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The '''Perse Upper School''' is the second best independent secondary co-educational day school in [[Cambridge]], England according to the leaderboard. |
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| The Perse School | |
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Hills Road , , CB2 8QF England  | |
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| Type | Independent day school |
| Motto | Qui facit per alium facit per se |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
| Established | 1615 |
| Founder | Dr Stephen Perse |
| Department for Education URN | 110923 Tables |
| Head teacher | Mr Edward Elliott |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 1,400 |
| Colour(s) | Purple and Black |
| Publication | The Pelican |
| Alumni | Old Perseans |
| Website | http://www.perse.co.uk/ |
The Perse Upper School is the second best independent secondary co-educational day school in Cambridge, England according to the leaderboard.
History
The school was founded in 1615 by Stephen Perse,[1] a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has been housed on several different sites in the city before its present site on Hills Road. In 1881 a girls' school (Perse Girls) was founded and this is now part of the Stephen Perse Foundation.
The Perse Foundation
There are also preparatory and pre-preparatory schools related to The Perse School. Boys and girls aged 3 to 7 attend 'The Pelican' pre-preparatory school, located on Glebe Road, Cambridge. The Perse Preparatory School is located on Trumpington Road, Cambridge, and is for boys and girls aged 7 – 11.
Motto
The school motto is Qui facit per alium facit per se, usually taken to mean "He who does things for others does them for himself". This is an example of a rebus motto, the Latin sentence ending in a word play on the founder's name "per se" and his benefaction. A blue plaque dedicated to the school's founder, Dr Stephen Perse, can be found in Free School Lane, Cambridge.[2]
Sport
In 2005, the Perse under-14 hockey team became National Champions, beating Millfield. In 2006 the Perse under-16 indoor hockey team reached the National Indoor Finals, and the following year the same age group won the competition.
The Perse school U16s then won the National Indoor hockey competition again the year after that, making the U16s back to back National Indoor Champions. Two members of that Hockey Team, Adam Miller and Michael Franklin, then went on to achieve national selection and subsequently represented England in several tournaments across Europe.
In the Michaelmas Term 2005 the rugby First XV became the most successful team in 14 years after their win against The Leys School, again one member of this team achieved notable individual sporting success - Owen Giles now has a professional contract with Northampton Saints RUFC[citation needed].
Music
The Perse has a senior orchestra, string orchestra, full choir, chorale group, 3 wind bands, swing band and jazz band. There are also about 35 smaller groups meeting weekly for rehearsal. In 2006, the String Orchestra toured to Paris and the Senior Wind Band toured to Iceland. Each year concerts take place at the West Road Concert Hall, Emmanuel United Reformed Church and Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church.
Structure
The school is divided into three sections: the Lower School, Middle School and Sixth Form. The Lower School contains the Year 7 and Year 8 pupils (ages 11–13), the Middle School consists of the Year 9 to Year 11 students (ages 14–16) and focuses principally on IGCSEs taken at the end of Year 11. Most IGCSE courses begin officially in Year 10, although some longer courses (such as Biology and Geography) are started in Year 9. Pupils in the top two sets for Mathematics, have the option to take this IGCSE at the end of Year 10, and then use Year 11 to take an Additional Mathematics stand-alone qualification. In years 12 and 13 pupils study for A Levels. There are plans to expand to over 1000 pupils over the next ten years.
The classrooms at the Perse are named numerically, e.g. 1, 2, 3, with specialist classrooms such as science labs and music rooms being denoted by a prefix to their number; for example: P1 for Physics or A2 for Art.
Developments
The Perse School began accepting girls at 11+ and 13+ in September 2010 and became fully co-educational in September 2012.
Alumni
Academia
- Maurice Bloch, anthropologist[3]
- Harold James, professor of history and international relations
- Michael Loewe, sinologist
- Edward Henry Palmer, orientalist
- G.L.S. Shackle, economist
- E. H. Warmington, classicist
Art
- Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Business
- Sir David Tang, Hong Kong-based entrepreneur
Engineering
- Sir Arthur Marshall, aviation engineer[4]
- Anthony Michell, hydraulic engineer
Film and Theatre
- Ranjit Bolt, translator and playwright
- Marius Goring, actor
- Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Humphrey Jennings, film director
- Colin McFarlane, actor
- Jeremy Silberston, film director
Law
- Sir Mark Potter, Appeal Court judge and President of the Family Division
Media
- Mel Calman, cartoonist
- Rodney Dale, writer and publisher
- John Gross, critic and editor
- F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- Mark Saggers, BBC sports broadcaster
Military
- Group Captain William Neil McKechnie, George Cross recipient
- Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, 2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
Music
- Pete Atkin, singer/songwriter
- David Gilmour, singer and guitarist of Pink Floyd
- Spike Hughes, jazz musician and journalist
- Mistabishi, dubstep genre song writer
- Ronnie Ross, jazz musician
Politics
- Rajani Palme Dutt, leading figure in the Communist Party of Great Britain
- Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge
- David Steiner, New York State Commissioner of Education
- Sir Donald Tebbit, industrialist and diplomat
- Sir Quentin Thomas, civil servant, head of the British Board of Film Classification
Religion
- Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, physicist and theologian
- Bishop Jeremy Taylor, an influence on the foundation of Methodism
Science
- Associate Professor Anthony Lowe, mathematical physicist and actuary
- Brian G. Marsden, astronomer
- Ronald G. W. Norrish, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, pharmacologist
- Sir George Paget Thomson, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937
Staff
Headmasters
- George Griffith, MA - died 1686
- Frederick Heppenstall, MA - 1864 to 1874
- Dr W. H. D. Rouse, MA, LittD (Cantab) - 1902 to 1928 (formerly a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge)
- H. A. Wootton - 1928 to 1945
- Stanley Stubbs, MA - 1945 to 1969 (formerly a housemaster at Gresham's School)
- A. E. Melville - 1969 to 1987
- Dr Martin Stephen - 1987 to 1994 (subsequently High Master of The Manchester Grammar School and then St Paul's School)
- Dr Nigel P. V. Richardson, - 1994 to 2008 (formerly headmaster of Dragon School)
- Mr Edward C. Elliott, MA - 2008 onwards (formerly deputy head at the Perse School)
Notable staff
- Glenn Kirkham, the captain of the England national field hockey team, serves as a sports coach at the Perse. Kirkham participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi[5]
- Frederick Crossfield Happold DSO (Cantab.)
See also
References
- ^ The Perse School - History[dead link]
- ^ Cambridge Blue Plaques
- ^ Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal (2013) "Bloch, Maurice". Reece Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 77-88.
- ^ "DVD is a memorial to Sir Arthur". Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- ^ "Olympic boost for Kirkman". Cambridge Evening News. 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2008-02-15.