Scholastic Half Price Book Fair
All next week, Monday 1st December – Friday 5th December, there will be a Scholastic Half Price Book Fair in the LRC. Click HERE to find out more about the book fairs.
Festive Non-Uniform Day
On Thursday 11th December, we are already planning our Christmas lunch in the cafe, now we intend to hold a festive non-uniform day to raise money for Cash for Kids and Age UK.
Notice for all parents/carers:
STAFF TRAINING DAY – FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2014
Marden High School will be closed to students on Friday 28th November 2014 for a Staff Training Day. School will reopen as normal on Monday 1st December.
Thank you.
The last time we spoke, I told you that we were organising a World War 1 Community Memory Day at St. George’s Church Hall.
Well, it happened last Friday and fittingly proved to be a very memorable event. You might recall that I said that I wanted to recruit some student history detectives to research the lives of the Cullercoats fallen as listed on the memorial outside St. George’s Church. So far, I’ve enlisted 13 year 7-8 volunteers, each of whom has adopted a servicemen from the roll of honour. It was their job to host the event by interviewing our guests about their family histories with regard to the Great War. We had a constant stream of visitors who dropped in to support our project, including at least four relatives of men on the list.
FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL YEAR 11 STUDENTS:
Here is the revision timetable for Year 11. Feel free to download this document so you can familiarise yourself with it. For any other information please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Topping.
Stephen Riley, director of M10 Missions, recently visited Marden High to talk about his fundraising project, giving 16 – 18 year olds a chance of a lifetime to travel to Mexico and build a house for a family who needs it.
The online portal is now open for those wishing to contribute towards their child having a Chromebook. Please visit www.alllearnportal.co.uk/
The leasing company have confirmed that the sign up deadline is Monday 23rd November in order to receive the device before Christmas.
Please read below for more information on this scheme
Following some successful appeals to the exam board, we are delighted to announce that our headline exam score has increased!
Our 2014 first entry figure for the proportion of year 11 leavers gaining 5 or more A*-C grades including English and maths has risen from 75 to 77% .
You might be interested to learn that Marden is going to play a full part in the commemoration of the World War 1 centenary. As you probably know, Marden has long enjoyed a close relationship with St. George’s Church in Cullercoats. Indeed, I guess that we’ve been working together for over 50 years. Some time ago, I mentioned to Father Adrian Hughes that I was thinking of ways in which school could mark the Great War centenary and he told me that the plaque listing the fallen on the St. George’s war memorial had been stolen. Well, that got us thinking and soon we started coming up with ideas for ways in which we could ensure a renewed commemoration of those Cullercoats men listed on the stolen memorial. One thing led to another and, with the help of an amazing local history group called Tynemouth World War One as well as Sarah Owen from North Tyneside Council, we put together a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a community history project.
As you probably know, North Tyneside Council has been working with its schools, colleges and partners to review education in the borough.
Today (Monday, 22 September) sees the start of a four-week consultation on three options that have been put forward for securing the future of education in the borough.
Parents and carers are being invited to take part in the consultation, and share their views. To find out more, please visit www.northtyneside.gov.uk/
