Head Teacher Message Archives - Page 2 of 33

Dear Parents and Carers

In the background the School Rebuild Project is getting well underway. The first half of the project, estimated to last around four years or so, is all about what gets rebuilt, what gets refurbished and what is fine as it is. We then move onto designs and appointing a contractor before any work starts on site after about two years or so. The build, I’m told, is the relatively quick and easy bit, it’s all the work leading up to it which takes the time.

The focus at the moment is a document called the School Specific Brief. This is something we are spending time over as it captures the way Myton School wants to work e.g. what values we work to, what our priorities are, how our curriculum works etc. This then all informs the designs of the new school so that it matches our needs – as I’ve mentioned before, the way this was explained to me is that the amount of Lego we get is set based on student numbers and curriculum but we can influence how that Lego is arranged a great deal through this document.

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to everyone who braved the rain last night to join us for our Open Evening. The awful weather didn’t dampen our spirits and it was a fantastic evening. We were proud to showcase our new modular buildings, home to our Art, Languages, Maths, Music and Photography departments and our new Sixth Form Centre. There were activities going on all over the school in all departments: VR sets in ICT, heart dissection in Science, giant Scrabble in English and many more. A big thank you to all our students who volunteered as tour guides for the evening, to our staff and to all our visitors. Below are just a few of the photos from last night.

Best wishes

Andy Perry

Dear Parents and Carers

Week three and activities, sporting fixtures, trips and clubs are now in full swing. There are a great host of clubs for students to choose from, varying from sports and music clubs to debating, creative writing and a game creation club.

Rehearsals are also now underway for our next school performance, Little Shop of Horrors. Well done to the selected cast. The performance will take place at the end of January, with tickets on sale in December.

Please encourage your children to take part in the wealth of extra-curricular activities they have available to them.

A reminder that Thursday next week is a teacher training day, with our Open Evening taking place in the evening.

Best wishes

Andy Perry

Dear Parents and Carers

We are all settling in after our first full week back. And we are learning our way around all of the great new spaces we have. The modular buildings are now as they should be – full of kids and learning.

We are looking forward to showing off our new buildings, and the rest of our school, to prospective parents and students on our Open Evening, which takes place Thursday 26 September, 5pm to 8pm. There will be lots going on; every department will be demonstrating their subjects and some of our current students will be there to show people around the school and answer questions. Plus, I’ll be giving three talks throughout the evening so you’ll have the opportunity to hear why I’m so proud of this school, it’s students, staff and community.

Please do pass on details of our open evening to anyone you know who may be thinking about Myton School for their child next year.

Best wishes

Andy Perry

Dear Parents and Carers

A warm welcome to all our students and staff, and a particular welcome to all our new Year 7 and 12 students, those joining us in a handful of other years, and our new staff. You’ve all joined a great school, with fantastic kids, staff and parents in a wonderful community. You’ve also joined a school where we are enjoying having space after the cramped situation last year. Now that we have our new buildings, our Sixth Form block and all our yards back it all feels very spacious around the place. Because of last year, our site is somewhat spread out and will remain so for the next few years as the rebuild happens, your kids will certainly get their step count up. My new vow of walking every corridor every day may need reconsidering, I ended yesterday needing a lie down, suspecting collapsed insteps and demanding a monorail from anyone unfortunate enough to be near my office. Maths and Science may well be in different postcodes now, which socially won’t make a difference (these faculties avoid small talk amongst themselves let alone with each other) but will demand some commitment from kids to get to class on time. Fortunately we do have 5 minute lesson change time which should just about suffice, no excuses!

It has been lovely to see everyone come back this week and it has been a joy to have our site back, to have all our buildings to ourselves and to start the year in such a positive way.

Best wishes

Andy Perry

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to all the students and parents who joined us for our celebration evening last night along with our guest of honour Karenjeet Kaur Bains (ex Myton multi award winning powerlifter and currently Athena in the Gladiators). It was wonderful to celebrate the achievements of our students and we will look forward to more of these events next year, your kids achieve wonderful things and we want to celebrate this with you.

As it’s the final weekly of the year, I’d like to bid a fond farewell to the staff moving on to new things next year. Among colleagues leaving are Emma Clark, Head of Psychology who has been at Myton for 23 years and Jan Bishop, my PA, who has had to put up with me for 7 ½ years demonstrating saint-like patience. I wish these colleagues and all others who are moving on very best wishes in whatever comes next.

Dear Parents and Carers

This has been a busy week in school.

Wednesday evening was our Year 11 prom. It was great to see the students again, they looked amazing and were good company. Prom is always a special event and this year was no exception, with the evening being topped off by the England win (we had a screen set up in the corner so we didn’t miss out!).

Going full circle, we also welcomed our next cohort of Year 7s this week as part of their transition to secondary school. They experienced some taster lessons as well as getting to know their form tutors and asking questions about starting at Myton. We look forward to seeing them all in September.

Dear Parents and Carers

It’s been Bushcraft this week, a trip for over 100 Year 7s to live rough in the woods. I visited them on Tuesday to see how they were getting on and disappointingly it was all rather civilised, I had half expected to find them roaming through the woods, hunting and gathering and living wild. As it happened, they were eating a breakfast of sausages, fried potato and beans, along with cornflakes, before heading off to activities. I enjoyed the axe throwing (so much harder than I thought it would be) and the archery before heading back to camp for pizzas cooked on site in their pizza ovens.

Dear Parents and Carers

On Wednesday, a group of our students took part in the Stowe Valley Multi-Academy Trust Arts Festival at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. As we look to join this MAT, opportunities for students from across all the schools in the MAT to work together become more frequent. I was delighted to see our students perform among the already established schools, putting on a stunning display consisting of two amazing solo songs and a small group of actors, singers and dancers. Myton opened the show and really pitched it brilliantly with lots of energy.

Dear Parents and Carers

A tough week with the passing of Lianne Abbott on Monday. As you’d hope for in a school, everyone has come together to look out for each other, and we’ve had some lovely comments from parents reflecting on their own shock and sadness but also saying what a difference Lianne made to their child. Lianne arrived at Myton in 2022 and prior to that had spent nine years at Henley School where she is well known and loved, and we’ve been in touch with them also.