The Vision

Hexham Queen Elizabeth 400 will be a year long festival spanning the two Elizabethan ages. Young people will be at its heart but it will aim to bring together our whole community to commemorate the past, celebrate the present and anticipate the future. In our 'outstanding eagerness to promote good learning' we will aim to reawaken the Renaissance spirit that moved our founders four hundred years ago. We have four chief objectives:

The Festival

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!" (Shakespeare: Hamlet c1601)

Commemorating what has been achieved; celebrating present success; providing new experinces; and developing skills for the future.

A Science Centre

"Nam et ipsa scienta potestas est." (For knowledge itself is power: Francis Bacon 1562-1626)

Creating a science centre for the 21t sentury: a centre at QEHS but open to our whole community and linked to other centres in the region to promote learning, training and research.

ICT links

"....all that moveth, doth in Change delight." (Edmund Spenser 1552-1559)

Developing an interlinked community in the Hexham partnership of schools by providing state of the art ICT equipment. This learning environment for the future will be used to establish national and international links. It will be accessible to the whole community.

Special needs audit

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." (Francis Bacon. 1561-1626)

Pursuing equality of opportunity: a special needs audit of the QEHS site will lead to action to make the school open to everyone.

Tony Webster
Headteacher
September 1998

"Whereas our beloved subjects dwelling in the town and parish of Hexham…. moved by… outstanding eagerness to promote good learning … desire to build and construct a Grammar School".

Elizabeth I. Charter granted to the people of Hexham June 29 1599