Please read this important letter, outlining our recent successes and our plans for the new school year in September.
Year 7 and Year 8 are visiting Lightwater Valley on Monday 17th July.
Year 9 and Year 10 are visiting Lightwater Valley on Tuesday 18th July.
Students must be in school by 7.40am and go directly to form classes where they will be met and registered. They will then be escorted to coaches outside ready for early departure. Coaches will arrive back at school at approximately 5.30pm.
Students do not need to wear uniform but must wear sensible clothing.
Thank you.
Congratulations to our Year 9s who have had two successive weekends of walking and last weekend successfully passed their Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying expedition! Here are some photos from their hike along Hadrian’s Wall.
Year 7 student Finlay McIntyre competed in the North-east Athletics Grand Prix on Wednesday night in the 200m category – he came first with a time of 26.8 earning him a Grade 1!
He is now the Number 1 200m runner for the North East in the Under 13 category which places him in the Top 12 in the entire country.
A great achievement for Marden PE and especially to Finlay, well done!
We have celebrated our Official Opening with a ceremony in the school, including performances by Drama and Music students, tours of the new building and our GCSE Art exhibition.
Mayor Norma Redfearn unveiled a plaque and said a few words along with headteacher Mr Snape, and our Head Boy Monty Douglass and Head Girl Nieve Allott. Former Marden alumni and presenter of Look North Carol Malia was also a guest speaker.
Many thanks to all who attended.
It has been another Super Learning Day here at Marden today, with Year 8 this time enjoying an Engineering themed day learning about electronic cars and making their own.
Our annual summer talent show, Marden’s Got Talent, took place last night, with some fantastic and varied acts on show, all raising money for Clic Sargent, a children’s cancer charity.
It was a great evening of entertainment, with Year 7 Liv Surrey voted the winner by judges for her magic act. Second place went to Olivia Peterson who performed a stunning version of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ by Oasis, and 3rd place went to the Marden Ukulele Club, who sang and performed Elvis Presley’s ‘I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’.
Hosted by our fantastic comperes, Martha Topping and Alice Crossland, well done to all the students and staff who took part and made it a memorable occasion.
As part of a Science Super Learning Day, we we were visited on Tuesday morning by staff from Kielder Birds of Prey centre who taught Year 7 about different types of birds of prey.
In the afternoon they built rockets and helicopters which they tested, and learnt more about flight.
Business Studies students have been trying to work out which element of the marketing mix is the most important for local personal training and fitness entrepreneur David Fairlamb.
The Y10 students have been experiencing what it will be like to complete a controlled assessment as part of their GCSE qualification. In the Autumn term the students will be completing the controlled assessment for real and it will count for 25% of their final GCSE. Going through a dry run gives the students an opportunity to experience the process and to know what to expect in advance, ensuring they are as prepared as possible.
The chosen task for the controlled assessment was to research a small local business and evaluate its marketing mix. This has involved students researching in textbooks and the internet and culminated in a visit from David on Wednesday 5th July.
As David explained, it is really important to ensure that a business gets its marketing mix right. To maximise sales, businesses have to sell a product (good or service) that is appealing to the target market, in the right place and at a price potential customers are willing to pay. Competition in the fitness industry is fierce and promotion and advertising has to be both informative and persuasive to potential clients.
David is a local entrepreneur who runs a personal training business. He is very interested in fitness. You may have seen his beach boot-camps on Longsands beach which are attended by 50 to 80 people each week.
The students made a market map for David Fairlamb which Will Ross introduced. They asked him a series of questions that they have devised about running his business being an entrepreneur and his marketing mix.
He was really grateful for the marketing map and we will be sending him some completed reports.
To all recent Year 11 leavers: Yearbooks are still available to collect from reception for those who have paid for one. You will be able to visit the school between 3:15pm and 4:15pm on Thursday evening to collect them and have them signed if you wish. Staff will also be available to sign them at your Awards assembly next year. Thank you.
