Structure
Queen Elizabeth School focuses on providing high-quality pastoral care as this is essential in supporting students to make excellent progress in their learning and develop into successful young adults.
The school’s values of Ambition, Integrity, Determination and Kindness are at the heart of our pastoral structure.
We are committed to a positive approach and, whenever possible use praise and rewards to motivate and encourage the students. We have clear behaviour standards which students are expected to follow at all times and this is underpinned by appropriate sanctions, as set out in the school’s behaviour policy. Students are individually valued and well-supported.
All students are allocated to a tutor group, which meets daily for registration and pastoral care and support. A student's form tutor is responsible for overseeing their pastoral care, academic progress and personal development and should be the first person that parents contact if they wish to discuss their child. The tutor’s most important task is to build positive, personal relationships with, and between, students and with their parents in a way that fully supports the child’s development.
Our Heads of Year have overall responsibility for the efficiency and effectiveness of their tutor teams, an overview of student progress and the general welfare and behaviour of students within the year group and they are further supported by a Year Support Assistant.
| Year | Head of Year | Year Support Assistant |
| Year 7 | Mr F Iqbal | Mrs S Dumpleton |
| Year 8 | Mrs K Suthagar | Mrs L Porter |
| Year 9 | Mrs A Cummins | Mrs L Tavener |
| Year 10 | Mr A El-Hendi | Mr R Browne |
| Year 11 | Mrs S Walker | Mrs B Wacey |
Working in conjunction with our Pastoral Team is our Family Liaison Officer, Mrs D Clarke who can offer guidance and support on all aspects of school life whether that is uniform, transport or student well being.
House System
Queen Elizabeth School's House System sees students from Years 7 to 13 in each House. Each tutor group from Years 7-11 is assigned to a House and students will be assigned to this when they enter the school. For Year 12 & 13 they are individually assigned to a House.
The House System gives students the opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of competition based activities. The aim is to encourage all students to get involved in the many inter-house competitions within subjects and through their involvement in extracurricular activities. We seek to motivate, encourage, reward and celebrate achievement in a positive and fair manner.
Each House is led by a Head of House & Assistant Head of House who are each from Year 12. They are responsible for encouraging participation in competitions, helping to run competitions and leading House Assemblies which take place each half term. They are assisted by 2 House Captains from each year group who support them by motivating all the students in their year group to give their best endeavours in all of the inter-house competitions.
Each of our Houses are named after someone who is famous for their involvement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
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Houses |
Heads/Assistant Heads of House |
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Drummond (Victoria) |
Esther Degui & Ayomide Tunrarebi |
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Edison (Thomas) |
Emmanuela Sintim & David Saxby |
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Haslett (Caroline) |
Karan Hira & Mary Dada |
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Brunel (Isambard- Kingdom) |
Adella Mackenzie & Omer Habib |
Student Welfare
Queen Elizabeth School has a dedicated Student Welfare Officer, who is available to support students with any medical conditions or any welfare needs. Please call 01582 436100 ext 224 if you need to provide information on your child's medical needs.