Dame Helen throws down the gauntlet to sixth-formers on social action
March 20, 2019
Dame Helen Hyde, former headmistress and now a leading social justice campaigner, encouraged QE pupils at the Year 12 Luncheon to say no to hatred in all its forms and to make a positive difference by taking action. Dame Helen was the guest speaker at the annual meal, which is...
Child Genius Rahul inspires and informs hundreds of primary school children
March 29, 2019
QE pupil and Channel Four’s reigning Child Genius Rahul Doshi ‘blew away’ both children and staff when he spoke at a literacy festival run by two local primary schools. In an inspirational message, Rahul, who won the most recent series of the TV competition in 2017, told boys and girls...
Theory and practice: sixth-formers learn about the real-world importance of Economic Geography
April 3, 2019
A young Elizabethan now forging a career in private banking with a global finance giant returned to the School to lead a Sixth Form discussion on Economic Geography. Hemang Hirani (OE 2008-15), who studied Geography and Economics at the London School of Economics and is now working for Barclays, gave...
Back in Barnet: undergraduates return to QE to advise current boys on uni applications
April 15, 2019
Around 60 of last year’s leavers who are now two terms into their degree courses came back to QE to contribute to the School’s Universities Convention. With fresh experience of university life, and with the Sixth Form and university application process such a recent memory, they were well-placed to give...
Rainbows and ribbons, PowerPoints and posters: ambassadors embrace special month with Pride
July 1, 2019
From how to support people who are coming out to understanding transgender transitioning, the School’s new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors covered key themes during activities marking Pride month. The trio of ambassadors, all drawn from Year 12, used a spectrum of material to communicate with fellow pupils in an...
Laying down the law
July 31, 2019
After a session spent getting to grips with the intricacies of the legislative process, Year 9 boys worked together to devise campaigns aimed at amending fictional Parliamentary bills. As part of their Humanities Enrichment Day, the pupils learned about how legislation is formed and then used campaigning tools old and...
Brexit, bridge-building and a barn dance!
October 31, 2019
QE sixth-formers devised a quiz for visiting exchange students that not only included questions on both the UK and Germany, but also tested the visitors’ knowledge of the unprecedented political situation here. Twenty-seven Year 10 boys were hosting their German exchange partners, having previously visited Germany for the first leg...
Work experience: well worth the effort
November 7, 2019
By his own admission, after the hard slog of GCSE examination preparation, Ayushman Mukherjee was initially reluctant to give away weeks of his holidays to work experience. But now, after a summer spent with three of the world’s best-known businesses, he has a very different perspective. And, like his Year...
Mathematician James’ competition success is a QE first
January 7, 2020
Sixth-former James Tan has become the first QE pupil for many years – and possibly ever – to win a prize from the prestigious Mathematical Association. Further Mathematics AS-level student James, of Year 12, submitted solutions to both of the Student Problems published in the summer issue of the association’s...
Sixth Form symposium: stimulating scholarship through debate
December 2, 2019
Tackling topics as diverse as privacy laws, genome-editing and social equality, 50 sixth-formers from QE and North London Collegiate School enjoyed ample opportunity to air and develop their views in a joint academic symposium. The event, hosted by QE, is an important means of helping final-year pupils with their applications...
