Queen Elizabeth's School
The Elizabethan
NE WSLET TER TO PARENTS
SUMMER 2023
EAGER ANTICIPATION: Preparing for the whole-School photograph was a major logistical undertaking. See p12.
From the Headmaster Dear Parents,
The anniversary anthem we
programme, the calendar entry read
As our 450th anniversary year
commissioned from Howard Goodall
simply: “All students out on trips”. In
continues, there has, rightly, been
for our Westminster Abbey service says
these pages, you can find out what they
considerable emphasis on celebrating
it well: QE today thrives from ancient
got up on those and other local, national
our own remarkable history as Queen
roots spread deep and wide. We draw
and international visits.
Elizabeth’s School. Yet alongside this,
strength from our own traditions, but also
we have continued reaching out – not
from our connections in Barnet and with
In terms of logistics, this term’s largest
looking inward and, in fact, not merely
the world beyond. Furthermore, we are,
anniversary events were undoubtedly
looking outward, but actively getting
as our School Plan puts it, “maximising
Founder’s Day and the shooting of the
beyond our campus, both to learn
the advantages of our…location…in one
School photograph. For the latter, happily
from the world around us and to serve
of the world’s great capital cities”. For
the rain stayed away this time, so that we
alongside those who are not part of
Flourish Days, the latest innovation from
could secure this important record of the
our immediate Elizabethan family.
our burgeoning Flourish enrichment
whole School in its 450th year.