GENERAL REVIEW

Goldsmiths’ visit to mark Hymers success

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There has been lots of DT going on at Hymers! In the Senior School, our Year 12 students were working on their educational products, which are based on Froebel’s gifts and promote learning development through creative play. Over in our Junior School, Year 4 has been making delicious carrot and hummus wraps!

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Following their success over 140 other schools across the country to take first prize in the Goldsmiths’ Company Awards for Community Engagement, Hymers College hosted visitors from Goldsmiths’ in February along with representatives of community action projects to showcase the work the school does in the Hull and surrounding area. Simon Connell from the Goldsmiths’ Award Team, met with the Headmaster Mr Stanley, pupils and teachers at Hymers before being shown a number of local projects the school supports.

This included a visit to Pearson Primary School where Hymers Sixth Form students regularly support young children with their reading skills. The visitors were also shown the work that Hymers pupils have done at Welcome House - a local charity that supports asylum seekers and refugeesand with Northern Rail where pupils have been working with the company to tackle anti-social behaviour and harassment at local stations.

Headmaster Mr Stanley commented:

“It was fantastic to be able to welcome representatives from the Goldsmiths’ Award team to Hymers and to be able to showcase the community action work of our pupils.

“Hymers has a long tradition of reaching beyond its boundaries and supporting the local community and organisations. We fully intend for that to continue both through our community action work and the financial bursaries that we offer to support pupils who would otherwise be unable to attend the school.

“I am proud that the work of our pupils has been recognised nationally by winning such a prestigious award. I look forward to continuing to have strong links with the local community and supporting more projects as we go forward.

“At a time when independent schools are being called upon to demonstrate their public benefit, it is important for people to recognise the wider good that schools like Hymers make to their communities.”

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We have been celebrating International Women’s Day across Hymers, including a seminar in the Senior School - a collaboration between our History and Classics departments - to celebrate inspirational women who have been obscured or forgotten in history. Our thanks to all our speakers!

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Thank you to Old Hymerian Dr John Kittmer for inspiring our current and future Ancient Greek students about the benefits of studying Classics. A Cambridge Classicist, Dr Kittmer has enjoyed an illustrious career in the civil service, culminating in a tenure as the UK Ambassador to Greece. Still passionate about ancient languages, his love of the Classics has given him many amazing opportunities!

Time Capsule Club ‘buries’ their capsule

On the third anniversary of national lockdown the Time Capsule Club handed over its three-year long project to commemorate life during Covid to our Development Office.

During the Summer Term of 2020, History Teacher, Mrs Robinson, proposed a club to her Year 7 historians to record the momentous nature of the Covid lockdown. Initially thinking that the club would last a term, it has continued, resulting in a time capsule and booklet.

Since 2020, the students have held weekly meetings, where they have worked on producing a time capsule containing items, documents, and photos that related to significant memories for them of this unique time period. Toilet roll was, of course, included after shortages made the headlines in the initial weeks of the pandemic, along with a hand sanitiser, a face mask and Covid test kit.

They also worked together to create a booklet of their memories of the lockdown, which included school events, such as a No Zoom Day and the return of school assemblies after two years, and national

World Book Day in the Junior School

The Year 6 Leadership Club organised a fantastic Book Day. The day began with a parade of all the children who had come dressed in some wonderful outfits based on book characters.

Some of the children from the Leadership Club read extracts from their favourite books and there were also some amazing plays which the children had devised in groups based on different books.

As well as a book treasure hunt, the children enjoyed the teacher challenge which resulted in some members of staff being put into a Matilda style chokey! The day ended with children pairing up with their buddies to design a bookmark and read to each other.

Well done to the Year 6 Leadership Club for organising the day.

events, such as the death of The Duke of Edinburgh and the roll-out of the vaccines. The students also interviewed several Old Hymerians as part of the project, to find out what school life was like for them and also how they were finding the lockdown. They have since attended some of the Old Hymerian lunches at the school and met some of the former students who corresponded with them.

Both the Time Capsule and the booklet has now been presented to the Development Office.

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To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, our Senior School paused to reflect and remember those who have lost their lives to genocide. Thank you to Madame Humblet for leading the assembly.

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Thank you to pupils, parents and exhibitors for joining us at Hymers College for our annual Careers Convention. We had a fantastic range of local businesses and organisations attend from across a wide range of industries and sectors for our pupils to meet and discuss career steps with.

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We had a fantastic end of term Senior School assembly in our Main Hall. It included the awarding of School Colours, music from our brass quintet, a sports report and the highly anticipated announcement of winner of the House Cup this term... congratulations Holderness!

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Good luck to our Years 4 - 6 teams - and all those taking part from visiting schools - in the swimming gala here at Hymers! It is fantastic to see (and hear!) so many children enjoying the pool and swimming!