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It is with regret that the Association announces the sudden death of John Chapman (1944-52) on 3rd December 2016.

John was for many years a stalwart supporter at the Memorial Playing Fields.

John’s funeral will be held at 11:15am New Southgate Cemetery and Crematorium, Brunswick Park Road N11 1JJ on 19 December 2016.  Attendees are invited by Hazel and her family to attend West Lodge Park EN4 0PY after the funeral.  For catering purposes would all who intend going to West Lodge please email Bob Parker at [email protected].

Two QE boys have been named as Highly Commended in the prestigious national Young Geographer of the Year competition.

Year 10 pupil Rishi Shah (pictured below) was selected by the Royal Geographical Society in the Key Stage 4 category of the competition, while Sixth-Former Vincent Chung (pictured left) achieved the same accolade in the A-level category. For each category, only three Highly Commended awards were given across the whole country.

Rishi and Vincent were presented with their awards at a ceremony at the RGS in central London, which was followed by a celebration lunch. All the award-winning competition entries were displayed during the event.

Headmaster Neil Enright, who is himself a geographer, said: “My congratulations go to Rishi and Vincent and to their teachers. This is a popular and very well regarded competition, so their achievement really is worthy of note.”

For the 2016 competition, entitled How is Britain changing?, pupils were challenged to explore geographical change at both local and national scales and from different perspectives – including human Geography, built and managed environments, physical features of the landscape, geographical processes driving change and whether Britain’s geopolitical relationships with the EU and other countries might be changing.

The RGS encourages schools to run their own local rounds before entering their top-placed entries in the national competition.

Writing to the School to congratulate Rishi and Vincent, Maryam Sharif-Draper, RGS Project Officer: Schools and HE, said: “This year’s competition was of a very high standard, with over 750 entries submitted to the Society and over 5,000 students taking part at school, so Rishi and Vincent should be particularly pleased with their achievement."

A recent concert demonstrated to the full the breadth and depth of Music at Queen Elizabeth’s School.

The Senior Chamber Concert featured 28 senior pupils performing solo or in small groups

The evening programme featured Music that ranged from well-known standards of the classical western repertoire – such as Beethoven’s Für Elise, played by Year 12 pianist Shiran Gnanaraj – to favourites from other traditions, such as Indian film composer Ilayarajah’s Poongathu Thirumbuma (Flower in the Breeze), in which Shiran played together with Year 12 Shayen Sathiananthan on alto saxophone and Year 13 Himal Bulathsinhala on the tabla.

The range of instruments was equally wide: Jonathan Ho, of Year 10, played Handel’s Sonata in E major on the xylophone, while Jonathan Beresford, of Year 13, opened the concert with Malcolm Arnold’s Fantasy for Tuba.

Director of Music Cheryl Horne congratulated the boys on their performances. She added: “I was pleased to see in the audience not only the parents of the performers, but also parents of some younger boys: I feel sure they will have been inspired by what they heard from our senior musicians.”

The accompanist was one of the School’s peripatetic Music teachers, Tadashi Imai, who has performed in venues including the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

It is with regret that the Association announces the death of John Robinson (1934-40) who passed away on 18 June 2016.

It is with regret that the Association announces the death of Roderick Wheelans (1936-40) after a short illness on 26 September 2016.

All of Year 8 visited Hampton Court Palace to find out about Henry VIII and later monarchs and to see for themselves how people lived in the time of the Tudors and Stuarts.

Many aspects of History were covered, including the role of kings and queens in England during the period, the lifestyle of people at different levels in English Early Modern society and the architectural history of the palace itself.

Pupils also had the chance to examine more unusual aspects, such as the culinary history of Hampton Court. They found out about the elaborate dining rules, the cooking methods and about people’s dietary likes and dislikes in the period. The boys learned that chicken was, alongside venison, the most expensive meat and that a 13-year-old living in the Tudor Court would have consumed, on average, one litre of ale a day.

Year 8 Raphael Herberg said: “It was really interesting to see the Tudor kltchens, especially how they used to use huge fires to cook whole animals.”

History teacher Matt Dunston said the trip was arranged to complement the Year 8s’ study of Tudor England with particular attention to the Reformation. “The visit to the Chapel Royal was especially relevant to this, since it is a unique, physical example reflecting the mixture of religious policies enacted during the period.

“The boys also had the chance to look at a number of famous and important paintings, using their powers of deduction to learn about fashion and how the monarchy wished to portray itself.

“They really enjoyed the experience and learnt a great deal.”

Pupil Swattik Das agreed that his knowledge of the Tudors had been greatly enhanced by the trip, adding: “It was amazing to see the actual places in which the people we have been learning about lived their lives.”