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CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT
Music School: construction begins summer 2019
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.
A remarkable school that offers... an exceptional and rounded education that even private schools struggle to compete with. The Good Schools Guide
Our mission is to produce young men who are confident, able and responsible.
Welcome to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet For well over four hundred years, successive generations of boys have benefited from an education at Queen Elizabeth’s School. In this brochure, you will be able to read about how we continue to fulfil our mission to produce young men who are ‘confident, able and responsible’. I would like to highlight two matters at the outset. Firstly, QE is a meritocracy. As a selective, non-denominational and non-fee-paying School, we offer opportunities equally, admitting and educating boys irrespective of parental income, residential location or religious affiliation. Secondly, the School delivers a richly faceted, holistic education, and we expect parents to support us in this, undertaking that their sons will participate fully in the wider life of the School, much of which takes place outside the normal timetable.
Our extensive range of exciting and worthwhile extra-curricular activities broadens boys’ horizons and helps them acquire new skills. Through our meticulously developed pastoral arrangements, we inculcate attributes such as confidence, resilience and perseverance. Finally, through an emphasis on service and philanthropy, we encourage Elizabethans to look beyond purely personal success and to seek ways to contribute to society. This approach, combined with our excellent facilities and our distinguished history, ensures that an education at Queen Elizabeth’s School is truly a state school experience like no other. Neil Enright Headmaster, Queen Elizabeth’s School
We are committed to the pursuit of academic development at the highest level among our boys. We unashamedly celebrate intellectual accomplishment, including our outstanding examination results; we also endeavour to nurture scholarly curiosity through a programme of academic enrichment that takes pupils well beyond the constraints of the GCSE and A-level curriculum.
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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.
The right thing to do The 2019 School Captain, Bhiramah Rammanohar, exemplifies QE’s mission to produce Elizabethans who are ‘confident, able and responsible’. His academic accomplishments include ten grade 9s at GCSE – the highest possible grade. He sings with the School Choir, Chamber Choir and Barbershop Group; he is in demand as a clarinet soloist. Praised by his teachers for his ‘determined industry’, ‘compassion’ and ‘enthusiasm’, this ‘affable’ young man serves as a St John Ambulance cadet. In his vote of thanks at this year’s Senior Awards, he recalled Einstein’s maxim that “education is not the learning of facts, but training the mind to think”. QE, said Bhiramah, does exactly that. To this, he added a guiding principle: “We should not help others merely to earn respect, or just to make our CV look good, or indeed for our own self-satisfaction, but because giving to society…is the right thing to do.”
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 more than 20 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.
I hope to do computer science at university, but taking part in drama in my free time provides something different to my academic aspirations, offering a balance that I think is both crucial and beneficial. Rahil Shah, Year 13, played the title role in this year’s QE production of Henry V for the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
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“I just like playing music” Raphael Herberg has achieved grade 8 at both cello and piano. He plays the cello in the Symphony Orchestra, String Quartet and Sinfonia, and is among the School’s current soloists. Over the past few months, he has led a new cello ensemble, not only playing but also organising the music and rehearsing the other boys. In addition, Raphael sings in the School Choir, Chamber Choir and the B-minors junior barbershop group. Beyond School, he plays with the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra during the holidays, enjoying the opportunity to take part in annual tours to locations such as Romania and the Czech Republic. More locally, he belongs to the longestablished Youth Music Centre string orchestra and quartet. Raphael, the current holder of a QE Year 10 Music Award, thrives on his busy schedule: “I just like playing music: it’s enjoyable, social and provides such a variety of experiences. I love performing with others in large groups, but in smaller groups you form a bigger proportion of the overall sound, so that is special, too.” Raphael adds that he shares the widespread excitement at the prospect of QE’s new Music School.
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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.
Sport is a big part of School life overall. I’ve always enjoyed the competitive aspect, playing – and winning – as a team against other schools. I am sure I will continue sport throughout my life. Kevin Van der Geest, Year 12: First XI cricket captain & U18 cricket international; First XV rugby player.
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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 constitute proven means of putting bright boys on their mettle, requiring combatants 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.
