Cricket News

HMS Year 6 boys played a cricket fixture against Mowden Hall School this week. We managed to play an innings of hardball followed by a game using an incredi-ball. Reggie T, Rory M and Seb D all showed great skill with the ball. Riley G was impressive when wicket keeping. George H, Lockie D, Will R and Oscar N all

Northumberland School Minor Athletics Championships

HMS saw 29 of its athletes selected to run for Tynedale at the Northumberland Schools Minor Athletics Championships held at Gateshead Stadium. It was brilliant to have so many pupils competing at this event which is the pinnacle for pupils in the middle school system. We had a number of stand out performances across the day. Special mention must go

Northumberland Holiday Provision

The Summer HAF vouchers will be issued on Thursday 25th June at 12pm to families and carers who children are eligible for benefit related free school meals. Find the guide here (Northumberland County Council Website)

Summer Raffle – More Prizes

WOW – Mrs Herrmann is so grateful to the many local organisations who have very kindly donated prizes for this year’s PTFA Summer Fair Raffle. You can see the current prize list attached. If you’d like to buy tickets, please return the stubs and payment to the HMS Office. If you need more tickets, please just ask us.Thank you so

QEHS Youth Theatre Launch

Year 8 pupils are invited to join the launch of the next QEHS Youth Theatre musical – Les Miserables. If you’d like to find out about auditions, rehearsals and performances – please go along on Thursday 9th July at 3.30pm.This is open to Year 8 interested in being actors, singers and part of the tech crew. Respect. Engage. Aspire.

Maths Challenge

Last Tuesday, six students from Years 7 and 8 were invited to take part in the next round of the Junior Maths Challenge. They approached the experience with great resilience, effort, and determination, and it was wonderful to see them engaging so thoughtfully with such challenging mathematical problems.Well done to all who took part, we hope they feel as proud

Community Joy!

Mrs Rowell and Mr Freeman-Myers were delighted to visit residents at Acomb Court Care Home with our Orchestra yesterday. Our very talented musicians enjoyed performing a range of pieces for residents. It was an opportunity to share the joy of music and we hope everyone really enjoyed the visit. Thank you very much for having us! We are very much

Celebrating Creativity at HMS

HUGE congratulations to Ava and Archie for their incredible achievements and creativity! Ava has been announced as a finalist in the BBFC’s ‘Toy Story 5 Create the Card’ competition. To be recognised as a finalist in a national competition is a phenomenal achievement and we are so proud of Ava – well done for entering! Archie recently found out that

Y6 Cricket

Well done to our Year 6 boys and girls cricket teams who played in the local softball competition at Stocksfield CC on Monday. Both came runners up in their competitions! The girls played 5 games in a round robin format, winning 4 and losing only 1 game to eventual winners, Corbridge. This was a brilliant achievement, and great to see