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Dear Parents and Carers

This week we’ve been speaking with many students about their future pathways. Sixth Form applications continue to rise, and Year 11s have been discussing their next steps and attending academic intervention with real commitment. Year 12 and 13 students have been working hard on their progress exams, creating a strong sense of aspiration across the school.

We have also been reviewing ongoing projects. Smartphone and screen use has once again been in the national news, and we have been considering our draft policy. The school rebuild project has moved into its initial design phase, and we look forward to sharing more soon.

Dear Parents and Carers

Happy New Year to you all and we hope you have had an enjoyable and restful break. We have started the Spring term as we mean to go on – with enthusiasm and purpose. This term is always a busy one, with Year 12 and 13 going straight into progress exams, and Year 11 students working to consolidate or improve on their mock results to achieve their best outcomes when the real exams come around. It’s also a short term, with only 10 more weeks of school before Easter so it’s important for our students to start off with the right attitude – ready to engage and work hard. Although Mr Perry remains absent from school, as Deputy Headteachers we continue to lead and manage the school effectively and it is very much business as usual.

To give all of our students in Years 7 to 11 a fresh start, we have archived all behaviour points from last term so they start with 0 to align with our recognition and reward targets. This gives each student an equal opportunity to reach for their potential at the start of this calendar year. Our students should be aiming for upwards of 30 merits a week – our Engaged merits will remain at +4 this half term as this is our Value focus for Spring.

Dear Parents and Carers

As we come to the end of the term, we would like to thank our whole school community — students, staff, parents, carers and governors — for your continued support and commitment.

The past few years have brought significant disruption, yet our community has remained strong. Guided by our shared values of community, aspiration, respect and engagement, we have continued to provide a high-quality education, achieve strong outcomes, and offer exceptional personal development opportunities for our students. This is a testament to the resilience, dedication and teamwork across our school.

Dear Parents and Carers

Our CARE value of being Community Minded can be seen demonstrated all over the school on a day by day basis, but it is particularly clear through the many events which raise money for charity. The Sixth Form Student Leadership team have held various events, including cake sales, pie-a-teacher events and face painting this term. Mr Griffin even shaved his hair off earlier in October! This week we have been raising money for Save the Children through our Christmas/Cosy Jumper day, and next week sees our famous staff panto ‘Peter Pan’ to raise money for Sarcoma UK. This is our charity for the year and was chosen to honour a former student Aaliyah Godfrey who lost her battle with the disease in 2024.

SMARTPHONE FREE CHILDHOOD

Dear Parents and Carers

We are committed to ensuring Myton students can enjoy a childhood free from the risks of smartphone use. Following on from the information evenings held earlier this term, we held the first of our smartphone parent consultation meetings this week. We shared the draft policy and discussed a wide range of questions about how to ensure this policy is implemented with full consideration of the community voice. Feedback from the session was that it was very informative and there is a sense of excitement about our smartphone free policy taking shape within the school community.

We currently have vacancies on Myton’s local governing board. Please see the letter below from our Chair of Governors, Mike Oldridge.

Dear Parents and Carers

We currently have vacancies on Myton’s local governing board and I am writing to invite applications.

Although we are now part of Stowe Valley Multi-Academy Trust, our local governing board still has an extremely important role in helping to shape the strategic direction of the school, and in promoting high standards of educational achievement. We need individuals with relevant knowledge and skills that they can bring to the board to help us carry out the role to the best of our ability.

Dear Parents and Carers

We are bringing back our PTA (previously called Friends of Myton School) and held our first PTA meeting this week. Thank you to all the parents/carers who attended (and to those who want to be involved but just couldn’t make the meeting). Things have got off to a very promising start with lots of fun ideas for future fundraising discussed. Everyone came with real enthusiasm and desire to make a difference, which was wonderful to see. If anyone would like to be involved in the PTA, please contact Mrs Bhatoe on [email protected]. In the meantime, keep a look out for further announcements from our exciting new PTA!

Best wishes

Andy Perry

We held our Remembrance Day event this week in memory of those who have been affected by war around the world. This has now become an established event in our school calendar, allowing students to demonstrate our school’s key CARE values of being Community Minded, Aspirational, Respectful and Engaged. Students gathered around the front of the school to hear readings, poems and to see some of our fantastic students from the Army, Airforce and Fire Service Cadets parade to place the wreath at our flagpole. It was an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices made by others that have resulted in the lives and freedoms we all now enjoy. Thank you to the cadets, and to our Student Leadership Team for their readings from the balcony. This year we were also lucky enough to welcome two veterans from our community to the event: Mark Warner (Royal Navy) and Scott Caswell (Army and Police). Our thanks to them both for attending and for taking the time to talk to our cadets about their careers and experiences.

Dear Parents and Carers

Myton’s second Young High Sheriff Award evening took place this week – a prestigious event bringing together the High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Mrs Karen Lynch MBE, the Mayor of Warwick Cllr Jackie D’Arcy, Cllr Cora-Laine Moynihan, members of the police and Myton staff to announce the results of our recent Young High Sheriff competition.

Congratulations to the winning candidate, Maya in Year 10, who will serve as Young High Sheriff for the day, shadowing the High Sheriff of Warwickshire in her duties on behalf of the King. Well done also to Neve and Anjie in Year 10 who were named as Under Sheriffs. This is a wonderful opportunity for all three students as they are given an insight into the High Sheriff’s work in the community and also have the chance to attend special events over the course of the academic year.

Thank you to all the students who entered the competition (they were all presented with a certificate from the High Sheriff). In doing so they demonstrated their interest and desire to make a difference in their community, one of our key CARE values.

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to all the parents who joined us Tuesday evening to discuss smartphone use. We had just shy of 400 people over the two sessions which is significantly higher than these sessions normally attract and this just goes to show how engaged Myton parents are – one of the many reasons I enjoy working here so much. Lots of questions after each talk both publicly and then more informally afterwards. It is important to hear what parents have to say about initiatives such as these so I’d also like to thank the parents who emailed in following these talks. I understand there was quite the debate on a local social media page (I’m afraid I didn’t see it as I don’t have any social media but my team gave me the highlights – I’m that old and out of touch to still think that discussions like these are why God gave us pubs ), it’s brilliant that it got people talking about smartphone use among young people. We have work to do and I’ll be in touch soon with next steps on our proposed policy.