“For a better tomorrow”
June 29, 2021
QE’s Perspective team explained what equality, diversity and inclusion mean for them in a series of videos produced to help tutor groups mark national School Diversity Week and international Pride Month. The videos featured each member of the six-strong Year 12 team heading Perspective, a pupil-led initiative launched last year...
Academy Status
September 28, 2017
Queen Elizabeth’s became one of the first schools to take advantage of the Academies Act 2010, completing our restoration to the independent ‘free grammar school’ of our founding charter. As The Independent put it in an article on the School in 2014, QE ‘has been doing its own thing since...
“My favourite piece? The next one”: sculptor John Brown (OE 1940-1949)
October 12, 2017
John Brown has built a long and successful career creating abstract sculptures based on the human figure. His clien ts range from hospitals and churches to multi-national companies and private collectors, among them celebrities such as Elton John and Simon Cowell.
Born in 1931, John, who attended QE from...
Ife breaking boundaries
May 6, 2017
OE Ife Adepegba was one of 14 black male Cambridge University students pictured in a photo that quickly ‘went viral’.
The image, posted on Facebook by the university’s African-Caribbean Society, illustrated the fact that in the 2015-2016 academic year, only 15 black, male undergraduates were accepted into Cambridge. But,...
Actively anti-racist: celebrating achievement, engaging with the issues
November 10, 2023
Pupils throughout the School celebrated Black History Month, participating in art and essay competitions, and learning together in student-led House assemblies. Members of the club run by the School’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors have been working on updating the EDI-related Perspective pages on the eQE portal (open to pupils...
