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CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT

Music School

Queen Elizabeth’s School’s estates strategy involves ongoing investment into our facilities. The artist’s impressions show our next major development – a new Music School, which recognises the importance of music at QE. It will provide larger music teaching and rehearsal spaces and an additional performance venue. The project includes an extra assembly space to support our extensive programme of speaker events and an atrium for boys to use at break times.

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Our mission is to produce young men who are confident, able and responsible.

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Welcome to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet

D. Mahdmina

BSc (University College, London), MSc (Loughborough), PhD (University College, London) C.W. Price BA (Van Mildert College, Durham), PGDipEdLaw (Buckingham), NPQH G.K. Roberts BA (Sheffield) M.F. Saccardi MA (Jesus College, For well over four hundred years, Cambridge), MSc (Queen Mary, London) successive generations of boys have K. Shah BSc (Warwick), (Cass benefited from an education atMSc Queen Business School, City) Elizabeth’s School. In this brochure, J.S. Simms MA (Churchill College, you will be able to read about how we Cambridge) mission produce J.continue Simpson to fulfil our BSc (Queen to Elizabeth London), MSc young men who areCollege, ‘confident, able and responsible’. (Birkbeck College, London) N. Vaghjiani BSc (Warwick)

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at the outset. Firstly, QE is a meritocracy.

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PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION & SOCIETY scholarly curiosity through a programme

of academic enrichment that takes pupils BA (Nottingham), well beyond the constraints of the GCSE Head of Philosophy, and A-level curriculum.

Religion & Society

J.G. Robertson

N.M. Mayer

PHYSICAL EDUCATION & GAMES

PHYSICS

J.R. Hart

J.E. Brooke

J.K. Clarke R.J. Scally

O.P. Di-Lieto L.E. Jacobs O.A. O’Gorman K.M. Paul-Jones

BSc (Wales), MA (Middlesex), Director of Sport BSc (Exeter), Head of Rugby BSc (Glamorgan), Head of Aquatics & Head of Cricket BSc (Birmingham) BA (Leeds Metropolitan) BSc (Portsmouth) BSc (Bournemouth)

Our extensive range of exciting and

SCIENCE worthwhile extra-curricular activities

broadens boys’ horizons and helps BSc (York), DPhil (York), them acquire new skills. Through Head of Science ourWestcott meticulously developed pastoral S.L. BSc (Exeter), MA arrangements, we inculcate attributes (Middlesex), PhD such as confidence, (University resilience College, and London), Head perseverance. Finally, through an of Lower School Science emphasis on service and philanthropy, we encourage Elizabethans to look BIOLOGY beyond purely personal success and G.F. Ridgeways to contribute BSc (Dundee), PhD to seek to society.

M.P. Russell

(Dundee), Head of Biology BSc (Maryland, USA), MSc This approach, combined with our (Georgetown, USA), MSc excellent facilities and our Carolina, distinguished (South USA) history, an (King’s education M. Armonensures thatBSc College, London) M.A. Haj Hussein (Warwick) at Queen Elizabeth’sBSc School is truly H. Shah school experience BSc (Queen Mary, London) a state like no other.

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CHEMISTRY

Neil Enright

Headmaster, QueenBSc Elizabeth’s M.P. Russell (York), DPhilSchool (York), Head of Chemistry T.J. Batchelor MChem (Hatfield College, Durham) K. Bugler BSc (Cardiff), MSc (Cardiff), PhD (Cardiff) D.S. Crouch BSc (Hertfordshire), MSc (Imperial College, London), PhD (Imperial College, London) C.J. Dharmawardhane BSc (King’s College, London) E.A. Kuo BSc (Manchester), PhD (Imperial College, London) S.L. Westcott BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London)

G.C. Deakin L.C. Jowsey-Alexander J.B. Leigh J.P. Varndell

MA (Downing College, Cambridge), BSc (Open), Head of Physics MEng (Imperial College, London) MEng (Loughborough), PhD (Loughborough) BSc (Exeter) BSc (University College, London)

TECHNOLOGY M.T. Noonan T.A. Green C.J. Kiely C.M. Munro

BEd (Limerick, Ireland), Head of Technology BA (Middlesex) BEd (Limerick, Ireland) BA (Brunel)

