Alumni News
19.04.2022
Alumni | Debating & public speaking
Putting their foot down: sixth-formers vote to bar non-electric transport in dinner debate
Year 13 debaters Ciaran Price and Christan Emmanuel successfully convinced their classmates to keep petrol and diesel-engined vehicles off the roads in the 55th Elizabethan Union Annual Dinner Debate. The...
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13.04.2022
Encouraging the economists: alumni trio return to speak to sixth-formers
A trio of Old Elizabethan Economics graduates gave senior pupils interested in following in their footsteps valuable career and life insights in a series of talks. Zainul Jafferji (2000-2007), Zain...
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18.03.2022
Alumni | Alumni Events | Sport
Back in action! After a two-year break, the QE Rugby Sevens make a welcome ‘post-Covid’ return
Teams from across the south of England battled it out in the 46th Queen Elizabeth’s School Sevens Tournament – the first running of the event since 2019. The day brought...
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26.02.2022
Elizabethans one and all: huge new photo display shows the way we were
A major new photographic installation charts the history of School photos at QE, as preparations for next year’s 450th anniversary gather pace. The carefully curated collection of 232 photos of...
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11.02.2022
Fortitude and focus lie behind another year of outstanding Oxbridge success
Thirty-five Elizabethans received offers from Oxford and Cambridge universities this year, having successfully surmounted all the extra challenges posed by Covid throughout their A-level studies. The 29 Cambridge and six...
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24.01.2022
Alumni | Debating & public speaking | Support & guidance
Joining up the dots: alumni pass on their lessons for life at Year 12 Luncheon
Two former classmates stressed the importance of being true to your authentic self as they spoke to sixth-formers about their lives and careers. Arjun Paliwal and Matthew Chew, who both...
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30.12.2021
Alumni | Charity | House system
Eyes on the prize: QE quizzes prove a hit
Two sixth-formers organised a quiz in aid of a charity named after an old boy of the School, as quizzes continue to prove popular throughout the Elizabethan community. Year 13’s...
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10.12.2021
Alumni | Alumni Events | Sport
Big wins for the younger boys and an epic swansong for the First XV, as QE’s rugby players take on Habs at Saracens’ stadium
QE’s First XV pulled on their navy and sky blue-hooped shirts for one last time as they took on rivals Habs at Saracens’ StoneX Stadium, 99 years after the fixture...
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08.12.2021
Exploring the lingering legacy of Japan’s worst modern disaster
Old Elizabethan Makoto Takahashi, a global expert on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan, gave a group of current sixth-formers a special invitation to an exhibition he...
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24.11.2021
Alumni | In tribute | School performance | Service
Teacher, Governor and Trustee who “leaves a wonderful legacy”: Sid Clark (1933-2021)
Leading figures from the QE community today paid tribute to Sid Clark, an important figure at the School for half a century, who died this week. Appointed as a Chemistry...
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23.11.2021
Elizabethans for life! Spanning the generations at annual alumni dinner
Elizabethans from every decade from the 1940s through to the 2020s turned out to the 125th Old Elizabethans Association Annual Dinner. With 76 in attendance, the event in the Main...
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