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Four QE pupils have successfully completed this year’s Engineering Education Scheme. Jonathan Daniels, Patrick McHugh, Theepan Saravanpavan and Kelvin Chan worked with the housebuilder and regeneration specialist, Lovell, to design a biomass boiler.

They ended the year on a high note with a Celebration Day at Ford’s Technical Centre in Dunton, where they set up a display stand for their project. They gave a 15-minute presentation in which they discussed their concepts and showed the EES assessors their plans and model.

“The pupils presented with clarity and confidence, impressing both the assessors and the other schools invited to take part in this prestigious scheme, which is sponsored by the Engineering Development Trust.,” says teacher Simon Vincent.

As part of the day the pupils also presented their concept to assessors for the BA Crest Awards, a nationally recognised accreditation scheme for project work in Science and Technology. All team members achieved the highest standard – the BA Crest Gold Award.

Two history trips this term brought to life very different aspects of the past two centuries.

An overnight trip took 45 Year 9 boys to the First World War battlefields in Belgium and France. They visited Ypres, hearing the Last Post at Menin Gate and seeing the Sanctuary Wood preserved trenches, the Newfoundland Memorial to Canadian troops, the Langemark German cemetery and the Vimy Ridge underground tunnels. Time was also found to visit the chocolate shops of Ypres!

A group of 45 Year 8 boys went to the Black Country Museum as part of their studies on the Industrial Revolution. Boys saw costumed demonstrators and working craftsmen bringing the Victorian buildings to life with their specialist knowledge, skills and Black Country humour. The visit included a trip down a coalmine and a chance to eat fish & chips from an Edwardian fried Fish Shop.

The School welcomes news of Old Elizabethans, including those taking “gap years”. One such is Joe Sheffer whose year includes a motorbike journey through Europe and the Middle East towards India and then back through Russia.

It is possible to keep track of Joe’s journey by logging on to: www.joeontheroad.co.uk.

Year 7 pupil Dhruv Nanavati won first prize in an art competition run by The Spires shopping centre and the Barnet and Potters Bar Times.

Dhruv had to design a poster based on the Indiana Jones adventures. He won tickets for himself, his family and friends to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull at the Odeon Cinema.

Four Year 10 Business Studies teams have won awards in the 2008 Young Direct Marketing Awards after beating off tough competition from more than 170 school teams from across the UK.

The winning teams were announced at an awards ceremony at the Magic Circle Headquarters in London in June.

The scheme is organised by the Direct Marketing Association and the teams were asked to devise a direct marketing campaign, incorporating a direct mail element, for one of three charity partners: Friends of the Earth, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Guide Dogs Association for the Blind.

The Fresh Approach’s Alex Grethe, Tommy Marsh, Anup Desai and Andrew Arnett, and Climate Change Controllers Rolphy Morrell, Roshan Mistry, Charles Morris and Andrew Spencer won Bronze and Silver awards respectively for their campaigns for Friends of the Earth.

Keshav Joshi, Kishan Patel and Dinesh Napal of KDK were highly commended for their entry for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, while The Bavishi Bunch, Steven Haveron, James Evangelou, Gabriel Adler and Jack Jacobs gained a Silver award for their work with the Guide Dogs Association for the Blind.

Two Year 7 boys organised a five-a-side football inter-house tournament for charity. Kiran Modi, of 7B, and Rushil Sajip, of 7H, raised £457.26 for Save the Children, which was presented to two representatives from the charity during assembly: Sam Hale, Head of the Central Office, and Jean Gooch, secretary of the Harrow branch.

Both commended the two boys for organising the event and praised their classmates for supporting it.

During the assembly, the boys heard a presentation on life in other parts of the world. They learnt that 10% of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water, and that the deadliest creature on the planet, in terms of lives lost, is the mosquito.

They were told that 82% of their donations will go directly to helping people both abroad and in the UK, with the remaining 18% used for encouraging similar charity events and promoting Save the Children.

The winning A and B teams were both from Pearce House.