Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SUMMER 2019
GO-AHEAD! The School’s success in securing Government funding means work will start on its new £3.5m Music School this summer. See p2 for more details.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
that QE boys achieve more than a whole
A very significant contribution to this
GCSE grade higher in each subject than
achievement is made by alumni. I was
As the academic year closes, I look
their primary school attainment would
delighted to welcome some 60 of last
back on a term that has brought fresh
have suggested. The other area was for the
year’s leavers back to contribute their
renown to Queen Elizabeth’s School.
proportion of pupils – in our case, 100 per
first-hand knowledge of university life
cent – entering the English Baccalaureate
to the Year 12 Universities Convention.
In April, I received a letter from Schools
(not a qualification, but a combination of
Our new University Mock Interview
Minister Nick Gibb congratulating QE on
core GCSE subjects recommended by
Evening being organised for October will
being in the top 1 per cent of state schools
the Department for Education).
further expand our University admissions
in two separate areas. One was Progress
Support Programme (or USP).
8 – a Government measure which tracks
Confirmation that these high standards
academic progress between the end of
continue through the Sixth Form came
Old Elizabethans turned out in numbers
primary school and GCSEs – for which
later with the publication of Government
for Founder’s Day, alongside current boys,
we ranked higher than any other selective
analysis revealing that, over a three-year
their families and many other guests. My
school and in the top 15 of all schools
period, QE sent more pupils to Russell
thanks go to the many parent volunteers
nationwide. Our score of 1.22 means
Group universities than any other school.
and especially to the stalwarts of the