Congratulations to Ella Dobson and Florence Meek. Both girls competed at the British Youth Fencing Championships on Saturday 5th May 2012.  Ella competed in the U18 girls Epee and finished in 12th place.  Florence competed in the U16 Epee and finished in 24th position. Well done!

"Queen's Gate's Finest" proved themselves to be worthy of their name when they visited the Chemistry Department of Imperial College, London last Tuesday.  

In September they were set a challenge to make a presentation about the greatest Chemistry invention in the last century. Of 243 school entries from the London area, eight finalists, including Queen's Gate's Finest, were then set the challenge of presenting their work to an audience of judges: Professor Lord Robert Winston, Professor David Phillips, Head of the RSC, and Professor Tom Welton, Head of Chemistry at Imperial College.  

By combining the chemistry of the Haber Process to produce ammonia and a film of how they imagined Fritz Haber being interviewed working in his laboratory, the team created a winning formula and was awarded second place overall. Congratulations to Emilie, Radhika, Fatima, Fay and Isabella.

Click here to view the report and pictures from the trip.

Congratulations to the U13 rounders team who made a very successful start to the season. They won their first match 18 (1/2) to 10 (1/2) v Newton Prep. 

Earlier in the year, The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts launched a huge art project, in which children from all over the country could submit a self portrait to a web site called Face Britain.  Copies of these portraits were then reduced to pixels and combined to make a huge montage picture of the Queen to be projected on to Buckingham Palace.  Last night, the Queen’s portrait was unveiled on the Palace, accompanied by individual children’s self portraits which were changed and rotated.

Queen’s Gate held a Modern Pentathlon Shooting Workshop. The gym was turned into an air pistol shooting range and the girls were given the opportunity to try this discipline.  All of the pupils who participated made great improvements throughout the afternoon and we look forward to their future in the Modern Pentathlon.

Congratulations to all of the girls who competed at the Virgin London Mini Marathon on Sunday 22nd April 2012. All of the girls ran a very successful race. Well done.

On Tuesday 27th March  the girls in III Form went to Imperial College, accompanied by Mrs Mayne and Miss Hasler, to take part in a course called Robogals.  We were split into four groups; my team was called PHALA.  In our groups we built a robot mainly out of lego.  Luckily we had an instruction sheet, but it was still difficult! When everyone had finished we learnt how to program our robots using an application on laptops.  We had to make our robots travel on a square on the floor, which was quite hard to do.  We connected the robots to the laptops, then worked out how to adjust the movement.  We spent about an hour doing this, then everyone brought their robotsto the square, and each one was timed as it went along the square. We were also marked on how close we stayed to the lines. 

In the end my group won! We were awarded a blue pen with a flashing light. In addition, everyone was given a pencil. We were then shown around; we saw the Chemistry Department and the Medical Department and also the Library.  Finally it was time to leave. This was a very exciting afternoon, and I hope to go back again.

A group of P.E and Geography pupils visited the 2012 London Olympics Site.
During the trip, the group completed a guided walking tour of the site, viewing the Olympic Stadium and surrounding Olympic venues and the Olympic Village.

This trip gave all the pupils a unique insight into the construction of the Olympic Park and the surrounding area. It was a very exciting experience and we are now all looking forward to the London 2012 Olympics this summer!

The Easter term presentation videos can now be viewed by clicking here.