September is a crucial time for many parents because that’s when school choices are made.
It’s a tough decision. The days of automatically going to the secondary school in your locality are long gone. For years now, you’ve been able to choose any school you like – it doesn’t even have to be in your own local authority, let alone catchment area. Parental choice trumps everything and, if the school of your first choice has places, you can’t be turned away, no matter where it is.
An after school club to help Year 7 complete their Independent Study tasks will take place in the LRC every Wednesday at 3:15pm. See you there!
A warm welcome to our new students. I hope that you’ve had a great first week. Your behaviour and uniform have been immaculate!
So let’s talk about results.
To all parents and carers, please find below the timetable for IS tasks during the first term of 2014/2015.
Unfortunately our usual supplier of student handbooks has let us down this year. Consequently this year’s handbooks will not arrive until Friday 5 September.
Apologies for the delay.
Jonathan Morris
Headteacher
Looking back at 2013-14, I am proud to say that we’ve lived up to our Carpe Diem school motto. We’ve certainly seized the day and made the most of the exciting opportunities which have come our way.
Look at what we’ve achieved: record breaking GCSE results, great OFSTED report and the increasing support of prospective parents. Remarkably, we’ve admitted 60 students by mid term transfer since September so the good word about us is definitely getting round. It’s great to know that parents and carers from all over North Tyneside and south Northumberland are seeing us as their first choice of secondary school, even though they don’t live in our immediate locality.
And to top it all, it is thrilling to know that we have secured government funding for an entirely new school building. So in September 2016 we will open the doors to a brand new Marden High School, containing far superior opportunities for academic study and fully integrated provision for technology, sport and the arts so that the extracurricular life of the school will flourish even more.
From Monday 2 June 2014, Year 11 students should attend school for exams and all lessons in those subjects for which they still have an exam. However, year 11 students are welcome to attend at all times to use our private study facilities and to ask staff for advice. Our invaluable special pre-exam coaching sessions will be available at breakfast and lunchtimes. A signing in/out system will operate in reception.
