05.08.2020
Academic enrichment | English | Languages | Library & creative writing
Old boy and QE poet-in-residence Anthony Anaxagorou has spoken out against this week’s Government announcement that poetry will become optional in next year’s GCSE English examinations. Anthony was quoted by...
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04.08.2020
Academic enrichment | Languages
Pupils in Year 8 and 9 French classes drew inspiration from a poem about racism in a lockdown poetry competition. The starting point for the contest was a poem attributed...
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31.07.2020
Alumni | Alumni Newsletter | Arts
Architecture student Nabil Haque has enjoyed stellar academic success in his final year at Jesus College, Cambridge, winning a string of prizes and accolades. Nabil (OE 2010–2017) graduates with the...
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24.07.2020
Academic enrichment | Support & guidance
With their examinations behind them, Year 12 came into School for a series of workshops aimed at helping them prepare for a new academic year and at giving them a...
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16.07.2020
QE Update | School performance | Service
In his video address at this year’s Junior Awards, Headmaster Neil Enright acknowledged that, with the disruption, uncertainties, anxiety and “very real pain” caused by the global pandemic, people might...
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16.07.2020
In his end-of-year message, part of the virtual House Assembly, Headmaster Neil Enright announced the winners of the Eric Shearly House Cup and commended both staff and boys for their...
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14.07.2020
Academic enrichment | Lower School Science
Finalists in QE’s Mars Lander project not only impressed with their knowledge of space travel, but also showed they had got to grips with the more down-to-earth requirements of academic research. Assistant Head (Pupil Progress)...
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13.07.2020
Academic enrichment | Debating | Politics
While Covid-19 has raged around the world this term, members of QE’s Model United Nations Club have been examining the very different approaches to the pandemic taken around the globe. The 24 boys involved were...
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09.07.2020
Academic enrichment | STEM | Technology
A Year 12 team won both the prestigious Innovation Award and the new People’s Choice Award at the SECBE Constructing Excellence Awards. Competing against entries from leading professional construction firms,...
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06.07.2020
Academic enrichment | Economics
Year 12’s Sunay Challa was one of the first-prize winners in a prestigious competition for his exploration of how artificial intelligence could help economists solve some of the most pressing...
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01.07.2020
A QE trio have won a major prize in a digital competition focused on the future of space travel. The team, who are all from the same Year 9 Pearce...
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29.06.2020
Academic enrichment | Alumni | Support & guidance
Perspective, QE’s new pupil-led forum looking at issues such as race, has been launched and is already going from strength to strength, with involvement from current boys, alumni and senior...
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