Happy New Year everyone – I hope you all had a very enjoyable Christmas break. The new term started today and we have lots to look forward to this spring term.This week: • Year 5 – Team Building Day – Wednesday – children should wear their PE kit.• Year 7 – Newcastle University STEM workshops – Thursday.• Year 7 – Young
We have nearly reached the end of a very busy and festive term at HMS. We know how important it is for our children to make happy memories at Christmas time and we hope that everyone has enjoyed the build up throughout December. It has been a month of joy and happiness with our Carol Service, Christmas Trips, Celebration Assemblies,
The members of the ‘HMS Newspaper Club’ have all worked exceptionally hard on this half term’s issue of the ‘Hexham Middle News’.I am very proud of all of the children involved in putting this together with the support of Mr Armstrong. Please check your emails for a copy. Happy reading!
Our PTA have raised a phenomenal amount to support school this term. Their support and dedication is appreciated by everyone at HMS – we can’t thank them enough! Thank you to all of you for your endless support of the events and fundraising – it means a lot to us! The PTA have some very exciting projects in the planning
Each year group had the opportunity to gather this week for their Christingle services. The children made their Christingles within their form classes which were lit as part of the reflection. We explored the meaning of the Christingle and the importance of light at Christmas time. We focused on our core character value of generosity and reminded the children how
Celebration AssembliesWe were delighted to hold our ‘Celebration Assemblies’ for all year groups yesterday. The assemblies are always a chance to reflect positively on the term and to recognise the achievements of our amazing pupils. Miss Liddle and Mr Scott were very proud to present awards for each subject across the curriculum, 100% attendance awards, P-point milestones and participation awards.A
The HMS Chamber Choir were privileged to visit Acomb Court Care Home and Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital today where they performed a range of Christmas songs for the residents and patients. It was an absolute joy for us meet the staff and residents today. It is so important to share festive joy at this time of year and we can’t
Emotional health and wellbeing – free online courses are now available for parents, carers, grandparents and teens! The aim is to nurture emotional health and wellbeing from bump to 19+ years. Northumberland County Council has partnered with the Solihull Approach to offer free access to expertly designed online courses for parents, carers, grandparents and teens in our region. Sign up
Wow – what an amazing night we had at Hexham Abbey for our annual Carol Service. All of the children were an absolute credit to HMS – the musicians, singers and readers were all excellent – we are very proud of the over 150 children who took part on the night. It was so clear to see how much hard
Congratulations to the winners of this month’s ‘Head of School Awards’. The theme this month was generosity which has been our character education focus for this half term. It was a joy to invite the winners to a special breakfast on Friday morning to celebrate their achievements. I was very proud of all of the children nominated. Well done everyone!