New & noteworthy
27.09.2024
Fresh air, fun, fire, friendship – and no phones! Year 10 enjoy Outward Bound trip to Wales
Ninety-five Year 10 boys headed off to Aberdovey for a long weekend of outdoor activities and team-building on the Welsh coast. After the successful inaugural trip last year, the 2024...
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24.09.2024
Learning powerful lessons from the Great Depression through interdepartmental theatre trip
Year 13 Geography and English Literature students joined forces on a trip to see John Steinbeck’s Depression-era novel, The Grapes of Wrath, at the National Theatre. The 1939 novel tells...
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20.09.2024
Bioquest magazine goes it alone
The School’s new pupil-run Biology journal has now been published as a stand-alone publication for the first time. Featuring articles by six of QE’s senior biologists, Bioquest looks in detail...
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17.09.2024
Head for the hills! (and for the theatre, zoo, air museum, ancient ruin…) Almost 1,000 pupils and staff take a break from the classroom
With most pupils set to enjoy two days off, while the School conducts its annual entrance test, inspiration can be drawn from the two-day Flourish Festival that saw 940 boys...
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11.09.2024
Learning about rescuing coral reefs from scientists behind pioneering research
When Deputy Head Anne Macdonald was watching the BBC’s Our Changing Planet, she was so impressed with the work of the Coral Spawning Laboratory shown in the Restoring Our Reefs...
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02.09.2024
Partnership | School performance
Affiliate Schools to open in India and UAE
Queen Elizabeth’s School is entering a partnership with educational business Global Education (GEDU), who will be establishing three new schools overseas under the Queen Elizabeth’s School banner. The new schools...
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22.08.2024
Multiple records tumble as the School records its best-ever GCSE results
Almost two-thirds of all GCSEs taken at QE were awarded the highest-possible grade, with pupils today celebrating across-the-board successes. The 65.8% for grade 9s was one of three records set...
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15.08.2024
Setting the seal on a memorable year: top A-level grades follow golden array of university offers
The biggest-ever Year 13 at Queen Elizabeth’s School are today celebrating a strong set of A-level results, maintaining an unbroken record of top-level academic performance stretching back almost two decades....
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08.08.2024
At the top of his game! Head of Rugby bows out with special leadership award, with nine QE boys also winners
Teacher and Old Elizabethan James Clarke won QE’s first-ever Leader Award from the Jack Petchey Achievement Award Scheme, having been nominated by his pupils. Mr Clarke (OE 1999–2004), who leaves...
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