Some of Henry Foster's friends travelled over to Sedbergh today to visit a memorial that has been set up for him.
They took a Hymers' shirt to go alongside shirts of the other teams that Henry played for.
Our thoughts are with friends and family at this difficult time.
We are delighted to say that Greg Bone has joined the coaching team at Hymers.
Greg is a former Rugby Development Officer and brings with him a wealth of coaching experience.
He is currently Director of Rugby at Google Rugby Club and is highly respected in the local area.
Mr Harrison has motivated many generations of Hymerians with his passion for rugby.
He retires this summer and we would like to thank him for his commitment and drive that have been the inspiration for our teams whilst Dave has been involved.
We hope to see you back soon.
B.Copley the Hymers' rugby captain has been selected to captain the Yorkshire Rugby Academy in their inaugural Academy League match. The team are playing Wasps at Broad Street on Saturday.
Good luck to all concerned. We are rightly proud!
We are delighted to announce that our Head of School Lexie is officially the World Number 1 U21 Racketlon player.
Lexie has represented Hymers at tennis, squash and badminton and has used these foundations to forge a pathway in the sport of Racketlon which includes table tennis.
This summer Mr Skirving moves on to take up a new post as Head of Rugby at Churcher's School in Hampshire.
We would like to thank him for the commitment, dedication and enthusiasm that he has brought to Hymers over the last 5 years and we wish him well for the future.
The new astro has officially been handed over to the school.
The sports department would like to thank Mr Schofield (Operations Manager) for his work in the planning and installation of the facility and the Governor's for their foresight in giving permission for it to be built.
Mr Exley had been accompanying Hymers ski trips for 37 years and is pictured at the end of his final run.
Thanks for all that you have done to help so many of our students have so much fun!
There was an amazing atmosphere and great cameraderie amongst players and spectators as we remembered Henry Foster at the sevens tournament at Hymers today.
Hymers' response to welcoming Year 6 back into school.
Social distancing in the marquees in the fresh air in our wonderful grounds.
Well done to all concerned in creating this environment for our students.
A huge vote of thanks to Mr Exley who retired from Hymers yesterday after 37 years at the school.
Throughout this time he has run rugby and cricket teams, a fact made all the more amazing owing to the fact he is actually an Economics teacher.
Amazing dedication and one of a kind!
What a set of players!
Hymers U15 have reached the National Plate Final to be played at Saracens ground in 2 weeks time.
Thanks to
@oundleschool
for a terrific contest, where the lead changed hands a number of times.
Some terrific rugby from both schools.
#highmerithighreward
Today should have marked the start of study leave for our senior students and we thought it fitting to thank them for their 10 years service to Hymers' sport.
Commitment, resilience and reliability are all words that come to mind when we consider the class of 2020. Good luck all!
Well done to Ben Copley who captained Yorkshire U18s today to a 48 24 win over Northampton. He even grabbed himself a try in a great performance.
A player with a bright future!
A huge vote of thanks to Kevin our groundsman who retires from Hymers tomorrow after 31 years service.
Never one for the limelight, but a key member of our grounds team who keep the school looking spectacular.
All the best for a long and happy retirement Kev and thankyou!
The South Africa 2023 Tour Party are picture outside the front of Hymers College as we set off on Tour.
We hope to do Hymers College and East Yorkshire proud.
This group of boys have played together over the last 10 years and been outstanding servants to Hymers' sport.
Good luck in the future and keep playing sport!
Hymers' Ben Copley has been named in the future stars top 100 players to look out for in the future.
Ben has been the rock of a very talented team throughout their time at Hymers and we look forward to tracking his future progress.
As the term comes to a close I write to thank our students and parents for their support for the sporting programme throughout the year.
Thanks also to the sports staff who work so hard to provide the best opportunities available.
Have a great summer and see you in September!
The following students have been selected as Captain's and Vice Captain's of Sport for this season.
Girls' hockey:
Gina DeLancey (c)
Phoebe Rayner (vc)
Rugby:
Ben Copley (c)
Joe Stead (vc)
Boys' hockey:
Will Appleton (c)
James Godber (vc)
Good luck and lead your teams with pride
They have done it again!
@acklams
have sent us the Hull City team coach to travel down to the Plate Final at Saracens Rugby Club.
What an experience for these young men!
The girls have had an amazing first day preparing for the national finals. Footgolf was competitive with the teachers taking a narrow win! The girls then visited St George’s park and met Lucy Bronze! Time to prepare for tomorrow!
#girlsfootball
#thesegirlscan
As the academic year comes to an end I write to thank everyone involved in Hymers' sport.
We run a very full programme with large numbers participating in a wide variety of sports.
Particular thanks to our parents who support their children in so many ways.
The Yorkshire Rugby Academy led by Hymers' Ben Copley won 28 - 21 away at Wasps today.
Well done to the team and special praise for Ben from the whole Hymers' community.
We would like to congratulate Hymers College student Sebastian Auton on putting pen to paper and signing with Grimsby Town FC! Well deserved and keep up the good work..