Governing Body B.R. Martin N. Gaskell M. Beard A. Binstock M.H.S. Bradish D. Burton K.R. Cooper R. Delves N. J. Enright D. Farrer J. Ferguson Revd. C. Ferris M. Hooley E. Houston A.H. Macdonald C. Martin C.W. Price N. Raval P. Reid V.S. Wong E. Aghdiran M.T. Rose

MBE, FRICS, IRRV, Chairman ACA, Vice Chairman BA FCA, FCIArb BA, FCA MA, CB MA, FRSA MA, MBA, NPQH, FRSA, Headmaster MA, QC BA MA, DipCG BA MA PhD BA, PGDipEdLaw, NPQH BA, DipArch, ARB RN BSc, MD, FRCP MBA, Company Secretary MA, Clerk

MA (King’s College, Cambridge)

Queen Queen Elizabeth’s Elizabeth’s School School

Free-thinking scholarship Queen Elizabeth’s School offers an intellectually rigorous academic programme that includes traditional approaches and ‘hard’ subjects, yet is also exciting and embraces worthwhile innovation.

Our results in examinations at GCSE and A-level are exceptional by the standards of both the state and independent sectors; QE is now recognised as one of the most outstanding schools in the country.

However, impressive as this is, our ambitions for our pupils go much further: not only should QE boys gain a thorough mastery of the curriculum, but we also seek to cultivate in them effective habits of independent learning and of deep academic curiosity. In short, we are committed to free-thinking scholarship.

This is achieved in the first place through excellent teaching by staff who are themselves highly academically accomplished and are well-trained in the best pedagogic practice. QE’s culture of excellence has been built on the bedrock of very many years of experience in educating boys and young men.

Our staff are dedicated and thoroughly committed to the success of the pupils in their charge.

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Secondly, it is achieved through our programme of academic enrichment activities extending through all year groups. These are tailored to further boys’ understanding beyond the confines of the day-to-day curriculum, inspiring them to stretch themselves, to collaborate in exploring new areas, and to dig deeper into topics that interest and stimulate them intellectually.

Our aim is that, by the time they leave the School, QE pupils will be ambitious thinkers possessed of a substantial measure of intellectual poise. They will be ‘young men who are confident, able and responsible’, as our mission statement has it. Moreover, they will be equipped to flourish at the best universities, to excel in interesting and rewarding careers, and to thrive in life generally.

Kindling the fire Described by his teachers as calm and methodical, Aashish Khimasia, the 2018 School Captain, already has a formidable list of achievements to his name. He gained the highest -possible grades in all 11 of his GCSEs last summer; he is an accomplished musician, playing the flute and the violin; he is a keen School sportsman and he fulfils leading roles in debating and in the Medical Society.

While considered a great honour, being School Captain brings with it significant responsibilities. During one of these – giving the vote of thanks at the Senior Awards Ceremony – Aashish voiced his appreciation of QE’s approach to intellectual development, citing Plutarch’s epigram that “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled”. QE pupils are “taught to be independent thinkers, creating a curiosity and drive that allows us to question the world around us”.

What sticks with me most about my time at QE … [is] the way the School and teachers enabled us to be confident, free-thinking, independent young men. Something I feel has served me well through to today.

Mike Ajayi (Old Elizabethan 1998–2005), Co-founder, AMF Records, part of the global Universal Music Group.

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Beyond the Classroom The Performing Arts Dramatic productions and music concerts contribute immeasurably to the life of our School community.

Our extensive concert programme and other musical performance opportunities bind together musicians and audiences in enjoyment of some of the most sublime products of human creativity. Similarly, QE’s acclaimed Drama productions give our young actors the chance to explore great works of literature while presenting a rich visual spectacle.

For musicians and actors, the shared experience of appearing on stage often draws out more technically accomplished and creative performances, simultaneously building confidence and maturity. In addition, boys benefit from the discipline required to prepare for such events and develop sought-after attributes such as teamwork. This applies equally to the dedicated pupils providing technical support in areas such as sound and lighting.

