Museum Of The Moon

We were delighted to take our Year 5 pupils to visit Luke Jerram’s ‘Museum of the Moon’ at Hexham Abbey this week. Thank you to Queen’s Hall and Hexham Abbey for inviting our pupils to attend an inspirational session with Ian Hall – the founder of The Avenger Scientist.  Our pupils were in awe when they returned to school. The

Remembrance Day

This week’s assembly, led by Mr Johnson, has explored the very important theme of Remembrance. We have been focussing on what Remembrance Day is, what takes place and what the poppy represents. The assembly has covered what it means to show courage as well as selflessness and how people have shown this throughout history. This year is the 75th anniversary of ‘The Windrush Generation’ and

HMS Carol Service

We are delighted to announce the date of this year’s Carol Service. It is always such a joyous event and we can’t wait for you to join us at Hexham Abbey in December for this year’s service.  Mr Holdsworth will share more information in due course. Please save the date! 

KS2 STEM Project

Our KS2 STEM project over the last half term has been designing ‘Moon Landers’. The design brief was to design and build a spacecraft that could withstand the landing impact of a journey to the Moon. We discussed forces such as gravity, and what engineering ideas we could use to counteract impact force, such as shock-absorbers. We even managed to

Christmas Lights – Save the Date!

Save the date! We are delighted that the HMS Orchestra will be playing at this year’s Hexham Christmas Lights Switch-On event.  Come down to the Hexham Bandstand to kickstart the festive season and to hear our wonderful musicians! 

RESPECT ENGAGE ASPIRE DAYS 

RESPECT ENGAGE ASPIRE DAYS We are very excited to be launching our first ‘REA DAYS’. The days will be an opportunity to enrich our school curriculum further and aim to provide workshops that pupils wouldn’t usually experience as part of the curriculum. We have built a rich and varied programme with support from lots of visiting experts to lead the

Thank You from the HMS PTA

It was fantastic to see so many pupils enjoying last week’s first discos of the year. We are delighted to say the PTA raised a huge £828. This is phenomenal for the first event of the year. A huge thank you to everyone who supported the event.  Our next event is our wonderful ‘Festive Forest Evening’. To make this another