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As part of an Applied Studies course, Year 10 students chose the mental health charity MIND and have spent this term planning ways to raise money for that charity.
This culminated in Marden’s Mindful Tuck Shop, as they sold sweets during break time and raised a massive £116.24!
Well done to all who took part.
The online portal is now open for those wishing to contribute towards their child having a Chromebook. Please visit https://alllearnportal.parentportal.biz/index.cfm and enter the following school code in the bottom box: MARD421587
The leasing company have confirmed that the sign up deadline is Monday 21st November 2016 in order to receive the device in time for Christmas.
Please read below for more information on this scheme.
Wear red on Friday 21st October to show your support for Show Racism The Red Card. All students can pay £1 for a wristband from the LRC or during form time, and wear red to school.
Wear Red Day 2016, on Friday 21st October, is a national day of action which encourages schools, businesses & individuals to wear red and donate £1 to help facilitate the delivery of anti-racism education for young people & adults throughout England, Scotland & Wales. For just £5, SRtRC can educate one child for a whole day.
Musician Rich Cottell today visited Marden as part of his epic school tour. He played some songs and talked to Year 9 and Year 10 about radicalisation.
For more information, visit this link or click the photo to learn more about Rich’s music.
After the success of last year’s Young Persons Question Time at the Quadrant at North Tyneside Council, Marden High will be taking part once again in this year’s event on the 11th October.
The event is chaired by BBC’s Adrian Pitches and will feature local mayor Norma Redfearn
There will be live tweeting during the event so look out for Marden High’s participation, and see how the panel handle some of our questions.
Last year’s panel
More info here:
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!
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.
