Check-mated by a grandmaster
January 7, 2015
Year 10’s Rishul Karia is hoping his experience of taking on a chess grandmaster will help him to improve his own game.
The 14-year-old went up against five-time World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in the Super Rapidplay Open at the London Chess Classic at Olympia. Anand, who...
Honouring the fallen
November 10, 2014
The School’s Combined Cadet Force (CCF) took part in the special High Barnet commemoration events to mark Remembrance Sunday in the World War I centenary year.
The CCF joined other cadet forces, including the Sea Cadets and the Air Training Corps, in paying tribute to those who...
Actors chill and thrill
July 25, 2014
This year’s House Drama competition has been won by Harrisons’, who were presented by the Headmaster with a special shield to mark the victory. Broughton, Leicester and Stapylton also entered the competition, which was on the theme of ‘the power of fear’.
“I was very pleased with the ambition...
Top-100 finish for Yuta in Olympiad
May 27, 2014
Year 10 boy Yuta Tsuchiya has been awarded a silver medal and a distinction certificate after finishing in the top 100 in the élite Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad.
Aneesh Chopada, of Year 9, and Nitharsan Sathiyalingam, of Year 10, were also awarded distinction certificates, with a further six boys achieving...
National prize for QE code-breaker awarded at Bletchley Park
March 21, 2014
A QE Sixth-Former has won first prize in a challenging cryptography competition.
Bhavik Mehta, of Year 12, was placed first in Part B of the National Cipher Challenge 2013, an annual competition run by the University of Southampton.
He was awarded a prize of £1,000...
Boys demonstrate financial acumen
February 11, 2014
Four Year 12 boys have reached the regional final of a highly regarded national investment competition.
QE’s team, named the Naked Economists and comprising Ralph Flint, Paul Jung, Nathaniel Liu and Anthony Zhang, were competing against more than 30,000 students from across the UK in the ifs...
