Alumni News
13.02.2025
Fine vintage: Year 13 continues QE’s sparkling Oxbridge run, winning 49 offers
Queen Elizabeth’s School pupils have secured 49 offers from Oxford and Cambridge this year – a figure only surpassed by last year’s all-time record. This year’s tally, comprising 34 offers...
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27.01.2025
Record year for university mock interviews, as QE helps Elizabethans find their path
A record 90 old boys and other friends of the School this year conducted more than 150 individual university mock interviews for pupils as part of the QE Futures programme....
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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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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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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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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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19.07.2024
Academic enrichment | Alumni | House system | Support & guidance
Setting a positive example: high-flyers recognised at Junior Awards
Pupils from across the first three years of Queen Elizabeth’s School had their achievements recognised and lauded at the 2024 Junior Awards. At an afternoon ceremony held in the Main...
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27.06.2024
Academic enrichment | Alumni | School performance
“You’ve had the golden ticket: now shine!” Final inspiration for leavers at Valediction
Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, challenged this year’s leavers to make the world a better place when he came to QE as guest speaker for Valediction. All...
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18.06.2024
Alumni | FQE | House system | Old Elizabethans' | Service
A fantastic fete, a “magnificent” Service of Thanksgiving – and even the weather chipped in to make Founder’s Day 2024 a great success
QE’s Founder’s Day 2024 brought a mix of tradition, entertainment, international food and sheer fun to Queen’s Road, with hundreds turning out for the afternoon fete. Before that, staff and...
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28.03.2024
Alumni | Debating & public speaking
Up for debate: sixth-formers narrowly defeat alumni over climate change
Victory went to the School in this year’s Dinner Debate – the Elizabethan Union’s historic showpiece event. Combining formal elements with a relaxed atmosphere and plenty of high-calibre debating, the...
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