Our KS3 cricket teams were representing HMS yesterday and Mr Cameron was very proud of the teams. The girls’ team won their group and progressed to the final where they were narrowly beaten. The team won four of their five games. Despite the defeat in the final, the girls’ team have qualified for the next round where they will be
Our Year 8 Sports Leaders were superb when supporting at last week’s Year 4 ‘Quad Kids’ athletics transition event. Year 4 pupils from local first schools visited HMS for a great morning of athletics. Our Year 8 pupils were phenomenal role models and were widely praised by visiting teachers. Well done for being such brilliant ambassadors for HMS! #Respect #Engage
It’s another P-Point victory for Coquet House this half term, although it was very close!! Pupils in Coquet can wear non-uniform (if they want to) on Thursday 23rd May (not Friday due to year group photographs for Year 5 and Year 8!). There’s still plenty of time for the other Houses to close the gap with Coquet, and we have our
Our Summer Fair on Saturday 22nd June is fast-approaching… thank you for the great support so far. We are still on the lookout for: Raffle prizes Tombola prizes (there’ll be a non-uniform day on Friday 14th June to generate donations) Baking volunteers Support on the day Please contact Lorna if you can help 🙂 Thank you in advance! #Respect #Engage #Aspire
An exciting workshop during May half term at Core Music for anyone interested in learning more about songwriting. Go along and get involved!
Leo had a very exciting opportunity to join his NUFC U12s team at a football tournament in France last week. Leo’s team finished 13th out of 32 team with Leo conceding only 5 goals in around 15 games – what an achievement! Leo’s performance was outstanding from start to finish and he helped his team to win against Ajax and to
HMS were in action in the ESAA Schools Cup for track and field this week. The weather forecast was for heavy rain but thankfully we completed the competition in only light showers. HMS had a Junior Boys and a Junior Girls team competing. In this competition, individual times and distances are converted into points to become a team total. Highest
We are so proud of our Year 6 children – they have worked so hard all week and have approached their assessments with a ‘can do’, positive and resilient attitude. It was great to invite Tyne Valley Ices back this afternoon as a special treat to celebrate their hard work. It’s Reward Day tomorrow and we’re looking forward to celebrating!
As you know, Ofsted visited our school in April. I always say that we have so much to be proud of at HMS – engaged, enthusiastic and positive pupils who love learning; dedicated and highly-skilled staff who go the extra mile for our pupils and a supportive wider school community for which we are very grateful. To have that sense
