We are very proud to be taking part in the Hexham Christmas Light Switch-On on Friday 22nd November. Please come along to support our pupils at the Sele Bandstand from 4.30pm. Rehearsals are sounding excellent! #Respect #Engage #Aspire
Wow – what a great community effort from everyone at HMS today! Each form class worked hard to prepare their own stall for our ‘Big Children in Need Fair’ and it was a HUGE success! School has been buzzing with excitement as we all worked together to raise funds for such a wide range of important charities. Well done everyone
As part of their gothic studies, Year 8 visited the Queen’s Hall for a performance of The Watch House yesterday. It was a fantastic afternoon and the pupils were very impressed with the adaptation of the class Robert Westall ghost story. Pupils engaged brilliantly and were a credit to the school once again. Thank you to the Queen’s Hall for
As we move into the winter months, we have two new indoor sports clubs starting next week. No need to sign up – pupils can just come along and have fun! KS3 Netball Club is also returning from Monday! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
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Our Chess Team had a very exciting evening at Bede Academy in Blyth as they took part in the first chess tournament of the year. It was a successful event and the team represented the school superbly! The team are so enthusiastic and highly-skilled and we can’t wait to see them going from strength to strength as the year goes
Over 150 HMS pupils visited Sunderland Empire to see a fantastic production of ‘War Horse’ yesterday. It was a powerful and moving show and everyone had a great afternoon. Year 7 study ‘War Horse’ as one of the texts in English lessons and this was a wonderful opportunity to enrich their learning. The pupils engaged well and enjoyed this experience!
This week, pupils travelled to Ovingham for the first round of the English Schools Cross Country. This is an individual event with the top 16 qualifying for the next round in January at Temple Park. We are delighted to say that we had fantastic results across both schools with 37 out of 50 students attending going through to the next
Look at what our latest space engineer and astronomer recruits have been up to… Thank you to Rosie from Kielder Observatory who helped to launch our first workshop this week. The way that she answered so many of the space-related questions that our pupils had on the live Teams call was brilliant. Pupils made exoplanet models in our first session.
