Year 10 student Theo Riley and his older brother Josiah, a Marden Class of 2014 alumnus, attended Middlesbrough FC’s Riverside Stadium last night for the MFC Foundation annual Regional Awards.
The lads won the Team Achievement Award, along with their three teammates, following last year’s success in a National 3 by 3 basketball tournament, which you can read about in our archive HERE.
An artist’s impression of the proposed new building for Marden High School
We are delighted to announce that we have received final government confirmation of funding for a brand new school building.
This means that Marden High School will be rebuilt and transformed into a state of the art place of learning fit for a 21st century curriculum. We expect it to be open for business in the academic year of 2016-17.
Year 10 student Rebecca Moore, who is also a representative of the North Tyneside Youth Parliament, spoke passionately at the House of Commons. Well done Rebecca!
On Friday 7th November, Marden’s History detectives spent the day at St. George’s Church Hall in Cullercoats, interviewing members of the public to gather more research for their World War One Commemoration Project. This short video shows a flavour of the day.
It’s been a great BBC News School Report Day here at Marden, here are our finished reports, great first attempts from our Year 8 reporters.
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Friday was a busy day at Marden High, and we had a non-uniform day to raise money for Children In Need, with students dressing as super heroes. The bake sale and other fundraising activities raised more than £800! Well done!
Our School Report day is up and running, our reporters are planning their stories and we have already been featured on the BBC News Report website!
Our stories include covering our Children in Need fundraising day, a Rugby report, a report on safety at sea and a report covering the changes to the GCSE curriculum. Keep checking this page and our Twitter feed for more updates.
There’s an exciting STEM project taking place in our STEM hub, featuring some great collaborative work between both Marden High and John Spence students.
YEAR 7: Marden High 3-4 Marden Bridge
YEAR 8: Marden High 4-2 Marden Bridge
There was another football double header last night as Marden Bridge Middle School brought both a Year 7 and Year 8 team to Hartington Road for two simultaneous matches as the night drew in.
For the Year 7s, it was a heartbreaking 4-3 defeat, despite taking the lead through a Josh Harrison goal after a superb solo run. They were soon 3-1 down, but Owen Kennedy reduced the arrears with his second of the season before Reece Maddison squared things up in the second half with a tidy finish from the edge of the box. Marden Bridge counter attacked well though, and managed to force a late winner over the line.
It was better news for the Year 8s, who shrugged off last week’s A team defeat to St. Thomas More with a 4-2 victory, helped by a few of the successful B team footballers stepping up to the plate. Jack Graham and Tom Moore got the goals in an enterprising 4-2 victory.
Other than floodlit away games, it looks like that’s the football season temporarily on hold until next term. Well done to all who turned out and took part.
