Following the fantastic Hexham Book Festival events for Year 5 and Year 6 recently, the new books by The Brothers McLeod and Zohra Nabi were put on display in HMS Library on Monday night. By Tuesday lunchtime, all had been borrowed and the shelves were empty. Just look at these ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures! We have a new set of
Tweed have the most P-points this half term and will have their House Prize on Friday 11th April – early lunch for everyone in the House 🙂 Well done, everyone! #Respect #Engage #Aspire
Last week in our Year 6 Rising Stars assembly, we were joined by Miss Storey, who delivered a fascinating session on memory, retention, and brain training. She explained how our brains use short-term and long-term memory and how we can strengthen both through practice. Pupils were challenged with some fun brain teasers to test their memory skills and learn new
A huge thank you and well done to our Sports Leaders who were excellent this morning in leading the tag rugby festival for Y2-4 pupils at Sele and Whitley Chapel First Schools. They were a real credit to HMS! Well done, team! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
Well done to our Year 8 rugby team who competed in the County Sevens competition at Percy Park yesterday. Against some tough opposition, our boys played some outstanding rugby. They scored a total of 16 tries across four games, beating Longridge Towers and being narrowly defeated by Dame Allen’s, Corbridge and Ponteland. The boys have improved so much this season
Our Summer Term extra-curricular programme is now available. Some after-school clubs require new sign-ups via MCAS – bookings will open at 12.30pm on Monday. Please try to encourage your child to get involved as much as possible. Huge thanks to Team HMS for an amazing offer once again! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
Woodhorn Museum Visit Mr Johnson planned two great trips to Woodhorn Museum this week. The whole of Year 8 has had the opportunity to explore the museum as part of their history curriculum. It’s always an important and very informative visit that helps to bring the curriculum to life for the pupils in the year group. During the visit, pupils
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Outspoken Training have been in school this week delivering Bikeability Level 1 and 2 training courses for a group of 28 Year 5 pupils. The groups have been working on the school site, as well as going out and about in the community to develop their cycling proficiency. This is always such an important course for our pupils, and we
The Young Green Briton Challenge continued this week with our qualifying teams visiting Hexham Abbey for the regional finals today. Once again, teams from HMS, CMS and SJMS presented their wonderful and creative enterprising ideas – we were very proud of our pupils. We are delighted to announce that our team – The Back of the Wardrobe Bin – have