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,

Eagles Arena Visit

Key Stage 3 ‘Basketball Club’ enjoyed their trip to the Eagles Arena in Newcastle on Wednesday. A Newcastle Eagles coach helped them improve their skills in different drills and mini basketball games. The children were lucky enough to meet Josh Ward-Hibbert, a player from the Newcastle Eagles, who was practising at the same time as us. They asked him questions

Head of School Awards

This month’s Head of School Award theme was ‘problem solving’ – one of our 8 essential skills from ‘Skills Builder’. I was delighted to see the children being recognised for their wonderful approach to school life. It was great to celebrate the positive contribution each pupil makes to our school community – I am very proud of them all.  Pupils joined me for a special breakfast today (breakfast sandwiches, pastries and hot

Make Future Engineers

Our Year 6 engineers spent the day at Newcastle University with Mr Freeman-Myers yesterday as part of the ‘Make Future Engineers’ project. This was another great opportunity for our future engineers to work as a team and to develop their creativity and problem solving.  The team presented an idea for a floating wind turbine to a panel of expert judges