ABSTRACT

Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School (QEGS) in Barnet, Hertfordshire is a fully comprehensive 11-18 girls’ school with 1,145 students. The school’s Ofsted report (Ofsted 2003b) describes it as having the following characteristics. The proportion of pupils identified as having special educational needs (9.4 per cent) is below the national average. Pupils come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and there are some signs of deprivation. The school is oversubscribed and was also a Beacon school. It is situated forty miles away from the Faculty of Education and is geographically the furthest school from the others in the partnership.