Our PTA Festive Forest Evening is returning this year and we’d love to see you and your family at the event. It’s always a great way to kickstart the festive season with Christmas crafts (indoor and outdoor), a chance to visit our Fellside Forest for s’mores and hot chocolate and festive refreshments for everyone to enjoy. Where: HMS dining hall
Hexham Middle School were proud to take part in the NFL Flag Football League over the past 6 weeks — an incredible journey that ended with an exciting finale at the Minnesota Vikings Flag Championship Day at Kingston Park Stadium! After finishing 5th out of 10 teams, we earned our spot in the Championship Pool, competing for the top spot
Youth Cabinet & Youth Parliament Elections 2025 Would you like to have your voice heard on issues that matter to young people? If you’re in Years 7–13, this is your chance to represent your peers! Find out more about Youth Cabinet (NCC Website) Find out more about Youth Parliament (NCC Website) The deadline to sign up is the 23rd December. Scan
On Friday, HMS hosted a tag rugby event and welcomed Year 3 & 4 pupils from local schools. Our Y8 leaders helped to run different activities at the event, and were incredible role models throughout. Staff from other schools commented on the ‘outstanding’ leaders who showed great communication and organisation, as well as having brilliant interactions with the young ones
World Kindness Day – Thursday 13th November
It was an honour to join Hexham’s Remembrance Service on Sunday. Our Head Pupils represented the school brilliantly, and were very proud to lay a remembrance wreath on behalf of everyone at Hexham Middle School. Thank you very much to Emily, Ben, Rosie and Sam. It is always a very poignant event in Hexham and it is a privilege to
The HMS Way Awards Here are this week’s ‘HMS Way Award’ winners. 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
This week, a group of pupils represented HMS at Oases’ Climate Action event hosted by the Department for Education’s Youth Sustainability Champions and Durham University. This was a wonderful opportunity for our pupils to help lead the way on developing our trust’s climate action planning. Key organisations that led workshops included the National Education Nature Park and Let’s Go Zero.
Well done to the Year 7 boys who took part in an inter-school rugby league preparation session at Kingston Park on Wednesday, which included drills in contact skills, handling skills, decision making and game-based scenarios. This was a little taster for upcoming rugby league fixtures in January. The boys got stuck into all the activities with 100% commitment and conducted
I was very grateful to be invited to attend Acomb First School’s grand opening of their amazing new ‘Wellbeing Hub’ this week. Sadly, I was away in London, but Mr Freeman-Myers and Ms Watkinson were able to attend on my behalf. Miss Williamson also invited some of our current Year 5 pupils to attend and it was a really special