To promote literacy across the curriculum and to commemorate World Book Day on Tuesday the 5th of March, Marden staff and students stopped everything for half an hour during PSCHE and read silently, tallying up their pages to see which form class could read the most.
I must tell you about Valentine’s Day.
Not that I’m a great fan of what has become yet another money spinner for the greetings card industry, although in the dark days of February we all need something to cheer ourselves up.
What I want to say is that February 14th, 2013 at Marden turned out to be a happy and memorable occasion, thanks to Alison Abbott, Hailey Eastlake,the school cabinet and, as it turned out, lots of other people.
So what happened?
Our final Practice News Day before next month’s main event saw some extra reports produced by our Year 8s. Here they all are in full:
Year 10 Drama students coached Year 8 students on Valentine’s Day, helping them to act out and record famous romantic scenes during first lesson, which were then screened in the main hall at lunchtime as part of a whole day of Valentine’s Day activities at Marden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52dB5YYudI&feature=youtu.be
On Thursday Marden were delighted to host a lecture from the Institute of Physics, coordinated by Mr. Swain. Year 9 and 10 students attended the ‘Defying Gravity’ event, as well as many other schools from the North East, and enjoyed a fascinating talk given by astrophysicist Laura Thomas about Gravity and Space Travel.
Year 8 and 9 students this week took part in an ambitious attempt to get in the Guinness Book of World Records. Mrs. Eastlake coordinated the event, as 26 students wrote lines of a story and passed them round, and the feat was repeated in schools up and down the country in an attempt to write a story with the largest amount of contributors to it. Here are some snaps of them hard at work, linking their stories together…
We are proud to announce that the recently published government league tables of secondary schools place Marden High School in the top 20 state maintained schools in the North East as measured by the proportion of students gaining 5+ A*-C GCSE grades including English and Mathematics.
Here are a selection of some of the finished BBC School Reports that our Year 8 students produced for the January Practice News Day.
Three teachers from South Korea visited Marden this week as part of an exciting teacher exchange, sitting in on a variety of lessons and meetings.
A music lesson with Mr. Evans
