please click here for more information.
There was a serious fire this morning in a garage in Mitcham. This fire was on the other side of the train track. We would like to thank all of our students for allowing emergencies services to do their job and a big thank you to the staff that supported...
School is open as normal today, Friday 1 February 2019.
Attached is a letter from our Principal, Ms Peterkin about how upcoming severe weather conditions may effect the Academy. Please read the letter and continue to check our website for any updates.
The last day of term is Friday 14 December where students will finish at 12pm. Students will attend period 3 as normal which will be extended to 12pm, then teachers will escort their classes off sight to enjoy your Winter Break!
We will all be returning to school on Wednesday 2 January 2019 for a...
St Mark’s is once again celebrating another set of exceptional GCSE outcomes. Our provisional Progress 8 score is an impressive +0.44. This shows that, on average, students have achieved almost half a grade higher at St. Mark’s than they would have done at other schools. This year, ALL s...
St Marks are celebrating its best ever Academic and Applied General outcomes. Academic results have improved by over half a grade on average from 2017, from -0.42 to +0.18 in 2018. This equates to an increase of two grades from an E in 2017 to a C in 2018. This is an absolutely phenomenal impr...
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St Mark’s Academy marked an important week in the calendar, Refugee week, where the plight of the refugees in the world...
Last year, St Mark’s celebrated 10 years of being an Academy and that same year, students achieved the best GCSE and post 16 results in the school’s history. To celebrate and mark these incredible milestones, we held our first commemorative service on Tuesday 5 June 2018. We had the hono...
We are commemorating our journey of progress and success as a Church of England Academy over the past 10 years. We continue to build on our solid foundation of Love, Hope and Trust. There will be readings, hymns and performances alongside prayers of thanksgiving, hope and time for reflection. It wil...
On Wednesday 18 April, we were privileged to have the Rt Revd Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston visit our Academy for the official commissioning of our new Chaplain, Revd Andrew Wignal, who started serving at the Academy in October 2017.
After the recent successful enrichment day where year 7 students worked on their employability skills, the top 10 students from that day went on a workplace visit to Forward 3D.
St Mark's Students Celebrate More Success at Borough Awards Event
On Thursday 30th November the Academy was pleased to attend the Merton celebration event held at Raynes Park school. This was an opportunity to celebrate the fantastic achievements of young people across the borough. Several students' from St Mark's were there to collect their awards.
OFSTED 2017: 'St Mark's is Good with Outstanding Feature'
"I am delighted to be able to finally share with you the outcomes from the recent Ofsted inspection. Our Good with Outstanding feature is a fantastic achievement, and one that I am extremely proud of. We achieved this together, and the inspectors were able to see how far we have come since...
The Year 7 football have been training tirelessly each week, twice in the morning and once after school. The work has started to pay off after a victory against local rivals. Raynes Park.
Today, 103 shoeboxes left our Academy and will be going to various parts of the world making countless children happy, giving them joy and hope in what can be very challenging and difficult circumstances.
GCSE Awards and Certification Celebration Event at St Mark's
Our Year 11 cohort of 2017 will be celebrating their amazing results and achievements at the Academy tomorrow from 5pm. This is a formal event and is by invite only and no entry after 5:30pm.
One of our Year 13 student's had a great opportunity to complete work experience at the house of commons, shadowing a leading political jornalist for the day. Read on for her story...
Inspirational Performance 'How Far I'll Go' by Whole of Year 7
On the last Friday of Autumn half term, the whole of Year 7 joined together to celebrate their hard work since starting at St. Mark's. Their performance of 'How Far I'll Go' from recent movie smash Moana was a great success. It was wonderful to be able to share this performance...
Our fantastic Sixth Formers have yet agin showed themselves to be a massive credit to the school as the ably took part in the wimbledon Bookfest as part of the Take 10 Film Making Project.
St Mark's Students learn vital life saving skills!
As part of the British Heart Foundation's #restartaheartday on Monday 16th October students from Year 8 and Sixth Form took part in excellent workshops to learn vital CPR life saving skills run by the amazing St Georges Emergency Medicine Society.
The inspirational Lorraine Pascal visited the academy today and spoke to our amazing Sixth form students. Lorraine, who is a famous TV Chef/Baker and former model, shared her stories of her life and her confidence code.
St Mark's in top 16% of Schools Nationally* for Academic Progress
Our GCSE results put us well above national average, and in the top 16% of schools nationally*. As we have a significant proportion of students who come to us with no KS2 data we use CATs tests to generate an equivalent grade. When these results are included too that makes our progress score even mo...
Mayor of London 'Team London' Award Nomination for St Mark's Student
Following on from her Merton “Young Volunteer of the Year” Award earlier this year, Savannah has once again been recognized for her outstanding contribution as a Volunteer Police Cadet in the Merton VPC unit.
The Academy is extremely proud of Gui on his selection to the Surrey Schools U15 squad for this season. He has been a key player for the St Mark's side that has reached the borough finals twice in 2 years and this is great recognition for the hard work he has put in.
We are looking forward to welcoming prospective students and parents to our open events this Autumn. We start with our open evening on Thursday 14 September from 5pm to 8pm. We then have a series of open mornings that run on consecutive Wednesday mornings from 20 September until 18 Octob...
St Mark’s Academy Sixth Form is celebrating its best set of Sixth Form results to date.
Headlines for average progress across Academic and Applied General is over half a grade higher than 2016 outcomes. 2017 has seen a combined progress score of 0.14, compared to -0.43 in 2016. Similarly, the...