Our Year 5 pupils had a fantastic time on their Ford Castle adventure last week. The pupils were an absolute joy to take away – all of them were so engaged, listened brilliantly and challenged themselves to try new things – a real credit to HMS! Special thanks to Miss Bell and the whole team for leading such a positive
Well done to our Y8 girls who competed in the regional round of the indoor cricket competition on Friday. The girls played really well across their 3 games despite some of them only playing cricket for the first time. They finished 3rd on the day, and this competition serves as a good platform for future competitions later in the year. Mr
This week’s Curriculum Spotlight is on Art and Miss Taylor has been so excited to share the latest news from FB3. You can read what the pupils have been learning in our ‘Weekly Update’. We will continue to share photographs of our final projects as the year goes on. The Royal Academy of Arts competition is on Monday 2nd March.
The North East Raising Aspirations Partnership (NERAP) team were in school this week delivering workshops for all pupils in Year 7 and 8. As part of our Aspire Weeks, these experiences also linked with curriculum enrichment of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). The interactive experiences sought to raise aspirations for STEM subjects as well as awareness and understanding for
This term, we were very pleased to welcome the Groundswell Project into school to deliver a whole school Digital Resilience Project, with a strong focus on developing pupils’ critical thinking skills in today’s online world. This project includes assemblies for KS2 focused on respectful and responsible online behaviour, as well as questioning what we see and hear online, as well
Here are last 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! Year 5 awards back next after this week’s residential. Respect. Engage. Aspire.
We will be celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi with a special lunch next Wednesday. See the poster below for more information about the delicious choices on offer! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
Today the year 8 girls and boys took part in a triangular match v Ponteland and Corbridge. Due to sickness or injury, we didn’t have enough year 8s, which gave us the opportunity to pull up our year 7s and some 6s. Once again their positive attitude, team play and sportsmanship showed through and the children were a credit to
This week, Theatre Space North East delivered a performance to Year 8 pupils. “Split Decisions” is an emotive 60-minute performance and workshop for Y8 promoting key messages surrounding pedestrian safety, including on public transport, whilst raising awareness of pedestrian dangers such as distractions (phones, music and friends) and risk-taking behaviour. The performance also focused on helping young people to identify, challenge
Some of our Year 7s have been doing some drama work for their Romeo and Juliet English studies. They have been focusing on the masquerade ball scene. They’re a brilliant bunch who are up for anything! There was some great work with fantastic attention to detail. 👏 Respect. Engage. Aspire.