Year 10 girls badminton semi-finalists: Morgan, Jasmine, Libby and Makenzie
A massive congratulations to Year 7 students Holly Waugh and Josh Blevins, who both qualified from their respective cross country events at the North Tyneside championships at Temple Park, South Shields.
Josh finished 1st in his event and Holly 11th, and they will now go on to represent the county in Carlisle this Saturday 4 February. A tremendous achievement, well done to you both!
Both the Year 10 girls and the Year 9 boys badminton teams came 2nd in their respective events at the North Tyneside Badminton Championships, and both have qualified for the Tyne and Wear finals!
The girls have been out at work experience this week, but the boys posed for a photo opportunity. Well done to all who took part and good luck at the finals stage.
As you may have seen from our @mardenPE Twitter page and recent Sports posts, some Year 9 students have recently taken part in a Kick-Off HE Raising Aspirations course with Northumbria University.
This has involved a series of afternoons of boxing training and workshops. Participants Cameron Balloch, Jonny Jordan and Jared Robson have written about their experience:
“We have been learning how to box from the Great Britain Boxing coach and have worked on projects such as Journalism and creating a new idea in sport like a sports bottle or training shoe.
The course is designed to help us learn about higher education and to get us interested in sport for the future. So far we have been to Northumbria University and Sport Central and done a whole day there; also we have had a few afternoons in school doing boxing and projects. When we went to the university we had a talk with ex-GB and Olympic swimmer Chris Cook and he talked to us about sport and how you have to be determined to be successful.
This made us think about our future in sport and why we need to be determined and how much effort and sacrifices we will need to make in sport.”
Congratulations to Josh Blevins in Year 7 and Lucas Sutherland in Year 11, who are both North Tyneside Cross Country Champions after winning their respective age events last Friday at Churchill Playing Fields. Both have now qualified for the County finals next year.
Both boys were presented with a pair of Newcastle United tickets, along with Peter Whitehouse (Year 8) who has demonstrated sporting excellence throughout the year. The tickets were generously supplied by Show Racism The Red Card after our recent charity day.
In other sporting news, a select group of Year 9 boys have been taking part in a boxing programme with Northumbria University, our Year 8 rugby team recently took part in a festival in Ashington, our badminton teams are going from strength to strength and our Year 11 A team came 4th in the North Tyneside table tennis championships, with the Year 9 B team finishing a creditable 6th.
For more information, keep checking our Sports page or follow @mardenPE on Twitter. Well done to all who took part in all events.
Congratulations to Year 10 student Adam who this weekend was crowned U16 Junior lightweight boxing Champion of the North East. Well done Adam!
On Tuesday the PE department took a group of students from years 7, 8 and 9 to Longsands beach where we competed in the North East Girls Beach Touch Rugby festival.
Marden had two teams entered into the U13 round and one U15 team. All girls thoroughly enjoyed the day. We had a range of wins, losses and draws! Looking forward to starting contact in September.
On Monday the PE department brought our Year 10 GCSE group to Newcastle Climbing Centre where they were assessed on their handling of ropes, ability to tie knots, their movement on the rock wall and their use of different holds.
The Year 10s will be going back on Friday for another 2 hour slot where they will be assessed further in order to gain more practical marks for their GCSE.
The U13 boys football team notched their fourth win in a row, smashing seven past Monkseaton Middle School and confirming their qualification for the play-off semi finals.
They took the lead in the first minute when Josh Harrison’s right wing crossed was turned in for an own goal. The second arrived soon after from the penalty spot when Connor Brown was brought down, Peter Whitehouse confidently dispatching the spot kick.
Marden kept up the pressure, winning a succession of corners, and it was 3-0 by half time when a dangerous set piece wasn’t cleared and Connor Brown volleyed home with a neat finish.
A fourth was added early in the second half when Josh Harrison beat the offside trap to slot under the impressive Monkseaton goalkeeper, who pulled off a string of good saves to keep the score down. The away team’s quality however was confirmed by a late flurry of goals, defender Cameron Balloch heading home at the back post from another corner for the fifth.
Second half substitute Jaden Bell impressed in a right wing role when he came on, and added two late goals, the first when good footwork from Peter Whitehouse resulted in the loose ball falling in his path. The seventh and final goal came from a deep Connor Brown cross from the left, Jaden pouncing to slot home.
The game marked a remarkable turnaround for the Year 8 team, who have finished in second place in their league after six games, despite losing the first two games of the season last term. They have a cup quarter final against George Stephenson coming up on Thursday. Well done all who took part.
TEAM: Owen Foster, Harvey Gates, Adam Dunn, Cameron Balloch, Tom Lea, Jared Robson (captain), Harry Perkins, Connor Brown, Peter Whitehouse, Owen Kennedy, Josh Harrison. SUBS: Jaden Bell, Jonny Jordan.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Jared Robson
