Welcome back to a new term! We hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas break with your loved ones – Happy New Year from everyone at HMS! We have an exciting term ahead and we were so pleased to welcome back our pupils this morning. For those unable to return due to COVID reasons, we wish you well and
This week we have had the pleasure of inviting ‘He Knows, She Knows’ into school as part of a ‘Respect Day’. Respect is one of our school core values. The duo, who were former X-Factor contestants, helped pupils across all year groups in the school to explore a variety of personal development topics including mental wellbeing, body image, relationships and
The Christmas songs were playing in the dining hall yesterday as Mrs Satow and her team served this year’s wonderful Christmas lunch. It was such a great atmosphere, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you to our brilliant catering team.
On return in January, we have been asked to test consenting pupils once in school. As I am sure you will appreciate, the logistics of testing a large number of pupils are challenging. We would once again welcome support from volunteers to help run the testing site and enable us to test the pupils as quickly as possible. There are
Following the success of drama workshop ‘Plots and Plans’ at Hexham Abbey earlier this month, and the enthusiasm of the students to do something for Christmas, they are looking at running another workshop on 18 December with a view to doing a short performance at the Christingle Service the next day. The theme this time is ‘Oh no! Christmas!’. This
Year 5 Year 5 are learning about the formal elements of art and how artists will use these elements to create an artwork. Pupils have observed a bottle image and learnt how to blend and shade with a pencil to create a three-dimensional bottle. Year 6 Year 6 are learning about the artist Pablo Picasso. They have learnt about the
Last night the Year 7 boys braced the elements to compete in this year’s Champion Cup. The boys showed outstanding character and commitment in all of their games! They started with a very tough game against Churchill and in an end to end encounter two tries each for Ollie and Luke helped HMS gain a respectable draw 4.4. Player of
This week we are celebrating the first week of Advent. Many thanks to Reverend Glover at Hexham Abbey for supporting our Advent assemblies this week. He has kindly given permission to share the Christmas message below. Please watch the short message (4:27mins) and learn more about how Reverend Glover makes a link with the story of Mary in The Nativity,
The PTA Christmas Gift Shop has returned for 2021! This week, pupils had the chance to browse the brilliant range of gifts available. Order forms and payments should be returned by Wednesday 8 December. Huge thank you to our PTA for their hard work.
Last night, the Year 8 boys were in action against John Spence in the opening round of the County Cup. In a night under the HMS floodlights with the rain coming down it was sure to be an interesting game of football. The team lined up with a few changes from our last outing and the dancing feet of Hugo