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Akhil Amlani (OE), the 18-year-old winner of Defra’s 2007/08 Climate Change Champions competition, met with Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, at City Hall last week, to discuss climate change issues.

The meeting took place following the recent launch of the Mayor’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, which considers the impact that past and present carbon emissions will have on London’s climate.

Akhil was particularly keen to ask the Mayor if he thought the Thames Barrier was still adequate to protect London from extreme weather. He also wanted to know about future plans to encourage cycling, roof garden planting and other green initiatives across the capital.

Boris Johnson said: “Akhil is a superb example of how everyone, young and old, can get involved in tackling emissions and fighting climate change in London. It was a pleasure to meet him and discuss his sterling work as a Climate Change Champion. I wish him every success in his role and look forward to his involvement in relevant mayoral projects in the future.”

After the visit, Akhil Amlani, London Climate Change Champion from Hendon said: “Meeting the London Mayor was a great experience and he answered my questions about climate change in London, reduction of carbon emissions and becoming increasingly energy efficient. I was keen to learn that the Mayor shares my views on increasing cycling provision in London and hope that soon it will become safer and easier to cycle around the capital.”

He continued: “The Mayor was particularly interested in the ecological garden I created with my friends this Summer at the Queen Elizabeth‘s School in Barnet, using the prize money received from Defra, when I won the regional climate change champion competition earlier this year.

“I built the garden on previously unused land and incorporated British grown drought-resistant plants; solar energy lighting; and recycled materials. This is similar to the Mayor’s plans to create green ‘cooling’ areas in the form of public gardens that are ‘water efficient’ and will also be aesthetically pleasing.”

Queen Elizabeth’s School has been named The Sunday Times State Secondary School of the Year 2007. The School was featured in ‘Parent Power’ in The Sunday Times on 18 November 2007. 

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Four QE boys were selected as regional finalists for the London area in the Doodle4Google art competition.

Movin Abeywickrema, Matthew Chew, Ciaran Deasy and Mohammad Moinuddin, who are all in Year 9, were among only ten finalists chosen from across the capital. They were awarded with certificates from Google.

The competition on the theme of ‘My Community’ attracted 70,000 entries from schools around Great Britain.

• Two Lower Sixth Art students, Nicholas Ward and Makoto Takahashi, have been taking part in ATTRACT, a programme run by the Royal Academy to involve A Level pupils in the life of the institution.

The U15 rugby squad have had an excellent start to the season – progressing to the fifth round of the Daily Mail Cup. This is the furthest that any QE team has ever gone in this competition.

Overall QE teams will have taken part in 183 matches by the end of this term; a record number of matches in recent times. All the teams have shown great commitment to training and have displayed excellent teamwork and spirit.

Twenty pupils competed for the four places available in the Engineering Education Scheme. Under the scheme a team of four Sixth-Formers interested in engineering as a potential career will work in partnership with local company Lovell on an environmental brief.

Year 13 pupil Urmil Mehta has successfully completed his first year as an Arkwright Scholar. The Scholarship encourages engineering as a career and funds pupils during their Sixth Form to help them with any materials they may need to assist their studies.

All Year 12 Mathematics students, as well as nine from Year 13, sat this year’s Senior Maths Challenge run by the UK Mathematics Trust.

Of these, nine boys received gold, 16 silver and 34 bronze certificates. Jacob Hilton was best in school. Four boys – Jacob Hilton, Jian Siang Poh, Promit Anwar and Akhil Shah – have now qualified for the next round, the Olympiad.