Queen Elizabeth High School, Carmarthen

Comprehensive school in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Red, Black (Sixth Form) Websitehttp://www.qehs.carms.sch.uk

Queen Elizabeth High School is a comprehensive school for Carmarthen town and its surrounding areas.

History

The school was formed in September 2005 by the joining together of Queen Elizabeth Maridunum School and Queen Elizabeth Cambria School, which were located within 300m of each other.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2008, Daniyal Shahzad, a Pakistani national falsely claiming his name was Ahmer Rana, became a pupil at the school. Lodging with foster parents, on investigation in 2010 by the UK Border Agency, he claimed that he had no family. He was subject to a deportation order, and the school became the centre of a campaign to allow him to stay in the UK, which resulted in a 4,000 signature petition being collected and presented to Gordon Brown. After further investigation by S4C's current affairs programme 'Y Byd ar Bedwar' ^[2]^[3] his true identity was revealed. Shahzad was deported to Pakistan on 1 June 2011.^[4]^[5]

Notable former pupils

Emrys G. Bowen - Professor of Geography, Aberystwyth
Charles Lynn Davies - Welsh international rugby player
Denzil Davies - MP for Llanelli
Mark Drakeford - leader of the Welsh Labour Party and First Minister of Wales
Richard Edwards - Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli, Pembrokeshire
Ieuan Evans - Welsh international rugby player
Rhod Gilbert - comedian
Frederick Farey-Jones - MP for Watford
Thomas Jones-Davies - heart specialist and Welsh international rugby player
Percy Lloyd - Welsh international rugby player
William Norton - Welsh international rugby player
Terence Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield - banker and politician
Sir David Williams - barrister and past vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge
Baroness Worthington of Cambridge - British environmental campaigner and life peer in the House of Lords

References

^ http://mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk/School/6694063?lang=en ^{[dead link]}
^ "A CARMARTHEN teenager facing the threat of deportation to Pakistan has described lies he made up to stay in the UK as the biggest mistake of his life. | This is South Wales". www.thisissouthwales.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ "Asylum seeker is arrested". 30 March 2011.
^ "Daniyal Shahzad to be deported to Pakistan after lies". BBC News. 30 March 2011.
^ "Wales Tonight (ITV Wales) - ITV Local". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.