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MARDEN NEWS Summer End of Ter m Edition July 2020

Science Challenge Week forYear 7 and 8 Students

Science Marathon Attempt Summer 2020

Transi tion 2020/21

Message from the Head Teacher

Marden Teachers Have Got Talent!

Featuring :-

Marden's Got TalentAt Home

Recommended Summer Reads inc Competi tion

Computing - Marden Coding Superstar s!

English Summer Special

PEd - Love of Spor t Week

Marden High School Newsletter July 2020

Com m unit y Individualit y Possibil i t y









Miss Laing



Love of Sport Week (6th - 10th July)

Due to the covid 19 restrictions, a virtual sports programme was designed to replace our summer Sports Day this year. A menu of activit ies was created for participants to attempt, ranging from traditional sports day events, 60 second challenge activit ies, running/cycling challenge and the creation of a fun activity, all of which could be done at home. For additional support, we were also able to attach links of junior national athletes wishing participants well as they undertook personal challenges. Well done for your engagement if you managed to complete an event and a special thank you to the science teachers who managed to complete an individual run within a marathon challenge, very impressive. Thank you so much to those of you who sent in photographs of your attempts. Hope the activit ies will continue to be used throughout the summer so that you are able to stay active and healthy.

PEd Department



Sock Ball Throw3 Legged Race

5k Run

Runnung Challenge (in mi les!)



Spor ts Fun Day5 Activi ties Challenge

Ms Stamp

Big thanks to Belle Hutchins, Andrew Hutchins, Katie Banks, Cer ys Car le, Benjamin Maley and Lizzie Dyke

for their contr ibutions!

The Egg and Spoon Race

The Keepy Up Challenge

The Sock Put

The Sock Toss Dash

The 3 Legged Race



Mrs Glover









Miss Laing







(Some of Laura?s excellent independent work!)



Mrs Cathcar t



Marden Coding Superstars!

Writing code is writ ing a precise set of instructions that a computer or device can interpret, understand and execute. It is explaining exactly what you want your computer to do at any given moment in response to an input, command or action. Computers need to know exactly how to react to things like the clicking of a mouse, or the pushing of a button, and whatever happens, is ult imately happening because of l ines of code written by a human programmer.

Throughout your Computing journey at Marden High School, you will be introduced to a number of dif ferent programming languages and methods, starting with block based coding in KS3, similar to Scratch, before moving onto text-based programming languages such as Python and HTML. Just l ike spoken languages, there are hundreds, if not thousands of dif ferent types and f lavours of programming languages available to programmers. We use Python at Marden as it?s a relatively friendly starter language, but one that is incredibly powerful. Python is the world?s fastest growing programming language, it works across most devices, and has a massive community of very helpful users to interact with online, should you get stuck on a programming problem.

In KS3, we?ll introduce you to the basics of Python, and if you choose to take GCSE Computer Science, you?ll get to explore the language to a much greater extent. Some students get bitten by the coding bug and just want to keep coding and practicing in their own time. That?s exactly what James Walker (Y10), Andrew Hutchins (Y10) and a host of other GCSE Computer Science students have done. This group of inspiring, skil led programmers has taken the basics they learned in lessons, and in their own time, expanded their knowledge to create some truly wonderful pieces of software. The most recent, and impressive, is a Chess game in which a player can choose to play against another player, or our developers have given you the option to play against the games? Artif icial Intell igence (AI) package. Our team of developers have taken what they were taught in lessons and expanded their own knowledge by teaching themselves how to integrate the TKinter Graphical User interface package, as well as util ising JIT compilation to make their program as eff icient as possible.

Watch out Microsoft, our Marden Development team has their sights f irmly set on your crown!



Mr Yarde









Mrs Russell

Marden High School Newsletter February 2020


Reading List

Here are some suggestions of books you might want to r ead over year 7.

(You should be tr ying to r ead at least one of these per half-term)

Reading List



- The Adventures of Sher lock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

- The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins- After the Fir st Death - Robert Cormier - The Univer se Versus Alex Woods - Gavin

Extance- The Enemy - Charlie Higson- Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce- Car r ie?s War - Nina Bawden- The Foreshadow ing - Marcus Sedgewick- The Nor thern Lights ser ies - Philip

Pullman- Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman- Treasure Island - R.L Stevenson- Mar tyn Pig - Kevin Brooks- The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman- Small Steps - Louis Sachar- A Chi ld Called ?It? - Dave Pelzer- The Woman in Black - Susan Hill

Want a challenge?

- The Cur ious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

- Li fe of Pi - Yann Martel- The Help - Kathryn Stockett- Animal Farm - George Orwell - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- Lord of the Fl ies - William Golding

- The Enemy - Charlie Higson- Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce- Wonder - R.J Palacio- Treasure Island - R.L Stevenson- The Adventure Ser ies Lee Tony- The Adventure of Huckleber r y Finn

- Mark Twain- Bl i tzcat - Robert Westall- Holes - Louis Sachar- Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz- The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien- Madame Doubtf i r e - Anne Fine- The Edge - Alan Gibbons- Mi l l ions - Frank Cottrell Boyce- The Secret Diar y of Adr ian Mole -

Sue Townsend

Want a challenge?

- War Horse - Michael Morpurgo- Great Expectations - Charles

Dickens- The Lord of the Rings Tr i logy - JRR

Tolkien- The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak- The Adventures of Sher lock Holmes

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Marden High School Newsletter February 2020


Reading List



Reading List

Here are some suggestions of books you might want to r ead over year 10 & 11.


Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Cur ious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Absolutely True Diar y of a Par t-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Lord of the Fl ies - William Golding

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Angel Blood John Singleton

Tip! Try to get into the habit of reading newspapers too! This will help for your English exam.

Want a challenge?

Wuther ing Heights - Emily Bronte

Junk - Melvin Burgess

1984 - George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

The War of the Wor lds - H.G. Wells

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

A Room w ith a View - E.M. Forster

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Br ighton Rock - Graham Greene

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Cur ious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

David Copper f ield - Charles Dickens

East of Eden -John Steinbeck

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

I Know Why the Caged Bir d Sings - Maya Angelou

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

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