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Queen Elizabeth’s School has been named The Sunday Times State Secondary School of the Year 2007. The School was featured in ‘Parent Power’ in The Sunday Times on 18 November 2007. 

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Four QE boys were selected as regional finalists for the London area in the Doodle4Google art competition.

Movin Abeywickrema, Matthew Chew, Ciaran Deasy and Mohammad Moinuddin, who are all in Year 9, were among only ten finalists chosen from across the capital. They were awarded with certificates from Google.

The competition on the theme of ‘My Community’ attracted 70,000 entries from schools around Great Britain.

• Two Lower Sixth Art students, Nicholas Ward and Makoto Takahashi, have been taking part in ATTRACT, a programme run by the Royal Academy to involve A Level pupils in the life of the institution.

The U15 rugby squad have had an excellent start to the season – progressing to the fifth round of the Daily Mail Cup. This is the furthest that any QE team has ever gone in this competition.

Overall QE teams will have taken part in 183 matches by the end of this term; a record number of matches in recent times. All the teams have shown great commitment to training and have displayed excellent teamwork and spirit.

Twenty pupils competed for the four places available in the Engineering Education Scheme. Under the scheme a team of four Sixth-Formers interested in engineering as a potential career will work in partnership with local company Lovell on an environmental brief.

Year 13 pupil Urmil Mehta has successfully completed his first year as an Arkwright Scholar. The Scholarship encourages engineering as a career and funds pupils during their Sixth Form to help them with any materials they may need to assist their studies.

All Year 12 Mathematics students, as well as nine from Year 13, sat this year’s Senior Maths Challenge run by the UK Mathematics Trust.

Of these, nine boys received gold, 16 silver and 34 bronze certificates. Jacob Hilton was best in school. Four boys – Jacob Hilton, Jian Siang Poh, Promit Anwar and Akhil Shah – have now qualified for the next round, the Olympiad.

Four members of staff and 47 Year 12 geographers enjoyed a very successful trip to Eagle’s Nest in the Cevennes National Park in South Central France.

The boys carried out the full fieldwork process in preparation for the A Level examination in January, including site selection, methodology, piloting, data collection, data presentation/analysis, drawing conclusions and evaluating their work. Temperatures were freezing, as the centre is located at the same height as Ben Nevis.

“The boys were exceptionally well behaved and worked hard all week. I am sure they will remember the trip for a long time – but hopefully at least until the examination in January!” said Anne Flook, Head of Geography.

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