On Saturday, QEHS rowing club took on their first 5k of the year at Tees Head. Tees is known for being one of the hardest courses in the UK with multiple horseshoe bends that even the most experienced coxes can mess up. Everyone who coxed and steered at the weekend outdid themselves and we finished the day with no crashes
QEHS rowers attended the National Schools Regatta which this year was held at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham. This regatta is the biggest junior regatta in the country, attracting the best junior crews from all across the UK. QEHS Rowing had five crews entered to race across three days of racing, between the 23rd and 25th May. To make
Our rowing club is undertaking a fundraising event on Tyne Green this Saturday between 9am and 1pm. The rowers are going to try and row as many lengths of a stretch of the river as they can in four hours. The club is raising money to pay for new boats and equipment. Please come along to show your support by cheering them
QEHS Rowing Club travelled to the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham, last weekend to take part in the Junior Inter-Regional Regatta. This event involves crews being selected to represent their region to then race crews from all over the UK. This year, QEHS had 19 rowers selected to race. Each of the three QEHS crews that were selected competed in
QEHS Rowing club rowers attended the prestigious Schools Head competition on Tuesday 25th March. This is the very first time that QEHS Rowing club has ever entered a crew for this event. This is held on the River Thames in London and is raced over the Oxford and Cambridge boat race course in the reverse direction. It attracts top club
15 QEHS and Hexham RC rowers attended a regional indoor rowing competition last week, representing QEHS against multiple schools from all around the north-east. We had a very successful day with five 1st place finishes. Races were completed over a range of distances depending on the year group. A summary of the results is as follows: Year 9 girls: 1st
Last weekend, QEHS attended Rutherford Head, one of the biggest races in the region. It attracts crews from all over the north of England, as well as many from Scotland and even Oxfordshire. With only quads, fours and eights being raced, it was the years 11, 12 and 13 representing QEHS. Division 1 saw very fast conditions for racing, with
QEHS rowers are in a busy race period at present. Saturday saw them racing on the Tyne at Newburn over 2 divisions. With a change in temperature at the end of the week racing conditions were what you expect for the Tyne; cold and windy with heavy afternoon showers. This made for some challenging race conditions. The morning competition saw
There will be a Welcome to New Rowers evening on Thursday 24th October, 5.30pm in Main Hall. Discover the world of Junior Rowing and what Rowing can do to develop your child as an athlete and team player. Our students are part of one of the largest Junior clubs in the North East and as such can experience the athletic social
On Saturday 22 June, students in the QEHS Rowing Club will be taking to the water in our fleet of fours and quads to row 50km per crew – that’s 71 lengths of our beautiful stretch of the Tyne – in a bid to raise much-needed funds. The sport requires an array of equipment, from winter training on the club ergs,