KS2 Girls’ Football

On a very wet and cold night, girls’ football returned to Hexham once again. The Hexham Year 6 girls (accompanied by Meike O and Elise C from Year 5) made their way up to the 3G pitch. Despite the weather, the girls made an excellent start, beating Ovingham 1-0. Despite their excellent teamwork and skill, Highfield presented a tough challenge

Shakespeare

We have used drama to explore Shakespeare this week. Year 8 Enacting Brutus’ war with his conscience after getting involved in the plot to kill Caesar. Year 7 acting out the death of Mercutio and Prince Tybalt from Romeo & Juliet. #Respect #Engage #Aspire

HMS Library Champions’ ‘Must Reads’

Clara H in Y7 has written no. 7 of our series of book reviews by our fantastic ‘Library Champions’. A copy of the book is available in the HMS Library for borrowing. Please note that this book is for KS3 only. Many thanks to Clara for her recommendation! Happy reading everyone! #Respect #Engage #Aspire

Futbol Lingo Trip

Futbol Lingo Trip to Northumbria University Some Y8 pupils are busy learning more about the importance of languages in football this morning. #Respect #Engage #Aspire

British Science Week

Yesterday, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 received a lecture from Colin Addy – a STEM ambassador. Colin gave an insight into the history of the world land speed records, as an introduction to this year’s HMS British Science Week project – designing and building a Balloon Car Racer! #Respect #Engage #Aspire

Red Nose Day Fundraising

HMS will be raising funds for this year’s Red Nose Day on Friday 15th March.  The team have planned a great range of fun activities for the day and all pupils can get involved, have a laugh and raise funds to support the charities. Activities will be held at lunchtime. Pupils should wear their normal school uniform but we are inviting

Respect Engage Aspire Awards

Each week, our form tutors award pupils in their classes with our ‘REA Awards’. The awards recognise pupils who shine each week and who bring our HMS values to life.  Well done to this week’s winners – we are very proud of you! #Respect #Engage #Aspire 

World Book Day

World Book Day was a great success once again. Everyone enjoyed our ‘Masked Reader’ film during form time and identified the staff members reading behind a range of disguises! All children got a special gift bag with a ‘book and a brew’ to enjoy at home – huge thanks to our PTA and Mrs Crosby for their support. The ‘Big

Theatre Visit

A group of Year 6 pupils enjoyed a visit to Sunderland Empire yesterday for a performance of the West End show, Aladdin. The show was an amazing production and we were all blown away by the talented singers, dancers, actors and musicians. I think the Genie was a particular favourite…Going to live theatre is such an inspiring and uplifting experience

Mask Making for Romeo and Juliette

Some photos of the beautiful masks made by Year 7 as part of their study of Romeo & Juliette The pupils studied the gender expectations of men and women in Elizabethan times and then made a mask that represented a gender. They wore these for a drama lesson exploring how they might change behaviour. #Respect #Engage #Aspire