During the autumn, the Shakespeare Schools Festival gives QE boys the chance to deepen their knowledge of England’s greatest writer as they work towards the staging of an abridged version of one of his plays at a professional venue.

The School Play, a colourful highlight of our spring calendar, is a full-length production involving large numbers of pupils of all ages, while the Summer Term’s inter-House drama competition yields further opportunities.

QE has 19 regularly rehearsing musical ensembles. These range from our Symphony Orchestra, three choirs and the Jazz Band to chamber ensembles such as the Saxophone Group, String Camerata and our Junior and Senior Indian Music Ensembles. There are frequent performance opportunities for QE musicians away from the School, including concerts in this country and abroad; many also make music with outside organisations, including the junior branches of institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

QE drama equipped me fantastically for Harvard: I have been the lead actor in a professionally directed play and choreographed a major dance routine.

Sahil Handa (Old Elizabethan 2009–2016), now reading for a Liberal Arts degree at Harvard.

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Expressing yourself; trying new things Drew Sellis achieved grade 8 in saxophone while in Year 6 at primary school – and it was at that early age that he first started eyeing music as a potential career. In the intervening years, he has reached grade 8 on the piano and organ, and he was recently awarded a special Silver Award for his organ-playing from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Those early ambitions have taken on a clearer shape: now in Year 11, he has his sights set on reading Music at Oxford or Cambridge, possibly as an Organ Scholar.

Drew performs in School ensembles including the Big Band, Sax Ensemble, Barbershop group and Choir. He is happy to support others: in one recent concert, he accompanied the Flute Ensemble, sang in the Choir, played in the Summer Orchestra and conducted the final piece of the evening, which he had both arranged and rehearsed with the Junior Concert Band!

“QE has enabled me to become a better all-round musician. The broad variety of opportunities has been great for working out what I’m keen on and has strengthened my ambition to study music at university.”

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Beyond the Classroom Sport and Games Our talented young sportsmen benefit from opportunities to achieve House, School, county, divisional and national honours, while the School seeks to nurture the enjoyment of sport and to lay strong foundations of physical fitness in all our pupils.

The combination of high-quality teaching in PE lessons, expert extra-curricular coaching and our impressive facilities ensures that we quickly identify talent and then nurture it to a very high level. Boys participate in external sporting competitions in our main summer and winter games of cricket and rugby, as well as in athletics, basketball, cross-country, Eton Fives, swimming, tennis and water-polo.

Fundamental movement skills are taught in lessons for Years 7–9. Alongside this, we seek to develop communication skills and, through team and individual sports, to nurture leadership and resilience.

In an increasingly sedentary society, the ancient maxim of mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body) rings truer than ever.

We firmly believe in competition.

Our extensive fixture programme provides opportunities not only at élite level, but also for those of lesser ability who nevertheless enjoy their sport. A full programme of inter-House matches gives many further opportunities.

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We expect commitment from all boys representing the School, including mid-week and Saturday involvement.

There are regular national and international rugby and cricket tours to destinations such as Sri Lanka, Canada and Holland, together with trips such as the annual Year 7 excursion to the Varsity Match at Twickenham. Every February half-term, we run a skiing trip. One calendar highlight is the QE Sevens Tournament: hosted here annually since 1976, it attracts leading rugby schools from across the country.

QE’s own extensive list of clubs includes fencing, table tennis, karate, volleyball, strength and conditioning, and both beginners’ and élite swimming groups, while we enjoy close links with sports associations in the local area.

I like the active side of sport; it provides me with an outlet from schoolwork. I am aiming for a career in medicine, possibly as a sports’ injury specialist.

Keenan Dieobi, Year 13, First XV rugby captain and School cricketer.

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Beyond the Classroom Our constructive, engaging and fun activities We strongly encourage our pupils to spend their recreational time in ways that are both fun and constructive.

To this end, the School offers a carefully curated range of worthwhile pursuits suitable for all tastes and talents.

Some of our clubs, societies and activities are directly related to curriculum subjects; others encompass broader fields of human endeavour.

Complementing inspirational classroom teaching in the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) are countless enrichment opportunities outside lessons. Very many boys take part in the UK Mathematics Trust’s individual and team challenges, with the best going on to the British Maths Olympiad. Similarly, QE regularly achieves national-level success in the various science Olympiads and in many other STEM competitions.

