New & noteworthy
17.11.2010
QE team’s strong performance in mathematics competition
A Queen Elizabeth’s School team came third in a regional mathematics competition against 19 other schools, scoring just 2% less than the winners. The four-member team from Year 12, captained...
Read more
10.11.2010
National 150th anniversary celebrations end with a bang
Two QE Sixth-Formers joined young musicians from across the UK for a special event at the close of year-long celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the Cadet Force movement. Clarinettists...
Read more
09.11.2010
French connections
QE’s new French exchange partner, College St Pierre de Bourg en Bresse, came to Barnet on the return leg of this year’s exchange. The Headmistress, Mme Gas, accompanied the trip...
Read more
05.11.2010
Old Elizabethan Tom Aggar wins gold at World Rowing Championships
Britain’s Paralympic champion Tom Aggar (1995-2002) trounced the opposition to win gold in his event at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand. The former QE pupil’s dominant performance in...
Read more
03.11.2010
Spooky Shakespeare
Forty-two pupils from Year 8 took a two-night trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. The boys attended a range of events that included a tour of all five Shakespearean houses, a ghost walk,...
Read more
22.10.2010
Top-quality performances by School’s chess players
QE’s 2010 Swiss Chess Tournament was won by Year 8 pupil Jake Breindel, who scored six points by winning all six of his games. The tournament was open to boys...
Read more
14.10.2010
Old Elizabethan aims for gold at World Championships
OE Tom Aggar (1995-2002) is aiming for another gold medal at the World Championships in New Zealand at the end of October. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Tom...
Read more
14.10.2010
Chess team among the winners at international championship
The School Chess team achieved both individual and team success at this year’s Millfield International Schools’ Chess Team Championship. Captained by Anup Desai of Year 13, the team went through...
Read more
14.10.2010
German exchange
Two QE boys took the opportunity to celebrate the festival of Sukkot with the local Jewish community during the sixth QE exchange visit to Bielefield. Thirty Year 9 and 10...
Read more
07.10.2010
Academic success for Old Elizabethans at Cambridge
Several Old Elizabethans have achieved notable academic success at Cambridge University, the School has learned. Ares Kokkinos (2001-08) has been awarded a First for Part IIA of his Economics Tripos...
Read more
20.09.2010
£100,000 project to create Sixth Form Learning Centre is completed
Sixth-formers at Queen Elizabeth’s School are benefiting from a £100,000 investment in the Heard Building – QE’s Sixth Form centre. The old Heard Private Study Area has been replaced by...
Read more
15.09.2010
California calling for Old Elizabethan music industry mogul
Old Elizabethan Lucian Grainge, a leading music industry executive, is to re-locate to California – a move seen as significant by business commentators. Mr Grainge received his CBE at Buckingham...
Read more