Ms Hayler is delighted to present the highlights in the HMS Library for January including some of the latest ‘mood boosting’ and ‘reading well’ books by inspirational authors such as Marcus Rashford, Leah Williamson and Matthew Syed. We also have lots of new fiction and non-fiction arrivals for KS2 and KS3: a mix of genres, styles, dyslexia-friendly and graphics/illustrated books.
Emily G in Y6 has written the second in our new series of book reviews by our fantastic ‘Library Champions’. A copy of the magical adventure ‘Hedgewitch’ is available in HMS Library for borrowing. Many thanks to Emily for her recommendation! Happy reading everyone!
HMS athletes braved the cold and snow showers running in the County Cross Country Championships this week. HMS had four runners who finished in qualifying positions to compete in the Inter-County Championships in Middlesbrough. Wilfred P capped a couple of successful days finishing an excellent 5th place (he was racing Year 9 boys!). Wilfred had placed an impressive second place
Year 5 had a brilliant workshop with Deanna Van Der Velde who is the Director of Newcastle Council of Faiths. The children loved finding out all about Judaism including Kosher food, visiting the synagogue and the Torah. The children’s cartoon menorahs were everybody’s favourite! Huge thanks to Deanna for visiting Hexham Middle School and bringing our Religious Education learning to
We were delighted to see so many early birds coming in out of the cold and accessing laptops for revision purposes this week. Our first two sessions were well attended and there was a really lovely, positive atmosphere (and lots of breakfast snacks were consumed!) Early Birds is open on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 8.15am for anyone in Year
Each week, our wonderful ‘Library Champions’ will be highlighting and reviewing a favourite book. A copy of each recommended read will be available in HMS Library for borrowing. Our first brilliant review is by Hattie D in Y5. Happy reading everyone!
As part of our World Religion Day focus this week, Year 8 enjoyed a workshop with visitors from the Islamic Diversity Centre today. The workshop allowed our pupils to explore their current learning in RE in more depth and to learn more about Islam. The workshop gave pupils the opportunity to answer and explore questions they had. Huge thanks to
On Friday, our Year 7 pupils took part in the Design Sprint Workshop of the ‘Young Green Briton Challenge’ led by Dr Meryl Batchelder from the Ministry of Eco Education and Laura Dempsey from Volunteers for Future (a founding partner) and supported by colleagues from Egger in Hexham. Skills Builder was in action and there was a real buzz in
Mr Watters and Mr Stephenson joined colleagues from QEHS at the IncludEd Conference in London this weekend. The conference included a wide range of inspiring guest speakers and centred on the themes of access and success, wellbeing and safety and equity and diversity. The opening speaker was poet Lemn Sissay, who shared the below short poem from his latest collection,
We will be holding our ‘SATS Information Evening’ for Year 6 parents/carers on Tuesday 30th January at 6.30pm. The session will be held in our hall here at HMS. The session will give you lots of information on the Year 6 assessments being held nationally in May 2024, the key dates, information about the test style and content and how