The School has quickly established its reputation in the exciting field of robotics, firstly winning national awards, then taking a global title at championships held in the US.

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For those aiming high, even the sky is not the limit: QE boys have excelled in space design competitions, reaching international finals hosted by NASA. Popular pastimes at QE embrace both the ancient and modern. The venerable game of chess brings benefits to all who play, enhancing concentration, memory and patience. And while the studious hush of the chess club may present a contrast to the verbal cut-and-thrust of QE’s many debating groups, both competitive activities

to think quickly as well as strategically.

Similar skills are to the fore in our Combined Cadet Force, which develops personal responsibility, leadership and self-discipline, and undertakes a broad range of adventurous and educational activities alongside important ceremonial duties. Established in 1992 and sponsored by the Corps of Royal Engineers, it remains one of relatively few CCFs to be based in a state school.

Living QE life to the full Anish Rana has thoroughly immersed himself in all that QE has to offer. Now in Year 8, he has: taken part in the School play this year and last; joined the Baker Street Club, a Sherlock Holmes-themed pupil-run group based in the Library; got involved in the high-tech Microbit Club, and signed up for LAMDA training in public speaking.

There is, however, only one contender for his greatest experience to date: he was among the Lower School boys who not only qualified for the VEX IQ international finals in Kentucky in 2018 but also returned triumphant from the US with a world title – the first ever won by a UK school! He and his teammates now sport their international honours ties with justifiable pride.

“I manage to fit everything in by

for activities like badminton,” says Anish.

He hopes eventually to shoulder more responsibility and take on leadership roles within the School; currently, he has his sights set on form captaincy.

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At a glance: QE by numbers

41%

144

A* GRADES AT A-LEVEL

OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE PLACES, 2013-2017

Not only did the proportion of examinations awarded the highest possible grade top 40%, but 2017 was also the 12th consecutive year in which our benchmark A*–B figure exceeded 95%.

Almost 90% of 2017 leavers secured places at Russell Group universities, while a growing number of Elizabethans are opting for Ivy League colleges and leading US universities.

70%

1.16

2017 saw our best-ever GCSE results, with 7 out of 10 examinations awarded A* grades or the designated equivalents (8 & 9) in the new grading system for English and Mathematics.

QE is in the country’s top 12 schools for this key Government measure. Boys achieve more than a whole grade higher per GCSE subject than their primary school attainment would have suggested.

PROGRESS 8 PERFORMANCE

GCSEs AT HIGHEST GRADES

UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS

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UCL Cambridge Imperial College London Warwick

20 18 14 14

Nottingham LSE

12 9

Oxford Birmingham Kings College, London Queen Mary University of London

7 5 5 5

Southampton

5

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WORLD ROBOTICS CHAMPIONS 2018

DIFFERENT CLUBS, SOCIETIES & ACTIVITIES QE offers a very extensive range of worthwhile leisure-time activities throughout the year groups to cater for all tastes and talents, including clubs, sports, societies and musical ensembles.

We are the first UK school ever to win a world title in the VEX IQ Challenge, entered by 8,500 teams from some 40 countries. QE beat 400 finalists in the US.

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All Year 12 boys complete 40 hours of voluntary service to the community over the course of the year, with many opting to keep contributing their time in Year 13.

The Queen’s Library has rapidly become established at the heart of the School since it opened in 2014. A well-equipped centre for independent learning, it also hosts a number of popular clubs.

BOOKS BORROWED DURING 2017

HOURS OF LOCAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE

DEGREE SUBJECTS Medicine Engineering Economics Law

27 17 14 7

Architecture

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Mathematics Mathematics with Economics Dentistry Physics

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History

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Queen Elizabeth’s School

Our history; our heritage Queen Elizabeth’s School has a long and proud history. While much has changed since our founding in 1573, and while the School continues to evolve as we seek to provide for our pupils the best that modern education has to offer, QE is today still underpinned by the values enshrined in our original Charter.

The Charter, granted by Queen Elizabeth I at the request of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was for “one Common Grammar School… for the education, bringing up, and instruction of boys and youth… and the same to continue forever”.

