Back in the dark days of November, students from Key Stage 3 formed a small poetry recital group. After attending an initial launch meeting with Mrs Davison from QEHS and researching the official ‘Poetry by Heart’ website, students chose poems that were interesting in their themes, vocabulary and essentially poems that ‘spoke’ to them in a way that drove on
Last day blues had kicked in when Mr Gaines sent his final update of the week… It has been a tremendous week in Les Menuiers. It is always a great pleasure to visit the Skilt Hotel and have a week in the mountains – the views and clean air are great for the soul! Everyone has risen to the challenge
Here are this week’s ‘HMS Way Award’ winners. The awards recognise pupils who shine each week and who bring our HMS values – Respect Engage Aspire – to life. Well done to this week’s winners – we are very proud of you all! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
At HMS, we are developing a brand new sensory space for our pupils. This space will support pupils to regulate and be used for SEND support. Our PTA is kindly supporting us to purchase new items for the space but we thought we’d ask our lovely parents/carers for donations of items too – just in case anyone has anything at
Congratulations to our Year 8 boys’ indoor athletics team who competed for the Tynedale Area and finished 2nd in Northumberland. They were a credit to the school and performed brilliantly across a range of track and field events – all contributing towards the team’s total. We are very proud of them! Respect. Engage. Aspire.
HMS woke up to another stunning day in the Alps – there was a lot of excitement as we only had two days to go! Most groups enjoyed time in the jump park yesterday and Mr Drummond has even been spotted in the park today… I don’t think it was his favourite activity of the week! I think most people had
The Advanced Singing Group and their teacher Mr Watson are making great progress with their arrangement of Wildest Dreams. https://youtu.be/cqGZ_eX2p_s
Another stunning blue-sky day in France yesterday – Mont Blanc was looking magnificent when we were up high! Xav commented that when you looked towards Geneva, there was a sea of cloud below us – breathtaking! All groups have now been exploring the full resort. Most groups have been in the Pixeljump area – a definite highlight of the day!
Children’s Mental Health Week: Non-Uniform Day We’re having a non-uniform day on Friday 7th February to mark Children’s Mental Health Week. If you feel able to, please make a small donation to Place2Be via MCAS – this is totally optional. If children would rather wear their uniform, that’s fine too. Thank you all. #Respect #Engage #Aspire
We are looking for a parent/carer or local employer to judge our Young Green Briton Challenge Dragon’s Den event. This will take place on Thursday 13th March during period 1 (9:10 am – 10:10 am). If you have any design/engineering or creative industry background you would be the perfect person for this event. We will have 10 teams of year