ARTS REVIEW

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A massive thank-you to Denford for a brilliant training session today. We’re really looking forward to using our new CNC machine with our GCSE and A Level students @DenfordHQ

Hymers Recital Club

A termly concert saw the return of former Hymers student, Rachel Wheatley singing a variety of songs, much enjoyed by the audience.

Joining her on stage was the Hymers Eclectic ensemble comprised of Music staff, Margaret Pearson, Richard Quick, Rachael

England and Claire Herriot. They played a piece by Mozart not often performed because of the unique Instrumentation, Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello.

A huge thank you to everyone who supported the evening and donated to the Schools chosen charities.

Hymers College @Hymers_Art: Toyota Dream Cars!

Success for Brandesburton House

The end of term saw all the Junior School children involved in the House Music Competition.

There were instrumental, piano and vocal solos followed by whole House singing. Some fantastic performances! Well done to Brandesburton who were this year’s winners.

Senior Choral Concert

Thanks to the wonderful musicians for an uplifting performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria at our Senior Concert.

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A fantastic start made by the first group of Year 6 students. Well done everyone!

Superb performances from Senior Strings, Cello, Windband and Percussion Ensemble.

It was lovely to welcome parents, friends and alumni to join in with the Hymers College Chorus - it was also a fitting way for some wonderful Year 13 students to sign off. Thank you for the music!

Hymers College @HymersMusic: Well done @Hymers_College Brass Quintet for providing this mornings music for Assembly. #brass #quintet #missionimpossible #fanfare

Royal Society of Chemistry’s Olympiad Competition

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Year 5 & 6 Book Club have been reading ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ by Philippa Pearce. Tom discovers a magical, secret garden whilst staying at his aunt and uncle’s flat for the summer. We had a go at creating this garden in edible form! They look amazing and taste delicious

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Olympiad Competition is an extremely testing written examination.

This year five Year 13 students answered questions on: n rocket fuels, including the chemistry of the preparations to colonise Mars; n electronegativity, bonding and structure, including the pioneering work of Linus Pauling, as well as van Arkel-Ketelaar triangles; n the acid-base and complexometric properties of amino acids; n vaping, including the chemistry of Vaping Associated Lung Injury (VALI) n cheese, including the chemistry of controlling the bubble size in Emmental.

Mohammed H was awarded a Silver Certificate, and Matthew A, Zain A, Kushal K and Joel W achieved Gold Certificates. Four Golds in a single year equals the best ever performance by

Author visits to Hymers

We have been priviledged this term to have had two extremely interesting visits from two fascinating authors. Photographer turned novelist, Lou Abercrombie talked with our Year 6, 7 and 8 pupils and Library ambassadors about her writing and inspiration. Meanwhile, author, film

Hymers. Kushal was placed 10th nationally (11,838 entries, roughly 60,000 studying A Level Chemistry), and qualified for a gruelling and stimulating training and selection camp at the University of Nottingham (lectures and laboratory work plus a 4 hour written examination and a 4 hour practical examination), where he narrowly failed to be selected for the UK team for the international final in Zurich in July. The Chemistry Department is thrilled at, and very proud of, these magnificent achievements, and they represent appropriate recognition at national level of outstanding students of academic chemistry. In 40 years (bar 11 weeks) of teaching, no student I have worked with has matched, let alone exceeded, the speed, accuracy, flair and intuitive feel for correct chemistry of either Kushal or Matthew. Well done!

Mr Prescott nb. A copy of the question paper can be found on the news section of our website. director and explorer Matt Dickinson talked to Years 9 and 10 about his explorations on Everest and the inspirations behinds his writing.

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Year 4 have been studying the book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. For her creative homework, Freya in 4C has made an amazing Narnia inspired lemon cake. Thanks Freya - it was delicious!

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Good luck to all our Year 5 pupils in the theatre this evening for the opening night of their performance of Mystery at Magpie Manor. We had an early taster of just how good this musical production is at the dress rehearsal this morning - it is going to be fantastic!