We continue to draw extensively on those Tudor ideals to this day, applying and re-interpreting them to inform all that the School does. Our Elizabethan forebears recognised that a truly successful school not only delivers outstanding academic outcomes, but also promotes the development of character in its pupils and encourages them to go on to make a worthwhile contribution to society.

As the pages of this brochure make clear, we devote considerable time, expertise and resources to these priorities, which are encapsulated in our mission to “produce young men who are confident, able and responsible”.

The Charter set out the need for continuity and a long-term approach. Furthermore, it enshrined arrangements to make this possible, ensuring that the Governors could “more plentifully and decently maintain the Free School”. Queen Elizabeth’s School’s first building, Tudor Hall, in Wood Street (pictured here), served us well: it was to remain our home for nearly 350 years.

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During those long centuries, QE’s values supported it even as its fortunes fluctuated through such epoch-making events as the plague, the English Civil War and the great educational reforms of the Victorian era.

Since the School moved to our current Queen’s Road site in 1932, new traditions have emerged, such as the reading of the School Chronicle after the Founder’s Day service and our annual Rugby Sevens Tournament. Recent decades have seen substantial changes to the campus as the Governors have made major investments to ensure our School continues to support both current and future generations.

Through all this, Queen Elizabeth’s School has remained true to its original Charter, and in so doing has emerged as one of the most outstanding schools of the 21st century.

A Grammar School for the education, bringing up, and instruction of boys‌and the same to continue forever.

From the 1573 Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I

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An inspirational learning environment Queen Elizabeth’s is truly a 21st-century school built on 16th-century foundations.

Proud as we are of our long history and of its role in informing the School’s values, we are also focused on the future and on facilitating the continued progress of the School by creating a superb learning environment.

Our ambitious estates strategy seeks to improve our campus both through new construction and through the high-quality refurbishment and upgrading of our existing building stock. In addition, we invest heavily in technology, making effective use of it across all areas of school life, from learning and pastoral care to administration.

Our state-of-the-art Martin Swimming Pool is used by all QE boys, as well as for special events, such as last year’s National Senior Schools Water Polo Finals. The Shearly Hall, completed in 2009, has excellent acoustics, making it ideal for concerts and recording, while its versatile and well-equipped auditorium is also used for drama, sport, examinations and social occasions.

2018 sees the refurbishment of the School’s historic Main Building, greatly enhancing facilities for Economics, Geography, History, Languages and Philosophy, Religion & Society. Our last major initiative, the Heard Project, completed in 2017, created an attractive new home for the English department, carefully designed with collaborative, seminar-style learning in mind. That was preceded by the construction of the impressive Queen’s Library and dining complex. Standing at the very heart of our campus, this development incorporates a new centre for the Sixth Form, a Food Technology suite and the stylish Dining Hall and Café 1573.

Next on the horizon is the large-scale redevelopment of the Mayes Building to create a new Music School, for which planning consent was recently granted.

This will provide larger teaching and rehearsal spaces, as well as an additional performance venue. Music is flourishing at the School and this exciting development will bring further opportunities for all our young musicians.

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I saw the pool on the open evening and felt I had to apply.

Although I was a keen swimmer, I had never played water polo.

The School enabled me to get involved in a sport I now love.

Louis Waloschek (Old Elizabethan 2010–2017), former QE water polo captain and in the England National Youth Squad. Now reading History at Keble College, Oxford.

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Providing support and guidance At Queen Elizabeth’s School, while we work carefully and systematically with pupils and their parents to secure academic success, we consider it of paramount importance that boys are both happy and resilient.

We have, therefore, put in place a carefully structured programme of pastoral support and guidance to nurture good mental health throughout the School. Significant effort goes into promoting boys’ wellbeing by means of our programme, which is delivered through weekly Personal Development Time sessions, through bespoke tutorials with tutors and senior staff, through peer mentoring and through a host of extra-curricular activities.

Our aim is to assist boys in making a smooth transition to adulthood and to build resilience to enable them to thrive in the modern world, where they must contend with pressures that older generations did not have to face.

If boys do experience difficulties, staff, older boys and, if necessary, external professional counselling and other support are always on hand to help them, and they are treated with great care and sensitivity.

