Get creative and submit an entry for the BioArtAttack competition! Would you like to combine your artistic talent with your scientific knowledge? If so, you might like to enter the BioArtAttack competition! Full details can be found on the website. We have a good track record at Hexham Middle School, with one winner already in 2020 designing a winning climate change super
Staying safe is the number one priority for all of us at the moment. We want to let you know about three ways you can support the HMS PTA from the comfort of your sofa – see our flyer below! As school life continues, we want to be able to support events and opportunities for all of our children –
NatWest MoneySense have launched a FREE educational game which has been designed for children aged 7-12. Learning through play is at the heart of the game! Children earn coins by completing tasks such as clearing up litter. Once they have earned their coins they are taught about basic money concepts such as managing bank accounts, saving and even paying tax!
On Monday 16 and Wednesday 18 November 2020, we will be holding virtual Parents’ Evenings for Year 6. You should have now received a link (https://hexhammiddle.schoolcloud.co.uk/) to our new online booking platform and your child should also have a paper copy of the instructions in their bags. This is a new video appointment system, so please do let us know if
Before half term, our Arts Award group made stencils and printed directly onto fabric using textile inks; a screen-printing project taught to the group by Beatrice D. They experimented with blending two colours at the same time. Each of the girls printed a bag they could take home, based on music notation. The pupils ironed their bags inside out to
This week (w/c 2 November 2020) is Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, an opportunity for young people to experience the world of engineering on digital and social media platforms. As part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, The Big Quiz will be starting on Tuesday 3 November 2020. The fun 30-minute quiz will develop pupils’ engineering knowledge and provide lots of useful information about
Year 7 have been developing their ideas and completing some fantastic homework. Pupils have been learning about pattern and how templates can tessellate. Lots of new techniques are being developed and creative imaginations all round. Well done Year 7. Fab start to the year! Miss Lawton
Year 6 have been working hard on their texture project. The children have been learning about the artist Scarpace and creating beautiful textured fish. Pupils have been learning about how to use mark-making and tone to create texture! Well done Year 6. Miss Lawton
Items in lost property at present have been photographed and are shown below. In addition there are some school jumpers and a small number of PE hoodies all unnamed. If your child would like to come to the office we can try and reunite them with anything they have lost. If your child has mislaid something other than in the
Our brand-new school is taking shape and we are so excited to see it! Mr Atkins has prepared a short virtual tour of our new school site so that you get a sense of what life will be like there. We will capture the ethos and atmosphere of HMS in the new buildings along with state-of-the-art facilities, learning spaces and