So many clubs, so little time! Pratyush Dutta Gupta made a significant impression right from the start at QE, throwing himself into School life. He won the Charles Fitch Memorial Award for Outstanding Commitment at the end of Year 7. Now in Year 8, he continues to pack as much as possible into his day. QE’s popular Coding Club is one interest, but he is certainly no couch potato: “I’m not really a fan of video games – I like to indulge in sport more and get active.” Before School, he can be found at élite water-polo training and swimming practice. Later, it might be rugby, cricket, badminton, table tennis, or, his most recently added extra-curricular activity, fencing. Pratyush has sung with the School Choir and joined Friday Jazz, where he plays the piano and guitar. “There’s lots of choice at QE – so much that I want to do, but I can’t fit it all in! It gets a bit hectic, particularly at lunchtimes,” he confesses, yet he relishes the opportunity to spend his breaks from lessons in such “really fun” ways.
Scaling the heights Pictured here is a Geography trip to Sicily, one of the many overseas travel opportunities offered to our boys.
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At a glance: QE by numbers
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In 2018, our Year 13 cohort set a new School record as the total number of examinations awarded the highest possible grade reached 47%. It was the 13th consecutive year in which our benchmark A*–B figure exceeded 95%.
Over the past three years, QE sent more pupils to Russell Group universities than any other state school in the country, while a growing number of Elizabethans are opting for Ivy League colleges and other leading US universities.
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2018 saw our GCSE results reach new heights, with more than three-quarters of examinations awarded A* grades or the designated equivalents (8 & 9) in the new grading system.
QE is the country’s leading selective school, and in the top 15 schools overall, for this key Government measure. Boys achieve more than a whole grade higher per GCSE subject than would be predicted based on their primary school attainment.
A* GRADES AT A-LEVEL
OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE PLACES, 2014-2018
GCSEs AT HIGHEST GRADES
PROGRESS 8 PERFORMANCE
UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS Warwick Nottingham UCL Cambridge LSE Imperial College London Oxford
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25 18 15 13 11 10 10
Birmingham 7 Kings College, London 7 Bath 6 Bristol 5 Queen Mary University 4 of London
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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.
QE has since had a record four junior teams and a senior team reach the 2019 World Finals in Kentucky, placing fifth in the world in the Teamwork Challenge.
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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.
DIFFERENT CLUBS, SOCIETIES & ACTIVITIES
WORLD ROBOTICS CHAMPIONS 2018
HOURS OF LOCAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE
BOOKS BORROWED DURING 2018
DEGREE SUBJECTS Economics Medicine Engineering Mathematics Law
25 19 17 16 14
Dentistry 10 History 7 Geography 5 Philosophy (inc. PPE) 5 Natural Sciences 4
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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. Work on our next major project, the construction of a new £3.5m-plus Music School to replace the existing Mayes Building, gets under way in the summer of 2019, following our recent success in securing Government funding. Music is flourishing at the School and this exciting development will bring further opportunities for all our young musicians, providing larger teaching and rehearsal spaces, as well as an additional performance venue. The bid was supported by a contribution from the Friends of Queen Elizabeth’s, and further FQE support will be needed to complete the project. This summer will also see the delivery of a new, dedicated robotics suite. 2018 saw the refurbishment of the School’s historic Main Building, greatly enhancing facilities for several departments, notably Languages. Before that, the Heard Project, completed in 2017, created an attractive new home for the English department, carefully designed with collaborative, seminar-style learning in mind.
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That was, in turn, 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. Our state-of-the-art Martin Swimming Pool is used by all QE boys, as well as for special events, such as the 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.
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. This is delivered through weekly Personal Development Time sessions, bespoke tutorials with tutors and senior staff, peer mentoring, the leadership of our new Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Ambassadors (part of the prefect team) and via a host of extra-curricular activities.
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.
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.
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.
