To celebrate Lunar New Year, Mrs Satow and her team prepared a wonderful lunch for everyone to enjoy today. As millions of people around the world welcome the Year of the Snake, pupils at HMS enjoyed a delicious lunch today. Huge thanks to our catering team! 新年快乐 #Respect #Engage #Aspire
Year 8 enjoyed a performance from Theatre Space North East this morning focused on road safety. We always enjoy their workshops which deliver important messages as part of our ‘Stay Safe and Well Curriculum’. It is a timely performance as we have been issuing reminders to pupils in assemblies about road safety following some reports of concerning ‘near miss’ incidents
This week it is First Aid Week at HMS. This builds on our offer last year. Our programme this year will focus on Unconscious First Aid for our year 5s. Year 6 and 8 are going to engage with some Mental Health First Aid and our year 7s will explore conscious first aid. We welcome First Aid North East again
At Hexham Middle School, our careers programme focuses on the Health and Life Sciences sector in year 8. Recently we shared a great NHS virtual work experience opportunity as part of National Work Experience Week. Work experience is a valuable component of a young person’s careers education. All schools should embed 8 careers-related benchmarks (known as the Gatsby Benchmarks). Work Experience
Booking Page Now Open! Why choose FOBNE Multi Activity Sports Clubs? A huge programme including a range of different sports every day from Gymnastics, NFL Flag Football, to Badminton, NERF and lots more! Fully inclusive. We believe every child should be able to do sports, and every level of ability is valued at our club. Highly qualified & professional coaches
Here are this week’s ‘HMS Way Award’ winners. The awards recognise pupils who shine each week and who bring our HMS values – Respect Engage Aspire – to life. Well done to this week’s winners – we are very proud of you all! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
Monday 27th January is International Chocolate Cake Day. In form time this week, pupils have had the chance to complete a Chocolate Cake quiz learning more about chocolate with different subject links. Our catering team are making chocolate cake and brownies for Monday 27th January. We will also have chocolate custard. Pupils that have both school meals and packed lunches
Peer Mentor Training Stacey from ‘Be You- Northumbria Health Care Trust’ came to deliver ‘Peer Mentor’ training to some Year 8 pupils today. The session focused on the key aspects of being a peer mentor including communication. The first task required the peer mentors to complete an A-Z of positive words to describe themselves. Some examples included: joyful, efficient, imaginative
