“It’s the big day; it’s Founder’s Day!” – the QE community gathered online to celebrate an illustrious past and look forward to a bright future
June 19, 2021
Queen Elizabeth’s School today celebrated Virtual Founder’s Day 2021 with an internet broadcast that featured a good measure of time-honoured tradition and a generous helping of innovation, all laced with a healthy dash of fun. Highlights of the YouTube Premiere programme that went live at 12 o’clock included a Founder’s...
The Great QE Sponsored Showstopper Bake: announcing the winner
June 24, 2021
The results are in, and Mel Giedroyc – TV celebrity, former BBC presenter of The Great British Bake Off and judge of QE’s very own Founder’s Day 2021 Showstopper Bake – has made her decision. Mel has spent the last few days drooling over photos emailed in to the School...
The dog finally has its day! Live theatre returns to QE
October 13, 2021
Twice postponed because of Covid-19, the 2021 School Play, an adaptation of the best-selling book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has finally been performed. A cast drawn from Year 9 performed the play to their year group classmates in the morning and then again to parents,...
The magnificent dozen! QE’s leading pianists take to the keyboards to celebrate the arrival of new instruments
December 18, 2021
Twelve of the School’s best and most committed pianists took their places to celebrate the eagerly awaited delivery of pianos to the new Music School. With the Yamaha CF6 grand piano taking pride of place, seven new upright pianos and four refurbished pianos were arranged in The Friends’ Recital Hall,...
Bringing some Christmas charity cheer
December 24, 2021
Boys and staff rallied round to help Barnet people in need in the Christmas season with a triple charity effort. The annual QE collection for Chipping Barnet Foodbank – now in its seventh year – gathered food and toiletries, while donations of clothing were taken for Homeless Action in Barnet,...
Elizabethans one and all: huge new photo display shows the way we were
February 26, 2022
A major new photographic installation charts the history of School photos at QE, as preparations for next year’s 450th anniversary gather pace. The carefully curated collection of 232 photos of form groups, year groups, sports teams and prefect teams is displayed along the ground-floor corridor of the Main Building. The...
Mrs Reena Pandya: Biography
April 18, 2022
Reena Pandya BEng, ACA, is a Chartered Accountant who brings extensive experience of the retail and hospitality industries to her role as Chief Financial Officer, together with a strong technical audit and accounts background. After completing her degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, she began her career...
