Hymers Book Day

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.

Letters from the Lighthouse

Emma Carroll

There are three children and one of them goes missing in the air raid a week before they were due to be evacuated. I found the plot very intriguing as I’m learning about evacuation in history at school.

My Opinion

My favourite part is when Olive and Esther Jenkins bring in the boat together because they weren’t very good friends before that.

Characters

The main characters are Olive, Cliff, Sukie and Ernest. My favourite character is Olive because she is brave, defiant and honest.

Recommend

I would say that if you enjoy adventure books then you would love this book. I would recommend this book because it was nothing like I’d ever read before and I think it has a very important message.

By Francesca, Year 6

Dissection

Budding scientists in Year 6 enjoyed their Junior course in dissection.

Mushroom: Teacher modelling setup, using apparatus, H&S and procedures

Tomato: Pupils to independently carry out dissection with a partner.

French Cheese Tasting

OnMonday27th FebruaryallYear5did cheese-tastinginModernLanguages.We havebeenlearningabouttheFrenchculture,birthdays,celebrationsandeverything!Frenchcheesesareeatenwitha baguette(atypicalFrenchbread)andred wine.Mrs.Exleytriedherbesttogiveus somethinglikeredwineandgaveusred grapejuiceandlemonadewithslicesof baguette.Wehadavarietyof tendifferentcheesesandMrs.Exleyexplainedthe originsofeachone.Mrs.Exleysaidwe didbrilliantlyandwereverysensiblein tastingthecheese.

By Isabel, Year 5

MFL Joke of the Month

What would a French dog who loves potatoes be called?

A pomme de terrier!

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality learning has landed in the Junior School to further enhance children’s learning. From swimming with the sharks to holding a heart, our pupils will be immersed into the next level of learning, which will broaden their understanding of the world. The teachers can’t wait either!

Year 5 have been building these steady hand games. After much circuit testing and trouble shooting, they are finally ready to take home. Well done!

D.T.

After completing their healthy eating project, Year 4 were set the fun challenge of building a Lego tower to support an egg. They had to use the least amount of bricks to create the tallest structure. These pupils are celebrating after reaching a whopping 87cm using only 100 bricks! Well done on your fantastic team work!

Art

The art room is looking vibrant, and an array of artwork is decorating the walls upstairs. The self-portraits created by Year 6 have had many admirers and the children are, quite rightly, very proud of their work. Year 5 have created zines based on poems, using painting, collage and printing. The still life collages produced by Year 4 look wonderfully colourful in the art room. Year 3's cut paper collages, based on paintings from the Ferens collection, also look fantastic.

Author Visits

We were lucky to welcome two authors into Hymers recently. Lou Abercrombie spoke to Year 6 and Matt Dickinson and spoke to all year groups.

Book Club

In Year 3/4 Book Club, we have beenreading 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl. We made sugared mice as the witches are plotting totrick all the children in the UK with poisonous sweets and turn them into mice! We alsomade witches' faces.

Hymers Host Hmc

On March 1st, Hymers hosted the HMC Football and Netball tournaments. Despite the weather, it was great to see around 240 children enjoying their football and playing in great spirit! Well done to our trophy winners, including Hymers B team who brought home the Vase! There was an amazing effort from all 30 netball teams. It was great to see so much quality netball being played in great spirit. Well done to all the trophy winners, including our B team who came away with the Vase. Our A team did really well, finishing 4th overall. Well done to everyone who took part.

Girls Football

Our Girls football team took on Griffin Primary in the Humberside Cup. Fortunately we progressed on penalties and all girls were a credit to their school!