Queen's College London Queen's College RS students attend workshop at St Paul's Cathedral

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.

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Queen's College London Trinity Drama evening at Queen's

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

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Queen's College London World Book Day at Queen's

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

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Queen's College London Why animal suffering matters!

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's gifted and talented out on the town!

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.

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Queen's College London Alastair Campbell visits Queen's

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

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Queen's College London Paris in the spring

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

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Queen's College London Year 8 Geography fieldwork in Epping Forest

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's success at London Schools cross-country championships

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

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Queen's College London Athena visit to the British Library

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'.

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Queen's College London Haiti appeal update

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

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Queen's College London Queen's College Jazz Concert

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

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Queen's College London Passion and Power

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's College Theatre Studies students get top billing

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.

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Queen's College London Crime and punishment

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

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Queen's College London An Inspector Calls

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

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Queen's College London Comedy at Queen's

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's College classicists at the British Museum

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.

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Queen's College London New Senior Student

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

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Queen's College London Holocaust Memorial Day at Queen's

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

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Queen's College London Fund-raising for Haiti

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

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Queen's College London Queen's College for Cool Earth

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

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Queen's College London More news from the Socratic club

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.

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Queen's College London Trip to the Foundling Museum

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

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Queen's College London Basketball winners!

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.

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Queen's College London English Speaking Board Examinations

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

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Queen's College London News from Queen's College Socratic club

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's students on visit to Amsterdam

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.

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Queen's College London Stunning results in Trinity Drama exams

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.

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Queen's College London More victories at netball!

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's art historians visit Salisbury Cathedral

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!

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Queen's College London Katherine Mansfield short story competition

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

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Queen's College London Cross-country success for Queen's in Hyde Park

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

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Queen's College London The Queen's Socratic club holds its inaugural meeting

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's girl is Junior Painter of the Year

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

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Queen's College London Les Triplettes de Belleville

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.

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Queen's College London The Turn of the Screw

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.

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Queen's College London Necklace of Raindrops - the musical

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

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Queen's College London Necklace of Raindrops – the book

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.

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Queen's College London Sports results round-up

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!

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Queen's College London New Health and Fitness society for Seniors

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.

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Queen's College London Silver D of E expeditions

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.

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Queen's College London National Poetry Week

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

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Queen's College London Queen's RS students attend public debate at St Paul's

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

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Queen's College London Macmillan coffee morning

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

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Queen's College London Queen's girls showcase their designs at London Fashion Week

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.

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Queen's College London A taste of the East

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.

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Queen's College London A fortnight in…

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.

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Queen's College London Daring to be different

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

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Queen's College London Legal tomes

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.

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Queen's College London Queen's Athenaeans

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.

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