This week’s Big Debate question is ‘Should NHS workers have more child benefits than us?’ This is a great opportunity to develop speaking and listening skills with your child – something that we are promoting as a Skills Builder School. Get involved in the conversation by clicking the below link: The Big Debate Question
Our Year 8 pupils have now completed their Peer Mentor training and have also undertaken safeguarding training which will allow them to work with some of the younger pupils. They have all worked incredibly hard on this and are now keen to work with Mr Stephenson on ways to support the KS2 pupils. They will be helping out at the weekly
Year 5 pupils had a fantastic time learning all about how to keep safe gaining an awareness of the dangers of Carbon Monoxide (CO). This took place through a variety of interactive activities in a half day workshop, delivered by arts practitioners from Bonanza Creative. Activities included drama tasks, games, and fun videos which demonstrated the basic facts of how the
We are launching a new eco-friendly school uniform recycling service at HMS. The aim is to reduce waste and to recycle uniform items with the school logo. We are working with the brilliant local charity, Rosie’s Corner, who are currently unable to store branded uniform items. Please see full details on our ‘School Uniform Recycling’ webpage. You can make a
A fantastic week of events for pupils this week has seen pupils competing in the regional chess championship as well as the year 8 girls competing for their spot at the national stages of the Champion Schools Cup. Chess A huge thank you to Mr Freeman-Myers for organising this for HMS. On a day that saw HMS enter three teams
We have received some fantastic entries into the Royal Art Gallery competition! The artworks are judged by a panel of passionate artists and arts professionals, with selected artworks displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Judging takes place in May with the online exhibition launching on 19th July 2022. Have a look at our own
On Friday 18th March, 18 Year 7 pupils visited Newcastle University to take part in a language and cooking workshop, Linguacuisine. Linguacuisine aims to promote the learning of digital literacy, languages, cuisines and cultures. It does this through co-design of downloadable apps and social recipes, using an authoring tool to develop an online community of practice. Pupils learnt about traditional Spanish food and had the
We’re delighted to announce there will be a Spring Disco on the below dates: KS2 Years 5 and 6 on Tuesday 29th March 2022 6pm –7.30pm KS3 Years 7 and 8 on Wednesday 30th March 2022 6pm – 7.30pm Tickets are £3 each. Full details can be found in the links below. KS2 Spring Disco (PDF) KS3 Spring Disco (PDF)
We are delighted to share with you the winners of our World Book Day photography competition! The theme was ‘At Hexham Middle School we love reading so much we even read……’ …. on a jumping horse! Kaden, Year 8 …. just… hanging around! Winnie, Year 6 ….whilst being very bendy! Abigail, Year 5 And ….on the throne! Finley, Year 6
On Monday morning Year 7 took the classroom outside to create an observation study of Hexham in willow black chalk. Have a look at our photo gallery to see the results!