A Murder Mystery Evening Come and enjoy the staff's dreadful acting ability!
Friday 5 March 2010 - 7.00 pm
West Wing Hall, Malton School
Tickets available from West Wing Reception
Adult £4.00 - Concessions £2.00 - Family £10.00
(All donations to Malton School PTA)
Sports Hall Update
Work has begun at last! After all the years of campaigning, followed by vigorous work to satisfy all planning conditions over the last few months, the bulldozers and diggers finally moved on site over half term, and work has commenced on the access to the Sports Centre development on our school fields.
An artist's impression of the new sports hall,
as seen from Broughton Road
New Applied Learning Centre
We received good news that County Hall have confirmed £500,000 funding for an applied learning centre at the end of West Wing, to house courses in Construction, Engineering, Environment and Land Based Studies, Travel and Tourism and Motor Vehicle Technology.
An artist's impression of the new learning centre
Noughties Night
Tuesday and Wednesday, 30 and 31 March 2010
7.00 p.m. - West Wing Hall
Following the successful end of term Easter shows in the last nine years:
60's Night (2001) - 70's Night (2002)
A Night at the Movies (2003)
80's Night (2004) - 50's Night (2005) - 90's Night (2006)
Colour of Music (2007) - Beatles Night (2008)
A Night on Broadway (2009)
We invite you to enjoy a collection of music, song, dance, comedy and fashion, from 2000-2009
Tickets £4 (£2 concessions). Licensed bar.
Make a note in your diary and book early – these shows have sold out for the last nine years.
Home Access Programme
Get on in School
Get online in School
Home Access is a government drive which will help low-income families to get access to a computer and the internet to get online at home.
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you could qualify for a grant to buy a computer and/or a minimum of one years' internet access. The programme is aimed at those that need it most and targets families that do not have access to a computer or the internet at home.
Depending on what you need, the grant allows eligible applicants to buy one of the following packages:
Full package (a computer, one year's internet access, service and support)
A computer with service and support only
One year's internet access only
If you are a parent and think you are eligible for a Home Access grant, go to the HOME ACCESS website at http://www.homeaccess.org.uk for more information.
Staff News
Congratulations to our sports coordinator Miss Goldsmith on her winter wedding - she is now Mrs Miller. Welcome to Mrs Dale, covering Mrs Hopkin’s maternity leave this term. Mr Josh Riley has been appointed as an ICT Apprentice and will be taking up his post shortly.
Friends of Malton School
We set up Friends of Malton School last year, as a straightforward means to allow former students and staff, well wishers and supporters of the School to make an annual donation, providing additional funding in order that we can continue to enhance the life of current school students, and preserve the history of former students.
A separate Friends newsletter was published and sent out in January, detailing what had been achieved with the money donated so far. If you would like a copy please ask, or read it on our website at: www.maltonschool.org.
A number of donations for 2010 have already been received. If you would like to make a donation, details are on the website (Maltonians section), or contact us at school.
We have recently upgraded our printing facilities, allowing us to bring a little more colour to our news pages. In particular this will allow us to share some of the many pictures we take relating to school life.
A group enjoying 'Pink Friday'
last term, fundraising for a
Breast Cancer charity.
We hope to share more photos
with readers in future newsletters
We hope that readers will enjoy seeing photos in these pages. We try always to act responsibly in using photos, and are mindful of requests by some parents or students not to have photographs used. We do not use named photos of current individual students on our website, and a similar policy will apply to photos used in our newsletters.
Primary students rehearsing in
the gym, in preparation for
an excellent performance
on the school stage
Primary Dance Festival
About 200 primary school students joined us for the day on Tuesday 9 February, as the culmination of a programme of dance coaching organised by our sports coordinator Mrs Miller. They did ballroom dancing in the gym, street dancing on the tennis courts, disco dancing in the hall, breathing exercises in the library, and by the afternoon were ready to put on a superb performance on the stage in front of a packed hall of Mums and Dads and other relatives. Malton School students also demonstrated some of their moves to finish off the show. Our thanks to everyone involved, in particular Anna Wragg and the Sports Partnership team.
2009 Exam Tables Published
Government performance tables for 2009 exams were published last month. We were delighted to see our sixth form once again the best in the County for non-selective schools and colleges. The average points score per student was 922.2 - a massive 183 points above the national average. To be the best performing school in the County for the third year in a row is excellent news, particularly as we have been able to maintain this high standard whilst increasing our numbers through our work in the Ryedale Area Sixth Form Partnership.
