Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SPRING 2024
WINNERS: Senior Awards had a sporting theme this year, with Olympian Derek Redmond presenting the prizes. Turn to p11.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
At the Olympic Games in Paris this
A-level results and a good number
summer, we will watch athletes at
of Oxbridge offers would surely help
Parallels between academic and
the peak of their powers achieving
any school secure a podium finish.
sporting excellence were to the
remarkable feats of performance across
And in this respect, Queen Elizabeth’s
fore this month when we welcomed
a very diverse range of activities. Just
School has emphatically now taken
Olympian and retired international
as those athletes’ successes are rightly
gold! Our average point score at A-level
sprinter Derek Redmond to present
applauded, we similarly celebrate the
last summer surpassed that of every
the prizes at Senior Awards. This
achievements of the many QE boys who
school, state or independent, other than
was the first time that a professional
win awards and competitions; achieve
St Paul’s Girls’. And in the cold, dark days
sportsman has been the guest of
very high grades at GCSE and A-level;
of January came news that brought
honour at Senior Awards, and it
secure places at the world’s leading
further great cheer to all of us here: no
was apt that he was with us in
universities; and accomplish other feats
fewer than 62 of our pupils had secured
an Olympics year.
of great distinction in the academic
offers from Oxford and Cambridge
realm and in a host of other fields.
universities. It was a new QE record,
Sport has the power to speak to our
and by a considerable margin: last
broader nature and to invite parallels
If medals were given to schools as
year’s figure of 47 was itself a substantial
with other aspects of human endeavour.
they are to athletes, very strong
increase on a previous best of 40.