New & noteworthy
09.08.2025
Academic enrichment | Alumni | Careers
Sixth-formers stage their own event for aspiring medics, featuring leading doctors and academics
Three Year 12 pupils successfully hosted what is believed to have been QE’s first-ever Medicine conference. The one-day event gave pupils the chance to hear from leading doctors across a...
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01.08.2025
Harik makes history by winning silver at the International Physics Olympiad
Sixth-former Harik Sodhi took a silver medal and was the highest-ranked performer from western Europe at the 55th International Physics Olympiad in Paris. Harik is not only the first-ever QE...
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28.07.2025
From ancient Rome and Shakespeare to the Cold War and the Science Museum, the 2025 Flourish Festival had it covered
Every pupil and all members of staff enjoyed the opportunity to get out and about during this year’s Flourish Festival. The summer festival, part of QE’s Flourish co-curricular programme, offers...
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26.07.2025
Harrisons’ take the crown as champion House for 2024–2025
Harrisons’ House swept past last year’s winner, Broughton, to win the Eric Shearly House Cup. The announcement came at the end of the traditional end-of-year assembly, with Headmaster Neil Enright...
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22.07.2025
Academic enrichment | School performance
QE’s young success stories get an invitation to fail at Junior Awards 2025!
Junior Awards formed a happy highlight of the final days of the School year at QE, with some 80 prizes presented to boys in Years 7, 8 and 9. Prizewinners,...
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30.06.2025
QE is simply outstanding for Oxbridge offers: survey confirms huge success
New figures show that no other state school secured more offers from Oxford and Cambridge last year than Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet. Sixty-two QE pupils received offers from the two...
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25.06.2025
Alumni | House system | Service
All the fun of the fete – and some serious fundraising, too
Founder’s Day 2025 drew large numbers of visitors for the afternoon fete, who helped smash a £25,000 fundraising target. The day, a traditional highlight of QE’s calendar, began with a...
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23.06.2025
QE are runners-up in national final of Team Maths Challenge
Having stormed through their regional round earlier this year, four QE pupils went on to take overall second place in the national final of the prestigious UK Maths Trust’s Team...
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