Where Can Languages Take You -Yr 8

Where can languages take you? – Year 8 careers event Yesterday, Year 8 pupils took part in the “Where can languages take you?” webinar, organised by the British Council as part of the Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages. The session introduced students to a range of speakers who shared their own language‑learning journeys, explained how languages have enriched

Year 6 Rising Stars

As part our special themed assemblies for Year 6 pupils, teachers nominate their ‘Rising Stars’ and share why each pupil has been celebrated. The awards recognise pupils who have shown a great attitude to learning, aim high, contribute positively to lessons and take real pride in their learning and achievement, especially in this week’s assessments. Here are our winners from

Red Nose Day

To end a busy week, we have been raising funds for Comic Relief today and what a great laugh we have had! At lunchtime, pupils enjoyed a range of fun activities including ‘Soak the Teacher’ (always a classic!), the famous Teacher Challenges, Beat the Goalie shootouts and lots more. The theme of Red Nose Day is bringing joy and laughter

Head of School Awards 

This month’s Head of School Award theme was ‘compassion’ – one of our core character values. 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 in school today joined

P Points Pop-Up

This month saw the return of our P Point Pop Ups – an opportunity for our pupils to use their positive points to visit the reward store. There was a great buzz around the hall as each year group visited and, as always, the queue jump passes were very popular!Well done everyone! Respect. Engage. Aspire.

Rocky News

Rocky is settling into school brilliantly and has been enjoying meeting lots of our pupils over recent weeks. He has been a very positive addition to Team HMS and brings so much joy to our school!  Here he is meeting a group of Year 6 pupils earlier this week. Joyful!  Respect. Engage. Aspire. 

Easter Decorated Eggs Competition

It’s time to get creative and enter this year’s ‘Easter Decorated Egg Competition’. Use your imagination to design an egg-scellent display in the theme of your favourite character, movie star, singer, sportsperson or TV show. Try to give your design an egg-inspired name. You can either enter one single egg or a display of multiple eggs. Good luck! Judging will

BBFC ‘Create the Card’ Competition

BBFC ‘Create the Card’ Competition A new competition and this must be the best one Miss Taylor has seen! We have submitted work in previous years to BBFC create a card competition and came top 10 in the UK. To find out more watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDd7GAGbTOQ Open to under 11s Deadline Wednesday 6th May Hand in to Miss Taylor, FB3

Y6 Girls Tag Rugby Festival

Well done to our Y6 girls who took part in the Dame Allan’s tag rugby festival on Monday evening at Blaydon Rugby Club. It was great to see the girls grow in confidence and ability throughout the event. Most players had never played any rugby before, but by the end of the event they managed to draw 3 of their