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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…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... Ofsted
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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 last 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
A (St John’s College, M Oxford), MBA (UCL Institute of Education, London), NPQH, FRSA
DEPUTY HEADS E. Aghdiran MBA (Manchester) A.H. Macdonald MA (Robinson College, Cambridge) D.J. Ryan BA (Warwick), MEd (Open)
ASSISTANT HEADS C.D. Bonham-Carter MA (St Andrews) M.J. Feven BSc (Warwick), MA (Middlesex) S.L. Westcott BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London) TEACHING STAFF ART S. Buckeridge BA (Falmouth School of Art), MA (Middlesex), Head of Art A.M. Lefteri BA (Winchester School of Art) J. McAteer BA (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) J.M. Nicodemus BA (Chelsea School of Art) ECONOMICS S.M. Uduwawala BSc (Kent), Head of Economics M.J. Feven BSc (Warwick), MA (Middlesex), Head of Year 13 R.L. Phillips BSc (Royal Holloway, London) K.H. Shah BSc (Manchester), ACA ENGLISH R.J. Hyland MA (Trinity College, Oxford), MA (Canterbury Christ Church), Head of English
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V.A. Maule BA (Central England), Assistant Head of English C.D. Bonham-Carter MA (St Andrews) T.J. Foster MA (St Andrews), MA (York) M. King BA (Southampton), MA (Canterbury Christ Church) P. Menelaou BA (Westminster) L.E. Riseborough BA (Exeter), MA (Exeter) D.J. Ryan BA (Warwick) S. Snowdon BA (Liverpool), MLitt (St Andrews), MA (Middlesex) GEOGRAPHY E.R. Parry BSc (Bristol), MTeach (UCL Institute of Education, London), Head of Geography E.J. Connolly BSc (University College, London), MSc (Brunel) H.K. Davies MA (St Anne’s College, Oxford), MSc (Cass Business School, City), Head of Year 12 N.J. Enright MA (St John’s College, Oxford), MBA (UCL Institute of Education, London), NPQH, FRSA A.H. Macdonald MA (Robinson College, Cambridge) N. Shah BA (Trevelyan College, Durham) HISTORY & POLITICS H.C. MacGregor BA (Bristol), MA (Middlesex), Head of History & Politics A.R. Czirok-Carman BA (York) A. Gohil BA (Warwick) L. Hargadon BSc (Bristol), MSc (Birkbeck College, London) E. O’Malley BA (Nottingham) S.M. Walker MA (Somerville College, Oxford), MA (Leeds), Head of Year 11 LANGUAGES N. Schlatte MA (Pembroke College, Oxford), MSc (Bristol), Head of Languages D. Kaur MA (Somerville College, Oxford), Assistant Head of Languages (Classics)
B. Lukasser-Weitlaner MA (Innsbruck, Austria), Assistant Head of Languages (Modern) R. Grundy MA (Lincoln College, Oxford) R.A. Hall BA (Warwick), MA (Manchester), Head of Year 9 K.A. Hood MA (Lincoln College, Oxford) M.J. Jacquin BA (Besancon, France) G.A. Ross MA (St Andrews) H. Shephard BA (London School of Theology), MA (St Hugh’s College, Oxford), PhD (London School of Theology) LIBRARY S. Bowyer MA (Keble College, Oxford), MA (University College, London), Head of Library Services C.M. Illingworth MBBS (Free University, Berlin, Germany), PhD (Humboldt, Berlin, Germany) MATHEMATICS J.H. Steer MMathPhil (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), MEd (King’s College, London), Head of Mathematics W. Fung BSc (Imperial College, London), Assistant Head of Mathematics P.A. Brady BSc (Grey College, Durham) H. Chowdhury BSc (Bath) T.E. Harrison MA MEng (St John’s College, Cambridge), Head of Year 7 D. Mahdmina BSc (University College, London), MSc (Loughborough), PhD (University College, London) T. Phillips BSc (Cardiff) C.W. Price BA (Van Mildert College, Durham), PGDipEdLaw (Buckingham), NPQH G.K. Roberts BA (Sheffield) M.F. Saccardi MA (Jesus College, Cambridge), MSc (Queen Mary, London) K. Shah BSc (Warwick), MSc (Cass Business School, City) N. Swatch BSc (Birmingham), BSc (Birmingham), MSc (Cranfield)
