On Friday, Miss Davis arranged for students to take part in an assault course to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
This year’s light up of the East block was a great success, with Year 8 creating their own paper windows for Marden Lumiere. They visited the church on Wednesday morning, learned about energy and light in Science and on Friday lit up the school.
As we enter the festive season, we are proud to display our excellent installation over the bridge at Tynemouth Metro Station.
Year 7 enjoyed their first ever Super Learning Day on Thursday, learning about sea creatures and the density of salt water, amongst numerous other Science related topics.
On Friday 10th October, 24 talented Yr8 artists took part in a Super Learning Day to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War. The aim was to honour the victims of this cruel war: by bringing to the attention of the community the suffering of many local families through the deaths of their loved ones.
Working collaboratively in groups of two and three, pupils created A1 sized paintings to reflect the involvement of local Cullercoats men who lost their lives in battle. We looked at the paintings of war artist Paul Nash as a starting point: in particular the lighting, colour and some details Nash used in his work to create land and seascapes of our own.
Pupils also looked at the creation and display of the installation by ceramic artist Paul Cummins: entitled ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ which is currently on display at The Tower of London. We discussed the significance of the poppy as a symbol of hope in the years following the war. Influenced by this moving exhibition which runs until armistice day, pupils endeavoured to include the iconic image of the poppy as part of their painting.
Our project is running parallel to the official Tynemouth World War 1 Commemoration Project, so pupils were able to access locally researched information: particularly details of the men whose names are mentioned on the War Memorial in the church grounds. During the morning Mr Morris, Father Adrian: Rector of St George’s Cullercoats, and several members of the Heritage Memorial committee visited the classroom to witness the work as it was being produced.
Even though we were tackling a sombre subject, there was a good working atmosphere in the room throughout the day; everyone agreeing we had thoroughly enjoyed finding out more and commemorating the role of the local lads. It is intended to display some of the work in school and some at St George’s Church over the armistice day period to respectfully remember and honour the dead of our local community.
This time lapse shows off all the hard work by the Year 8s during Monday’s Super Learning Day, as three teams of Artists, Scientists and Media gurus created their own stained glass windows out of paper and lit up the East Wing of the school for Marden Lumiere 2013. It was a festive and fitting way to end this term; Merry Christmas to everyone from Marden High School!
Here is a special sea shanty written with co-operation of Year 7 students and performed exclusively by local musician Benny Graham on our recent Super Learning Day, accompanied by photographs from the Creative Arts and Photography groups.
The lyrics are printed below for anyone who wants to sing along!
Cold North Sea
There’s a cold east wind a blowin’
We’re Rollin down theTyne.
Rollin’ to the Cold North Sea.
Tides a turnin’,must be goin’,
We’re rollin’ down the Tyne.
Rollin’ to the Cold north Sea.
Pots are weighted, lines are baited.
We’re Rollin down theTyne.
Rollin’ to the Cold North Sea.
Water’s right, the fish are waitin’,
We’re Rollin down theTyne
Rollin’ to the Cold North Sea.
The shipyard cranes are swinging,
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Steel and hammers ringing,
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Submarines, Destroyers.
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea
Oil rigs and wind farms,
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Keel boats down from Dunston,
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Vanished into history, never to return.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
The old trades have all perished,
We’re rolling down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Now the ferries and the tourists
They’re rollin’ down the Tyne.
Rolling to the cold North Sea.
Year 7 took part in their first Super Learning Day on Monday, interpreting the question ‘What Makes the Coast Special’ in three different subject areas: Science, Creative Arts and Media. Here are a few images of our Media group getting creative on the beach with a film and photography project…
More images and some of the students’ creative work to follow…
Year 8 took part in a Super Learning Day on Wednesday. In a STEM themed day, they fired home-made rockets with Mr. Swain and in the afternoon were shown a variety of owls as they investigated what is in this notion of motion.
On Monday 20th May, Year 7 took part in a special Super Learning Day, answering the question ‘What makes the Coast Special?’ through three different disciplines: Media (Photography and Film), Creative Arts or Science.
They visited the beach to take photographs and video footage before returning to school to work on their creative work, they also produced beach sculptures and the students who elected the Science option visited the Blue Reef Aquarium.
