Category Archives: News

Year 10 Biology

Year 10 have been busy this week, carrying out one of their required practicals – growing E. coli cultures and testing the effectiveness of different antimicrobials. Students used aseptic techniques, observed bacterial growth patterns and compared how well the different antimicrobials worked. This gave them valuable real-world lab experience, helping them strengthen practical skills, scientific thinking and confidence in the lab. Amazing work, Miss Savage’s Y10 biologists – future

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Cross Country Success

Cross-Country – National Schools’ Cup Finals Last weekend, our intermediate boys’ and girls’, and senior boys’ team, competed at the National Schools’ Cross-Country Cup Finals. To qualify for this event, our students have delivered outstanding performances at two separate county and regional rounds, and only 30 schools in the country qualify to represent their schools at the finals! Qualifying to

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Y12 Sports Leaders

Last Friday, our Y12 sport leaders were able to attend the Sele First School to help with the delivery of the annual Santa Dash (Fun Run). They helped with the set-up and marshalling of the fun run around the Sele grounds and supervised special features along the way, including a snowball run, parcel obstacle course and snow tube. All students

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Y10 Football News

The Y10s kept their unbeaten record going in a strange evening of football on Thursday night. A player, injured in the first half, meant that we had to wait for an ambulance, but both teams chose to play the second half. QE were slow to get going and should have gone 1-0 down 5 minutes into the re-start, but played

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Learn an instrument

Would you like to learn an instrument or sing as part of your New Year’s Resolutions? We currently have space to learn in the following disciplines: Brass (trumpet, cornet, trombone, tenor horn, euphonium) Woodwind (flute, clarinet, saxophone) Accordion Piano Singing Guitar Bass Guitar Drums Please look at the following link for more information www.qehs.net/index.php/music/ #Respect #Engage #Aspire  

Rugby Update

It was a busy week last week for girl’s rugby, with some excellent results. On Wednesday the U14 (Y8 & Y9) team travelled to Blyth for a triangular tournament with Blyth and Ponteland. When we got there Blyth could not field a full team. With strength in numbers QEHS/HMS were able to field our own team and also most of a

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Kenya Fundraiser

Last week was the yearly dodgeball fundraiser and ended in a 3-0 defeat from Team Elrington 🏆Big thank you to all the staff involved in volunteering to play and help, it wouldn’t run and be a big success without you!Well done to all the Kenya 2026 students who helped to make the event run smoothly, with a massive well done

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QEHS Festive Lunch

On Wednesday, 10th December, we are offering pupils in years 9-11 the opportunity to have our delicious festive lunch for a one-off charge of £3.80. It will be a full roast with all the trimmings, there will be a vegetarian option, as well as vegan and gluten-free options. If you wish for your child to have the festive lunch, please

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