@CandiceBrown
is giving free packed lunches to those children of families who need any extra support over half term. Please contact the Green Man Pub, Eversholt, from Monday 26th October to Sunday the 1st November on 01525 288111
Our children were delighted today to welcome
@alistrathern
&
@bphillipsonMP
to talk about democracy & the upcoming election. The school council were terrific and the children coped brilliantly with
@itvnews
cameras and all the media. Watch the news! We are famous!
Our Employee of the Month for March is Miss Burnham. We are sorry Miss Burnham is leaving us today but we are delighted that she will still be working closely with us as she begins her new role
@WoottonUpper
. We are hugely grateful for all that she has done and wish her well.
We lost the last 4 of the historic Stewartby brickwork chimneys today.
The iconic chimneys have graced the Stewartby skyline for decades.
Many of our pupils and their families came to watch the demolition.
@MioduckiMarcin
captured the last few moments perfectly.
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Tate in 5E did "Brave the Shave" over the Christmas holidays
He has raised over £1000 in total for
@macmillancancer
Well done Tate and thank you for your kindness!
Congratulations to Michael Wilby for winning our February CLT Employee of the Month for Marston Vale.
He is an outstanding classroom practitioner who goes above & beyond for the pupils. His work with our SEND pupils and their families has been amazing!
#EmployeeAppreciationDay
Today officially marks 35 years since Mr Billington first joined Marston Vale Middle School. Yesterday we had the pleasure of celebrating with him and thanking him for his many years of dedicated service.
Thank you Mr B! You are an absolute legend.
We are so pleased to welcome so many families to our Open Evening tonight! Our students and staff are ready to showcase our fantastic school to the community!
We are so proud of our school!
Delighted to be joining
@BedfordTown
today for the New Year's Day game. Our pupils are mascots for the game, absolutely amazing experience representing Bedford Town FC!
Congratulations to Miss Ramsay who has been nominated as MVM’s employee of the month. Since joining the school Miss Ramsay has worked relentlessly to uphold high standards in KS3 and is having a really positive impact in school. Well done!
A massive thank you to Waitrose in Ampthill and our former colleague Sally, for a wonderful donation of £500 towards the development of our sensory room in school.
Fabulous Inset afternoon
@BoxEndPark
, our staff had a fun afternoon team building and problem solving.
Thank you to Mr Stewart for organising and to everyone for making it so much fun!
Roll on Monday!
A massive thank you to
@CandiceBrown
for her surprise visit to us today to speak with our year 7 Food option group to discuss all things baking and about her time on
#GBBO
.
Welcome back to our pupils, the school is in full flow. We have started the day with pastoral time and assemblies across year groups.
Looking forward to seeing our pupils Inspire, Achieve and Empower in their learning and extra curricular activities.
Good morning! A bright and early start at the recruitment fair
@ChilternA
@ChilternLT
Looking forward to seeing lots of people who are interested in working in our wonderful school.
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Fantastic finish to the week. Congratulations to our Year 6s for completing their SATS yesterday
We had celebrations with ice cream on a sunny Friday afternoon. ☀️
Thank you to everyone that has supported throughout the week and have a lovely weekend.
Our first whole school assembly of the year and Mrs Jennings was very proud to award house ties to our new pupil leaders - Head Boy and Head Girl, Deputy Head Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl and Head of Pupil Voice. Massive congratulations to our amazing role models.
Congratulations to Sallie McIntyre for winning the November CLT Employee of the Month for Marston Vale.
Sallie does a wonderful job at our school as the Office Manager. She supports our staff, pupils and parents fantastically and always goes above and beyond.
Well done Sallie!
Our Leadership team are delighted with the start made to the term. Brilliant engagement from pupils and parents. We are excited about the positive contribution our school community will make to Bedfordshire.
Miss Collin has been using cutting edge technology today to prepare for Marston Vale Middle School’s very first virtual open evening!
#inspire
#achieve
#empower
@ChilternLT
Fantastic seeing our Year 7s and 8s showing they are ready, respectful and responsible in the morning line up.
@AJRAllModCons
our CEO visited this morning to see how our pupils begin the day.