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TECHNOLOGY
R.F. Partington BMus (Manchester), PGDip, PPRNCM (The Royal Northern College of Music), Director of Music J.A. Brown BMus (Royal Holloway, London), Assistant Director of Music C.E. Grint MA (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) H.L. Morgan BMus (Royal Academy of Music), LRAM
S.L. Westcott BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London), Head of Science
M.T. Noonan BEd (Limerick, Ireland), Head of Technology T.A. Green BA (Middlesex) S.J. Kelly BEd (Limerick, Ireland), Head of Year 8 S. Maheady BEd (Limerick, Ireland)
Assisted by visiting teachers: R.A. Bowden MA (Cantab), DipRAM, Voice H.E. Brown DipARCM, ARCM, Violin R. Cartmell BMus, MMus, Lower Brass K. Collier BMus, Clarinet & Piano R.D. Collins BA, MA, 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 S. Purdy Violin J. Radford BA, Guitar & Trumpet D. Robinson, BMus, LRAM, Cello & Piano J.N. Rowland AGSM, Percussion N. Tompkins DipHE, Acoustic & Electric Guitar C. Wilson BA, Flute & Piano PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION & SOCIETY J.G. Robertson BA (Nottingham), Head of Philosophy, Religion & Society N.M. Mayer MA (King’s College, Cambridge) PHYSICAL EDUCATION & GAMES J.R. Hart BSc (Wales), MA (Middlesex), Director of Sport J.K. Clarke BSc (Exeter), Head of Rugby R.J. Scally BSc (Glamorgan), Head of Aquatics & Head of Cricket O.P. Di-Lieto BSc (Birmingham) D.J. Goring BSc (St Mary’s, Twickenham) O.A. O’Gorman BSc (Portsmouth) K.M. Paul-Jones BSc (Bournemouth) P.S. Pickford BSc (Sheffield Hallam)
BIOLOGY G.F. Ridge BSc (Dundee), PhD (Dundee), Head of Biology M. Armon BSc (King’s College, London) A. Collins BSc (Glasgow), PhD (Bristol) M.A. Haj Hussein BSc (Warwick) N. Kaan BSc (University College, London), MSc (St Benet’s Hall, Oxford) H. Shah BSc (Queen Mary, London) CHEMISTRY S.L. Westcott BSc (Exeter), MA (Middlesex), PhD (University College, London), Head of Chemistry T.J. Batchelor MChem (Hatfield College, Durham) B. Cottam-Howarth MSc (Imperial College, London), PhD (Leeds) D.S. Crouch BSc (Hertfordshire), MSc (Imperial College, London), PhD (Imperial College, London) C.J. Dharmawardhane BSc (King’s College, London) P.S. Gilbert BSc (Manchester), MSc (Manchester), PhD (Manchester) T.J. Waite BSc (Oxford Brookes), PhD (Oxford Brookes), Head of Year 10
Governing Body B.R. Martin MBE, FRICS, IRRV, Chairman N. Gaskell ACA, Vice Chairman M. Beard BA A. Binstock M.H.S. Bradish FCA, FCIArb D. Burton BA, FCA R. Delves MA, FRSA N. J. Enright MA, MBA, NPQH, FRSA, Headmaster D. Farrer MA, QC J. Ferguson Revd. C. Ferris BA M. Hooley MA, DipCG E. Houston BA A.H. Macdonald MA C. Martin PhD C.W. Price BA, PGDipEdLaw, NPQH N. Raval BA, DipArch, ARB P. Reid BSc, RN, RM, SCPHN, SCPT V.S. Wong BSc, MD, FRCP E. Aghdiran MBA, Company Secretary M.T. Rose MA, Clerk
PHYSICS J.E. Brooke MA (Downing College, Cambridge), BSc (Open), Head of Physics M. Allison BSc (Imperial College, London), MBA (Manchester) G.C. Deakin MEng (Imperial College, London) L.C. Jowsey-Alexander MEng (Loughborough), PhD (Loughborough) J.B. Leigh BSc (Exeter) J.P. Varndell BSc (University College, London)
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