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End of Year photos

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 17:26:14 GMT

Here is a selection of end of year photos, taken by our School photographer, Jim Pascoe. Please do have a look at his website here, where you can view and purchase all his images. They are being uploaded as we publish, so please check again in a day or two, to make sure you don't miss any.

End of Year photos

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:11:08 GMT

Pre-Prep end of year photo page

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 17:08:29 GMT

Wishing you all a wonderful Summer, and see you again on Thursday 5 September! Please scroll down to see all the lovely photos.

Signing off from the PPA Chair

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 17:25:01 GMT

So, as I drift back into my full time job as a Property Buying Agent, I wanted to reflect on my time within the school and this last year in my very privileged role as Chair of the PPA.

Summer library news and reading lists

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 11:02:06 GMT

The Summer 2024 Reading Lists are ready, and now available on My School Portal.

Q School BBQ

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 17:17:16 GMT

End of year BBQ at Q School.

LAMDA Students Give an Impressive Performance

Fri, 5 Jul 2024 08:26:08 GMT

The LAMDA Showcase is a platform for boys taking private drama lessons to deliver their exam pieces to an audience, sometimes for the first time. Thank you to all the parents who came to support us.

Year 8 trip to Sandbanks

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:56:59 GMT

Year 8s take to the high seas!

Year 8 at Campfire Wild Adventures

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:18:48 GMT

The Year 8 continued their Leavers' programme in the beautiful grounds of the Wormsley Estate this week, where they were immersed in a unique learning experience. They learnt a wide variety of camping and bushcraft skills, from how to put up and pack away tents to camouflaging successfully.

Year 8 Cycle repair skills

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:22:23 GMT

Year 8 boys enjoyed a little recreation in the form of bike skills and maintenance as part of their leavers programme this week.

Book Club Cake Break

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:48:49 GMT

Book Club celebrated with the customary end of term Cake break this week.

Year 6 visit the South Downs National Park (SDNP)

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:53:51 GMT

With such wonderful landscape and opportunities to explore, the SDNP is right on our doorstep and is used as an example in our Year 6 studies of National Parks and environmental offsetting.

Excursion to Finkley Down Farm

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:20:10 GMT

Finally, Summer seems to have arrived. This allowed the boarders to play a lovely ’test match’ on the quad last weekend, without rain affecting play!

Last Year 3 Forest School!

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:07:29 GMT

The boys very much enjoyed their final Year 3 Forest School session.

Year 3 trip to the Countryside Education Trust, Beaulieu

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:35:13 GMT

On Monday, Year 3 were driven by Mr Clark and Mr Bell, in the minibuses, to the Beaulieu Estate, which is also home to the Countryside Education Trust.

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:01:28 GMT

Can you imagine what it would be like to be a tiny little invertebrate?

Year 5 residential trip to Calshot, Hampshire

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:09:42 GMT

Wow! What a great trip for our young adventurers to get stuck into. Fresh from a big week of exams, and as a way to celebrate the end of another academic year, the boys arrived at school on Monday morning full of excitement and enthusiasm, with more questions than I could count about the week ahead!

Library Round-Up

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:38:31 GMT

All about returning your books, Summer reading suggestions, and reading challenges too!

Year 8 Leavers' trip to London

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:18:56 GMT

A very sunny and happy trip to London this week for Year 8!

PPA Festival Weekend events

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:38:37 GMT

The idea of a Festival Weekend was certainly exciting and possibly ambitious. With the younger children's stamina needing to be considered, parents' time over a weekend, a new Assistant Head of Music, and just the idea of having two events on two days seemed a little crazy.

Boarders' Theme Night

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:09:00 GMT

On Wednesday evening we hosted a Summertime Seaside Theme Night for our family of boarders.

Breakfast at Chateau Leslie

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:39:59 GMT

Last Saturday morning we had the pleasure of hosting all Q’s in the dining room of the Leslie home for Winchester College Wykham Day.

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:44:35 GMT

In Forest School this week, Year 3 were introduced to the concept of mandalas.

Book Club Cake Break

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:43:30 GMT

We look forward to hearing what the boys think of the books selected for this half term's Book Club, all written by Katya Balen. In order for each conversation to flow and to be mutually enriching, it is advised that boys attending should read the whole of their chosen book.

Preview of Year 8 Self-Portraits

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:52:08 GMT

The Art Department previews these superb paintings ahead of the Summer Exhibition on Friday 28 June.

Year 8 Leavers' residential trip to Mount Kelly in Devon

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:45:06 GMT

The boys have had a cracking week, as evidenced in the diary notes and photographs below!

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:58:03 GMT

This week, the boys had the chance to work with larger sticks and branches in order to create some imaginary woodland creatures.

Exploring Design Principles at Paultons Park: A Year 4 D&T Field Trip

Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:58:38 GMT

Design is everywhere, especially at theme parks!

