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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.

Four members of staff and 47 Year 12 geographers enjoyed a very successful trip to Eagle’s Nest in the Cevennes National Park in South Central France.

The boys carried out the full fieldwork process in preparation for the A Level examination in January, including site selection, methodology, piloting, data collection, data presentation/analysis, drawing conclusions and evaluating their work. Temperatures were freezing, as the centre is located at the same height as Ben Nevis.

“The boys were exceptionally well behaved and worked hard all week. I am sure they will remember the trip for a long time – but hopefully at least until the examination in January!” said Anne Flook, Head of Geography.

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Year 11 Business Studies students Stefan Chiu, Yau Pui Tsang, Jack Jacobs and Adrian Marioghae secured a place in the regional final of the ‘Make Your Mark Challenge’.

The Make Your Mark Challenge is the largest one day enterprise competition in the UK. The boys from QE developed a product called ‘Get-Fit Week’ which is an innovative idea where retired or inactive athletes of past Olympic Games attempt to coach young Olympic hopefuls to success in 2012. The boys based their plans around six of the seven Olympic and Paralympics values: excellence, friendship, courage, determination, equality and inspiration.

The School chess team, captained by Year 12 pupil Akshaya Ahuja, produced their best-ever performance to finish as runners-up at the Millfield International Chess Tournament.

There were some outstanding individual performances, with three boys winning prizes for the leading performance on their board: Luka Sugita, of Year 11; Year 8 boy Madhi Elango and Joseph Levene, of Year 7, who won all his games. The tournament at Millfield School in Somerset has been running since 1984. “We had an excellent weekend of chess, which ended with the School’s best-ever finish in over a decade of attending this prestigious tournament,” said teacher Geoff Roberts. "Our score of 23 out of 24 points in the qualifying rounds was phenomenal."

“As a captain is a director of a whole boat, so reason joined with knowledge, is the guide of life.” Plato

This term saw the first meeting of the Williams Society, Queen Elizabeth’s prestigious new academic society for talented humanities students.

The society, open to members of Year 12, fosters analytical thinking, broad cultural and historical awareness and language and textual analysis skills. Through weekly classes and tutorials, participants will cover such topics as informal logic, literary theory and the analysis of concepts.

Participating students, known as Senior Members, are selected on the basis of their academic performance and teacher recommendations; indeed the entrance standards are so high that only around 15 boys have been nominated to join the society. As well as attending classes, Senior Members will take part in trips, attend in-school lectures from renowned public and academic figures and make their own presentations on topics of particular interest to them. The skills developed on the programme will assist participants with applications to Oxford and Cambridge.

In keeping with the heritage of the school, the society has been named after the pre-eminent Elizabethan scholar John Williams. He entered Oxford as a scholar of Corpus Christi College in 1569, gaining a BA and MA, and was subsequently elected Fellow of All Souls in 1579. He was later appointed Margaret Professor of Divinity, Principal of Jesus College (the only Oxbridge college founded in the time of Queen Elizabeth), and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1604.