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Foreword
e hope you enjoy this new look issue of Queen’s Today, which is bigger and (we hope) better than ever before! This term you will see we have changed the format of our Summer edition, so that it serves more as an overview of the whole academic year and showcases some of the exceptional highlights from Queen’s in terms of Sport, Music, Drama, Dance and Art. And what a year it has been! We hope you enjoy reading about the array of concerts, sporting triumphs, drama productions, dance shows, trips and overseas tours across both the College and the Prep School.
This academic year has been particularly special, of course, as 2023 marks the 175th anniversary of Queen’s, which were we delighted to mark by holding Founder’s Day on the actual anniversary, 175 years to the day, that F. D. Maurice had founded the College. Not only is this an important anniversary for the Queen’s community but, of course, it is also significant historically as it marks the founding of the very first school to offer academic qualifications to women. We’ve had lots of highlights so far surrounding this big anniversary, but one of the most memorable was welcoming back nearly 300 alumnae to visit our Archive Exhibition (which you can read more about on page 3.)
We will be celebrating our anniversary throughout the full calendar year of 2023 and are keenly anticipating next term’s culmination of our 175th celebrations in the form of an ambitious production of ‘Annie’, where pupils from both the College and the Prep School will perform on a real West End stage, as we’ve hired the Shaftesbury Theatre for three days in late November. We can’t wait!
Best wishes,