@GTFCAcademy
#safehands
#cleansheets
We are delighted that Greg Bone will be joining the Games department in September. Greg worked for the RFU for many years before he entered teaching.
Sure he'll make a big impact 😁
#HymersCollege
Old Hymerian Simon Hammersley of Sale Sharks and England visited Hymers today.
He is pictured next to the shirt that he donated to the school in the Sports Centre corridor.
Special thanks to Miss Walker and Mr Cook for organising this superb trip.
Hours of endless paperwork to pull things together before we set off and endless hard work to ensure the needs of all of our students were met in resort.
We are all so grateful to you!
By an amazing coincidence, we met Mr Exley's first ever Hymers captain Andy Hewitt from 1986 at the airport and his last captain Oliver B from 2023 and the South Africa Tour.
Well done to Sedbergh on winning the cup today at the
@HymersSport
senior sevens. The weather was a challenge but some great sevens on show.
Next up the North of England
@NextGenXV
Superb win for our U15 rugby players in the National Plate Quarter Final against
@RugbySchool1567
by 19 points to 17.
A fantastic display of school boy rugby by both schools, with Hymers just holding out for the win.
Thanks to rugby for travelling and being such worthy opponents.
A note of gratitude to Mr Murray who moves onto a new role coaching a hockey club in Belgium this summer.
Mr Murray has been key to the success of our hockey programme and we wish him luck in his new venture!
The school is looking great in the sunshine today and all set for our students to return tomorrow.
Please make the most of the sporting opportunities on offer and fully embrace what it means to be a Hymerian.
@Hymers_College
Henry was a very talented sportsman who enjoyed a whole range of sports. He played in a team of tight knit friends and we hope that his team mates can find comfort for each other in the memories and camaraderie that they shared together. Rest in peace.
We are delighted to welcome Sarah Taylor to the Games Department.
Sarah is well known in the local area as a coach and player at Kingston Hockey Club and also coaching Humberside
She has a psychology degree and her other interests include triathlon and athletics.
We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Souter has joined our staff for the summer term.
Jonathan brings with him a wealth of cricket experience and will focus on developing our girls' cricket.
He will also be running our pre season nets this half term on a Saturday.
A huge vote of thanks to the staff involved in both the Junior School tour to Worcestershire and the U15 and U16 tour to Portugal.
Special thanks to Mr Hodson, Mrs Fillingham and Mr Skirving for organising the tours.
Fantastic opportunities for all of the students involved!
A huge thank you to Mr Cook for all of his work in organising the 2023 Les Deux Alpes Ski Trip.
He works tirelessly to ensure that each and every student has a fantastic time.
2024 Le Grand Massif.
#Hymersskiteam
.
Who would be out on a night like this?
These Hymers sports teams!
Over 70 girls at netball, 70 plus boys at rugby and over 20 boys at hockey.
It is great to be back!
Thanks to all of the coaches for braving the conditions and putting on such great sessions.
Ellie has joined the school to teach PE and Games. She has an illustrious sporting background having attended Sedbergh School and then going on to Loughborough University. We hope that she enjoys working at Hymers.
4 wins out of 4 on tour for the U16s and their coach Mr Exley who signs off his Hymers career in style on the South African Tour.
Thanks for the memories Billy, you have inspired countless Hymerians to achieve great things!
We said goodbye at break today to Graham Tipping after a 16 year association with the school.
Graham has made a huge impact on Hymers cricket and also contributed to many other areas of school life.
We wish Graham all the best with his retirement.
@old
Many thanks to our transport partners
@acklams
for sending the Hull City team coach to transport the boys to their National Cup quarter final match in Liverpool.
Huge well done to Henry C in Y4 who has done incredibly with his swimming. He is now ranked British
#1
in 200m individual medley,
#2
for 200m breaststroke & 100m Individual medley, &
#3
into 50m & 100m freestyle. Quite an achievement! 👏👏👏
Year 10 student Lexie Ogram has been participating in Racketlon.
This involves playing to 21 in table tennis, squash, badminton and tennis consecutively.
Lexie has been very successful and won the National U21 Championships in this ever growing sport.
A fabulous achievement!
Huge congratulations to Ashwin on his selection for Yorkshire Cricket U11s. This is a phenomenal achievement and we are all very proud of you. Go well! 👏
@HymersJunior
It’s not everyday you get to play in a National Final and meet the
@lionesses
at St George’s Park! Some great performances, a few wins and lots of memories made. That’s the final game of the season for our U’11 girls…you’ve done us proud!
#thisgirlcan
#thesegirlscan
What a journey Dr Smith, Mr Gibson, Charlie Phillips and the U15 rugby team have been on.
We hope that their achievements live long in the mind.
Thanks to Elias and Angus for their input and thanks for the tremendous support that they have been given.
True Hymerian spirit!
Our Head of Hockey Mr Tapley has been appointed as Chairman of the Humberside Hockey Development Group. He sees this as an important role in furthering the links between school and club hockey in the area.