Senior Speech Competition Final

Fri, 24 May 2024 14:20:58 GMT

On Thursday morning, we welcomed David Anson, Head of English at Bedales, to come and adjudicate our Senior Speech Competition.

Book Club Summer Term

Fri, 24 May 2024 14:24:51 GMT

The last Book Club of the year will feature three books by Katya Balen a relatively new and beautiful voice in the field of children's literature.

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 24 May 2024 14:18:26 GMT

This week, the boys learned about the Japanese technique - Hapa-zome, the art of bashing flowers and leaves into fabric.

Fly-fishing Activity success

Fri, 24 May 2024 08:52:25 GMT

The mayfly season has provided some excellent opportunities for fly fishing!

Year 6 visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace

Fri, 24 May 2024 16:13:07 GMT

Year 6 boys had a great day at the largest Roman villa in Northern Europe this week with the Classics Department.

Aurora Borealis

Fri, 17 May 2024 09:00:03 GMT

If you were lucky enough to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) in the late evening on Friday 10 May, it was a spectacle to behold. At Q School, which backs on to St Michael's Church, we found a very special view of the Earth and Heavens.

Year 5 D&T trip to Legoland

Fri, 17 May 2024 15:17:39 GMT

The eagerly awaited annual trip to Legoland for the Year 5s proved to be as thrilling as anticipated.

Views from a Library Desk

Fri, 17 May 2024 14:09:59 GMT

On Tursday, while some boys were playing outside, dodging the puddles created by the robust rain earlier on, others, including Year 4 fresh from their residential trip, opted to read quietly in the library.

Year 4 Tile Barn residential

Fri, 24 May 2024 16:15:04 GMT

Year 4 had a highly entertaining time away on their residential to the Tile Barn Activities Centre, in the New Forest, last week.

Year 7 visit to the British Museum

Fri, 17 May 2024 15:45:12 GMT

In the storyline of our Latin textbook, Who Said Latin’s Dead, the protagonists must travel to Vindolanda and enter in contact with the Roman soldiers stationed at Hadrian’s Wall.

Boarders visit Southbourne Beach

Fri, 17 May 2024 08:53:26 GMT

The borders visited a very sunny Southbourne beach last Sunday.

Year 8 Qs 'Compline' - Saturday 11 May

Fri, 17 May 2024 14:12:26 GMT

Compline was the last ‘office’ in pre-Reformation liturgy, later absorbed by the Book of Common Prayer into what we now recognise as Evensong – it is, literally, the completion of the waking day and a time for contemplation and reflection.

Year 7 trip to Hampton Court Palace

Fri, 10 May 2024 15:32:12 GMT

Year 7 on a fun, interesting and sunny day out at Hampton Court Palace!

Book Club cake break

Fri, 10 May 2024 13:55:15 GMT

Another great Book Club Cake Break week! Pupils from all year groups met over three days to chat about the books chosen for this half term: Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell; The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts by Alex Bell; Dogs of the Deadland by Anthony McGowan.

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 10 May 2024 12:19:47 GMT

Our focus this week was trees and getting to know different trees.

River Ecology on the Itchen

Mon, 13 May 2024 11:21:33 GMT

Today, as part of their post-exam Science programme, 8W spent some time on the stretch of the Itchen that runs through the school grounds.

Year 5 History trip

Fri, 10 May 2024 12:17:25 GMT

Y5s go back in time... to AD878

Year 3 Forest School

Fri, 3 May 2024 12:03:33 GMT

Nature is full of surprises and hidden gems, and this week Year 3 were amazed to discover how many different examples of wild animal patterns they could find in the arboretum.

Year 3 camping trip report

Fri, 3 May 2024 16:44:24 GMT

On the morning of Thursday 2 May, all the boys in Year 3 arrived at school with quite a lot more equipment and much bigger bags than usual! They had made sure they had all the kit suggested for their overnight camping experience and some were really laden!

PPA Book Club, next meeting Monday 3 June, 7:30pm

Fri, 3 May 2024 08:39:19 GMT

Book Club's next meeting is on Monday 3 June at 7:30pm, location to be confirmed via the WhatsApp Group. We are now reading ’Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ by Gabrielle Zevin.

PPA Summer report from the Chair

Fri, 3 May 2024 16:37:06 GMT

I love the Summer Term and for this one I have mixed emotions, equally wanting to take full advantage of it. I was looking back through past minutes and saw that twelve years ago last week I was elected on to the PPA; I can’t quite believe I have lasted (been kept on) this long!

Q Concert, St John's Alresford, 27 April

Tue, 7 May 2024 13:19:58 GMT

It is only two weeks since the Qs were singing with the rest of the back rows at Westminster Abbey and only one week back into the termly rehearsing schedule but already the Qs have another concert under their belt.