To mark UK Parliament Week, we had the pleasure of inviting Lord Hutton of Furness to speak to our Year 5 pupils about his life and work as a Lord. During a 25-minute presentation and Q&A session, Lord Hutton explained how he has a special connection to Hexham Middle School with his children and grandchildren coming to this school. Our
After a fantastic day at the Regional Cross Country finals yesterday, it was great to receive confirmation earlier this morning that our Junior Boys’ Team finished joint 3rd and has now qualified for the National Final in Suffolk this December. There was such a team effort yesterday with each member of the team putting in huge effort and determination to
Ms Hayler has appointed 26 wonderful ‘Library Champions’ to support her in the HMS Library. Our new ‘Library Champions” will work with Ms Hayler and our library volunteers to promote a love of reading and to run the library during break and lunchtime. They have a wealth of knowledge to support other pupils in our school when they are choosing
We were delighted to take our Year 5 pupils to visit Luke Jerram’s ‘Museum of the Moon’ at Hexham Abbey this week. Thank you to Queen’s Hall and Hexham Abbey for inviting our pupils to attend an inspirational session with Ian Hall – the founder of The Avenger Scientist. Our pupils were in awe when they returned to school. The
This week’s assembly, led by Mr Johnson, has explored the very important theme of Remembrance. We have been focussing on what Remembrance Day is, what takes place and what the poppy represents. The assembly has covered what it means to show courage as well as selflessness and how people have shown this throughout history. This year is the 75th anniversary of ‘The Windrush Generation’ and
We are delighted to announce the date of this year’s Carol Service. It is always such a joyous event and we can’t wait for you to join us at Hexham Abbey in December for this year’s service. Mr Holdsworth will share more information in due course. Please save the date!
Hexham’s Remembrance Day Service is taking place this Sunday at 1030am.
Hexham Peace Walk. Taking place this Saturday at 2 pm.
Our KS2 STEM project over the last half term has been designing ‘Moon Landers’. The design brief was to design and build a spacecraft that could withstand the landing impact of a journey to the Moon. We discussed forces such as gravity, and what engineering ideas we could use to counteract impact force, such as shock-absorbers. We even managed to
