Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Code to the Future

  Wed 15 Mar 2023

  We are very excited to be working with Code to the Future to teach our children programming. See the flyer for details

  

• World book day and science week

  Sun 12 Mar 2023

  It's been a busy week here at Hemyock! We had a wonderful science week with a plethora of experiments taking place across the school. You can see pictures of this and of our celebration of World Book day here.

• World Book Day

  Wed 01 Mar 2023

  For this year world book day, as well as the usual dressing up and in class events, we are holding two new activities. Please see the flyer below.

  

• Blackdown hills history workshops

  Wed 01 Mar 2023

  Yesterday, Year 1 and 3 received a visit from Cat of the heritage arts group. The Blackdown Hills history workshops are a great addition to our history curriculum. The children learnt about artefacts from the medieval and Roman periods, together with carrying out some practice archaeology! You can see some pictures on our gallery page here.

• New Website Launched!

  Mon 12 Dec 2022

  Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!

• World Mental Health Day 2022

  Fri 30 Sep 2022

  Our Mental Health Ambassadors planned a fantastic two day event to celebrate World Mental Health Day.

   

  On Friday 7th October, they raised money for the mental health charity YOUNGMINDS by asking staff and children to wear rainbow non-uniform. They held a disco in the hall, during morning break and lots of craft and team games at lunch. They even setup a photobooth area for children to pose with props with their friends. In the afternoon, each class was asked to have a ‘happy half hour’ together and do something fun.

   

  On Monday 10th October, they asked children to take part in the #helloyellow challenge. They made friendship bracelets and created portraits of themselves.

  

• Wilcombe Wobbler

  Mon 11 Jul 2022

  Well done to the Wilcombe Wobbler team for bringing back the trophy for yet another year.
  Hemyock has brought the cup home 6 times since 2015!

  

• The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

  Fri 01 Jul 2022

  To celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, we presented parents with a celebration assembly. As a school, we sang some of the Queen’s favourite songs including, Sing and We’ll Meet Again. We then shared some of our learning from the week which focused on the Queen’s reign throughout each decade. After that, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of our school building opening by planting a tree and burying a time capsule. Watch the video below to see our celebrations.

• Science Week 2022

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  The theme for this year’s Science Week was MICROBES. A microbe is a tiny life form that can only be seen with a microscope.

   

  The PTFA treated every class to a visit to the Space Odyssey dome brought to us by Mr Simon Ould.

  

• World Book Day 2022

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  At Hemyock, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day! It was a day filled with lots of exciting, celebratory ways to promote reading for pleasure. In the morning, each member of staff read a story to different groups of children around the school. There was also a whole school assembly for us to see all the costumes and to hear Mr Greenhall read an extract from the book ‘Boy’ by ROALD DAHL. Throughout the day we shared our favourite stories, participated in live lessons and created stories of our own. To finish the day off we were treated to a live reading from Michael Morpurgo. What a wonderful day!