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Junior Awards Day: a milestone in the lives of QE’s young achievers

08.07.2009

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Junior Awards Day: a milestone in the lives of QE’s young achievers

Queen Elizabeth School’s Junior Awards Day celebrated the “truly outstanding achievements” of boys in Years 7-9. A total of 114 awards were made to boys at the ceremony. The prizewinners...

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Medal success for young marketers

08.07.2009

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Medal success for young marketers

Fifteen groups of boys from QE entered this year’s Young Direct Marketing Awards. A team from Year 10 and another from Year 8 both reached the final, achieving silver and...

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Bollywood orchestra on national stage

08.07.2009

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Bollywood orchestra on national stage

QE’s Bollywood Orchestra won a place in the Music for Youth National Festival in July. Eighteen boys from Years 9-12 prepared a version of A R Rahman’s Raga’s Dance, including...

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Team and individual success at national chess championships

06.07.2009

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Team and individual success at national chess championships

Two QE teams emerged as runners-up in the National Team Championships, while two boys won recognition for outstanding individual performances. Both the U14 team, captained by Year 8 pupil Madhi...

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Design Technology news: QE Boys set the benchmark

06.07.2009

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Design Technology news: QE Boys set the benchmark

QE’s GCSE students have been highly commended by the moderators from examination board OCR for the impeccable standard of their coursework folders and their attention to detail on their practical...

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QE among top ten schools nationally in mathematics competition

03.07.2009

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QE among top ten schools nationally in mathematics competition

Queen Elizabeth’s School came seventh out of 70 schools competing in the national finals of the prestigious Team Maths Challenge. It was the first time that a QE team had...

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Double success in national engineering scholarship

03.07.2009

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Double success in national engineering scholarship

QE Year 11 pupils Priyesh Patel and Sam Catchpole-Smith have both secured places on the prestigious Arkwright Scholarship scheme for young engineers. The Arkwright Scholarship is recognised as the flagship...

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Sustained success of enterprising pupils

03.07.2009

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Sustained success of enterprising pupils

A group of QE boys who reached the North London finals of the Young Enterprise Award have gone on to run their own professional company successfully for a year. The...

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Cricket: National and regional success on the field

02.07.2009

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Cricket: National and regional success on the field

QE’s U13 cricket XI qualified for this year’s national David English/Bunbury Cup as last season’s Middlesex champions – the first time a QE team has achieved this feat. The team...

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Learning about Hinduism

01.07.2009

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Learning about Hinduism

The whole of Year 7 took part in a visit to Bhaktivedanta Manor in the village of Aldenham as part of the Summer Term’s Religion & Society topic of Hinduism....

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A rewarding visit

30.06.2009

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A rewarding visit

Twenty QE students who had shown particular commitment to the School’s play, Animal Farm, were rewarded with a visit to The Globe theatre. The theatre on the South Bank is...

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A clean sweep

25.06.2009

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A clean sweep

Boys from QE achieved success across the board in a competition about World Citizenship. The competition, which was organised by the Baha’i Community, was open to Year 7 pupils in...

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