Also, a visit from
@MrJSearleCS
and Simon talking all things CPD
Our pupils and parents joined us for our first visit to
@BedfordTown
.
Great atmosphere and community environment around the whole ground.
Our pupils were mascots for the day, a wonderful opportunity for them and we're looking forward to many more visits to The Eyrie.
🦅🖤❤️🦅
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
We have some fantastic vacancies, this is an amazing opportunity to be part of our very supportive trust and work alongside some wonderful students and staff📚🎓
We have joined thousands of schools today by taking part in
#HelloYellow
and raising vital funds to support the work of
@YoungMindsUK
.
Thank you to pupils and staff at our school for supporting this important cause and making it an extra happy Friday!
What a lovely end to a fantastic day. Thank you
@BedfordTown
for the donation - we can’t wait to put it on display. A huge thank you to Jane who made our visit so special!
#mvm
MVMS welcomed staff back into the building today.
Insightful CPD day with a variety of focusses, however everyone particularly enjoyed Mr Stewart's ice breaker - who can make the tallest building from newspaper and sellotape. Catch was, it had to hold the weight of a Twix bar!
Our Pastoral team and form tutors met today. We are lucky to have such a great team of form tutors with the excellent support and leadership from our Year leaders and Keys stage leads.
Great start and looking forward to the return of our inspirational pupils!
An amazing few weeks of giving, with our pupils donating:
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Delivered today to
@bedfordfoodbank
by our wonderful Head Boy and Girl, accompanied by
@Thealiallen
who is always there to support our school community!
"Your greatness is measured by your kindness."
Molly and Holly, presented on 'Young Carers' to the secondary trainees
@CTGtraining
on Friday. Miss A said you were FANTASTIC and really inspiring. You really are a credit to your families and we couldn't be prouder of you.
#inspire
#achieve
#empower
#youngcarer
Our school, staff and pupil leadership team welcomed our parents to MVMS for our pastoral parents evening. Great seeing our parents in school and talking all things Inspire, Achieve and Empower!
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Leavers assemblies and lots of goodbyes at Marston Vale Middle School, good luck to our Year 8s on their next journey!
Have a great break everyone!
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Fantastic Disco night today, with almost 400 pupils in attendance, Thank you to our pupils, staff and parents for supporting such a wonderful evening.
In the run up to the new year, thank you to all our pupils, parents, staff and governors for making MVMS the amazing school and community it is!
Inspire, Achieve, Empower!
❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️
A wonderfully sunny start for our first day of the year. Lovely to see our pupils this morning having such a positive start to the term.
@ChilternLT
@Miss_A_Burnham
@LucyDummett
I hear
@boxinsaveslives
will be joining us soon at the Vale, grassroots organisation built by the community for the community!
We cant wait, getting the boxing gloves ready JP 🥊🥊🥊
Wow!!! Today we raised £1572.74 at our Summer Fayre! Thank you to Miss Cooper and all the pupils, parents and staff that supported this event. All money raised is going into our playground fund. Please enjoy the pictures.
#empower
#inspire
#achieve
Thank you to all of our pupils who have made such a fantastic effort with their learning this week. You really are making your teachers very proud of you. Many thanks to all the parents for all your support too. Keep up the good work - not long until the Easter holidays!
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A huge congratulations to our year 7️⃣ and 8️⃣ boys and girls football teams for coming 1st (boys) and 2nd (girls) in the
@ChilternLT
football competition, held
@KAKempston
Lovely to be back after a restful Easter break.
We had an inspirational training day covering a variety of topics.
Welcome to Angus Stewart who has joined us as our new Assistant Head Teacher. He delivered an insightful session on Stretch & Challenge.
WOW! Over 200 families joined our live webinar this evening. Some great questions and super feedback already! Remember you can come back and visit the site at any time via our website.
Today 140 lovely year 4 pupils have received their place at Marston for September. Admissions have shot up with our increased popularity! We have a handful of places available as we will add an extra class. Email smcintyre
@marstonvalemiddle
.co.uk for a chat about a place.
We are so proud of Catherine and Lucy for earning the honour of being the Chiltern Learning Trust employees of the month! They have both done so much hard work for our school and we are truly grateful, well done!
