New & noteworthy
09.07.2009
Exchanging places
Thirty students from the Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Gymnasium (grammar school) in Bielefeld spent a week with families of QE boys. The return trip will be in October. They particularly enjoyed...
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08.07.2009
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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08.07.2009
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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08.07.2009
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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06.07.2009
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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06.07.2009
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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03.07.2009
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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03.07.2009
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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03.07.2009
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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02.07.2009
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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01.07.2009
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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30.06.2009
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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