What a season for this young lady. She has played some outstanding netball for school and also had the opportunity to represent the North East regional team, further enhancing her performance play. Today she was awarded Player of the Tournament
@QM_Sports
Well done Mary ⭐️
Congratulations to Old Hymerian Simon Hammersley who has been named in the starting England team for the match against the Barbarians at Twickenham tomorrow.
A very proud moment!
The whole tour party assembled with the staff and children from the Winnie Mabasso Foundation.
We received an incredibly warm welcome and made memories that will last a lifetime.
Hymers College comes within the top 50 rugby schools nationally at 43rd equal in helping to produce 8 England U18 International rugby players.
We are rightly proud of the achievements of each and every one of them.
Their shirts are on display in the Sports Centre corridor.
Over the day our opposition, umpires and tournament referees voted for their player of the match to determine the overall player of the tournaments. Out of 140 extremely talented young ladies 2 Hymers girls won this accolade
Sophia O U14
Mary G U16
A huge congratulations girls!
They think it’s all over…it is now! Lucah sends the crowd wild with a brilliant last minute winner in our Year 3 games session!
#boysfootball
#passandmove
#hullcity
Hymers' Ben Copley captained the Yorkshire Rugby Academy against Sale Sharks today.
His team lost 5 tries to 4 in a fantastic encounter and Ben played the full match.
Well done Ben. We are rightly proud of your achievements!
Mr Fitzpatrick, our former Director of Sport has set a different type of challenge for any golfers.
Can anyone beat the 26 that he set for the 2.6 challenge?
HYMERS SPORT SKILL CHALLENGE
Cuppa tea challenge from Mr Skirving to start your bank holiday weekend!
One for the parents to get involved with as well! ☕️👍
Share your success
@HymersSport
and have a great weekend!
Our fantastic National Cup semi finalists are pictured with some proud parents.
They won 4-2 on penalties.
Huge congratulations to Mr Walmsley and his team who played some outstanding football.
Last 4 in the country.
J.Oboh and C.Cook have been representing Yorkshire at rugby today.
They helped the team to defeat Wasps and Bristol.
A fine achievement and we are very proud of you!
1st XV player Ben Copley looking comfortable at the centre of the
#Wellingtonfestival19
@AcademyCarnegie
squad. Good luck to all involved in what will be a fantastic experience!!
Unbelievable morning for our Year4-6 rugby teams, playing on the hallowed turf of Twickenham Stadium this morning. Now settled in to watch the South Africa v Wales game, with Fiji v Barbarians to follow. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🤩
@FifteenRugbyXV
Congratulations to Ben Copley. No one has worked harder to get to this level and Hymers College is rightly proud of you representing the North of England.
Tonight every single one of you made us proud ❤️ Winners of the
@hullactivesch
Boys A FA Cup final. Winners of the Girls FA Cup final. Runners up in the Boys B FA Cup final. You were ALL amazing! 🏆
#thesegirlscan
#boysfootball
Hymers Cricket: Charlie Rawlins receives his replica bat from his Captain and life long friend Ben Renwick. For his 105 from 90 balls against Ashville College. Well done Charlie.
A proud moment as the U11 A football team save their best performance of the season to beat a very talented
@Eastfieldpshull
in the final of the
@hullactiveschu
Hull FA Cup. Thoroughly deserved and a great way to end the year!
#schoolboyfootball
Great support for the Hymers V Pocklington 1st XV match with the result in doubt up until the final minutes.
Hymers managed to hold out for the win and were presented with the recently renovated cup
Both teams were a credit to their school.
#thespiritiofrugby
Punching above our weight!
Hymers National Finalists 2019 and 2024.
We are looking forward to playing at Saracens Rugby Club on Tuesday 12th March at 1.30.
If you are in the London area, we would love to see you there supporting the school.
Early start.... but will be SO WORTH IT! Our U10 and U11 Rugby teams are en route to play rugby the home of rugby Twickenham Stadium! Followed by watching Fiji v Barbarians. Not a bad day out for the lads.
#makingmemories
What a super day.Well done to each and every boy who took part and represented the school at Twickenham today.Thanks also to the parents who came out in force to support and the staff for willingly dragging themselves out of bed at silly oclock!Have a safe journey back everyone!
Seb who left Hymers last summer to take up a football contract with Grimsby Town was recently selected as substitute goalkeeper for the first team.
His youth team squad finished the year with 14 unbeaten games.
We look forward to hearing how his career progresses.
We are really pleased to say that the Henry Foster Sevens raised £1500 for MIND, which was the charity chosen by Sean and Jo. Thanks to all who helped and we look forward to seeing you next year !
@TheBrownSSFC
@Hymers_College
@NextGenXV
5/5 A very special award for our very special Sophia
Outstanding contribution to Netball at Hymers College
Sophia goes above & beyond in every aspect. She is respected by her peers & her netball skill is outstanding for her age. A very bright future ahead. Good luck 🌟
A few more heart melting images from our visit to
@WinnieMabasoFdn
yesterday.
The children were so welcoming and accepting of visitors and our students responded magnificently with their caring and generous nature.
What a day!