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Gold medals for three-quarters of QE boys in national Chemistry competition

03.05.2012

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Gold medals for three-quarters of QE boys in national Chemistry competition

QE achieved its best-ever results in this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad, with six students of the eight boys entered achieving the coveted gold award, and the remaining two winning...

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QE student wins top Science essay prize

27.04.2012

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QE student wins top Science essay prize

A Year 11 pupil has taken first prize in a prestigious national science essay competition. Daniel Fernando was placed first in his section of the Royal Society of Science...

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Old boy in running for top Fives award

24.04.2012

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Old boy in running for top Fives award

Alumnus Sunil Tailor (1999-2006) has been nominated for the Eton Fives Player of the Year award, following an outstanding season. Sunil, who first played the sport at...

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Nabil prepares for 2012 athletics season

19.04.2012

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Nabil prepares for 2012 athletics season

As he prepares for the 2012 outdoor athletics season, Year 8 pupil Nabil Haque is looking to build on his successes of 2011. During last season Nabil recorded a number...

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QE Sixth-Former lands prestigious work placement

16.04.2012

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QE Sixth-Former lands prestigious work placement

Year 13 student Henry Philips has been awarded a year-long paid work experience placement with the international energy and petrochemical company, Shell. Henry had to complete a...

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Quiz team reach semi-final

14.04.2012

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Quiz team reach semi-final

A team of Sixth-Formers from QE reached the semi-final of a London schools quiz competition, hosted by the American School in St John’s Wood. ‘Quiz bowls’, as quiz competitions...

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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme successes

10.04.2012

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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme successes

Fourteen pupils have received Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards – with a further 40 to come. Five boys were presented with silver award certificates in Year 12 assembly...

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A well supported evening: 47th Annual Dinner Debate

09.04.2012

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A well supported evening: 47th Annual Dinner Debate

The Elizabethan Union’s and Old Elizabethans’ 47th Annual Dinner Debate was a well supported evening. It featured a debate around the proposition ‘This House believes that hosting the Olympics...

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The Cambridge connection: University Vice-Chancellor salutes QE’s academic excellence at Senior Awards Ceremony

31.03.2012

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The Cambridge connection: University Vice-Chancellor salutes QE’s academic excellence at Senior Awards Ceremony

Cambridge University’s Vice-Chancellor highlighted all that Queen Elizabeth’s School and the university have in common at this year’s Senior Awards Ceremony. Guest of Honour Sir Leszek Borysiewicz...

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History trip is soaring success

30.03.2012

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History trip is soaring success

Boys from Year 9 had the opportunity to explore the development of aerial warfare and military equipment when they visited the Imperial War Museum’s site at Duxford in Cambridgeshire....

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Music Scholars for 2012 announced

26.03.2012

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Music Scholars for 2012 announced

This year’s Year 7 Music Scholars have been named after succeeding in a highly competitive short-listing process and then performing strongly in a special concert. The five...

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“Last generation” hears first-hand account of Holocaust

19.03.2012

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“Last generation” hears first-hand account of Holocaust

Year 9 students listened to the dignified account of one woman’s experiences in Auschwitz, at a talk organised through the Holocaust Educational Trust. Mrs Freda Wineman, who...

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