The Year 7 Science Club are delighted to have been selected to be one of the judging panels for this year’s Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. The prize aims to inspire young people to read about science and promotes the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s. The prize is unique in that the winner is selected by
A group of our Year 8 pupils are currently enjoying a visit to Corbridge Middle School, watching Katherine Rundell deliver an energetic and engaging presentation on her new novel, The Good Thieves.
June has been a busy and successful month for our sports teams so far! Below is a summary of our recent fixtures. Additionally, 24 HMS athletes have been selected to compete at the County Championships at Gateshead Stadium – stay tuned! Year 7 Girls Rugby (Mr Barry) The Year 7 rugby girls were brilliant from start to finish and were
Year 8 have been taking part in the Tunnock’s Teacake Challenge this week in Food Technology, where they have the chance to be creative and style a Tunnock’s teacake. The results have been fantastic – see the images below for their creations!
Our PTA Summer Fair is fast approaching! To support the fair, we are running a non-uniform day where pupils can donate an item or more if they can (see image below for details). This will be taking place on Friday 14 June 2019. We still need helpers to prepare for the fair, set up on the day and run stalls.
The Year 7 boys were in rugby action on Thursday this week and performed extremely well against a strong St Leonard’s School in Durham. The boys won their quarter final plate match 11-9! We had tries from: Thomas C, Jack S x5 (man of the match), Tom D, Isaac P x2, and Josh W x2 The boys were very impressive throughout
We are delighted to say that we have, once again, had a large number of certificate winners in the UK Junior Mathematical Challenge! We are very proud of everyone who took part and approached the challenge with enthusiasm. In addition, we were thrilled to learn that our top scoring pupils, Jake and Alice, will now take on the next stage of
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Friday was a fantastic day of cricket at Tynedale with lots of great play. Year 8 Girls A team of girls with very little cricket experience grew in confidence each game and took some great wickets and scored some impressive runs. There were stand out performances by Alice W and Lucy S who formed a great batting partnership Year 7
We all want to say a huge WELL DONE to our amazing Year 6 pupils who showed an outstanding attitude towards their SATs last week! Our annual Breakfast Club was once again very well attended (by pupils and teachers!) and provided us all with a calming start to the day. To mark the end of the assessments, the pupils were