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World-beating QE team celebrate competition success

01.02.2024

Academic enrichment | Maths

World-beating QE team celebrate competition success

A Year 12 team have been presented with their trophy after seeing off competition from 1,200 teams from Slovenia to Singapore to triumph in the international Ritangle Mathematics competition. The...

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Smashed it! QE shatters previous record, with 62 Oxbridge offers

26.01.2024

Alumni | School performance

Smashed it! QE shatters previous record, with 62 Oxbridge offers

Queen Elizabeth’s School has set a new all-time record for the number of places offered by Oxford and Cambridge universities, with the 2024 figure of 62 offers easily surpassing the...

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Seeing things in the round: geopolitics charity quiz explores global affairs

23.01.2024

Academic enrichment | Charity | Geography

Seeing things in the round: geopolitics charity quiz explores global affairs

The two Year 8 boys behind QE’s Geopolitics Club staged a successful quiz to share their passion with their peers. Ibrahim Syed and Azaan Haque promoted the lunchtime quiz to...

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Multi-tasking Mohith’s public speaking with a twist

19.01.2024

Academic enrichment | Debating & public speaking

Multi-tasking Mohith’s public speaking with a twist

Year 10’s Mohith Sigirisetti was picked as QE’s representative at a regional public-speaking challenge. Mohith won his place in the Barnet final of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge by...

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Science department trialling new education app developed by QE alumni that harnesses the power of AI

11.01.2024

Alumni | Biology | Chemistry | Physics

Science department trialling new education app developed by QE alumni that harnesses the power of AI

Two Old Elizabethan medics are working with the School to trial an innovative education app that uses AI to support both pupils and their teachers. QE contemporaries Kavi Samra and...

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Aiming higher than the summit

06.01.2024

Academic enrichment | Economics | Politics

Aiming higher than the summit

Writers for the latest issue of QE’s Econobethan magazine aim to make sense of complex environmental and economic issues as they look back at the COP28 summit. The pupil-run magazine,...

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Collaboration on location: QE Together support local school

04.01.2024

Academic enrichment | Partnership | Service | Trips

Collaboration on location: QE Together support local school

Members of the QE Together partnership have now begun editing after spending two days filming in a Barnet primary school as part of a community outreach project. A team from...

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QE’s ‘New Year’s honours’: 2024 top team take up their places

02.01.2024

House system | Service

QE’s ‘New Year’s honours’: 2024 top team take up their places

Chanakya Seetharam this week begins his year as the 2024 School Captain, supported by Senior Vice-Captains Saim Khan and Rohan Kumar. The three, who were appointed by Headmaster Neil Enright,...

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Farewell to a fantastic 450th anniversary year!

31.12.2023

450th anniversary | Alumni | House system

Farewell to a fantastic 450th anniversary year!

Boys from Years 7 & 8 lined up in front of the School to bid a colourful goodbye to Queen Elizabeth’s School’s 450th anniversary year. With sixth-formers helping to ensure...

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Thriving from ancient roots, planting for the future

29.12.2023

450th anniversary | Academic enrichment

Thriving from ancient roots, planting for the future

Boys at QE planted hundreds of trees and flower bulbs, ensuring that the School’s 450th anniversary year would leave a living environmental legacy. Forty-seven boys from Year 10 headed to...

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Sing in exultation: carol service a joyous end to 450th anniversary year

23.12.2023

450th anniversary | Music

Sing in exultation: carol service a joyous end to 450th anniversary year

Queen Elizabeth’s School drew its 450th anniversary celebrations to a rousing, festive conclusion with its Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in Chipping Barnet parish church. St John the Baptist...

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QE’s helping hand at Christmas

21.12.2023

Charity | Music

QE’s helping hand at Christmas

Amid all the end-of-term busyness, QE pupils and staff still found time to remember people less fortunate themselves, both locally and further afield. The QE Barbershop group gave their first-ever...

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