QE boys among top winners in competition to help astronauts survive their ‘lockdown’ journey to Mars
October 12, 2020
QE pupils, including both teams and individuals, have taken three of the top eight prizes in a summer competition to create a flight manual for astronauts travelling to Mars. Lev Shafran, Achint Thakkar and Ye-Sung Baek, who are now in Year 12, collectively won the Best of Key Stage 4...
“From Borehamwood, via Barnet, to the Moselle”
December 15, 2020
Tony Norman has, he says, much reason to be grateful to Queen Elizabeth’s School, since “apart from getting me to university, the School also gave me my first taste of overseas travel”. This “taste” consisted of “a third-form summer trip [Year 9, in today’s parlance] to Denmark and Sweden, and...
Fun, festivity and fund-raising: Founder’s Day 2022
June 16, 2022
Opportunity beckons for the QE community to come together to celebrate and to raise funds for future facilities on one of the most important occasions in the School year – Founder’s Day. For the first time in three years, the day’s events, including the popular afternoon fete, are being held...
Remembering our war dead, honouring their sacrifice
November 15, 2022
QE held its traditional act of commemoration on Armistice Day, while members of the Combined Cadet Force took part in High Barnet’s Remembrance Sunday parade. Through the two events, today’s Elizabethans remembered the 113 old boys who lost their lives in the 20th century’s two world wars and those who...
Record-breaking GCSE results
August 24, 2010
Queen Elizabeth’s School today recorded its best-ever GCSE results. Announcing the results, the Headmaster, Dr John Marincowitz, said the exceptional performance of the Year 11 boys augurs well for them and for the School as most enter the Sixth Form next month. “I am delighted with the boys’ remarkable achievements...
Music Tour to Paris
November 9, 2007
The music department has recently returned from a very successful tour to Paris where the School's Top Brass, Camerata and orchestra played to appreciative audiences at L'Eglise de la Madeleine and Euro Disney. Read a full report from Mr Howe, Director of Music, below. On Thursday 18th October 47 pupils...
