Tips for remote learning
April 1, 2020
Want to make the best use of your study time at home? Deputy Head (Academic) Anne Macdonald has produced these handy hints to help you with your remote learning. Keep to a routine: Undertake work Monday-Friday, following a timetable to build variety into your day and week, take breaks to...
“A vote is not just an x in a box”: QE old boy’s poem for Labour published by Jeremy Corbyn
June 9, 2017
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn paused during election day to publish a new poem by award-winning poet and Old Elizabethan, Anthony Anaxagorou. Mr Corbyn tweeted a video of Anthony reading aloud the polemical piece, which was commissioned by Labour (see below to read it). The party last night confou nded initial...
200 Club
February 15, 2018
Since 1980 The 200 Club has contributed many thousands of pounds in support of The OE Playing Field Company (Gypsy Corner), Memorial Ground, The OE Association and The School. For a modest investment of just £12.00 a year for each number subscribed to, members qualify to participate in prize draws...
Explosive success in national Mathematics competition
May 11, 2018
Queen Elizabeth’s School has won a national online Mathematics competition, beating off the challenge of hundreds of other schools. The winning team, made up of four sixth-formers, dropped just one point in the eight rounds of the University of Manchester’s MathsBombe, scoring 119 points out of a possible 120. Headmaster...
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...
How Deshraam engineered himself a coveted gap-year industrial placement
April 29, 2021
Year in Industry placements are neither a common target for QE leavers nor are they easy to obtain – just 750 are offered nationwide annually – yet sixth-former Deshraam Ganeshamoorthy has successfully gained one, thanks to a glittering CV and some deft interview preparation. Deshraam, of Year 13, capitalised on...
Digesting the news at Year 12 luncheon
March 13, 2018
A pre-eminent political journalist took boys at the Year 12 formal luncheon on a journey through pivotal moments of recent British history. George Parker, Political Editor of the Financial Times, was the guest speaker at the annual meal, which is arranged to give sixth-formers experience of the sort of formal...