A similar approach is taken in providing academic support. Each year, boys are set personalised targets in every subject and are given individual support to ensure they progress.

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Many tools are employed to help them reach their full potential, including bespoke interventions, differentiation and additional one-to-one work in subject clinics. As our senior boys look to their futures, we provide an extensive programme to assist them in making university applications and in considering career choices that best match their talents and aptitudes; this includes activities ranging from our Year 11 Careers Convention to initiatives offering tailored support for Oxbridge and Ivy League applicants.

More generally, an atmosphere of positivity is created by a culture of celebrating success.

Boys are praised for their efforts, service and achievements, whether through merits, good notes, commendations or, more publicly, through our formal Junior and Senior Awards evenings. By such means, we motivate pupils, spurring them on to still greater success and creating a virtuous circle in which success becomes a habit.

…Students’ personal development and well-being are outstanding.

Students show high levels of confidence and maturity.

Behaviour is exemplary and students show great courtesy towards each other...

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An Elizabethan for life From the day they join our ranks in Year 7, pupils become part of a unique community which includes not only their peers, but those who have gone before and those who will come after, as well as parents, staff, Governors and many other supporters of the School.

Our home-school partnership sets out the essential role that parents have in supporting their sons. We are acutely aware of the part parents play in the success of the School. That our current pupils are able to enjoy the fantastic learning environment on offer here is due in very large part to the generosity of parents. Since the mid-1990s the fabric of the School has been transformed by regular parental giving through the Friends of Queen Elizabeth’s. A registered charity, FQE offers parents the opportunity to get involved in fund-raising through a calendar of enjoyable social events, which reaches its summer climax with our annual Founder’s Day Fete.

Once boys leave our Sixth Form, the overwhelming majority go on to Russell Group and other top universities in the UK and beyond. After university, they follow a very diverse range of careers.

Large numbers enter the professions, including medicine, law and accountancy, and many others find fulfilment in entrepreneurship and commerce, in the creative arts, in academia or in science and engineering.

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At every stage, our thriving alumni network supports the School in the extensive work we do to prepare pupils for their futures.

This support ranges from inspirational talks given by visiting Old Elizabethan speakers who have excelled in their careers, to mock university interviews and mentoring. QE alumni often facilitate work experience programmes and internships, helping our boys gain that vital first foothold in highly competitive professional careers.

For our old boys themselves, our network takes many shapes and exists both online and in the physical world. We do much to help them reconnect with each other and with the School. Throughout the year, there are occasions catering especially for alumni – such as the Old Elizabethans Association Dinner and our Elizabethan Union Dinner Debate, which pits alumni against current Year 12 debaters – while alumni are frequent and welcome visitors at many of the School’s major calendar events.

Pictured here (background) is the annual cricket match between past and present pupils on Founder’s Day.

Friendship and support Leading lawyer Ross Lima (Old Elizabethan 1995–2002) assiduously carves out time from his busy career to lend his support to the School; he also maintains close friendships with former classmates. Ross, who read Law at the University of Sheffield, is a commercial and corporate solicitor for Shell, providing legal advice for its global shipping fleet. In addition, he is Executive Chairman of Inter-Club, a 1,500-member organisation holding events in Pall Mall and St James’s.

Each year, Ross provides a work placement for a QE sixth-former to shadow him in Shell’s legal department. Several pupils have subsequently drawn on this experience in their applications to read Law at Oxbridge.

Ross suggested the School’s participation in Shell’s Bright Ideas Challenge; a QE team duly won this national science competition at the first attempt. A debating team member himself in his schooldays, Ross gave the after-dinner address at this year’s 53rd Elizabethan Union Dinner Debate – an event pitting Year 12 pupils against old boys. He is pictured here flanked by his QE contemporaries and friends, Laurence Burrows and Panicos Petrou.

