Our Sports Day on Monday was a tremendous success, with Alnwick just edging out Warkworth for the overall House trophy. Here’s a video montage of some of the highlights from a jam-packed day of events!
Following on from Mrs Berriman’s assembly this morning, here is a recap of all the activities available to students on the 19th and 20th of July for our Creative Arts Festival. Students have until Thursday of this week to choose their activities!
Congratulations to Year 9 student Alex, a national finalist in the Tree Council’s Young Tree Champions campaign! Thank you for being a #ForceOfNature!
On Friday we were visited by local MP Sir Alan Campbell, who took part in a ‘Question Time’ style lecture with Year 9 students who have been doing work in English around social equality. He discussed his role in politics, the economy, and answered questions about social issues.
Moving on from our recent ‘Insight’ stage in school, Year 9 visited Northumbria University fashion department as they look to create more great fashion ideas as part of their TICE course.
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e-Safety is an important part of keeping children safe in the modern world, and teaching children how to be safe online is a responsibility that we all share. Last term we launched our new e-Safety webpage, which includes weekly tips, safety guidance and information on popular apps, games and websites that are popular with children.
We would like to invite all KS3 parents/carers to our Keeping Children Safe Online
If you have any further questions about the information evening, please contact Miss Laing at [email protected].
Year 9 have now watched all of the screencasts for their options choices. In January they will be asked to pick provisional choices during form time.
Students must choose one option from each block. One of these should be history, geography, computer science, French or German.
Please discuss these choices with your child over the Christmas break. There will be a chance to talk to curriculum leaders about the subjects on January 26th (6.00pm until 8.00pm). The options screencasts and booklet, along with Frequently Asked Questions are available on the school website in the ‘Learning’ and ‘Guided Choices’ section.
Here are the Option Blocks for this year’s guided choices programme:
On Tuesday, Year 9 sat in on a careers talk from former Marden student Josiah Riley, who spoke to them about studying at Cambridge and his current NanoScience PhD which he is studying! An invaluable and enlightening discussion from a former alumni!
Our Year 9s enjoyed a careers speed dating event on Tuesday, as we had many guests coming in to talk to them about a variety of career opportunities.
