New & noteworthy - Queen Elizabeth School

26.12.2018

Mixing business and pleasure: Young Enterprise team’s market research at the Christmas fair

QE’s Young Enterprise group combined fun competitions and festive sales with some serious market research when they took part in Barnet Christmas Fayre. The Year 10 boys participated in the...

Christmas festivities and the season of goodwill at Queen Elizabeth’s School

24.12.2018

Alumni Events | Charity | Music

Christmas festivities and the season of goodwill at Queen Elizabeth’s School

Festive traditions taking in church, charity and Christmas lunch helped bring the Autumn Term to a suitably seasonal end. The Service of Nine Lessons & Carols at Chipping Barnet Parish...

Potential high-flier wins sought-after scholarship

21.12.2018

Academic enrichment | Careers | Technology

Potential high-flier wins sought-after scholarship

Sixth-former Dylan Vekaria has been awarded a prestigious engineering scholarship with the RAF after successfully negotiating a rigorous selection progress. Year 12’s Dylan received his Arkwright Engineering Scholarship, which is...

A place at the top table: young chemists’ training is catalyst for success as they qualify for national final

20.12.2018

Academic enrichment | Chemistry | Lower School Science

A place at the top table: young chemists’ training is catalyst for success as they qualify for national final

A QE team has reached the national final of the prestigious Top of the Bench chemistry competition after winning their regional round. Amogh Bhartia and Heemy Kalam, of Year 9,...

19.12.2018

Music

Music and mince pies make for a Merry Christmas

It is beginning to look and sound a lot like Christmas at QE…with the School community gathering for the annual Christmas Concert. The event featured a broad range of festive...

Career choice and diversity: record number of volunteers at convention

18.12.2018

Alumni | Alumni Events | Careers

Career choice and diversity: record number of volunteers at convention

The 2018 Careers Convention set new records, with more than 50 volunteers visiting QE to help Year 11 boys plan their futures. Several visiting experts gave structured presentations, while on...

17.12.2018

Music

Younger boys show their musical mettle

Many of QE’s younger musicians performed in a concert entitled The Show Must Go On – the first of the academic year. The Music Department event in the Shearly Hall...

More boys from QE apply for top graduate-entry jobs than from any other state boys’ school, research reveals

14.12.2018

Careers | School performance

More boys from QE apply for top graduate-entry jobs than from any other state boys’ school, research reveals

QE boys submit more applications to leading law, finance and management firms than pupils at any other state boys’ school, according to new research. Specialist recruitment consultancy Rare examined the...

Friends’ first Christmas Fayre draws the crowds

13.12.2018

FQE

Friends’ first Christmas Fayre draws the crowds

The inaugural Christmas Gift Fayre run by The Friends of Queen Elizabeth’s successfully got QE’s 2018 festive season off to an early start. With almost 30 stalls selling an immensely...

12.12.2018

Alumni

A career that delivers

Phil Peters is Managing Director of a fast-growing e-commerce business aiming to revolutionise the Chinese food delivery market. Phil (OE 1997–2004) leads a team working to ensure London-based Zing Zing...

Unscrambling an egg and why nothing is better than the “worst system of government”

07.12.2018

Lecture Programme | Politics

Unscrambling an egg and why nothing is better than the “worst system of government”

It was standing room only in the Conference Centre when Mark D’Arcy, the BBC’s Parliamentary Correspondent, gave a talk to the Politics Society. With boys eager to hear an inside...

Stand up and stand out: advice to QE’s budding lawyers from old boy

05.12.2018

Alumni | Careers | Lecture Programme

Stand up and stand out: advice to QE’s budding lawyers from old boy

A litigator working at the heart of the UK’s financial regulatory system urged on QE’s aspiring lawyers the importance of a genuine passion for the Law. Those who possess such...