Czech Economics trip: Cars, crystal and a castle compound the interest
November 6, 2014
Tours of three factories formed the backbone of a Sixth Form Economics trip to the Czech Republic, while there were also opportunities to savour Prague’s historic attractions.
On the first day the boys relaxed with a cruise on the River Vltava, the longest river in the country....
Academic rigour at the heart of A-level studies
December 18, 2012
Eleven Year 13 students from QE attended lectures on King Lear delivered by top-flight academics. The lectures, which are part of a series intended to enhance the boys’ A-level studies, were given by academics from the universities of London, Birmingham and Manchester, as well as by a Fellow of the...
Sixth-Former picks up prize in national competition
September 23, 2011
A Year 13 pupil has won second prize in a national essay-writing competition. David Alam was amongst 500 entrants to the 2011 Royal Economic Society Essay competition. The participants were given a choice of topics, all with an economic theme. For his prize-winning essay, David chose to write about An...
Ramsey’s Yale success is a QE first
May 18, 2010
Year 13 pupil Ramsey Kobeissi has accepted the offer of a place at Yale – the first-ever QE boy to go to the Ivy League university. Ramsey had initially planned to take up a place on Harvard’s Liberal Arts programme and had also received an offer from Pembroke College, Cambridge,...
Telling contribution in inter-school debate
December 2, 2009
Year 9 pupil Gabriel Gendler won the award for the ‘best contribution from the floor’ during the Great Urban Challenges Debate. QE was one of eight schools selected to take part in the debate, organised jointly by the English Speaking Union (ESU) and London Transport Museum, which hosted the event....
Sustained success of enterprising pupils
July 3, 2009
A group of QE boys who reached the North London finals of the Young Enterprise Award have gone on to run their own professional company successfully for a year. The 13 boys, all aged 15, came up with a novel idea to tackle bingedrinking, creating a beer mat ‘with a...