Huge congratulations to our Year 8 pupil Lyla who has been selected to represent Bedfordshire & Luton Schools at the English Schools Cross Country Championships on Saturday 14th March at Sefton Park, Liverpool.
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Jubilee day was fabulous today at MVMS. We had a wonderful visit from the
@HighSheriff2022
We visited the jubilee activities around the school and planted our 🌳
📢Announcement📢
We are delighted to present our new Student Leaders. Thank you to
@HighSheriffEM
who announced the elected leaders to the whole school.
🔵Head Girl: Martha Sogga
🟢Head Boy: Finn Whiley
🟡Deputy Head Girl: Sienna Potts
🟡Deputy Head Boy: Nikolas Wojcik
Thank you to the lovely
@mrRteaching
for his kind gift. It was great to share these with staff on our training day today. Such a wonderful gesture. Look forward to seeing you at some point soon.
Everyone at Marston Vale Middle School is extremely proud of Ella in 5C for her incredible act of kindness. Ella had 16 inches of her hair cut off to raise money for charity. Well done, Ella! You are an inspiration to us all.
Welcome to our new Yr 5️⃣. We are excited for this wonderful year group to be joining us.
@VickiCollin
and the team have had an inspirational morning with our pupils.
@lucycthompson_
and her Yr 6️⃣ team have delivered assemblies and have had a fantastic start to the week.
Looking forward to 1st October where our Marston Vale Middle pupils will be joining
@BedfordTown
as mascots for the day. The letters are out, can't wait to to spend the day at The Eyrie!
🍰Macmillan Coffee Morning🍰
We had a wonderful morning with our parents and pupils.
Thank you to our whole community for supporting the event and this worthwhile cause
@macmillancancer
Our Pupil Leadership team were amazing today, supporting and managing the morning!
Our Keys stage 2 team put together a fabulous day, thank you to
@VickiCollin
and
@LucyCThompson_
for such a great event and most of all our pupils and families for supporting with baking and coming to school on the day.
Insightful CPD session delivered today by Mrs Guiney, based on whole class provision (reasonable adjustments) that benefit all learners. Lots of takeaways for our staff to use with our inspirational learners.
Our careers fayre is in full swing and our pupils are asking our visitors some great questions. A massive thank you to Miss Ramsay for organising this and to all of our wonderful volunteers who made today possible
#inspire
#achieve
#empower
Mrs Jennings would like to wish all of our pupils, families and staff a very happy Easter. Thank you for all of your support and hope you have a safe, happy and healthy holiday.
@ChilternLT
#BuddylovesEaster
Well done to our Key stage 3 team for such an amazing coffee morning. Thank you Miss Ramsey and Miss Kinnear for organising the day, thank you to our pupils and parents for supporting, baking and donating generously!
Mrs Jennings is grateful for the peace and quiet this morning as Buddy is reading his favourite books. He has plenty to read at the minute but is happy that
@AccReader
are giving all pupils free access to over 6,000 online books. More details to be sent by Parentmail today.
☀️Beautfiul day to welcome back our pupils☀️
We had our wonderful Year 5s join us and the return of our Years 6,7 and 8.
Lots of learning, energy and enjoyment.
Looking forward to the rest of the week with plenty more sunshine, learning and fun forecasted. ☀️✍️🎉
Great visit and walk around the school by
@AJRAllModCons
and
@julian_axford
today.
Lovely to have our CEO and Director of School Improvement visiting regularly and meeting our staff and pupils.
Big thank you to
@BedfordTown
, our pupils, parents and Mr Harpin for a brilliant afternoon. Highlights of the day were joining the players for the team talk and walking onto the pitch with the team! 🦅
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Great finish to the term with rewards and celebrations.
Activities across the school including games, football, drama and many more!
Mr Mahmood joined the pupils on the C16 today to finish a great day and half term 🚌
Thank you to everyone in the MVMS community!
Exciting times for Bedford! 👏 Great turnout of Bedford Headteachers at the Universal UK Project presentation yesterday! The park is set to potentially open by 2030.
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