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Year 7 have completed their trip to St Cuthbert's Church.

Last week was biscuit week in Food and Nutrition. Students across all year groups improved their skills and finishing techniques with a Jubilee biscuit challenge. There were some fabulous results! Winners were awarded a Jubilee medal for their efforts. Sadly no ‘Hollywood handshake’ available but thankfully not one ‘soggy bottom’!

Well done to the year 7 netball team who competed in the town tournament on Thursday night. They were fantastic, improving each game. Overall 4th out of 7 teams.

The Y8 netball team won their recent tournament. Wow... what a team!! The girls were absolutely amazing, they won all games out of 5 and only conceded 2 goals during the tournament. They won all their games by at least 13 goals and they were only 10 minute games. That is impressive stuff!!!

Well done to the following Y8 girls who competed at Darlington Cricket Club in the town tournament. They came 4th, enjoyed their day and developed some new skills!

Town Swimming Gala Winners!

Darlington Town Swimming Gala took place on Wednesday 23rd March 2022.

World Book Day

On World Book Day, students at Hummersknott celebrated reading with special form time activities, creative lessons in English and reading related activities at break and lunch time. The scavenger hunt of book titles was particularly popular with staff and students alike! Staff also dressed up as book characters to embrace the World Book Day fun!

The three teams performed to their potential with some great results. Year 8 Boys were the stars of the competition winning overall out of 10 schools. Year 7 boys came 2nd and the Year 8 girls came 5th out of 10 teams.

This year we had a fantastic response to the Christmas card competition, with hundreds of wonderful entries. The theme this year was UNITY and alongside this, students were asked to try to consider the connection to their College Identities and “Making a Positive Contribution”.

Some of our year 7 students were invited to have afternoon tea with the Principal Mr. Keating. It is a lovely opportunity for everyone to get to know each other and to find out a little bit about Mr. Keating! Every term, a different group will be invited to attend afternoon tea with him.

It is with regret that the evening performance of our annual Christmas Concert which was due to take place on Tuesday 14th December 2021 has had to be cancelled. Any tickets purchased via Ticket Source have now been refunded.

During the month of October. 120 KS3 students enjoyed food and drinks tasting, quizzes, music and taking selfies in the LRC as we celebrated the world biggest folk festival. Danke schön! und Prost!

Well done to the girls who finished runners up, losing out to Carmel who won the tournament. Played Carmel in the first game and lost narrowly but then beat all the other schools

The following girls have been selected for the U13’s north Durham satellite squad in netball.

In recent French lessons, Y7 students completed a project about crepes and their importance in French culture. They learned all of the ingredients used to make a crepe and studied a recipe in French. They were then set a challenge to make their own crepe and either produce a video or a storyboard outlining how they went about it.