Archive for the 'School News' Category

Athletics Competition

Congratulations to our children for representing Marton in the Blackpool School’s Athletics competition held at Stanley Park last Friday: The children competed against 10 other teams in a variety of field and track events.  I am delighted to announce that despite tough opposition the children were awarded 3rd place overall.  The children showed great sportsmanship and [...]

Another sporting success – Swimming!

Congratulations to our Swimming Team on their magnificent performance yesterday at the Champion Swimming Gala at Palatine Leisure Centre.  I am thrilled to announce that not only did several children win medals for their individual events but the Marton team won the gala!  The children showed excellent sportsmanship throughout the competition and as always, were [...]

Cheerleading

Well done to Tia, Ellie, Chloe, Natasha, Lexus, Keera and Emma for representing our school at the Cheer Leading Festival held at Montgomery High School last Thursday. The girls produced a fantastic routine.  

Netball Champions!

Congratulations to our Netball team, who were crowned as the Blackpool Champions in the nail biting tournament played at Stanley Park last Friday.   Our team won the first game against Revoe 4 – 0.  They then played Thames and beat them 6 – 0.  The match against Roseacre was next and proved to be [...]

RagBag – Clothing Collections

A very big thank you to everyone who has helped the school to collect unwanted clothing. In our latest collection, we’ve raised a £223.50 making the running total a magnificent £767.00.    All the money raised is used to purchase resources for the children to use, so please continue to bring in your unwanted clothing [...]

Young Seasiders Art Competition

Congratulations to the following children for producing some fabulous art work for Marton’s entry into the Young Seasiders Art Competition: Ellie Craig, Leah Raftery, Aaron Hilton, Chloe-Leigh Patterson, Levi Walsh, Megan Parker, Kyle Martin-Heys, Danielle Whipp, Kiegan Biggs, Cally Bywater, Jake Hemmings, Max Latimer, Kia Williams, Kieron Guest, Carmen Heron, Amalia Golam, Steven Dickson, Kyle [...]

FREE Climbing Sessions

A fantastic, fully supervised 7 metre high mobile climbing tower is available FREE for weekly sessions at the following locations across Blackpool:   Every Friday from 16th March 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Cherwell Centre, Grange Park for 6 weeks; Every Saturday from 17th March 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Highfield Humanities College, Highfield [...]

The Big Cookathon

A huge thank you to everyone who supported our children in The Big Cookathon.   It was wonderful to see so many parents and grandparents joining classes to make delicious ‘Cheesy Veggie Crumble’. This, together with other tasty recipes, can be found in the resources section on the Let’s Get Cooking website at www.letsgetcooking.org.uk. I [...]

Congratulations to Our Book Week Stars!

As part of our Book Week, each phase held a special competition to celebrate reading. The standard of entries was incredibly high and it was a very difficult task choosing an overall winner for each phase. I am sure you will all join me in congratulating the following children who were awarded 1st prize for [...]

Book Week Celebrations

Children throughout the school thoroughly enjoyed all the exciting events and activities to celebrate Marton’s Book Week. Foundation Stage: The children really enjoyed all the fun and exciting activities around the fairy tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’, including role play, story writing, building the Little Pigs’ houses and huffing and puffing to blow them [...]