Gold rush: best-ever Olympiad performance
March 15, 2016
QE has achieved its highest-ever tally of gold medallists in this year’s British Biology Olympiad.
Fourteen boys from Years 12 and 13 won gold in the competition, with a further five winning silver medals, three boys gaining bronze and one being ‘highly commended’. The 14 gold medal-winners represent 58%...
Instrument Donation Scheme
May 27, 2022
The School welcomes donations of pre-loved instruments to support our loan scheme, which provides valuable assistance to those boys just starting to learn a new instrument. This academic year, 26 boys have benefitted from this scheme on a range of instruments including flute, clarinet, oboe, violin, viola, cello, trumpet and...
Outstanding performances in GCSE and AS examinations
September 1, 2008
Head of Mathematics, Gee Scarisbrick, reports that Andre Dalcher was amongst the top ten (out of 285777 entries) who achieved the highest overall marks in the June 2008 GCSE Mathematics exam. In addition, out of 33784 entries in the June 2008 AS exams, Jenk Killich, Yathooshan Ramesh, Kalil Rouse, Daniel...
David Farrer: QE as I knew it; its impact on me
April 4, 2022
I am 79. I am the oldest of three children. I was at QE from 1954–1961, the end of the E H Jenkins era. [Jenkins was Headmaster from 1930–1961]. My parents married in April, 1939, and my father spent most of the first seven years of marriage in the army....
Cambridge Choral Scholarship for Kavi
January 27, 2015
Kavi Pau has become the first QE boy in a number of years to win a Choral Scholarship at a top university. He has also secured a place to read Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Kavi, who is in Year 13, will become one of just four...
Visit to Prague: economics, culture – and a little fun, too
November 4, 2016
Twenty-five Sixth-Formers laughed, learned and shivered on an Economics Department trip to Prague.
The visit not only took in the Czech capital’s famous historic sights, but also looked at various sectors of the country’s industry. The pupils found out how it has developed from, in some cases, the Middle...
Queen Elizabeth’s School Chairman of Governors awarded MBE
January 1, 2014
Barrie Martin, Chairman of both the QE Governing Body and of the Friends of Queen Elizabeth’s, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List. The award citation for “services to education” recognises his long years of devotion to the School – an association which began when...
Credit where credit’s due: no plagiarism here!
July 14, 2020
Finalists in QE’s Mars Lander project not only impressed with their knowledge of space travel, but also showed they had got to grips with the more down-to-earth requirements of academic research. Assistant Head (Pupil Progress) Sarah Westcott paid tribute to the finalists in the Year 7 contest, praising them for eschewing all plagiarism and crediting references accurately. ...
