Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SUMMER 2025
SUMMER COLOUR : QE traditions old and new combined to make Founder’s Day 2025 a memorable and joyous occasion. See p9.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
has had on Queen Elizabeth’s School
year was punctuated by celebration,
– a plan that was drawn up, and then
with the entire School making the trip
This week marks not only the end
launched, amid the uncertainty of
to Westminster Abbey for a service
of another successful academic year,
COVID-19.
of thanksgiving on the anniversary
but also the end of the time covered
itself, 24th March. We have benefited
by our outgoing School Plan, Building
Not long after the UK emerged from
from the complete refurbishment of
on Distinction. I am happy to confirm
the pandemic, in May 2022, our splendid
two Chemistry laboratories and, more
that the governors have ratified our
new building incorporating the Friends’
recently, from the opening of The Robert
new plan, setting out our priorities
Recital Hall and Music Rooms opened
Dudley Studio. This superb facility this
for development for 2025–2030: I look
with a gala festival. Soon after, QE
term provided the venue for the annual
forward to sharing that with everyone
received its sixth consecutive top
School Play – Oedipus – for the first
in the early part of the new School
rating from Ofsted. That same year
time.
year.
we were named State Secondary School of the Year by The Sunday Times Schools’
Academically, just as the plan’s name
At this juncture, then, it is good to take
Guide. Those positive independent
foresaw, we have built on our previous
stock and celebrate the very positive
endorsements paved the way for our
success, with well over 50% of our 2024
impact that Building on Distinction
450th anniversary in 2023. The whole
leavers receiving offers from top-five