World Book Day 2017

By Miss E Laing3rd March 2017
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The English department with Year 7 during the World Book Day awards assembly.

The 20th anniversary of World Book Day took place on Thursday, and Marden were active participants as usual. Staff, Year 7 and Year 8 students were invited to dress as a literary character for the day. There was also a lunchtime quiz and Key Stage 3 students took part in literary activities and writing competitions with the English department all day.

In total, £200.30 was raised for BOOK AID. Well done to everyone who took part.

Poetry Finalists Published!

By Miss E Laing28th September 2016
POETRY WINNERS

Eight girls from our Creative Writing Club have once again been published in print, after their poems were selected to appear in ‘The Poetry Trials’, a competition that stretched to students across the globe!

Their task was to craft a poem about something they cared about or from their point of view using creativity, technique and skill, and they have now been forever immortalised in print in this fantastic anthology.

Congratulations team!

Creative Writers Get Published!

By Miss E Laing22nd September 2016
Creative writing comp winners

Six aspiring writers, now in Year 8 and 9, entered the Young Writers Spine Chillers Competition in Spring 2016 as part of Creative Writing Club. Their task was to write a chilling ‘mini-saga’ in 100 words or less.

Joelle Esquejo, Jenny Brooks, Jess Beales, Jess Wallace, Jenny Hurnell and Kate Edwardson are all competition finalists and their stories have been published in the Young Writers Spine Chillers – County Durham & Tyne and Wear Anthology. Well done girls!

There is a copy of the book in the LRC should you want to read these scary stories in print.