A former QE student Eleanor Cobb and her colleague Fanny Le Pironnec gave up their time today, to hold a lunchtime Q&A on their experience of being theatre practitioners. Their insight and advice was much appreciated by the students, who are keen to carve out a career in the performance arts. They talked about their lived experiences; in this case,
Hexham’s Bluegrass Festival is on at the end of July. There will be an open mic session on the Saturday evening, and workshops on both Saturday and Sunday morning. Anyone who would like to take part just has to register their name on the day. If you know of any talented young musicians, encourage them to take part! If you
EDT (Engineering Development Trust) Celebration Event – Newcastle University Over the course of the year some year 10 and year 13 students have completed EDT projects in which they came up with solutions to an environmental problem, built models, wrote reports and gave presentations. They worked with industry professionals from RED Engineering and the BBC. The year 10 students achieved
It was good to welcome Mark Clayton, who spoke to Year 12 about his career journey since leaving QE. He explained why he moved to China and started his own company and social enterprises. He encouraged the students to be agile in their thinking and to consider not just what they wanted materially from their lives but also what purpose
This week’s LRC recommended read is Family of Liars, by E. Lockhart, the prequel to We Were Liars. Return to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come. #Respect #Engage #Aspire
Year 11 students are heading to Morocco this week for their school challenge expedition. A few weeks ago, they had a very wet and muddy practice walk up Blencathra in the Lake District! Views from the summit were underwhelming as we could not see a thing! Conditions will be VERY different from this on their 4-day trek in the Atlas
After the successful introduction of Arlo to the Trust, we look forward to welcoming Arlo’s little sister Pip to the staff! So many students have benefitted from time with Arlo and it has been lovely to see students interacting so positively with him. Pip is still very young so won’t be properly joining the school until September but she will be
Staff and Students from the art department have been putting up the QEHS annual exhibition at Queens Hall Arts in Hexham. The exhibition is called ‘Reaching Out’ and features work by past and present A-level art, photography and Graphic design students with amazing wall art, film and digital projections. Current and recently left sixth formers acted as curators, making the
Student Success!Rowan (QEHS) and her brother Cory (HMS), skated with their team Newcastle Junior Roller Derby at the Northern Juniors Five Nations Roller Derby event in Edinburgh on Saturday. Their team won one game and lost one but have made it through to the final play offs which will be in Stoke on Trent in September against the winners of