A level students celebrate on results day 2009
GCSE tables also show our best ever performance, with our Contextual Value Added measure* of 1015.3 rated as 'significantly positive' by DCSF, putting us in the top 23% of schools nationally. (* This indicates the improvement students make whilst in a school.)
GCSE students open their results
in August 2009
This is an appropriate point to mention that our very best students had even better results than reported in our September newsletter. This stems from us not counting two short course results (half a GCSE) in Religious Studies and Citizenship as adding up to a full GCSE. Thus Peter Grayson achieved a staggering 8 A* and 4 As, and Maddie Pitkin 5 A* and 5 As - one more A* than we reported. In the top 5, Amy Szuman and Charlotte Green should also have been credited with an additional A grade. Most other students in school achieved an additional grade in this way. Apologies and well done to all of them.
Sixth Form Enrichment Concert - Wednesday 10 February
Sixth Form students have an 'enrichment' afternoon every Wednesday, on which they choose from a range of non-academic pursuits. One group has been working on music and drama, and their efforts culminated in an excellent evening concert just before the half term break. Songs from Bryony Gillespie, Lauren Barker, Paige Platt, Ruth Ibbotson, Matthew Eldridge-Smith, Vicky Minister, Philippa Adderley and Ellen Bentley delighted an invited audience of friends, family and school staff.
A duet from
the show
Instrumental support came for Harry Wright, Matthew Lawson, Hermione Crawford, Zak and Aaron Chamberlain, and Dily Atkinson. Some of the songs were composed by Ruth and Bryony, others selected by the performers from a wide range of genres. A hard-hitting drama, Too Much Punch for Judy, was movingly performed by Grace Wood-Lofthouse, Antonia Clark, Matthew Eldridge Smith, James Stansfield, Dily Atkinson and Stewart Cambridge. Stewart also compèred the whole evening with wit and charm.
The group were very grateful to the teaching staff who helped them: Miss Campbell , Miss Langdale, and Mrs Kettlewell.
A thoroughly enjoyable evening, that hopefully will become an annual fixture in our increasingly busy calendar of musical and dramatic performances.
The triumphant Year 9 team
show their delight in winning the
local round of the tournament
Sports News
Malton School Rugby Success
The Year 9 Rugby team are in high spirits after a clean sweep in their Ryedale Area matches, beating teams from Lady Lumleys, Caedmon/Eskdale, Ryedale, and Fyling Hall. They now go through to the East Yorkshire finals on 4 March. A win there will put them through to national finals at Twickenham!
Romania Trip
Philippa Hammond and Joshua Garcia-Hall (Y11) have been selected to represent the school and district in a Sports Partnership Training Programme where they will be taking sports equipment to a school in Romania and training up the staff on ways to us it as well as running play scheme activities. Philippa and Joshua will be organising fund raising events - the more money raised, the more equipment they can take out to support the young people in rural Romania.
Netball
Year 8 netballers are still unbeaten in 8 matches and are looking forward to their semi-final in the Scarborough & District Knock-Out Cup in March.
Congratulations to the Year 10 netball team, which reached the semi-finals of the district cup.
A group visited Nottingham arena with Mrs Miller to watch the national netball championships.
Clubs
A new girls' Hockey Club has been established by Mrs Dale, which is running every Tuesday after school.
Football
There is a busy half term due, with Years 7-11 still to play the quarter finals of the district cup and all years still to play 3 league games. Congratulations to Callum Smith who is representing the district team for the second year running.
Events Round-up
January
Sorry we could not quite stay open at the beginning of term - we managed four of the five days when heavy snow was with us, but Friday (8 January) was so severe that buses were not running and roads were too challenging. Roll on spring!
Parents of students in Years 7, 8 and 9 attended the second of our annual Review Days, to review progress.
A high attendance was recorded at our Sixth Form Open Evening, and at our Year 9 Options Fair. Decisions should now be made, and applications are being processed.
Religious Studies students visited Bradford to look at comparative religions.
February
A cake sale was organised to raise money in aid of the Haiti earthquake victims.
Year 12 students following the A level English course enjoyed a two-day trip to London to visit, amongst other things, the Globe Theatre.
14 music students from Year 10 - 12 depart to Sweden on the return part of our music exchange.
Roxanna Khan-Williams, Kate Ferguson and Ben Stubbings took part in the English Speaking Union debate in Doncaster. We have also had teams in the Rotary Youth Speaks competition recently.
