Beyond the campus
March 7, 2018
The QE experience extends well beyond the generous boundaries of our Queen’s Road campus: there are regular enrichment opportunities both in the UK and overseas, giving boys the chance to explore the world, hear from expert speakers and contribute to local communities. These opportunities span academic subjects and extra-curricular activities,...
National and International honours
March 19, 2018
QE has a very proud history of boys achieving success on the national and international stage, be it in sport, music or enterprise. We like to celebrate those boys, past and present, who achieve such honours with a reference on this roll and a place in the Lockwood Cabinet. Year...
Mr David Ryan: Biography
March 20, 2018
David Ryan BA, MEd, Deputy Head (Pastoral), began his teaching career at Queen Elizabeth’s School after leaving Warwick University in 1997 and has been here ever since. In fact, his memories of QE go back to the late 1980s, when he would come to Queen’s Road to play rugby for...
David Farrer KC: Biography
March 23, 2018
David Farrer, MA KC, is both an Old Elizabethan and a former teacher at Queen Elizabeth’s School. A pupil at QE from 1954–1961, he was awarded an Open Scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read Part I in Modern Languages, Part II in Law and gained a post-graduate LLB...
Topical subject provokes lively debate on the School’s 445th birthday
April 17, 2018
With the recent media furore over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the topic of this year’s Elizabethan Union Dinner Debate held particular resonance. The Old Elizabethans secured a decisive, although not totally one-sided, victory, as they and a pair of sixth-formers debated the motion: This House believes that in the digital...
Published poets: QE boys victorious in their battle
April 30, 2018
Two QE boys who entered an international competition have had their work published in a new book. Jonathan Ho, of Year 12, and Matt Salomone, of Year 11, drew on inspiration from the Trojan War for the poems they entered in a multi-disciplinary art competition organised by the University of...
QE boys shine in final rounds of prestigious Biology competition
May 8, 2018
Queen Elizabeth’s School has once again excelled in the British Biology Olympiad, with two sixth-formers reaching the final round, which is open only to the top 16 young biologists in the country. Year 13 pupils Showgo Kimura and Michael Takla were selected from Round 2 for the four-day finals, a...
Kentucky triumph! QE’s senior teams’ memorable experiences at world robotics finals
June 4, 2018
QE senior roboteers achieved the best-ever result for a UK team after qualifying for the VEX EDR Robotics World Championships at their very first attempt. The HYBRID Alpha team amassed five wins at the finals in Louisville, Kentucky, which are the culmination of a global event that has just been...
