Floating on Air
The Queen’s School Young Enterprise company Air is celebrating yet another victory after being selected to represent Cheshire in the North West finals of the schools’ business competition.
Following their success in the Chester Area Competition, the company, who produce customised pyjamas and underwear, went forward to represent Chester in the Cheshire round of the award scheme. In this round, held at Tatton Park, Air blew away the competition. The girls swept the board, winning the Flowcrete prize for Innovation, Best Company Report, Best Presentation and overall Best Company in Cheshire.
Beverley Edwards, Head of Economics and Business Studies at The Queen’s School said: ” Their success is due to team work, commitment, dedication and plain hard work, combined with a good business idea and a knowledge of their target market.”
Managing Director of Air, Sixth Former Sophie Roberts agreed: “We’ve learned a lot about business and problem-solving. We work really well as a team and I think that’s why we have been so successful. Our teachers and our business adviser, Sue Breeze from Young Enterprise, Chester Board, have been a huge support too”.
The company now proceed to the North West finals to be held later this month.
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The Queen’s School, Chester, Cheshire is one of the country’s leading independent schools offering the highest standard of education for girls from ages 4 – 18.
Since its foundation, The Queen’s School has always been a highly successful academic school. In the latest Government league tables published in January 2007, Queen’s was again ranked as the top school in Cheshire based on both GCSE and A/AS level results.
Academic success is only one aspect of life at Queen’s. The Queen’s School and its staff encourage all girls to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities; these include drama clubs, plays and musicals, cabaret evenings, choirs and orchestras, a variety of sports such as tennis, lacrosse, football, athletics and gymnastics as well as a science club, an equine club and the Friday club which involves girls helping in the community. There is also the chance to travel with the school on adventure holidays, foreign treks, scientific research expeditions, French and German exchanges and skiing trips.
Established by a group of prominent Chester citizens in 1878 as the Chester School for Girls, the school was renamed four years later by command of Queen Victoria and is proud to remain the only school in the country to have been granted the name The Queen’s School by royal decree. The school has a number of bursaries available to students. Mrs Catherine Buckley is the present headmistress of The Queen’s School. Mrs Felicity Taylor is head of the Lower School on Liverpool Road.
Past pupils include Beth Tweddle, Olympic Gymnast, Sarah Kelly founder of the UK’s Neuromuscular Centre for muscular dystrophy and Vivienne Faull, the first woman to become Dean of an English Cathedral.
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