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BBC Young Musician of the Year stars in huge QE400 concert.Adrian Spillet played along with QEHS percussionists, two pianists, QEHS choir, a choir of 3 Middle Schools and several soloists, in two amazing concerts for QE400. The programme contained a world premiere of "Spes Durat Avorum" composed especially for this performance by QEHS Head of Music Len Young, an amazing solo percussion performance by Adrian and a very impressive performance of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, accompanied by dancers from 9 First Schools. REVIEW THE CONCERT
Anniversary date draws hundreds to QEHSOn the 29th June, exactly 400 years since the charter was granted, more than 500 guests attended a special celebration service in Hexham Abbey. The service was a mixture of readings and music spanning the last 400 years, including 2 movements of Vivaldi Gloria and a reading from the Charter by Queen Elizabeth I (played by Lynsey Muir - see photo).
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QE Headteacher runs for 400 years. Resplendent in Elizabethan doublet and hose, Hexham's Queen Elizabeth High School Headteacher Tony Webster was up at 4am on Midsummer's Day to start a 12-hour 400 metres relay marathon at Hexham's Wentworth track. 400 people each ran 400 metres around the track as part of the celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary, hopefully raising some sponsor money to help with the appeal. |
 Picture: Tony Iley From Hexham Courant 25/6/99 |
QE400 Roadshow The whole school had the afternoon off on Tuesday 29th June to celebrate the 400th Birthday of the school. Everyone went up to the rugby fields where there was a Metro FM Roadshow.
MORE Appeal from 3 Headteachers Our target is to raise £400 000, £1 000 for each year of the school's life, through sponsorship, public funding, fund raising events and this appeal. The capital investment this sum represents is needed urgently. Neither the school's budget nor the local authority can meet this need.
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Huge 400th Birthday Cake. This huge octagonal fruit cake, eaten on the school's 400th birthday - June 29th, was 1 metre across and was entirely edible.
MORE Hexham's high school celebrates 400 years of learning. Queen Elizabeth High School is gearing up for the climax of the school's 400th anniversary celebrations.
The school's 400th birthday is being commemorated throughout the year with events ranging from a 400x400 relay race to a performance of "Carmina Burana" by the school choir.
MORE Rusty pins hold up priceless charter. The charter for the grammar school, signed in 1599 by a minister of Queen Elizabeth I, is being restored by experts at the University of Northumbria.
MORE An American tale. Steve Rehak was born in America, but moved to Corbridge when his father worked temporarily in Newcastle. Steve attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and is returning for the reunion on July 2nd. He has many memories of his time at QEGS.
MORE QE400 Exhibition opens. There is an exhibition of work by past QEHS students at the Queens Hall Arts Centre in Hexham. This amazing collection of work from all fields of visual arts opened on Friday.
MORE Read the History of the School In 674AD Queen Eltheldreda wife of the then King of Northumbria, Ecgfrid, gave the town of Hexham to St. Wilfrid in order that he may make it an ecclesiastical centre.....In 1976 Northumberland reorganised education in Hexham and the school became a comprehensive 13-18 High School.
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