Personal Development

Shrek the Musical: Our Biggest Show Yet

We might be a specialist science school, but we also offer all our students as wide a range of opportunities and experiences as possible across all disciplines.  And so, after months of rehearsals on evenings, weekends and at lunchtimes, the musicians, cast and crew of Shrek The Musical took to...

Debating & Public Speaking Teams Reach the National Final of Three Separate Competitions

Students from Malton School have won through to the national finals of three separate and prestigious debating competitions to be held over the next three weeks. This coming weekend Iona Spence and Laura Mackay travel to Oxford for the Oxford Union Schools’ Debating Competition finals. This is the largest schools’ debating...

Volunteering in the Foothills of the Himalayas

One of our Sixth Form students, Olivia, spent her October half-term visiting Nepal with the charity Lincs2Nepal. The charity was founded in 2009 and since then has run numerous projects within the country, including children's homes, supporting a children's HIV centre as well as running a major disaster relief programme...

Drop Everything and Read

World Book Day, quite literally a day marked in over 100 countries world-wide, started in April 1995, and was first celebrated in the UK in 1997.  Created by UNESCO its aim is to be a celebration of books and reading and to encourage young people to discover a love of...

The ‘Ayes’ Have it!

Another group of Personal Development Activity students have also just triumphed.  This time it was a group of Debaters who took part in the English-Speaking Union Public Speaking Competition, the largest public speaking competition for Schools in England and Wales.  Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the contest attracts around...