Local blues musician Johnny Dickinson visited Marden on Wednesday for a full day of workshops with students and to play a private gig for staff and students at lunchtime; here are some edited highlights.
Marden High were well represented at Saturday’s Mouth of the Tyne Festival in Tynemouth, meeting at Priory Primary School yard before the parade.
Year 8 English Creative Writing Module
Year 8 English classes have been looking at the work of Arthur Conan Doyle, coming up with their own Sherlock Holmes-style crime stories. Following on from last year’s successful Who Bumped Off Brolly? mystery, they were inspired by the events of a staff-made video, Who Poisoned Perry?
…and after coming up with their own theories to produce a piece of creative writing, the mystery was eventually solved.
Click the image to see details of our forthcoming GCSE Art Exhibition.
Check out these great new recordings by the Marden Chamber Orchestra. The first is ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’, scroll back through the podcasts to hear their version of the ‘William Tell Overture’ and ‘The Simpsons theme tune’
The students who worked on these recordings were:
Year 11:
Laura Armstrong (violin)
Rachel Leedham (flute)
Adam Blakey (clarinet)
Jessica Clark (clarinet)
Robert W.Baker (keyboard)
Year 10:
Megan Wear (sax)
Hannah Oliver (flue)
Year 9:
Rebecca Moore (clarinet)
Caitlin Mcpartlan (violin)
Christopher Robson (keyboard)
Ryan De Silva (sax)
Year 8:
James Clark (drum kit)
Laurie Robson (keyboard)
Ailsa Critten (trumpet)
Year 7:
Faye Strasshine (violin)
Lydia Gerrard (clarinet)
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…)
Today has been World Book Day, and as well as donating unwanted books to Oxfam, staff and students have been sharing photos of their bookshelves on Twitter. Have you shared your #shelfie with @mardenenglish?
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…
Congratulations to Year 10 student Louise, who won a competition to design an updated logo for Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade in their 150th year.
Louise poses with Mr. Morris, Mrs. Noble and members of the TVLB
Maintaining our strong links with the BBC, Year 9 and 10 students have been working with BBC journalist Judith Burns on an article about the 1944 Education Act. Look out for the report, including video and audio footage, in the near future.
Year 9 students Harvey and Ben are interviewed for the BBC report
