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QE boys achieve best-ever result in national engineering competition

23.11.2012

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QE boys achieve best-ever result in national engineering competition

Six QE Sixth-Formers have been awarded prestigious Arkwright Engineering scholarships. The previous highest total in a single year at the School is two. The six Year 12...

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QE chess player named best in tournament

21.11.2012

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QE chess player named best in tournament

Year 11 pupil Joseph Levene has won the trophy for best U16 player at the Millfield International Schools’ Chess Team Championship. Joseph was competing as lead player for QE...

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QE retains title as top boys’ state school

19.11.2012

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QE retains title as top boys’ state school

Queen Elizabeth’s School has retained its place as the country’s top boys’ state school in the Sunday Times Top 200 State Secondary Schools league table. QE has...

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Boys praised for “powerful” performance

16.11.2012

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Boys praised for “powerful” performance

QE’s cast and crew have been lauded for their performance in the Shakespeare Schools Festival. The event involved four local schools, who took part together in workshops before each...

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Dissection proves big hit

12.11.2012

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Dissection proves big hit

QE boys enjoyed the opportunity to inflate lungs with a rubber tube and to focus a lens from an animal’s eye on newsprint during the Society of Biology’s first-ever...

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Representative honours for QE water polo players

07.11.2012

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Representative honours for QE water polo players

Four QE boys have been selected to represent Hertfordshire at a regional tournament. In addition, a boy from Year 9 and a Year 10 pupil are currently undergoing national...

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School celebrates 80th anniversary of move

02.11.2012

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School celebrates 80th anniversary of move

Saturday 3rd November marks the 80th anniversary of the official opening of QE’s Main Building. The ceremony in 1932 was conducted by Prince George (later Duke of...

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A musical tour for Year 7 pupils – from Norway to the Caribbean

30.10.2012

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A musical tour for Year 7 pupils – from Norway to the Caribbean

Year 7 boys were treated to a musical tour de force by older boys who performed at a special concert. The event in the School’s Shearly Hall combined full...

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Lend your ears to QE actors

27.10.2012

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Lend your ears to QE actors

Queen Elizabeth’s School boys are to perform an abridged version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, following a special drama workshop at the Arts Depot in Finchley. Four schools...

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Sixth Form symposium stimulates flexible thinking

22.10.2012

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Sixth Form symposium stimulates flexible thinking

Thirty-six pupils from the Upper Sixth took part in the latest research symposium to be held jointly by QE and one of the country’s leading independent girls’ schools. ...

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Party people: Houses of Parliament visit

12.10.2012

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Party people: Houses of Parliament visit

Some 35 Sixth-Formers visited the Houses of Parliament as part of their Politics studies. The Year 12 boys found out about the history of the mother of...

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Success of summer event heralds a new year of House contests

08.10.2012

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Success of summer event heralds a new year of House contests

QE boys are looking forward to another year of intense inter-House competition. The School’s new House Co-ordinator, Martin Bassett-Jones, said: “House events are an excellent way to...

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