page_title: Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
section_title: Uniform
hierarchical_section_title: Queen Elizabeth's Hospital / Uniform
caption_attribution_description: Photo of the 2002 Captain of School of QEH in Bristol, standing beside a statue of a Bluecoat boy, supposedly John Carr himself, inside the school entrance hall.
context_page_description: Queen Elizabeth's Hospital is an independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England founded in 1586. In 2020 Rupert Heathcote took over as Headmaster, succeeding Stephen Holliday who had served as Headmaster since 2000. QEH is named after its original patron, Queen Elizabeth I. The present patron is Queen Elizabeth II.
  Known traditionally as "The City School", Queen Elizabeth's Hospital was founded by the will of affluent merchant John Carr in 1586, gaining its first royal charter in 1590. The school accepts boys from ages 7 to 18 and, since September 2017, girls aged 16 to 18 into the co-educational Sixth Form.
  The school began as a boarding school, accepting 'day boys' for the first time in the early 1920s. Boarders continued to wear the traditional blue coat uniform on a daily basis until the 1980s. After that, it was only worn on special occasions. Following a steady decline in numbers QEH stopped accepting new boarders in 2004, and boarding closed completely in July 2008.
  A Junior School opened in September 2007 in terraced Georgian town houses in Upper Berkeley Place, adjacent to the main school.
context_section_description: Standard school uniform for Years 7 to 11 consists of blue blazers, grey trousers, white shirts and the house tie.
  Sixth Form students wear a grey or blue suit with pastel-coloured shirt. Students who excel at sports are often awarded with "house colours" for that sport in the form of a special tie. Prefects also wear a tie and badge of office.
caption: The Captain of School 2002/3 standing next to statue of QEH boy, both wearing the bluecoat uniform
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