QEHS Alumni – we need your help! We’ve created a Careers Questionnaire to help showcase to our students just how many different careers there are out there, and many routes they can take using the subjects that they’re currently studying. Your answers, experience and knowledge will be greatly appreciated and will be invaluable to the students who are now in
Please note that places in Year 9 at QEHS for September 2019 are still available. If you are interested in a place for your child but have not yet applied, please contact Mrs Charlotte Gaines at the school via cgaines@qehs.net or telephone 01434 610301.
Calling all budding authors! Miss Prescott is running a Creative Writing & Poetry Competition Club for all year groups. QEHS students have previously had work published and won prizes (including iPads, laptops and vouchers). There will be a Thursday lunchtime drop-in session in A4 for all students interested in entering the numerous creative writing and poetry competitions that are available.
Thank you to everyone who attended the New Build Information drop-in session on Thursday 7 February 2019. The feasibility study site plan and the Hadrian Learning Trust Education Design Brief are available to view below. Feasibility Study: Site Plan (PDF) HLT Education Design Brief (PDF)
Year 11 students will be sitting mock GCSE exams from Friday 8 February to Thursday 14 February. The arrangements for each day starting from Monday 11 February are below. The mock exam timetable can be accessed by visiting: https://www.qehs.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Skeleton-timetable.pdf Monday11 February Studentsare allowed to leave school after the morning exam to have lunch and must assemble in the Main Hall
QEHS is delighted to have been selected as one of 370 schools joining one of the largest trials in the world to boost the evidence about what works to support mental health and wellbeing. For more details, see https://www.gov.uk/government/news/one-of-the-largest-mental-health-trials-launches-in-schools
Mrs Bevan has sent over some photos from the recent Year 9 Ski Trip, which took place at Serre Chevalier in France on Friday 11 January to Sunday 20 January 2019. A brilliant week was had by all!
Our Year 13 Physics students greatly enjoyed their recent trip to Geneva with Ms Coombe and Mr Cornish. On the first day they visited the UN and on the second day they had the chance to see the Large Hadron Collider.
Over the last six months, we have been working alongside officers from Northumberland County Council, the Education and Skills Funding Agency and technical advisors, to explore the potential for new buildings for Hexham Middle School and Queen Elizabeth High School. These are badly needed, long overdue and enjoy broad support from our stakeholders. We are now delighted to be able to
Our Year 8 Taster Days, for all students planning to join Year 9 of QEHS in September 2019, will take place on Monday 11, Tuesday 12, and Wednesday 13 February 2019. For students currently at our three link middle schools, attendance at these days will be organised through their current schools. For other students who have made QEHS their first