HYMERS REVIEW
A ROUND-UP OF WHAT WE DID DURING THE SPRING TERM 2021/22 Senior School production of Les Misérables A hugely compelling production of Les Misérables performed to a sell-out audience who were not disappointed by this Senior School production performed in our theatre.
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Hymers College @Hymers_Junior: Congratulations to Hymers Junior School Year 6 Choir who have qualified to compete at the prestigious Llangollen International Eisteddfod in July. The children are incredibly excited! @llangollen_Eist
Hymers College @HymersCollege: Welcome back to our pupils and teachers from Half Term break and what a busy week we have ahead of us. We are straight back into it with a visit from guest author Darren Simpson here with us today - thank you for coming, we hope you enjoyed your trip to Hymers!
GENERAL REVIEW Year 12 re-design Hymers! A group of Year 12 students have been tasked with re-designing Hymers. Old Hymerian Victoria Farrow, an architect, visited the school to set the task of providing new solutions for various aspects for the College. Tom, Lucie, Ben, Freyja, Scarlett, Alex and Sahej have been working hard since October to research, create site plans and a website alongside producing the impressive 3D versions of their ideas.
Hymers College @HymersCollege: A huge thank you to everyone who donated to our Ukraine appeal. We collected an incredible array of products ranging from toiletries to baby clothes. All of the donated items were delivered to the Hull 4 Ukraine depot. Thank you all for your generosity.
Consideration had to be taken into account: for example, the main building is Grade II listed, so changes to the external building is restricted. The students have made some stunning designs and interesting changes, including a climbing wall inside the Main Hall!
Organ music returns to Hymers A Viscount Envoy 350SV organ was installed in the Main Hall over the Christmas holidays after being kindly donated to Hymers College by an Old Hymerian. It has 3 manuals (keyboards) allowing an even greater breadth of options when it comes to producing different sounds. Unlike the previous organ this one also has Bass speakers housed underneath the stage.
Hymers College @Hymers_Junior: As part of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek a Year 4 pupil asked if the children and staff could play some outdoor games together. This afternoon we came off timetable for two lessons and did just that!
It is the same make and model as the organ currently being used in Hull Minster.
Most fondly remembered - Noah, Year 9 It was with the greatest sadness that we learned of the death of our pupil Noah. Noah was an intelligent, kind and considerate pupil. He was an outstanding actor – most recently in the school’s outstanding production of Les Misérables. The shock of the news was felt across the school. A light that once burned brightly has gone out.
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We offer our prayers and thoughts for Noah, his sister, family and friends and will remember him fondly at School.
Hymers College @Hymers_Junior: Our Year 6 dancers had a fantastic day at the Great Big Dance Off regional heat in Halifax on Monday. They performed brilliantly in front of a large audience, creating an electric atmosphere in the Victoria Theatre.
Top of the Bench! A team from Hymers recently won second place in the Hull and East Yorkshire regional heat of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s competition Top of the bench.
Hymers College @Hymers_College: It’s LGBTQ+ History Month throughout February - our flag is flying here at Hymers and pupils can have a look at the fantastic display in our Learning Resource Centre.
Maud G and Nandhan S (Year 9), Adwaya D (Year 10) and Methum W (Year 11) undertook two extremely demanding tasks, which were assessed with typical rigour by judges from the local chemical industry. Methum captained the team extremely well in this intensely scholarly endeavour. All the team won Amazon vouchers worth £35, which they fully deserve.
Junior School Care Code Video
Hymers College @Hymers_Junior:
See what our students say about life in Hymers Junior School and what the Junior School ‘Code’ of Care, Acceptance, Respect and Effort means to them. The video can be viewed on the School’s channel on YouTube.
The children had so much fun at the disco yesterday! A huge thank you to @HcaHymers who organised this fantastic event.
Hymers success in Chemistry Olympiad The Royal Society of Chemistry runs an extremely challenging written examination for school students each January as part of its selection process for a team to take part in the International Chemistry Olympiad. Normally Year 12 students do not enter the competition as the topics covered are almost all more advanced than they have so far studied. However this year an incredibly enthusiastic set of Year 12 pupils also wanted to join in the Olympiad.
This is appropriate recognition at national level of outstanding students of academic Chemistry. All the pupils produced excellent results and particular praise goes to Matthew. His score put him in the top 100 of the entry of 8700 elite chemists nationally. Well done everyone.
Hymers College @Hymers_Junior: The Junior School pupils had great fun taking part in their first House Music Competition on Friday. There were some fabulous solo performances followed by great vocals and entertaining choreography in the Whole House Singing class. The winners were Holderness. Well done to all!
Our students did exceptionally well. Zain (Year 12), Dylan (Year 12) and Joel (Year 12) attained bronze certificates. Diya (Year 13) and Huarui (Year 13) gained silver certificates and Gaurav (Year 13), Matthew (Year 12) and Kushal (Year 12) won gold certificates, equalling a record haul in a single year for Hymers, and bringing our total of golds to 21. www.hymerscollege.co.uk | 3
Hymers College @HymersSport: Brilliant result for our Y5 Girls who have won the U10 Girls’ HMC Cross-Country team event. What a great achievement. Well done! And congrats to our Y6 boys who finished 3rd place in their team competition. Great effort!
