France Trip Update

After an exciting journey, the group arrived safely in a gloriously sunny and very warm France and immediately set off on their first excursion. They visited the Normandy beaches to experience firsthand the location in which so many gave their lives. The children approached this with maturity and respect, and all of the staff were very impressed with their engagement.

Young Green Briton Challenge Final

Well done, team!  We are so proud of Team HMS – aka The Back of the Wardrobe Bin – for travelling to London to represent the school at the Young Green Briton Challenge Finals yesterday. After months of hard work and dedication, the team made it through to the national final today and we couldn’t be prouder of them! A

Young Green Briton Final

And they’re off… it was an early train to London for Georgia, Rose and Dominique this morning as they make their way to represent HMS at the final of this year’s Young Green Briton Challenge. Their teammates Emily and Lizzie are away in France – but we know they’ll be cheering them on!  Their project – ‘The Back of the

Fundraising Day Total

After a fantastic day of fun and fundraising last week, we are delighted to announce that our pupils have raised £1,062 for their two chosen charities. We had cakes, crafts, quizzing, fun running, hush-a-thon and even a staff vs pupil assault course – all for great causes!  We are very proud to be making donations to both Northumberland Wildlife Trust

PTA Summer Fair Total

WOW! THANK YOU!  We can’t thank you all enough for your unbelievable support of this year’s HMS PTA Summer Fair. We are so proud to announce this year’s total raised is £4,022. Thank you SO much to all of you – your support is hugely appreciated. Your generous support means that the HMS PTA can continue to support the school

France 2025

A very excited group of KS3 pupils left HMS at around 10 pm last night to start their adventure in France. After an overnight trip down to Portsmouth, the group are in fine spirits and are looking forward to boarding the Guillaume de Normandie ferry to begin their French adventure. Mr Nichol is going to send us daily updates and

Maths Challenge Success!

We are delighted to congratulate Artie, Joseph, and Gruffydd, who were invited to take part in the second round of the Junior Maths Challenge — a remarkable achievement in itself, as only a select number of high-scoring students from the first round are invited to progress further. All three boys performed brilliantly under pressure and were awarded certificates in recognition

HMS Way Awards

Here are this week’s ‘HMS Way Award’ winners – this week’s focus was our core value of ‘Aspire’. 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.

HMS Summer Concert

It was a joy to host our Summer Concert last night and it really was a celebration of the incredible musical talent, skill and enthusiasm across the school. It is always inspiring to see so many of our pupils getting up on stage and performing to such a high standard. It was so clear to see how much the pupils

HMS Fundraising Day

What an amazing day we have had in school to raise funds for our two chosen charities this year – Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Cancer Research UK. Thank you so much for all of your generous support!  To raise funds, pupils enjoyed: A cake sale  A mini craft fair  Pupil vs staff assault course  The Weakest Link Quiz (thank you,