Queen Elizabeth's School
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Queen Elizabeth's School is a boys' school in Barnet, North London, founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I with help from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and local alderman Edward Underne. Officially, it is known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys.
In practise it became a fee paying school and was based in Wood Street in Barnet after the Second World War it moved to a larger plot in Queen's Road in Barnet.
After time as a comprehensive school from the 1960s it became a Grammar School again in the 1990s, and under headmaster Eamon Harris went on to be the top state school for A-Levels in the late 1990s.
It has received many accolades, the students often going on to become top professionals.
Currently under Dr. John Marincowitz (since 1999), it has continued to expand, recently a new swimming pool has been commissioned, however the school has failed to produce the funding and so building works has stopped, although the reason given is "so as not to disturb pupils during SATs examinations".
Queen Elizabeth's School is divided into six school houses, named after famous old boys and school governors. They are Broughton, Harrison, Leicester, Pearce, Stapylton and Underne.
The school's policies both in terms of discipline and academic structure are controversial as can be seen on"QE Boys the Truth" (http://www.geocities.com/haze129/index2.html) and "QE Comrades" (http://qecomrades.b0x.com/index.htm), although such websites have begun to close down as teachers have intervened.
External links
- Queen Elizabeth's School website (http://www.qeb.barnet.sch.uk/)