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Academic Staff HEADMASTER N.J. Enright

LANGUAGES MA (St John’s College, Oxford), MBA (UCL Institute of Education, London), NPQH, FRSA

V.A. Maule

BA (Van Mildert College, Durham), PGDipEdLaw (Buckingham), NPQH

P. Menelaou L.E. Riseborough D.J. Ryan S. Snowdon

MBA (Manchester) MA (Robinson College, Cambridge) BA (Warwick), MEd (Open) MA (Oriel College, Oxford), MSc (Bedfordshire), EdD (Sheffield)

J. Sullivan

SECOND MASTER C.W. Price

ASSISTANT HEADS E. Aghdiran A.H. Macdonald D.J. Ryan M.G. Taylor

T.J. Foster M. King J. Maister

GEOGRAPHY E.R. Parry

TEACHING STAFF A.M. Canal

ART S. Buckeridge

A.M. Lefteri J. McAteer J.M. Nicodemus

BA (Falmouth School of Art), MA (Middlesex), Head of Art BA (Winchester School of Art) BA (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) BA (Chelsea School of Art)

S.M. Uduwawala M.J. Feven

K. Jackson K.H. Shah

BSc (Kent), Head of Economics BSc (Warwick), MA (Middlesex), Head of Year 13 BA (Manchester), Head of Year 9 BSc (Manchester), ACA

ENGLISH R.J. Hyland

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H.K. Davies

N.J. Enright

A.H. Macdonald N. Shah

ECONOMICS

C.J. Smith

BSc (Bristol), MTeach (UCL Institute of Education, London), Head of Geography BA (University College, London) MA (St Anne’s College, Oxford), MSc (Cass Business School, City) MA (St John’s College, Oxford), MBA (UCL Institute of Education, London), NPQH, FRSA MA (Robinson College, Cambridge) BA (Trevelyan College, Durham) BSc (Newcastle), MSc (Newcastle), PhD (Bristol)

HISTORY & POLITICS H.C. MacGregor L. Hargadon

C.E. Coleman MA (Trinity College, Oxford), MA (Canterbury Christ Church), Head of English

BA (Central England), Assistant Head of English MA (St Andrews), MA (York) BA (Southampton) BA (Kent), PGDip (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts) BA (Westminster) BA (Exeter), MA (Exeter) BA (Warwick), Head of Year 11 BA (Liverpool), MLitt (St Andrews), MA (Middlesex) BA (Manchester), MA (Manchester)

A.R. Czirok-Carman A. Gohil S.M. Walker

BA (Bristol), MA (Middlesex), Head of History BSc (Bristol), MSc (Birkbeck College, London), Head of Politics MA (University College, Oxford), Head of Year 12 BA (York) BA (Warwick) MA (Somerville College, Oxford), MA (Leeds), Head of Year 10

C.D. Kidd

MA (Brasenose College, Oxford), MA (King’s College, London), Head of Languages B. Lukasser-Weitlaner MA (Innsbruck, Austria), Assistant Head of Languages R. Grundy MA (Lincoln College, Oxford) R.A. Hall BA (Warwick), MA (Manchester), Head of Year 8 M.J. Jacquin BA (Besancon, France) D. Kaur MA (Somerville College, Oxford) G.A. Ross MA (St Andrews) H. Shephard BA (London School of Theology), MA (St Hugh’s College, Oxford), PhD (London School of Theology) M.G. Taylor MA (Oriel College, Oxford), MSc (Bedfordshire), EdD (Sheffield), Head of Year 7 Assisted by visiting teachers: C.M. Illingworth MBBS (Free University, Berlin, Germany), PhD (Humboldt, Berlin, Germany), Ancient Greek M. Torres Giron BA (Cordoba, Spain), Spanish LIBRARY C. Murray

MA (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge), MA (Zurich, Switzerland), MA (University College, London), Librarian

MATHEMATICS J.H. Steer

W. Fung

P.A. Brady K. Chiu

MMathPhil (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), MEd (King’s College, London), Head of Mathematics BSc (Imperial College, London), Assistant Head of Mathematics BSc (Grey College, Durham) BSc (Imperial College, London)

D. Mahdmina

C.W. Price

G.K. Roberts M.F. Saccardi

K. Shah J.S. Simms J. Simpson

N. Vaghjiani

BSc (University College, London), MSc (Loughborough), PhD (University College, London) BA (Van Mildert College, Durham), PGDipEdLaw (Buckingham), NPQH BA (Sheffield) MA (Jesus College, Cambridge), MSc (Queen Mary, London) BSc (Warwick), MSc (Cass Business School, City) MA (Churchill College, Cambridge) BSc (Queen Elizabeth College, London), MSc (Birkbeck College, London) BSc (Warwick)

