From waste to space: stellar prize for national winner of competition focusing on Planet Earth
June 3, 2024
QE’s Paarth Aggarwal spent three days at a European Space Agency base in Italy after being named the UK winner in an international competition. Paarth, of Year 10, triumphed in the ESA’s Climate Detectives challenge after impressing judges with his AI-driven study into tackling electronic waste in Barnet. His three...
“The School has an important responsibility to speak out against inequality”: opening a dialogue about race
June 5, 2020
A new forum for discussing vital issues such as race, with respect to the School community and wider society, is being established in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the United States and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Created in close partnership with Vice-Captains...
QE team savours a successful day at the Maths Feast
June 5, 2017
Four boys from Year 10 finished as runners-up after a day of fierce competition at a regional team Mathematics event. The Maths Feast, organised by the Further Mathematics Support Programme, is based around a culinary theme. For the regional round hosted by Francis Holland School, captain Viraj Mehta and...
Toughing it out: Sir Vince Cable spells out need for resilience on visit to QE
April 26, 2024
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable first came to QE in 2016, a few months after losing his Twickenham parliamentary seat and more than a year before he won it back in the 2017 General Election. Appropriately, then, during a lecture on his second visit, he urged on the...
Strength and depth: increased numbers in Mathematics competitions excel
June 12, 2017
QE has emerged strongly from the two follow-on rounds of the annual Intermediate Maths Challenge, with increased numbers of boys participating and many very strong performances. Nineteen boys from Years 9 to 11 competed against some 1,700 students in the UK Mathematics Trust’s 2017 Intermediate Olympiad. All were invited...
“Reasoned and powerful” presentation on genetics wins gold award and more than £10,000 for QE sixth-former
April 29, 2024
Year 12’s Nikhil Banerjee took first prize in a national competition with his five-minute presentation on the ethics of using genome editing to eradicate genetic diseases. He beat more than 400 entrants – and 11 other finalists – to triumph in the Gresham Oracy Competition run by Gresham College, London’s...