Hymers College @HymersSport: We are delighted to announce that our Head of School Lexie is officially the World Number 1 U21 Racketlon player. Lexie has represented Hymers at tennis, squash and badminton and has used these foundations to forge a pathway in the sport of Racketlon which includes table tennis.
SPORTS REVIEW Netball Players of the Tournament Congratulations to Sophia (U14) and Mary (U16) for being awarded ‘Players of the Tournament’ at the Regional Round of National Schools competition at the weekend, as voted for by players and officials. After each match the opposition, umpires and tournament referee’s selected their ‘Player Of The Match’. After all games had been played the votes were counted to determine the ‘Player Of The Tournament’ for each respective age group (U14 and U16). There were around 70-80 extremely talented girls in each age group category; Sophia (U14) and Mary (U16) displayed outstanding netball consistently
Hymers College @HymersSport: The Under 14 rugby squad are pictured after their final game @RPNS7. A great performance in the last game resulted in a 14-7 win!
throughout the day and were deserving winners of this accolade.
Junior Sports Awards Well done to all our Spring Term Junior Sports Award winners. It’s been a super term with a successful introduction of boys’ hockey to the programme to run alongside football. We saw lots of participation and fun. All the boys and girls have continued to be a joy to coach in all their sports.
Fencers qualify for the National Finals
Hymers College @HymersSport: Well done to our Senior Games football group who produced an excellent performance against Woodhouse Grove today. Thanks to Mr Walmsley and Mr Geary for their work with this group throughout the year!
On Sunday 6 March the Yorkshire Youth Fencing Championships took place at Parkside School near Bradford. This is the qualifying event for the British Youth Championships which will take place over the May Bank Holiday weekend at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The Hymers fencers competing included – Oliver (3rd) and Tom (5th) in the Under 12 Boys’ Foil, Oliver (1st) in the Under 12 Boys’ Epee, Andrew (3rd) in the Under 14 Boys’ Foil and Befreen (3rd) in the Under 18 Girls’ Epee. All of our fencers have succeeded in qualifying for the National Finals representing Yorkshire. In past years Hymers fencers have regularly won both Regional and National
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fencing championships. We are at the stage of rebuilding fencing at Hymers after the disruptions of the last two years and now we have well over 40 fencers attending our sessions so we will go on to greater success.
a message from
NCS Graduate Challenge
Mr Justin Stanley
Last week our Hymers NCS graduates got the recognition they deserved in Westminster as six young people were brought into the heart of government to share their experience of volunteering by supporting Northern Rail’s ‘Unwanted Sexual Behaviours’ programme.
the headmaster
Hymers students Tom and Tash along with four fellow NCS graduates met with MPs to discuss why it is important to raise awareness of the need to report unwanted sexual behaviour.
Junior School Coding Club Despite the occasional Covid wave, after the disruption of the previous two years, the Spring Term felt like a continuing return to normality. As testified by the content of this publication, Hymers pupils continued to make the most of the academic, artistic and creative enrichment opportunities available to them. Our enhanced facilities – most especially the new astropitch and courts – have given the sporting life of the school a boost and are much commented upon by visitors. We enjoyed success in many of the major team sports – both in terms of levels of participation and 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.
In addition, we played 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.
“...a show that was described by many as the finest school production that they had seen.”
For all this sporting success, the co-curricular highlight of the term was undoubtedly the brilliant production of Les Misérables that played to a full house for four nights. Cast and crew – pupils and staff alike – excelled to put on a show that was described by many as the finest school production that they had seen. The news of the acquisition of Hessle Mount, our associate school, was an important strategic development and one that will help maximise the strength of Hymers in the years ahead.
The Coding Club runs every Thursday lunchtime by Mr Bloomfield for our Year 6 students. They are currently learning to create a dodgeball game using the Scratch software programme. Scratch is a high-level block-based visual programming language and website targeted primarily at children aged 8–16. Coding club compliments and in some cases extends what the children learn in lessons. As well as Scratch, we have used some Year 13 students to come in and show them how to use Python which is the software they use in senior school. This has helped to broaden the children’s knowledge and understanding of coding as a whole.
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Hymers College @Hymers_Art: Year 7 printmaking is off to a colourful start. Students are creating extended self portraits which reflect their interests this half term using a range of media.
ARTS REVIEW Senior School Production: Les Misérables
Hymers College @Hymers_Art: Even more outstanding urban landscapes from the phenomenally talented Year 10! Other coffee brands are available.
