Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SPRING 2026
WINNING WAYS: Prize recipients and their families gathered in the Main Hall for a lively Senior Awards Ceremony. See p3.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
Digital methods have already brought
respectfully,
change to QE’s classrooms, and we
or disagree
As our new School plan, Boundless,
are excited by the further expansive
intelligently. In
sets out, we seek to equip our pupils
opportunities for teaching and learning.
a wonderfully energising speech
to be future-ready and to help them
For all these reasons, we are driving
at Senior Awards, our guest of honour,
become deep thinkers and compelling
our digital strategy forward, while also
University of Birmingham Chancellor
communicators, leaders of influence
acquainting our boys with the exciting
Dr Sandie Okoro affirmed the central
and valued collaborators.
emerging possibilities through the QE
importance of remembering human
Futures programme.
values and human judgment in the
In a world that is rapidly being reshaped
context of technological upheaval.
by new technologies such as AI and
But amid all the technological change,
Empathy is a tremendously important
robotics, our boys will need to be
it is essential to remember that there
quality, yet it certainly cannot be
adaptable and digitally literate. It is
are other skills which are today more in
acquired from technology alone. These,
important that the School is itself agile
demand than ever – skills such as how
then, are skills, values and attributes that
in responding to the seismic changes
to construct an argument, evoke
matter for current pupils, whether they
predicted in the world of employment.
emotion, explain clearly, persuade
aspire to command a boardroom, lead