New & noteworthy
22.11.2024
QE pupils win gold in huge international competition on climate change
As delegates from around the world discuss critical environmental matters at COP29 in Azerbaijan, two QE sixth-formers have come seventh out of 37,000 entries in the Climate Science Olympiad. With...
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20.11.2024
Ten years on, the 2014 leavers turn out in force for alumni dinner
Attendance at the 2024 Old Elizabethans Annual Reunion Dinner matched the record figure achieved amid 2023’s 450th anniversary celebrations, with some 120 guests heading to Queen’s Road this year. There...
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15.11.2024
Academic enrichment | Technology
Paarth named national AI winner after designing app to help autistic children
Year 11 pupil Paarth Aggarwal has been named the UK winner in a global artificial intelligence competition run by technology giant Intel. Parth took the national title in the AI...
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13.11.2024
Alumni | CCF | English | Service
Tradition and creativity combined as the School honours its fallen
Queen Elizabeth’s School remembered its war dead in traditional fashion with a wreath-laying ceremony, the 11am two-minutes silence, and the participation of the Combined Cadet Force in the High Barnet...
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11.11.2024
Academic enrichment | Chemistry
Double top! QE takes first two places in prestigious Chemistry competition
Queen Elizabeth’s School extended its proud record in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Top of the Bench competition with victory in the regional final. One team, pictured top, took first...
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31.10.2024
Academic enrichment | Economics
Taken to the cleaners: money-laundering, fraud and other white-collar crimes under the spotlight in pupil-run Economics journal
The focus is firmly on financial crime in the latest issue of The Econobethan, which takes a detailed look at the misuse of money around the world. Over 28 pages,...
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15.10.2024
Academic enrichment | Languages
From choirs to chalkboards, Old Masters to modern politics, School Captain loved his Dresden Scholarship
2024 School Captain Chanakya Seetharam relished learning about German culture, benefitted greatly from his deep dive into the language, and met many “incredible people” – including an Old Elizabethan –...
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10.10.2024
“The greatest benefit to humankind”: Old Elizabethan’s “stunning breakthrough” in protein research wins him a Nobel prize
Old Elizabethan Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, jointly with a colleague at the AI company he founded and with an American scientist. Demis (OE...
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08.10.2024
QE’s production of Lions and Tigers hailed for ‘sensitive’ depiction of Indian independence struggle
The 2024 School Play delved deep into the tumultuous events that marked the decades-long run-up to Indian independence in 1947. Lions and Tigers explored not only the conflict between the...
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03.10.2024
Academic enrichment | Economics
Best young economists in Europe – and at their first attempt, too!
Both QE teams have qualified for the final, global round of the World Economics Cup – with ‘Team 2’ coming first and ‘Team 1’ second in Europe. Their success in...
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