Activities
A host of extracurricular activities is available for pupils, including plays and drama, sports teams, quiz teams, many subject-related societies, and a Combined Cadet Force contingent (Army and RAF sections).
The school has a close relationship with its sister school, Queen Mary's High School. Pupils regularly collaborate to stage plays and the two schools participate in a German exchange every year with a school in the town of Biedenkopf.
Many trips are run throughout the year, many of them international. Pupils, in recent years have had the opportunity to travel to places such as France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, China, Morocco, Iceland and Alabama.
In sport, the school's Under 18 and Under 16 hockey teams both won the Staffordshire Cup for their respective age groups in the same season.
QMGS also hosted the national finals of Junior Schools' Challenge quiz on 24 June 2007, with a team from the school winning the Plate Final. In 2008, the school hosted and reached the national final, losing in the final. In 2012, they hosted a semi-final against Hereford Cathedral School only losing by one question (610-600).
The school is the only school in the country to have won the UKMT Junior Maths Team Competition twice, doing so in successive years. The competition attracts over 1000 schools every year.
The school has a plaque in St George's Church, Ypres, to honour the ex pupils of the school who died in the Ypres Salient and the Somme, during World War One. The plaque was paid for by the QM club, and was formally unveiled during the Year 9 Battlefields trip. QMGS was the last school ever to be allowed to have a plaque.
Every year, Year 7 and the senior prefects visit Westminster Abbey, London to commemorate their founder on the Friday closest to July 6.
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