I wish all members of the Queen Elizabeth’s School community a very warm welcome to this new academic year.

September is a time of new beginnings. Not only do we welcome our newest Elizabethans into Year 7, but also their parents into the wider QE family. Many existing pupils begin new courses or subjects, or sign up for new co-curricular activities through QE Flourish. There are fresh faces in the staff room for us all to get to know. Our summer leavers, having produced an outstanding set of A-level results, become the latest members of our alumni community. And, having similarly impressed with their super GCSE results, that cohort now enters its own new phase, as members of our Sixth Form.

September 2025 also marks another important new development, with the launch of our 2025–2030 School Development Plan, Boundless. I thank parents and pupils for participating in their respective surveys last year: the results of those were tremendously helpful in shaping our priorities. Boundless has been carefully composed to take our School through the next five years, recognising that we start from a position of considerable strength, yet also that we live in a rapidly changing world. Both our pupils and the School itself need to be agile in order to thrive: it is vital that we maintain an unflinching focus on future improvements.

Our QE mission remains the same: we seek to “produce young men who are confident, able and responsible”. Yet what the new plan makes clear is that it is the combination of those three qualities working together that is powerful: it is when our boys are confident, able AND responsible that they will truly possess boundless potential.

Boundless identifies six priorities for the next five years – six key qualities that we are looking to nurture in our pupils to ensure that they will excel, both here and in their higher education and careers. We will help them become:

• Deep thinkers and compelling communicators
• Future-ready
• Self-aware people who make things happen
• Leaders of influence and valued collaborators
• Community-orientated
• Sustainability-literate


Boundless also sets out the four foundations which underpin all that we do at Queen Elizabeth’s. These are: bold decision-making; creative thinking around our space and place; developing people and partnerships; and the smart application of technology.

I do hope you will be able to watch our introductory video on Boundless.



After that, please take a little time to read the Boundless School Development plan itself. In its 35 pages, Boundless celebrates our current situation, while reflecting on the importance of thinking strategically about the future. It unpacks the six priorities, detailing the characteristics and competencies involved. It explains how our ‘QE Essentials’ – a set of eight programmes, initiatives and concepts – will help us in delivering those priorities. And finally, it explores the four foundations, setting out how these are already strengthening our School, and gives firm commitments which set out how we will build on the progress already made in the next five years.

I commend Boundless to you: here’s to the continued success of Queen Elizabeth’s School, its pupils and its alumni!

Mr Neil Enright
Headmaster