New & noteworthy - Queen Elizabeth's School

02.01.2024

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Out now! QE’s special anniversary video, offering a “great memento of a fabulous year”

18.12.2023

450th anniversary | Alumni

Out now! QE’s special anniversary video, offering a “great memento of a fabulous year”

With just a few days left until the end of Queen Elizabeth’s School’s 450th anniversary year, a special film published today provides an exciting whistlestop tour of the highlights of...

Discovering the Dudleys: academic sheds light on family with huge significance for QE – and for the nation, too

15.12.2023

450th anniversary | History | Lecture Programme

Discovering the Dudleys: academic sheds light on family with huge significance for QE – and for the nation, too

In one of the final special activities for QE’s 450th anniversary year, historian Joanne Paul delivered a talk on the family of Robert Dudley – a figure of enormous importance...

Speaking truth to power: pupil’s climate change plea displayed on London mural as world leaders meet for COP28

08.12.2023

Academic enrichment | Arts

Speaking truth to power: pupil’s climate change plea displayed on London mural as world leaders meet for COP28

Year 8 pupil’s Aaryan Prabhaker’s entry in a climate art competition run by Imperial College London has been transformed into a mural on display close to the revamped Battersea Power...

Diverse musical excellence and well-earned awards at Winter Concert

06.12.2023

Music | Service

Diverse musical excellence and well-earned awards at Winter Concert

The Winter Concert brought entertainment across an array of genres with just one common factor – the high degree of musicianship on display. The Shearly Hall was packed to the...

Consistently at the top: another accolade for QE in national survey of academic performance

03.12.2023

School performance

Consistently at the top: another accolade for QE in national survey of academic performance

Queen Elizabeth’s School has further cemented its reputation for achieving the very highest levels of academic performance, taking second place in the annual Sunday Times Parent Power league table. QE...

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”: QE actors bring Shakespeare’s tragedy to life

01.12.2023

Academic enrichment | Drama | Trips

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”: QE actors bring Shakespeare’s tragedy to life

QE’s production at this year’s Shakespeare Schools Festival was uncompromising and unflinching in its depiction of the brutal feud between the Montague and Capulet families that is at the heart...

30.11.2023

Service | Support & guidance

Stayin’ alive…and saving lives

Year 12 St John Ambulance volunteer Jason Tao and a team of senior pupils demonstrated to other Elizabethans how they could save lives in a special lunchtime event open to...