An introduction
June 6, 2017
History develops critical thinking and writing skills, encourages students to form and defend their own viewpoints and broadens their intellectual horizons – skills and attributes sought by top universities and employers. Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor...
Memory-makers: Paul and Petros’s plan for the big time with their AI-driven study business
March 29, 2023
Two Old Elizabethan entrepreneurs and a friend have launched an innovative business that leverages the power of AI to help students revise and learn. Their online business, Save All, uses machine learning to turn students’ own input into interactive quizzes. As well as a website, there are iOS and Android...
Mathematicians muster memorable result
February 28, 2018
A team of QE boys has achieved the School’s best-ever result in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge. The four boys from Year 12 scored 197 points out of a possible 230 and were placed seventh out of 86 teams. Kiran Aberdeen, Bashmy Basheer, Aadi Desai and...
Strong and silent QE boys win the day
January 15, 2018
QE boys took the honours at a literature quiz, comfortably beating all the other schools in the competition. QE entered two teams in the North London heat of the Kids’ Lit Quiz and, by half-way through the contest, they were competing closely for the lead, while standing some eight points...
Royal opening 80th anniversary
December 15, 2012
Queen Elizabeth’s School this term celebrated the 80th Anniversary of the official opening of its main building on the present site. On 3rd November 1932, Prince George, fourth son of King George V, was the Royal Guest of Honour at the opening ceremony and symbolically unlocked the School’s front door....
“If you get the grades, you belong”: first-ever black Master of an Oxbridge college speaks to QE sixth-formers
March 12, 2020
The guest speaker at the Year 12 Luncheon was Sonita Alleyne OBE, who in October 2019 became the first black Master of an Oxbridge College. On taking up the role at Jesus College, Cambridge, she also became the first woman to lead the college in its 524-year history. QE is...
Geographers can build on QE’s past success in national competition
March 13, 2008
Geographers at QE are being urged to enter Geographical Magazine’s Young Geographer of the Year 2008 competition. The School has had considerable success in the past in this competition, with two Year 12s receiving top-ten (‘highly commended’) places out of 5,000 entries in 2004 and one Year 7 boy receiving...
QE wins literature competition at first attempt
June 16, 2017
A QE team has taken first prize in a local competition designed to test pupils’ knowledge of literature. The five-strong team, all from Year 7, successfully fought off competition from eight other schools to win the 2017 Barnet Kids Lit Quiz. It was QE’s first-ever entry in the Barnet...
