Carpe Scriptum!
The Marden Writers’ Guild’s goal is for artistic freedom for the writers of the school, and they met again on Friday for an afternoon of passionate writing in the LRC.
They are planning to be the basis of the third volume of Marden’s online book (E-book), Manderley, in addition to other students in the school. It’s expected to be the best edition yet, with a modern, creative appearance and a vast spectrum of genres of work: novels, short-stories, journalism, academic essays, poetry and history. (more…)
On Friday, Year 10 Art students worked on a new display for the English corridor, with the theme of ‘Character and Voice’. Here is some of their work in progress…
The results of the recent North Tyneside Cross Country tournament at Churchill Playing Fields have revealed that Marden have not one but two winning teams!
Both the Boys and Girls Intermediate teams won their team events following strong runs from our Year 10s and Year 11s – and the best placed of those students will go through to represent the school at County level at Temple Park in South Shields in January. Well done to all the runners!
Newcastle Eagles coach Fabulous Flournoy visited Marden on Tuesday to talk about his upbringing, his basketball career, and to give a motivational as part of our ongoing plan to raise achievement amongst Year 9 and Year 10 boys. Fab was entertaining throughout, and stayed to sign autographs and pose for photographs after the session.
Marden will once again be taking part in national Takeover Day, on 22nd November 2013. Watch the video below of last year’s Takeover Week success for a taster of things to come…
Following the hard work of Marden’s governors, the school has raised funds to buy a minibus to be used for trips, activities and sports events. Governors Don Charlton and Anne Carlile handed over the keys to Mr. Morris and Year 11 students Neve, Isaac and Tom.
On Tuesday four Marden students competed in the Salters Festival of Chemistry. This was in the Chemistry School at the University of Newcastle. In the morning the students analysed salts to solve a murder mystery.
Flick through the multi-track player to listen to some great musical compositions made by Marden students, from live ukulele performances to individual compositions created using Garage Band:
In the last week of term before Christmas, Year 7 students took part in an afternoon celebrating Literary Heritage. They were briefed to dress up as famous literary characters from five selected authors for a special event, in which they stayed in character all afternoon and taught each other what they had learned from their research and reading.
