For those students not going to Lightwater Valley yesterday there was a series of Super Learning Days. Year 7 took part in a cooking challenge. Check out these photos of their day!
It’s been rewards week here at Marden, with students choosing from a variety of activities to take part in after cashing in their hard earned merits. Here’s some footage of a kick boxing session ran by Burns School of Blackbelts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbm4ErT2igY&feature=youtu.be
There was also an archery session on Thursday morning:
A select group of Year 7 and 8 students have been taking part in a Spanish language lunchtime club this term, and yesterday they visited El Torero in Newcastle to sample some authentic Spanish tapas!
Here are some photos from their trip!
We have just taken delivery of over 130 Microbits……they are for the current year 7 students who are going into year 8.
They will be used during the first term of year 8 and then the students can take them home. They will be used in the classroom and hopefully as part of a Super Learning Day.
You can use your BBC micro:bit for all sorts of cool creations, from robots to musical instruments – the possibilities are endless. The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer. It’s 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.
This little device has an awful lot of features, like 25 red LED lights that can flash messages. There are two programmable buttons that can be used to control games or pause and skip songs on a playlist. Your BBC micro:bit can detect motion and tell you which direction you’re heading in, and it can use a low energy Bluetooth connection to interact with other devices and the Internet – clever!
Watch this video to find out more!
On Tuesday the PE department took a group of students from years 7, 8 and 9 to Longsands beach where we competed in the North East Girls Beach Touch Rugby festival.
Marden had two teams entered into the U13 round and one U15 team. All girls thoroughly enjoyed the day. We had a range of wins, losses and draws! Looking forward to starting contact in September.
On Monday the PE department brought our Year 10 GCSE group to Newcastle Climbing Centre where they were assessed on their handling of ropes, ability to tie knots, their movement on the rock wall and their use of different holds.
The Year 10s will be going back on Friday for another 2 hour slot where they will be assessed further in order to gain more practical marks for their GCSE.
Throughout this academic year, fifteen of our Year 10 Art, Design & Textile students have been working with This Is Creative Enterprise (TICE) through various workshops.
On Tuesday night, at the Great North Museum: Hancock, their work was showcased to hundreds of other creatives, students and families from local schools.
Guest speakers included senior lectures from Northumbria University Fashion courses and professionals from national creative sectors. The evening was a huge success, celebrating the achievement of all students involved.
A special thanks to TICE, Northumbria Universiy, Great North Museum, everyone else involved and not to forget our amazing talented young Art students.
Mr Prytherch
#FanTICEtic!
Congratulations to all our acts who took part in Marden’s Got Talent, and special congratulations to our winner Year 10 Georgia!
MGT winner 2016 Georgia!
There was a variety of great acts, a dance group, some jazz musicians, a circus act, an excerpt of drama performance ‘We Will Rock You’ and even a debut performance by the staff band! All in all, more than £300 were raised for children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Well done to all who took part!
