Notice for parents and carers regarding upcoming practice science exams.
DIRECTOR OF IT SYSTEMS, GRADE 11 (£40,760 – £45,591) PAY AWARD PENDING
PERMANENT POST, FULL TIME,
TO COMMENCE MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2020 OR EARLIER IF APPROPRIATE
Marden High is a thriving 11-16 school that represents everything that is exciting about comprehensive education. We are a school with high aspirations for all our students.
We have an enviable record of examination success, and our former students are to be found in many diverse and successful roles, most having moved through further and higher education. Students regularly achieve excellent academic results, well above the national average, but the staff and governors at Marden believe we can always improve even further. We demand that the learning experience for our students moves with the times whilst maintaining the traditions of good manners, discipline and respect for others.
We wish to appoint an enthusiastic and very able Director of IT Systems to join our team who has a substantial experienced background and has excellent IT skills. If you are passionate about your subject and are prepared to work hard, this is the job for you.
Potential candidates are welcome to contact Matt Snape, Headteacher, for an informal briefing on 0191 2962771.
Closing date: Tuesday 22 September 2020
Interviews: Monday 28 September 2020
Application packs can be downloaded below
Marden High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks.
This week our students will receive their GCSE results, and thankfully these will be in the form of Centre Assessed Grades. One of the most impressive features of Marden High School is the way that the learning and progress of every single student across every subject is tracked. The process is then subject to regular review by department heads and senior staff to ensure the basis of assessment is robust and is of the highest possible degree of accuracy. One of the major roles of the Governing Body is to monitor this process and challenge the school where we feel teaching and learning falls below the high standards we have set ourselves. As parents and students I think it is really important that you can have considerable confidence in the grades you have been awarded. I am sure the staff will be more than happy to talk through the results with students should anyone wish to do so.
Fr. A. Hughes
The publication of the grades is the end of a national process where
centres were asked to decide most likely grades for pupils in each subject,
taking into account the progress that each of you had made through your
time studying in Year 10 and 11. These grades were put in rank order, by
grade, for each subject and sent to the exam boards. Working with OFQUAL,
the exam boards will now apply a standardisation process to all schools and
this is how the grades that you pick up in August will be arrived at. There
is a short video, produced by OFQUAL, that explains the process here:
There is also a student guide here:
As part of this process, staff can not discuss the grade or rank order that
was submitted with either yourself or parents/carers before results day.
There will be information provided on the day explaining how you can apply
for this information. Appeals will be possible based only on the technical
calculation of the standardised grade. OFQUAL decided it would not be in
the interests of students or the fairness of the arrangements overall for
centre assessed grades (CAGs) to be appealed.
OFQUAL have also announced that an Autumn series of exams in all subjects,
where there is demand, will go ahead. This series will not take into
account coursework. These exams will take place between 2nd November and
23rd November. We are awaiting further clarification of where these exams
will be sat, although you will be entered by Marden. Again, there will be
more information about this available with your results.
At the present time we are planning results day in line with government
advice. We would like to see you pick up your grades and offer the support
we would usually. To accommodate this we have structured the day as below.
Results collection will be staggered, with each form group having a slot as
outlined below:
