After two years of remote submissions and video auditions, we are delighted to announce the in-school return of our annual summer talent contest, Marden’s Got Talent!

The live show will take place on Tuesday 28th June, with students encouraged to book their auditions through their form teacher or by e-mailing [email protected] by Friday 6th May.

Video submissions are also still welcomed this year, to show off as many talents as possible and to encourage students who wish to take part remotely.

Watch this space for more information and audition dates and times in the near future!

On Wednesday, Year 10 RE students had the opportunity to visit the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to learn more about their studies of Christianity.

Their first opportunity for a school trip for more than two years, the students took in Lindisfarne Castle, admired the cairns on the beach and learned about the life of Saint Cuthbert, who ran the monastery there during the 7th Century before living a life of solitude on the nearby Farne Islands.

The students walked around the island and even had time for an ice cream at the end of the day. Year 11 will have the same opportunity on the last day before Easter, this Friday.

Check out our photo montage below!

Almost £600 has been raised for today’s ‘Wear a Hat’ day, to support Brain Tumour Research, with some money still to be counted.

Well done to everyone for their contributions and for all the creative headgear on show!

Thanks to some funding from the Reece Foundation, Elliot, Tom and Billy in year 9 had the fantastic opportunity to take part in the regional qualifiers for the VEX Robotics Tipping Point competition.

There were 16 teams from all over the North East taking part in the event held at the Nissan Sports and Leisure Complex.

After a long day of driver skills, autonomous programming and team games and tactics, they ended up winners with their alliance team and earned their place in the national finals in Telford next month.  Elliot also won an award for best driver after some tense competition in the individual challenges.

Well done boys!

See some video clips of the event below:

Today, Marden students have been dedicated a page in The Chronicle, as part of their ‘Our School’ section.

Year 9 students wrote articles about their response to the current global conflict, their recent experience of blended learning, the Marden Green team’s ongoing gardening project and our upcoming musical performance of Sister Act!

You can read all the articles below. Well done to all students for their contributions!