Bristish Science Week 2025

It’s British Science Week and this year’s theme is ‘Adapt and Change’. Mrs Gregory and Miss Lamont have planned an exciting scientific treasure hunt for all pupils to engage with across the week.  There’ll be prizes for the winners. Please encourage pupils to get involved and learn more about the adaptations included in the quiz.  #Respect #Engage #Aspire 

Parent/Carer Support Session

Parent/Carer Session Be You will join us for our next parent/carer session on Tuesday 18th March 4-5pm. The session will focus on coping with exam stress.  The session is open to all schools in the Hexham Partnership and is free of charge.   Exam Stress Support Session Sign-Up Respect. Engage. Aspire. 

Rugby Success!

Two teams competed in the NSB Rugby 7s last week. The competitions were based around participation and demonstrating the core values of rugby: Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline and Sportsmanship. On Thursday, the Year 8 team won one of their games and were only narrowly defeated by some strong rugby teams. The boys were excellent throughout and demonstrated some excellent attacking

HMS Way Awards

A huge well done to 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.

Zones of Regulation

Years 6 and 8 have now had their Zones of Regulation workshops in school. The whole school now has an understanding of the Zones of Regulation and how to use them to better understand their feelings and to regulate their emotions. We will now use Zones of Regulation as a whole school strategy as part of our inclusive and relational

Aspire Week

This week, we have had a great turnout from Year 8 pupils attending a range of online webinars through Speakers 4 Schools with talks from Boots, lastminute.com and the actor, Paterson Joseph.  During form time, pupils have had the opportunity to learn more about skills and qualities needed in the workplace as well as considering the big question, ‘What is

World Book Day

HMS had a great time celebrating World Book Day yesterday!We held our first ‘Reading Breakfast’ and it was lovely to welcome lots of family members into school to kickstart the day. Ms Hayler and the Library Champions were running our ‘Book Swap’ and distributing tokens in the library. Our ‘Great Book Bake Off’ was phenomenal once again with so many

Year 8 English

Year 8 English classes have designed some graffiti art inspired by the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. It’s great to see them showing their understanding in creative ways! Respect. Engage. Aspire.