In March 65 Senior School pupils became the outstanding cast and crew for our Les Misérables school production in our theatre in March. This was our first opportunity since 2019 to put on a production for a live in-person audience. Night after night the pupils performed to a sell-out audience and received a standing ovation. In preparation for the show, the cast and crew travelled to London to watch the
Hymers College @HymersJunior: Well done to Alfie who won the 11 and under Woodwind Trophy at the Cottingham Music Festival and also Evelyn who won two singing classes.
Hymers College @Hymers_Art: A couple more really striking Year 10 urban landscapes in acrylics, one is local interest!
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show in the West End and attended a workshop at Pineapple Studios led by Adam Linstead - a current member of the Phantom of the Opera cast - who was bowled over by the quality of singing and acting displayed by our pupils as they worked with him on a performance of ‘At The End of The Day’. Our thanks to all the pupils and staff who helped put on such an incredible show.
Hymers College @Hymers_College: This morning, for the first time in two years almost to the day - we held a whole Senior School assembly, with everyone gathered in the Main Hall. Thank you to all the pupils who took part and to Dr Main and Mrs Dickinson for their assembly on the Ides of March. How wonderful!
Year 5 Production: Shakespeare’s Apprentices The end of the Spring Term saw our Year 5 pupils from the Junior School step out onto the theatre stage for their own production of ‘Shakespeare’s Apprentices’ – based on an idea of Director Drama Ms Rosser and written by Kate Bramley. All the Year 5 pupils had a role in the play and even Mr Doyle – Head of Junior
School – got to be a part of the production as Lord Doyle of Hymers! With some fantastic acting, singing, music, costumes, and props, all the pupils enjoyed the opportunity to perform to a live audience in our theatre. Well done to everyone involved in the production.
Hymers College @Hymers_College: To celebrate World Book Day yesterday, our Year 7 Library Ambassadors here at Hymers led a wonderful assembly talking about the magical world of books. Thank you to everyone who took part. #WorldBookDay
Hymers College @Hymers_College: Getting in the spirit of the day, yesterday pupils in our British Sign Language Club enjoyed learning Valentine-themed words and phrases. See their latest film and photos on the news section of our website. www.hymerscollege. co.uk/news.
Hymers College @Hymers_College: Did you see that sky last night? It looked simply stunning over the LRC. Our thanks to @tigerkj64 for snapping this incredible sight!
Spring Term Senior School House Cup Winner Congratulations to Holderness House in our Senior School who won the House trophy for Spring Term - collected by Heads of House Marie and Tom. Who will win this Term? It’s all to play for - good luck collecting those house points everyone! www.hymerscollege.co.uk | 7
Launching September 2022...
One School, on two sites, with one clear vision…
HYMERS HESSLE MOUNT: Pre-School to Sixth Form education from September 2022
Mr Doyle (Head of Hymers Junior School), Ms Cutting (Current Principal of Hessle Mount School) and Mr Stanley (Head of Hymers College).
Hessle Mount School has enjoyed an excellent reputation under the direction and ownership of the Cutting family for many years. For a long time Hymers has enjoyed a close relationship with Hessle
Mount, sharing a common ethos. Indeed, the path to Hymers from Hessle Mount as an associate school is well-trodden by many pupils. Until now Hessle Mount has always remained a separate school. Bringing Hessle Mount fully into the Hymers family was the logical step and an exciting opportunity not only for the existing pupils and parents of the two schools, but for generations to come.
“I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Hymers community. There is clear demand from local parents for Hymers to offer education for their children from the very early years. As one School, on two sites, with one vision, we are committed to setting the standard for education in the North of England from Pre-School through to Sixth Form. Hymers and Hessle Mount have shared a common ethos for a long time and I am thrilled that, by joining forces, we will be able to offer a top class education to greater numbers of pupils in the future.”
“It has been an absolute privilege to work with so many wonderful children, staff and parents as we have here at Hessle Mount. My family and I shall miss the School greatly. However, we are so pleased and comforted to know that, within the Hymers family, Hessle Mount will have an incredible future. We shall enjoy working with Hymers over the coming two terms as we transition to Hymers Hessle Mount and then continue to watch with delight the growth of the School for many years to come.”
“Today is a great step forward for Hymers. This extension of Hymers to provide an outstanding education for the very youngest in our community is tremendously exciting. Our vision is clear. From Pre-School to Sixth Form, we will offer outstanding academic teaching, exceptional facilities and broad cocurricular opportunities, all within a strong network of pastoral care. This will enable all our children to achieve their full potential and open doors for their future growth and development.”
Sarah Cutting
John Redman
Justin Stanley
Principal and Co-Proprietor, Hessle Mount
Hymers College Chair of Governors
This term saw launch the exiting news that for the first time in its 129 year history Hymers will be providing the complete educational experience from Pre-School to Sixth Form. From September 2022, Hessle Mount School will become Hymers Hessle Mount. Together they will form one School, on two sites with one clear vision. From September pupils will be able to join Hymers Hessle Mount from Pre-School
age through to the end of Year 2. At Year 3 children will transfer to the Hymers College campus for Junior School through to the completion of their studies at A Level in the Senior School.
Headmaster of Hymers College
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