Senior School Instrumental Education
For centuries the skill of being able to play a musical instrument or sing has been a highly valued ability. However it is only recently that research has proved the enormous positive impact that playing an instrument has on academic development; only yesterday I was forward an article from the American Journal of Neuroscience demonstrating that playing an instrument is more effective at brain training than coding! At Queen's we are very fortunate to have a large purpose built music department with 20 visiting music teachers proving expert tuition. Each week for the next few weeks we will have a different video with one of our team demonstrating their instrument; as part of music curriculum our teachers visit academic music lessons
to demonstrate but parents unfortunately don't have that luxury! Hopefully this series will show you what we can offer your child in the way of musical tuition; free trial lessons are available on every discipline so students can certainly try out an instrument before signing up for regular lessons. This week, the trumpet - a very versatile brass instrument used in just about every musical style you can think of! And I will hand over to our trumpet specialist, Mr Paul to tell you all about it. Click here to find out more. Homemade Sausages
The kitchen classrooms have been buzzing with the sounds of sausages sizzling in the frying pans after pupils from across the school made the very first Queen ’ s College, local, free - range, organic, pork and apple herby sausages from the meat from our own school pigs. Pupils learnt about preparing the free - range local pork for the mincer, then experimented with different ingredient combinations, before getting to grips with the new sausage machines and being taught how to handle the new sausage fillers. Read more about the story on our website. Year 8 Art
Miss Cade is extremely proud of her Year 8 pupils. During a 1 hour lesson, they managed to create a flock of birds using a wide range of media. The pupils were encouraged to experiment and learn how different materials react with each other.
The outcome is so impressive and they deserve to feel very proud of themselves!
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