Spring Term

Extra excitement was added right at the start of the term with the announcement of the launch of Hymers Hessle Mount. Hessle Mount School had long been our associate school but through an acquisition will be brought fully into the Hymers family and open its doors as Hymers Hessle Mount in September 2022.

Meanwhile, our pupils continued to make the most of all of the opportunities offered to them, perhaps continuing to revel in no longer enduring home-schooling. We are lucky to have such outstanding facilities here at Hymers, and it is wonderful to see our pupils take full advantage of these. Our new astro-pitch, laid last summer and the courts alongside, have given the sporting life of the school a real boost. They have also brought a number of new visitors to the school who are keen to use the facilities.

We enjoyed plenty of success in many of the major team sports this term - both from the point of view of high levels of participation and from the results against competitor schools.

We have had strong terms in boys’ hockey and in particular girls’ netball. For example, in netball four out of ten sides beat The Grammar School at Leeds and both our 1st and 2nd teams qualified for the final in their respective regional competitions against the best northern schools, with the 1st team beating St Peter’s in the semi-final.

It has also been a pleasure to see the growth of football played as a competitive sport at Hymers with more football fixtures in the Senior School, alongside rugby 7s and hockey.

Our 7s teams had mixed seasons in terms of results, but our U15s won the Plate competition at Pocklington, and the 1st VII did very well to qualify for the second day at Rosslyn Park, defeating strong rugby schools such as RGS Guildford and QEGS Wakefield en route.

For all the sporting success, the co-curricular highlight of the term was undoubtedly the outstanding production of Les Misérables that played to a full house in our theatre night after night. Cast and crew were excellent and put on a show that was described by many as the finest school production that they had ever seen. It was truly first-rate and I congratulate all of those involved, staff and pupils, in putting on such an incredible show.

Mr Stanley Headmaster