Strong, effective and independent careers advice and guidance is a vital part of our curriculum offer. We seek to benchmark our provision against the Gatsby standards. You can find out more about our careers programme here. However, a brief overview of careers curriculum can be found below.

The promotion of personal skills and character attributes is a hugely important part of our curriculum. The curriculum seeks to provide a significant range of opportunities to allow each student to find success.  Each leaver will have developed a broad portfolio evidencing skill and character development to sit alongside their qualifications, enhancing their future prospects.

Our community is built upon mutual care and respect. Our curriculum promotes these attitudes throughout its delivery of character education attributes and raising awareness of Protected Characteristics and British Values (Respect & Tolerance; Democracy; Rule of Law; Individual Liberty) through our tutor time programme and assemblies.

Our RSHCE policy (Relationship, Sex, Health and Citizenship Education) has been developed in consultation with parents, Governors and staff.  We have mapped the statutory requirements across the whole school and these components are delivered from Y7 – Y11 as timetabled lessons incorporating Citizenship. This continues at KS5 where all students have a weekly “tutor period” – a combination of assemblies and tutor delivery. We have a trained team of teachers delivering this critically important aspect of personal development.

Equality and diversity: We recognise the importance of promoting a strong set of core values that include tolerance and respect, politeness, good manners, an industrious work ethic and a generosity of spirit that ensures a purposeful and inclusive learning environment. We wish to prepare all our students for their role as global citizens in a wider world and ensure that all characteristics are represented, appreciated and understood throughout our school. We are in the process of applying for the International School Foundation Award which highlights opportunities across the school where students have been able to gain an understanding of the wider world. We have also recently been awarded the Red Kite Equality & Diversity Award as a reflection of our commitment to inclusivity, equality and diversity in everything we do.

SMSC (Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural) The provision for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of students will be seen across the range of our school’s activities. We deliver an RE curriculum from Y7-Y11 to support our RSHCE scheme of learning which, along with our “personal development” offer for all students, and our focus on character education, is embedded in our school ethos. All students at Malton School study Religious Education (R.E.) and RSHCE as timetabled lessons. Students have two lessons per fortnight and currently at the end of Y10 all students are entered for the short course GCSE in R.E.

The school has a student council, that is led by the Director of Sixth Form (Mrs Cooper). There are representatives from each of the tutor groups and sixth form student leaders. In addition to this there is a “wellbeing” student group who meet every fortnight with the Assistant Head (Pastoral) to share student views, ideas and requests for support within our student body. The structure of the Student Council is as follows:

• KS5: Student President, Vice-President and 2 Senior Students (Chair and run the Student Council)
• KS4: Head Student, Deputy Head Student, and 2 Assistant Head Students
• KS3: Student Leader, Deputy Student Leader, and 2 Assistant Student Leaders

You can read more about our House System which is linked to student leadership here.

One feature of the school is the tremendous number and variety of school trips and residential study experiences that we offer. Over 50 trips and visits took place last year to a range of local, national and international destinations. These vary from subject specific field trips to outdoor pursuits, from team-building exercises to participation in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme. Equally we invite into school a wide range of external visitors and speakers to broaden students’ life experiences. All of these add real value to the whole school experience and our aim to develop fully rounded and active young citizens. In the 2023-24 academic year the following visits and events were available to students, we review our offer every year so some of these may be repeated and others may be reviewed in future years or replaced. As a very approximate guide the cost of a day trip would be up to around £50, a UK based residential could be somewhere between £100-500 depending on what is included, and residential trips abroad are often around £700 and above.