Issue 5 • June 2023
...................... A message from Mr Copeland .................... This half term has been extremely busy and the staff and pupils have celebrated a moment in history with the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. In school the children learned about the significance of this event and about King Charles III’s life, his love of nature and progressive views on the environment. Many of the children talked about watching the event at home, attending street parties and one family were even lucky enough to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales.
On Monday 22 May I was thrilled to join Year 1 on their school trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The pupils were fantastic ambassadors for the school and thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of the animals and dinosaurs. I was very impressed with the amount of knowledge the children had about the animals, learnt why meerkats have dark circles around their eyes and that polar bears have jet black skin and translucent fur! The children were very brave in their creepy crawly educational session and treated the animals respectfully in the fantastic hands on workshop. We even managed
to introduce some Maths into the trip with a visit to the gift shop. There were some very tired children on the coach back and as I look at my smart watch history and see that I recorded over 17,000 steps in the park I can see why! All the other year groups will be heading off on school trips before the end of term with the Pre-School visiting Acorn Hollow, Reception heading over the bridge to Hall Farm Park and Year 2 travelling down the M62 to Potteric Carr. We believe that there are lots of benefits to school trips and that travelling off site can help pupils develop self-esteem, self-confidence and self-belief. Trips also give young people the chance to bring subjects to life, broaden their horizons and allow new friendships to develop. Next half term will also see pupils preparing for their next steps with many Pre-School pupils about to rise into Reception and Year 2 pupils getting ready to make the transition over to Hymers College Junior School. Transitions are an important part in any school and at Hymers Hessle Mount
we aim to make these as smooth as possible for our pupils. The Pre-School children have been fully integrated with the rest of the school throughout the year by attending Wednesday and Friday morning assemblies, sharing a lunch time with Reception, joining House Events and celebrating Theme Days throughout the year. The Year 2 pupils have made regular trips over to the Hymers Campus for Swimming and Music lessons alongside meeting Junior School pupils at events, such as the Swimming Gala, Children in Need Day and Productions. I believe that these stepping stones and the support from all the staff towards each child’s social development will allow our pupils to confidently move through the school excited for the new year ahead. We have another extremely busy few weeks leading up to the end of the school year with lots of events taking place in June and July. Please take a look at the Key Dates section to see what is coming up. I hope to see lots of you at some of these events over the next few weeks.