On Mon 1 March the Year 10 Religious Studies GCSE group made good use of a sunny afternoon travelling to St Paul's Cathedral for a tour and ethics workshop.

On Thurs 25 February students preparing for their Trinity College Drama exams showed their work to friends and family in the Pfeiffer Hall.

On Tues 2 March award-winning author Bali Rai visited the College and spoke to Years 9 and 10.

On Wed 4 March a group of Queen's GCSE and A-level Religious Studies students attended a challenging lecture on animal suffering led by Revd Professor A Linzey from Oxford University.

On Fri 29 January thirteen of us, who are contemplating doing Philosophy and Ethics at A-level, were fortunate enough to go to a gifted and talented conference, held at the Quaker Meeting House in Euston.

This week a group of Queen's sixth formers interviewed Alastair Campbell at the College as part of their involvement with Envision.

Intrepid Queen's art historians crossed the Channel in search of gothic wonders. These they found, but the conditions were wintry…

Class 2 spent a very useful afternoon in Epping Forest recently, exploring in the field topics which they had already encountered in the classroom back at Queen's.

The Queen's College cross-country team entered the LSAA cross-country championships at Parliament Hill on Wed 3 February.

Members of Athena, Queen's College sixth formers interested in high culture, visited the BL last week to see 'Points of view: capturing the 19th century in photographs'.

Since our red and blue day, Queen's girls have been busy selling cakes and jewellery to raise further funds for Haiti.

Black dresses, glitter, heels and lip-gloss...

On Mon 8 February Queen's Opera Society enjoyed a dark and threatening performance of 'Lucia di Lammermoor', the first of two masterpieces by Donizetti being presented at ENO this season.

Using as a stimulus Tracy Letts' play 'August: Osage County' Queen's A-level Theatre Studies students wrote, directed and performed two unique pieces of theatre.

'Women in Crime': from the dramatist's point of view the story of Ruth Ellis provides a rich vein for exploration.

Drama GCSE students from Queen's went to see Stephen Daldry's production of JB Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'.

Actress and comedian Doon Mackichan gave a masterclass on character work with the A-level Theatre Studies students at Queen's in preparation for their examination project.

One of the advantages of Queen's being situated in central London is that Seniors can go to the British Museum for their afternoon Classics lesson.

We congratulate the new Senior Student and her two deputies, who took up their positions at the start of this term.

In Prayers on Wednesday morning this week some Class 1 girls helped commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with an interesting presentation on Janusz Korczak.

This week saw the launch of a College drive to raise much needed funds for Haiti.

One of our Senior College students has been promoting a charity which protects the rainforest.

Last week, on Wed 13 January, Queen's History teacher Miss Davies led an informative session on Apartheid in South Africa . She drew on personal recollections of a childhood spent in a segregated society.

Members of Year 8 at Queen's College recently enjoyed a trip to the Foundling Museum with their English teacher, Mrs Azis.

The Queen's College U13 basketball team had a great start to the term with a 24-20 win against Portland Place School on Thurs 14 January.

Congratulations to the fifteen girls in Class 1 (Year 9) who achieved Distinctions in the recent ESB examinations at Queen’s.

In the last week of the Michaelmas Term Mrs Mitra, who teaches Religious Studies at Queen's, gave an inspiring talk on Socrates, addressing the question of why we would want to name a club after a dead philosopher who never wrote anything.

Queen’s College Religious Studies students spent a long weekend in Amsterdam from 4 to 6 December to explore themes relevant to their GCSE course.

The great news came in at the end of the Michaelmas Term that all the Queen's candidates for the most recent round of Trinity Guildhall Drama exams had gained Distinctions.

On a very cold evening (Tues 1 Dec) the U12 and U13 netball teams went to Battersea Park to play a match against the Grey Coat Hospital.

As medieval Gothic art and architecture feature heavily in our History of Art A-level course, the Senior art historians visited Salisbury Cathedral on Sat 28 November – and the sun managed to shine beautifully!

Our annual short story competition, named after former student Katherine Mansfield,  has just been adjudicated by Emma Freud, another Old Queen's.

A number of girls participated in the Queen's Gate cross-country event in Hyde Park on Wed 18 November.

The new Queen's College Socratic club provides an opportunity for those who have an interest in philosophy to gain a greater understanding of the way in which rational debate helps us to appreciate the complex challenges which face our world.

Congratulations to Sylvie (3H) who is a regional winner in the Junior Painter of the Year competition sponsored by Sightsavers International.

Lingo Flamingo, the Queen's College modern languages club, held a viewing of Sylvain Chomet's award-winning animated film 'Les Triplettes de Belleville' (2003) last week, while offering suitably French refreshments to those who were present.

On Mon 9 November a group of Seniors went with Dr Seymour to the ENO production of 'The Turn of the Screw' which is based on Henry James' chilling novel.

Early November saw four performances in the Pfeiffer Hall at Queen's of a new musical 'A Necklace of Raindrops'.

Lizza Aiken, daughter of Joan Aiken, visited Queen's College on 3 and 4 November to talk to Class 3 (year 7) in their Library lessons.

The first half of the Michaelmas Term has seen a great deal of action up at Regent's Park, and some excellent results for the girls in green!

The new Queen's College Health and Fitness society will provide an opportunity for girls in the Senior College to maintain their fitness and consider all sorts of ways to adopt an even healthier lifestyle.

No fewer than 24 Queen's girls in II Juniors and I Seniors have been completing the expedition section of their Duke of Edinburgh's silver award this term.

It was a great honour for Queen's College to welcome inspirational poet and teacher Daljit Nagra during National Poetry Week.

Where more appropriate to think about how business and ethics relate than at St Paul's in the heart of the City?

On Fri 25 September, we held a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Two girls from Queen's College, Lois (1G) and Mariette (IIJC) modelled their own designs at the Museum of London on the final day of London Fashion Week.

On Sat 19 September, a number of Queen's girls who study Japanese went with head of Modern Languages Ms Millward to Spitalfields to attend the Festival of Japanese Culture.

It's now a fortnight since the start of term, so we asked two of this year's new girls, Rita and Juno (both 3H), to tell us about their first impressions of Queen's College.

GCSE and A-level Italian pupils at Queen's visited the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art on Mon 14 September.

Congratulations to Dr Stephens, who teaches Politics here at Queen's! He has recently published three weighty tomes about Lord Denning, based on his doctoral research.

Dr Seymour, head of the Senior College, has launched a new society for the new school year. It's called Athena, and offers high culture to all Seniors.