The tough get going at CCF summer camp
September 9, 2024
QE’s senior Combined Cadet Force members experienced five days that tested their knowledge, skills and endurance at Exercise Endeavour – their summer camp in Lincolnshire. Cadets from Year 10 and above headed to the Beckingham Camp training area, where the challenges came thick and fast. They took part in simulated...
From ambushes and a massed attack to first-aid training, cadets relish their summer camp
September 5, 2023
QE’s Combined Cadet Force headed into East Anglia for their longest and most ambitious field exercise yet. The five-day summer camp at the Barnham Training Area close to the border of Suffolk and Norfolk featured a wide variety of activities, from attacks on ‘enemy’ cadets to weapon-cleaning and administration. Contingent...
Uncharted territory: Year Heads’ messages to boys after two months in lockdown
May 20, 2020
Heads of Year find boys generally coping well with remote learning, while passing on expert advice to help them tackle the acknowledged challenges of life in lockdown. Thomas Harrison, Head of Year 7 The vast majority of you are doing fantastically well during lockdown. You have produced a lot of...
Happy in Harvard: Ché’s first-hand account of Ivy League life
February 6, 2018
Boys interested in learning more about the process of applying to Ivy League colleges and other leading American universities were encouraged and inspired by visiting old boy, Ché Applewhaite. Ché, who left QE last year, is among a growing number of leavers taking up opportunities to study stateside, many of...
Work experience: well worth the effort
November 7, 2019
By his own admission, after the hard slog of GCSE examination preparation, Ayushman Mukherjee was initially reluctant to give away weeks of his holidays to work experience. But now, after a summer spent with three of the world’s best-known businesses, he has a very different perspective. And, like his Year...
Finding a way through: overcoming early setbacks to forge a successful career path
February 2, 2022
Today, Barry Lui is a manager in one of the world’s leading professional services organisations, pressing ahead in a successful career in enterprise technology – a field he loves. But it wasn’t always that way, and in fact Barry (OE 2004–2011) had to overcome serious early disappointments in order to...
