On Monday 16 and Wednesday 18 November 2020, we will be holding virtual Parents’ Evenings for Year 6. You should have now received a link (https://hexhammiddle.schoolcloud.co.uk/) to our new online booking platform and your child should also have a paper copy of the instructions in their bags. This is a new video appointment system, so please do let us know if
Before half term, our Arts Award group made stencils and printed directly onto fabric using textile inks; a screen-printing project taught to the group by Beatrice D. They experimented with blending two colours at the same time. Each of the girls printed a bag they could take home, based on music notation. The pupils ironed their bags inside out to
This week (w/c 2 November 2020) is Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, an opportunity for young people to experience the world of engineering on digital and social media platforms. As part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, The Big Quiz will be starting on Tuesday 3 November 2020. The fun 30-minute quiz will develop pupils’ engineering knowledge and provide lots of useful information about
Year 7 have been developing their ideas and completing some fantastic homework. Pupils have been learning about pattern and how templates can tessellate. Lots of new techniques are being developed and creative imaginations all round. Well done Year 7. Fab start to the year! Miss Lawton
Year 6 have been working hard on their texture project. The children have been learning about the artist Scarpace and creating beautiful textured fish. Pupils have been learning about how to use mark-making and tone to create texture! Well done Year 6. Miss Lawton
Items in lost property at present have been photographed and are shown below. In addition there are some school jumpers and a small number of PE hoodies all unnamed. If your child would like to come to the office we can try and reunite them with anything they have lost. If your child has mislaid something other than in the
Our brand-new school is taking shape and we are so excited to see it! Mr Atkins has prepared a short virtual tour of our new school site so that you get a sense of what life will be like there. We will capture the ethos and atmosphere of HMS in the new buildings along with state-of-the-art facilities, learning spaces and
Our Year 5 pupils have been working on their proportion drawings and have started a collaboration project during this half term. Each of the sections will make up an animal, bird or an insect. The animals we have been working on have been a zebra, a tiger, and an elephant. We’ve also started a kingfisher and a butterfly! The small
A reminder that admission applications for September 2021 entry to HMS need to be made through Northumberland County Council by 31 October. Our fantastic Virtual Open Evening videos (available on our website) really capture life at our school – we hope you manage to get a good understanding of life at HMS. If you would like to talk to us
This week is Local Democracy Week. Our school Parliament will have their inaugural meetings at lunch time this week and each Representative will receive their badges. Why don’t you watch the video produced by Northumberland County Council (see link below) at home and have a discussion about why democracy is important. You could even debate some local issues that may