KS3 Sugarcraft Club began last week, and with Miss Kwella they have been decorating sugar cookies using royal icing and sugar paste colours. The results were fantastic and the pupils left with some lovely looking biscuits. Next week they will be learning how to make sugar flowers. Below are some pictures from last week’s session!
The PTA are organising a Mother’s Day Pop Up Shop in school at lunchtime on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March 2020. Children will be able to choose a gift from a selection of donated items and have their gift wrapped. All gifts will be sold for £2 (including wrapping). All money raised will help the PTA fund events and activities for
Year 7 Girls’ Rugby: Champions Cup On Thursday afternoon the Year 7 girls were in Champions Cup action! In their first rugby league tournament, the girls were up against Churchill, Seaton Sluice, John Spence, Whytrigg and Ponteland. The girls were phenomenal! They won 3-0 against Churchill, 3-0 against John Spence, 3-2 against Ponteland, and drew the other two games. This
We were delighted to welcome Robin into school today who held his first session with our new cohort of Year 6 ‘Mini Medics’. 20 pupils from Year 6 have been successful in applying for their place on the training course. We look forward to watching their learning progress and, before we know it, they’ll be highly skilled in first aid
Year 8 Girls’ Rugby The new Year 8 girls team were in action on the South Tyneside coast against Whitburn School on Monday. In what for most was only their first or second game they played incredibly! The game started with the more experienced Whitburn scoring a couple of quick tries. However HMS started to grow in confidence and started
Our PTA has put together a list of ways that parents/carers can help and raise money, for free! Click the flyer below for more information. The upcoming PTA events are: Spring Disco (Years 5 & 6) – 12 March 2020 Mother’s Day Pop-Up Shop – 17 & 18 March 2020 Seniors All Request Disco (Years 7 & 8) – 26
Last Friday, Mr Barry and Mrs Box and took three boccia teams to compete in the Smile Boccia Championship. Boccia is a Paralympic sport and it was a great sport for some of our pupils to compete at. The pupils’ attitudes were impeccable and as well as learning new skills and achieving success, it was the way they celebrated the
The Year 8 girls’ rugby league team were in action last week in the Champions Cup first round. They played the first half of the tournament on Thursday at Seaton Sluice Middle School. The girls must play 6 matches in order to progress to the next stage and they got off to a great start! A combination of skill, power
Last week the Art Department had a visitor from Curator Peter Sharpe. Peter works for Kielder’s Art and Architecture Program. Pupils learnt about how he works with artists to enable them to respond to the environment. Pupils also learnt new making skills in ceramics and created pinch-pot moon bowl (halves). A great start to our making this half term. Well
World Book Day is here! This year it is taking place on Thursday 5 March 2020. At HMS it is a chance to dress up as your favourite literary character or hero! Please come dressed fabulously for our costume competition and be ready to share 1000 stories! Everyone will receive a £1 World Book Day token that they can use in