News & Events

CCC: Birdcage Gift Drive

The Community Connections Club would like to extend a huge thank you to all of you who helped make our 2nd annual Birdcage Gift Drive a huge success. Thanks to your generosity, officers of the Community Connections Club delivered over 600 gift items to Crossnore Academy. When we arrived, we were greeted with tears stating [...]

Todos Contamos

Todos Contamos

Senior, Hayley Harrington, spent the first week of November  with Forgotten Children Ministries in Tegucigalpa, Comayaguela, and Monte Redondo, Honduras. This ministry helps gets impoverished children off of the violent drug-filled streets and into a safe home with a family, school, church, and countless people who love them. Many of these 74 boys and girls [...]

1st Annual Queens Grant Baseball Golf Tournament

The baseball program will be holding the 1st Annual Queens Grant Baseball Golf Tournament, Saturday, October 8th at 2:00 pm at Larkhaven Golf Club.  The cost for each participant is $50 – includes greens fees, cart, lunch, and prizes.  The proceeds from the event will go toward the team’s spring break trip, uniforms, and necessary team equipment. The [...]

Welcome our New Principal Dr. Michael Smith

Welcome our New Principal Dr. Michael Smith

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Smith to the Queen’s Grant High School family.  Dr. Smith comes to Queen’s Grant with nearly 40 years of experience as a teacher, principal and coach at public, private and charter schools and universities. Dr. Smith started his career teaching at Ravenswood High School in West Virginia. Dr. Smith’s [...]

National Spanish Exam

The week of March 21, twenty-nine juniors and seniors took the National Spanish Exam. Ten students  have received national awards. National awards are determined by the total percentile as follows: ORO [Gold] – Students scoring at or above the 95th percentile are awarded a Premio de Oro. PLATA [Silver] – Students scoring from the 85th [...]

Video: Project Unify

Queen’s Grant Students will be participating in the Project Unify: Spread the Word to in the Word Campaign throughout the month of March.  Below is the youtube video created by and featuring Queen’s Grant Students.  The video was played at opening ceremonies for both the NC Summer Games, and Special Olympics National Games in Omaha, [...]

The Newest Member of the House Page Team

By: Kevin Satink If you were handed the opportunity to work on various levels of the North Carolina State Government as a House Page, wouldn’t you take it and hold onto it like it was your child? Ninth grader Tanner Barnett did, and for the week of February 14th he’ll be doing just that, as [...]

Tis the Season to be Thankful

By:  Kevin Satink When November came rolling around and everyone was filled with determination to serve the community at Queen’s Grant High School, the Student Council asked themselves, “What would be the best way to benefit the community and help those who otherwise wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner?” After a good amount of fierce brainstorming [...]

Spirit Week: A Week to Remember

Spirit Week: A Week to Remember

By: Kevin Satink The Fourth Annual Queen’s Grant High School Spirit Week kicked off with a day that could have put you to sleep. Everyone looked like they just rolled out of bed and were ready to return to a deep slumber. Everyone stayed warm and comfortable during their classes on Monday. What a great [...]

Fall Festival

Fall Festival

by: Kevin Satink “This year’s Fall Festival was a huge success and a lot of fun for the kids. It’s definitely something we’ll do again,” said Mrs. Moore enthusiastically regarding to the second annual Queen’s Grant High School Fall Festival. The Fall Festival was a non-profit carnival organized by the Community Connections Club. In the [...]