Click the image to see details of our forthcoming GCSE Art Exhibition.
After a fantastic News School Report Day, in which our budding Yr8, 9 and 10 journalists produced some great work (CLICK HERE TO VIEW THEIR REPORTS) we were visited by Carol Malia and a BBC news crew and featured on BBC Look North on Thursday evening.
All 12 of our finished BBC School Reports are complete and online, ready to watch HERE
We have already been featured on BBC Look North, reporters have been helping us throughout the day and interviewing students and staff for the National News bulletin about the BBC News School Report project.
Nominations for the NTLT Star Awards have been open for over a week now and already we have seen some very impressive and humbling nominations come forward, particularly for the Resilience Award. If you would to see some examples of the types of things children can be nominated for please read the pdf below and watch the embedded video.
There was a great turnout for the Sport relief mile at lunchtime organised by Mr. Bunting. So far, more than £875 has been raised by staff and students throughout the day, with proceeds split between Sport Relief and M10.
A big event happened this week.
We saw the first designs of our new school building.
In an exciting two hour meeting, the architects talked us through their initial ideas for a compact, state of the art, 21st century school for 900 pupils with suites of subjects strategically positioned around the campus. But the most important feature was that they had listened to our “design drivers”. We told them that we wanted a modern environment but that the essential components of the Marden DNA were not for sale: Carpe Diem, teaching and learning come first, everyone matters…you know the kind of thing. And it was thrilling to see that they were all there, but even better than they are now. So in September 2016 we will open the doors to brand new facilities, containing far superior opportunities for academic study and ( here’s the big point) fully integrated provision for technology, sport and the arts so that the extracurricular life of the school will flourish even more.
