Congratulations to Maeve, Constance, Isla, Ariel, Madeleine and Bella who won The David Thompson Trophy for KS3 Team of the Year at the Sport Tynedale awards last weekend. It has been a brilliant year for this talented squad. The girls went from complete beginners in September to medalling on a national stage twice by the summer.All the coaches are very
Save The DateQEHS Winter ConcertFebruary 3rd 2026
You are warmly invited to the HMS Christmas Carol Concert, which takes place at Hexham Abbey on Monday 15th December at 7pm. It features over a hundred students, including a large number of HMS as well as a significant number of QEHS students. #Repsect #Engage #Aspire
Philosopher of the Week! Jeremy Bentham
Save The Date! 29th, 30th and 31st January 2026QEHS Youth Theatre Presents WEST SIDE STORY From the first notes to the final breath, West Side Story is one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time. Arthur Laurent’s book remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever. The score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim is
As part of UK Parliament Week, we were delighted to welcome Joe Morris MP into school to take part in a Q & A with our sixth form politics and history students. This was a fantastic opportunity for students to ask about the role of an MP and also discuss important local issues. This was a great end to the
Welcome to the QEHS ROWING CLUB Christmas Prize Draw! We are delighted to launch our first online Christmas Raffle to raise funds for a much-needed new boat and blades. This will make a huge difference to the club and help our crews continue to train and compete to their best potential. For each £2 donated we will enter your name
The social sciences book group met on Wednesday to discuss Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender, expecting a straightforward exploration of a famous psychology study. Instead, the students were drawn into a lively debate about the blurry boundaries between sanity and mental illness, the reliability of psychiatric diagnoses, and the ethics of Rosenhan’s undercover experiment. They analysed Cahalan’s investigative journey and
We have had a fantastic two days in London. On Monday all students attended the PolEcon conference hearing questions put to politicians including: Zack Polanski, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Annaliese Dodds, Richard Tice, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lord Brady of Altrincham. On Tuesday the students met their local MP Joe Morris at the Houses of Parliament and had a tour of
