Luke and Tom were just two of the many HMS runners at this weekend’s Great North Run events raising funds for such important charities. Well done both of you – we are all very proud of you! Please share your Great North Run stories so that we can celebrate in school… We are so proud that Miss Lamont, Miss Scott
I am delighted to say that HMS has been awarded the Gold Award status from Skills Builder. Skills Builder is a whole school approach to embedding 8 essential skills to succeed in education, work and life. At HMS, we have worked hard to embed the skills across school life and we are very proud to be recognised with this award.
Each week, form tutors award pupils in their classes with ‘HMS Way Awards’. The awards recognise pupils who shine each week and who bring our HMS values – Respect Engage Aspire – to life. This week focused on pupils who have made a particularly positive start to the school year. Well done to this week’s winners – we are very proud
It has been a pleasure to welcome all of our new starters to HMS this week. The children have settled in brilliantly and helped each other with the move to middle school. To end a great first week, Year 5 enjoyed a Team Building Day today with a wide range of activities including sports, drama and a visit to the Fellside
Mrs Ballantyne is organising a cake sale as part of Macmillan’s Coffee Morning. The sale will take place at morning break time on Friday 13th September. There’ll be a KS2 table in the front yard and a KS3 table in the games yard. If you would like to send in baked or bought donations, we would really appreciate it. Donations
Next week, each form class will nominate their representatives for this year’s HMS Council. If you want to represent your form class, attend regular pupil voice meetings, develop your leadership skills and help to support fundraising in school, please put yourself forward. We can’t wait to work with our new council members this term. #Respect #Engage #Aspire
We are now starting the recruitment process for our Pupil Leadership Team.If you’re interested in becoming our next House Captains, Mr Scott will be sharing more information in next week’s Year 8 assembly. The whole school will vote on Monday 23rd September. #Respect #Engage #Aspire
It has been a joy to welcome our new Year 5 pupils to HMS this week – they have settled in brilliantly!We would like to invite parents/carers to our ‘Welcome to Year 5 Evening’ on Tuesday 17th September 6.00pm. This will be a presentation about the year ahead for your child delivered by school leaders. Please try to sign up
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to school on Wednesday 4th September. School opens at 8.40am for all year groups, and we are excited to welcome our new Year 5 pupils to HMS. Timetables will be sent home before Wednesday and should now be available via MCAS. If you haven’t managed to log-in to MCAS yet, you should be able
We’ve reached the end of another school year and it’s a great opportunity to reflect and be thankful for everything we have achieved. The last few weeks have been packed full with Sports Days, Skills Builder Days, trips/visits and even residentials… not to mention our Year 8 leavers’ events – it’s been the best way to end the year! A huge