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Year 7 Boys' Football Match vs Fairlands

Wed 31 Jan 2024 Mr McGrath

The year 7 boys Football team served up a feast of goals in a brilliant game against a skillful and determined Fairlands team. Hugh Sexey started brightly with midfield dynamo Eric striking the crossbar with a rasping drive. Fairlands then scored first against the run of play. Their powerful striker finishing cooly after a long pass was played over the top. Hugh Sexey continued to stick to their possession based game, with the midfield trio of Eric, Logan and Tyler having a pronounced impact on the game. It was a joy to watch them win the ball and then keep it with slick and intricate passes. Jack and Louis offered excellent width for the midfield from the full back positions and both got lots of ball in attacking positions. After a defensive corner Hugh Sexey worked the ball to Captain Harry on the right and the ball was worked into the box. Fairlands managed to clear their lines but Tyler was waiting outside the box and produced a spectacular finish with his weaker foot to level the scores. The Fairlands keeper had been playing out of his skin and it was going to take something special to beat him. Luke entered the fray from the bench and put in a physical commanding performance that was reminiscent of a young Kevin Davies of Bolton Wanderers fame. His presence unsettled the Fairlands defense and this allowed the midfield and full backs even more time on the ball.

At half time the boys talked about being more positive in attack and working the ball forward quicker. It didn't take them long to put this into practice with Eric netting another goal that, like Tyler's, wouldn't of been out of place in a goal of the Month competition. For 10 minutes Hugh Sexey then played some excellent Football. Charlie offered width to the attack and when called upon James was a commanding presence at the back. Indeed, many of the attacks started with James quick thinking and ability to see the game in front of him. As the game progressed, Tyler went through the whole box of tricks, playing no look passes and seeming impossible to knock off the ball. At one stage he had 3 players against him and managed to wriggle free before playing the ball back into the midfield. After a through ball was cut out, Louis pounced with a thunderous goal from outside the box. It was another cracking goal and required excellent technique to keep the ball down. With the score at 3-1 Fairlands showed excellent spirit and got back into the game with a neat finish after excellent approach play by their Captain. Fairlands seemed buoyed by this and it was a nervous watch as a ball was floated into the Hugh Sexey box. The Fairlands strikers first touch was immaculate. He pulled the trigger to shot, but Keeper Henry stood his ground and caught the powerful shot. This was a key moment in the game. Henry then played it forward and as he was regaining his breath got to watch Eric deliver the decisive goal to make the game 4-2.

Both teams played the game with an excellent spirit. It was an absolute joy to referee and watch the game. If this is the future of football we are in safe hands.

HSMS Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day

Mon 29 Jan 2024 Mrs Godwin

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY Students at HSMS have commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day this week by creating a Holocaust Memorial flame display. Students spent some in Collective Worship looking at the story of 13 year old Susanne Kenton, who was one of 10,000 children who were part of the Kindertransport programme. We learned about how Sir Nicholas Winton and others helped to organise thousands of trains out of Europe, saving countless lives from the actions of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Students discussed how we can work together to make sure that discrimination doesn't happen in the future and how we can learn from events in the past. Each student created a square with their reflections, and these were put together to create our flame. The flame will be displayed in the library over the next week, so that students will have the opportunity to see what each year group has contributed. For more information on Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on Saturday 27th January, please visit the Holocaust Memorial trust website. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST (HMD.ORG.UK)

Year 4 Boys' Football Festival @ Wedmore

Thu 25 Jan 2024 Mrs Allen

This event took place at the Wedmore Football Astro pitches. On this occasion 16 keen year eight sports leaders both coached and refereed the competition .

Teams present :

Mark

Lympsham

Wedmore

East Brent and Lympsham

The atmosphere was very bright, and the level of play was excellent.

Year eights encouraged and managed the teams and it was nice for the younger players to work so positively with year eight leaders.

The final result

1st Lympsham

2nd Weare

3rd Wedmore /East Brent

4th Mark

Thank you to all staff and parents for the great support with this event.

High Scoring Game Sees the U13 Progress

Wed 10 Jan 2024 Mr Whittaker

A well contested game saw the U13 HSMS side progress into the next round of the Somerset County Cup. Both teams played some great football creating lots of goal scoring opportunities with both goal keepers being tested through-out. The final score was 6-3 to HSMS and the goal scorers were Jude x2 Zak x2 Noah D & Jack. Player of the match went to Noah Dunne after his fantastic headed goal.

Anti-Bullying Week - Poster Competition.

Thu 04 Jan 2024 Mrs Le Hunte

Children in KS2 took part in a poster competition for Anti-Bullying week, at the end of last term. The standard of work was really high and we spent a long time sorting through the entries. These are our talented winners:

The overall winner for Year 6 was Sophia from 6AP.

The overall winner for Year 5 was Evelyn Rose from 5OM.

Runners up in Year 5 were Jess L, Freya S and Darcy C.

Runners up in Year 6 were Ava S, Amelia O and Zoe C.