- The school, founded in 1554 by Mary Tudor, has one of the largest state school contingents of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) in the country, with more than 300 cadets in its RAF and army sections. The school has a field centre in Snowdonia in Wales that is used extensively.
- A busy programme of extracurricular clubs, musical and sporting activities is on offer at the selective boys’ school, which has a coeducational sixth form. QMGS is in The Cricketer magazine’s top 100 cricket schools for 2025 — its sixth appearance.
- Mandarin Chinese is compulsory in Year 7. Alongside studying for A-levels, sixth-formers are expected to contribute to the school and wider community by mentoring younger pupils or volunteering. They are also expected to develop leadership, teamwork and organisation through extracurricular activities. Past trips have included a biology diving trip to the Canary Islands.
- Change Your Mind is a programme begun by sixth-formers in 2016 to hold health and wellbeing workshops to younger pupils — and has now spread nationwide to primary schools across the country.
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