Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SPRING 2022
SENIOR AWARDS: Prize-winners from Years 10–12 gathered for the ceremony, where VIP guests included Professor Shitij Kapur, President & Principal of King’s College London, and Councillor Saira Don, Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
One of the ten priorities outlined in
qualities we seek to champion, such as
our 2021-2025 School plan, Building
bravery, hard work and high standards,
This Spring Term brought news
on Distinction, is to ‘develop skills of
in a career that has seen him work in five
that 35 Elizabethans have received
both leadership and collaboration’ in
different academic settings across four
offers from Oxford and Cambridge
the boys. Our Senior Awards Ceremony
continents.
universities – a magnificent effort.
is an important date in our calendar
It is further confirmation that our
because it provides us with an
One route by which leadership skills
pupils have successfully overcome
opportunity formally to recognise
may be nurtured and developed is
all that the disruption of the past two
those who have exemplified qualities
through participation in co-curricular
years has thrown at them. I trust and
of leadership, and to encourage their
activities. For example, our robotics teams
expect that these leavers, together
peers to emulate them. I was pleased
are pressing on to ever greater success
with classmates holding offers from
to welcome our Guest of Honour at
on the national and international stage,
other leading universities, will go on
the ceremony, Professor Shitij Kapur,
achievement which would certainly not
to assume positions of influence and
President and Principal of King’s College
be possible without effective teamwork.
responsibility in their careers and,
London. Professor Kapur has himself
Another important avenue for some
for some, in wider society.
amply demonstrated the leadership
of our boys is sport. This issue of The