Arts Week
The Queens Lower School celebrated their annual Arts Week recently with a diverse range of cultural events. An African sculpture exhibition inspired the girls to begin mask making and creating 3D paper sculpture.
The girls drew artefacts and then designed their own work whilst listening to African tribal music. They then went onto develop their own drumming skills.
The week also involved all the girls taking part in a collaborative work of metal sculpture using recycled materials. Sculptor Rachel Ramchurn used the pupil’s drawings as a stimulus to designing the mini-beast sculptures.
Headmistress, Felicity Taylor said,
“I was particularly pleased to engage the girls in a “Green’ project as we are now working towards the Bronze Certification for Eco school status. We recycle materials wherever possible and it was most appropriate to use recycled materials in our sculptures.”
The Year 6 crew wrote four film scripts, acted, filmed and edited their work, which ranged from “whodunnits’ to ghostly tales. The premiere for each film will take place on Open Day on Saturday 17th November.
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Press Contact: Mrs Jane Taylor, The Queen’s School, City Walls Road, Chester, CH1 2NN Tel: 01244 312078 Fax: 01244 321507 Email: jtaylor@queens.cheshire.sch.uk
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The Queen’s School, Chester, Cheshire is one of the country’s leading independent schools offering the highest standard of education for girls from ages 4 – 18.
Since its foundation, The Queen’s School has always been a highly successful academic school. In the latest Government league tables published in January 2007, Queen’s was again ranked as the top school in Cheshire based on both GCSE and A/AS level results.
Academic success is only one aspect of life at Queen’s. The Queen’s School and its staff encourage all girls to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities; these include drama clubs, plays and musicals, cabaret evenings, choirs and orchestras, a variety of sports such as tennis, lacrosse, football, athletics and gymnastics as well as a science club, an equine club and the Friday club which involves girls helping in the community. There is also the chance to travel with the school on adventure holidays, foreign treks, scientific research expeditions, French and German exchanges and skiing trips.
Established by a group of prominent Chester citizens in 1878 as the Chester School for Girls, the school was renamed four years later by command of Queen Victoria and is proud to remain the only school in the country to have been granted the name The Queen’s School by royal decree. The school has a number of bursaries available to students. Mrs Catherine Buckley is the present headmistress of The Queen’s School. Mrs Felicity Taylor is head of the Lower School on Liverpool Road.
Past pupils include Beth Tweddle, Olympic Gymnast, Sarah Kelly founder of the UK’s Neuromuscular Centre for muscular dystrophy and Vivienne Faull, the first woman to become Dean of an English Cathedral.
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