Building on distinction
In our new School plan, for 2021-2025, we take inspiration from our Tudor tenets and our long history of success, whilst ensuring that our mission is tailored for the 2020s.
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In our new School plan, for 2021-2025, we take inspiration from our Tudor tenets and our long history of success, whilst ensuring that our mission is tailored for the 2020s.
Read moreAt QE, we seek to engender a spirit of scholarship. We ensure that pupils acquire a thorough mastery of their subjects; from this foundation, we cultivate intellectual curiosity, with each boy encouraged to pursue his own academic interests.
Read MoreIn 1573 Queen Elizabeth I granted the charter, for "...the establishment of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Barnet, for the education, bringing up and instruction of boys”.
Read MoreOur mission is to produce young men who are confident, able and responsible; prepared to lead happy and fulfilled adult lives and to make a positive contribution to others.
Read moreAt QE we offer a wealth of opportunities beyond our academic curriculum, to enrich the experiences of our boys and to help them become fully rounded young men.
Read MoreBoys benefit from a wide-ranging programme of bespoke support and guidance, forging strong relationships with staff and their peers to ensure their all-round wellbeing.
Read MoreThose interested in joining the Elizabethan community, who are missing out on attending our usual Open Day, can find information and resources to provide a further insight into the School and the process for applying.
Read more'An exceptional and rounded education that even private schools struggle to compete with.' (The Good Schools Guide, 2016)
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26.02.2021
Alumni | Religion & Society | Support & guidance
Benjamin Cohen, founder and CEO of PinkNews, dotcom success story and broadcaster, spoke to current pupils as part of LGBT+ History Month. Benjamin, who was at QE from 1993–1998, took...
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25.02.2021
Academic enrichment | Library & creative writing
The latest episode of the Roundness podcast series from The Queen’s Library highlights the grave unintended consequences that can arise from man-made changes to the environment. Podcaster Surya Bowyer, QE’s...
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22.02.2021
Academic enrichment | STEM | Technology
Year 8 pupil Keon Robert has won an international 3D design challenge with his idea for a solar-powered bulldozer with special caterpillar tracks based on those used on Moon rovers....
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12.02.2021
Academic enrichment | Chemistry
A team of Sixth Form scientists were among the front-runners in a prestigious national Chemistry competition run by Cambridge University and a university in the Czech Republic. QE’s Chem Taj...
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05.02.2021
Old Elizabethan Max Hassell gave a virtual talk for senior pupils on his experiences with ADHD, anxiety and depression as the country marked Children’s Mental Health Week. In the lunchtime...
Read moreOur ancient heritage, meritocratic ethos, highly skilled staff and state of the art facilities together make Queen Elizabeth's a truly unique school, in which our very capable boys flourish.
Read MoreOur ambitious plan for 2021-25, which includes our 450th anniversary year, draws upon the best of our long heritage, whilst re-shaping our mission to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 2020s.
View the planAt QE we provide a fully-rounded education. Our incredibly rich offer of activities, within and beyond the classroom, helps us to produce young men who are confident, able and responsible.
Watch NowWork is under way on QE's brand new £3.5m Music School, after the School successfully secured government funding to support the project. State of the art facilities will bring our booming Music department into the heart of the campus.
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