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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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Dear Parents and Carers

I hope you are enjoying the sophisticated level of debate on our screens as this General Election campaign passes its midpoint. As party leaders, Ministers, Shadow Ministers and others all shout and scream over each other, telling what everybody knows are bare faced lies and generally achieving a sophistication which never quite reaches a Wetherspoons on a Friday evening, I always think what a great example they are to us and especially our young.

Mind you, the younger voters need to also take a look at themselves. They like to complain a lot about everything but then, when there is an election and they can do something about it, less than half cast a vote. Is it any wonder that the main parties put out so few ideas to benefit younger people when they have largely disenfranchised themselves? If young people want change, then they must start voting in the same kind of numbers as the more elderly, who regularly have a turnout of 85-90%. Once this happens, we may see some fresh thinking and far better representation. We have been pushing this with our Year 13 students, telling them both how to register and what voter ID they will need. I hope they listen and that we can buck the trend around our communities.

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Dear Parents and Carers

Yesterday we said an official goodbye to our Year 11 students (although they will be returning for their remaining exams). This year group had just started in Year 7 when the first round of Covid struck, and so had an unusual (to say the least) start to their secondary school experience. They’ve also been here through some of our other challenges over the years (cyber-attack and RAAC to mention a couple). They have navigated their school years with maturity and resilience, skills which I’m sure will serve them well in the future. I know Mrs Bird is extremely proud of them all (as we all are), and they will be missed. We wish them the best of luck with the rest of their exams and look forward to seeing them on their results day in August.

Best wishes

Andy Perry

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Dear Parents and Carers

Hmmm, what to write about this week…….? Let me start with the students. I have said a lot about how impressed we were with their conduct on Monday but wanted to stress this again. This really isn’t a line just to make people feel better, they really were fantastic. It’s the first time they were evacuated without it being a drill, a malfunction, burnt toast etc. So maybe it was the look on staff faces (they know we wouldn’t evacuate in an exam unless there was a really good reason) or the sight of the Year 11s and 13s being evacuated onto the field separately and in exam conditions, whatever it was they stepped up and were absolute perfection in that process. And as for our Year 11s and 13s in the exam, they were sat on the field in exam conditions for a long time before we had to abandon the end of their exams and they could then talk. In these circumstances responsible conduct keeps everybody safe, it’s not just about the individual – brilliant job by all.

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Dear Parents and Carers

Following on from my message last week, I am extremely pleased to advise that three of our students were elected on Saturday to serve on the Warwick Youth Council. Sabrina in Year 11 has been elected as Chair, Caterina in Year 11 will serve as Creative & Projects Officer, and Freya in Year 10 as Campaigns & Fundraising Officer. They will represent young people in Warwick, working on issues that affect them such as Mental Health & Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion and Environment & Sustainability. In July, together with the other elected members, they will visit London for a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament. Thank you to Matt Western’s office for facilitating this exciting trip, which I’m sure is only one of the many experiences they will have during their time in office. Well done to them all, this is an outstanding achievement, and I look forward to seeing how their political futures progress!

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Dear Parents and Carers

Following on from our recent local elections (I hope that unlike Boris you all remembered to take your photo ID) I’d like to remind students that the Warwick Youth Council elections take place tomorrow. The Youth Council represent young people in the area, giving them an effective voice in all matters that affect them, now and in the future. It’s a forum to bring about social change to create a better Warwickshire for young people. This is the opportunity for children aged 13 to 18 to have their say on who runs their Youth Council – who they want to represent them, their issues and views. It’s a big deal, and I really hope lots of our students turn up to use their vote.

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