J.A. Brown H.L. Morgan

BMus (Birmingham), MPhil (Birmingham), Director of Music BMus (Royal Holloway, London) BMus (Royal Academy of Music), LRAM

Assisted by visiting teachers: H.E. Brown DipARCM, ARCM, Violin R. Cartmell BMus, MMus, Lower Brass K. Collier BMus, Clarinet & Piano A.J. Day BA, MA, Clarinet & Jazz Piano C. Hooker BA, ARAM, LRAM, Oboe T. Imai DipRAM, ARAM, Junior Fellow RAM, Piano M.L. Payne BMusTCM, Saxophone J. Radford BA, Guitar & Trumpet D. Robinson, BMus, LRAM, Cello & Piano E.L. Ross BMus, Voice J.N. Rowland AGSM, Percussion C. Wilson BA, Flute & Piano PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION & SOCIETY J.G. Robertson

N.M. Mayer

PHYSICS

J.R. Hart

J.E. Brooke

J.K. Clarke R.J. Scally O.P. Di-Lieto L.E. Jacobs O.A. O’Gorman K.M. Paul-Jones

BSc (Wales), MA (Middlesex), Director of Sport BSc (Exeter), Head of Rugby BSc (Glamorgan), Head of Aquatics & Head of Cricket BSc (Birmingham) BA (Leeds Metropolitan) BSc (Portsmouth) BSc (Bournemouth)

SCIENCE M.P. Russell S.L. Westcott

BSc (York), DPhil (York), Head of Science BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London), Head of Lower School Science

G.C. Deakin L.C. Jowsey-Alexander J.B. Leigh J.P. Varndell

MA (Downing College, Cambridge), BSc (Open), Head of Physics MEng (Imperial College, London) MEng (Loughborough), PhD (Loughborough) BSc (Exeter) BSc (University College, London)

TECHNOLOGY M.T. Noonan T.A. Green C.J. Kiely C.M. Munro

BEd (Limerick, Ireland), Head of Technology BA (Middlesex) BEd (Limerick, Ireland) BA (Brunel)

BIOLOGY

MUSIC C.J. Horne

PHYSICAL EDUCATION & GAMES

BA (Nottingham), Head of Philosophy, Religion & Society MA (King’s College, Cambridge)

G.F. Ridge L. Amisial

M. Armon M.A. Haj Hussein H. Shah

BSc (Dundee), PhD (Dundee), Head of Biology BSc (Maryland, USA), MSc (Georgetown, USA), MSc (South Carolina, USA) BSc (King’s College, London) BSc (Warwick) BSc (Queen Mary, London)

CHEMISTRY M.P. Russell T.J. Batchelor K. Bugler D.S. Crouch

C.J. Dharmawardhane E.A. Kuo S.L. Westcott

BSc (York), DPhil (York), Head of Chemistry MChem (Hatfield College, Durham) BSc (Cardiff), MSc (Cardiff), PhD (Cardiff) BSc (Hertfordshire), MSc (Imperial College, London), PhD (Imperial College, London) BSc (King’s College, London) BSc (Manchester), PhD (Imperial College, London) BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London)

Governing Body B.R. Martin N. Gaskell M. Beard A. Binstock M.H.S. Bradish D. Burton K.R. Cooper R. Delves N. J. Enright D. Farrer J. Ferguson Revd. C. Ferris M. Hooley E. Houston A.H. Macdonald C. Martin C.W. Price N. Raval P. Reid V.S. Wong E. Aghdiran M.T. Rose

MBE, FRICS, IRRV, Chairman ACA, Vice Chairman BA FCA, FCIArb BA, FCA MA, CB MA, FRSA MA, MBA, NPQH, FRSA, Headmaster MA, QC BA MA, DipCG BA MA PhD BA, PGDipEdLaw, NPQH BA, DipArch, ARB RN BSc, MD, FRCP MBA, Company Secretary MA, Clerk

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