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, England. Founded in 1615 by Stephen Perse, its motto is ''Qui facit per alium facit per se'', taken to mean 'He who does things for others does them for himself'. The School began accepting girls at 11 and 13+ in September 2010 and was fully co-educational by September 2012. 'Perse' is a member of the
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, an association of the leading UK independent schools. The organisation now comprises three schools, which together provide for children aged 3 through to 18. The Pelican is the Perse's nursery and pre-preparatory school, and accommodates pupils from 3–7. It is situated on Glebe Road, close to the main school site. Preparatory education for students aged 7 to 11 years old is provided by the Perse Prep, which is located close to the Upper School, just north of the junction of Long Road and Trumpington Road. In Year 7 pupils usually progress to the Upper School, where they sit GCSE or
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examinations and
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History

The school was founded in 1615 at its original site in
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, Cambridge. Its former buildings now house the
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. In 1960, the school moved to the site it now occupies as its 'Upper' school on Hills Road. There have been multiple phases of expansion, particularly in the 21st century. Among notable developments is the Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, a 400-seat theatre, exhibition and rehearsal space designed by architects Haworth Tompkins, which opened in 2018. An old prospectus lists the fees as £3 per term in 1890. From 1945 to 1976 it was a direct grant grammar school, offering free places to 40% of pupils. Following the abolition of the
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, The Perse no longer received any state funding and became independent. The school was ranked 13th in the Sunday Times Parent Power league table in 2019 and 6th in the Daily Telegraph national table of A Level, Pre-U and IB results with 83% A* and A grades from 175 candidates. In 2021, The Sunday Times also named The Perse School as the top independent secondary school in East Anglia, as the school had the best performance in the GCE A Level Examinations in the region.


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
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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, was installed in
Free School Lane Free School Lane is a historic street in central Cambridge, England which includes important buildings of University of Cambridge. It is the location of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, the Department of History and Philosophy of ...
, Cambridge.


Competitions, Olympiads and scholarships

Pupils have competed and scored highly in academic competitions and
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, in addition to winning awards including Arkwright Engineering Scholarships and Nuffield Research Placements (previously Nuffield Science Bursaries). Students have won scholarships for summer placements at the
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in
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and research institutes in
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,
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. British competition results include: *First place in the Pi Wars robot competition *First place in the
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general knowledge competition *First place (winning the
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prize) in the National Cipher Challenge *First place in the Bank of England ''Target Two Point Zero'' interest rate challenge *Invitation to the British Physics Olympiad presentation afternoon (top 4 in the country in the AS Challenge) *Qualifying for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge final (winning the poster competition) *Qualifying for the
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final (top 15 in the country) *Qualifying for Round 2 (top 20 to 25 in the country) of the UK Chemistry Olympiad *Scoring Gold in Round 1 of
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Students have also competed in international competitions including the
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, the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, the
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, the
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, the International Rocketry Challenge, the European Union Contest for Young Scientists and the
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Innovation

In 2018, The Perse School partnered with a Cambridge-based education technology entrepreneur, Rob Percival, to support the creation of an online artificial intelligence maths teaching platform. Blutick in association with The Perse School, exhibited at the BETT Show in London, 2019 to launch a free beta version.


Developments

The Perse School began accepting girls at 11+ and 13+ in September 2010 and became fully co-educational in September 2012 . Since 2020, The Perse School Cambridge International (TPSCI) has liaised with partners to open up The Perse international schools outside of England. Currently, two international schools have been set up, namely The Perse School Singapore (opened in Jan 2020) and The Perse School Suzhou in China (opened in Sep 2021).


Headmaster's blog

On his blog the headmaster, Ed Elliott, described his 'ten second challenge' in which he would give students who "commit occasional minor misdemeanours (such as forgetting a book) the opportunity to talk their way out of a punishment". The story was quickly picked up by the mainstream media who reported that pupils were "let off punishment for clever excuses".


Notable Perseans


Academia

*
Maurice Bloch Maurice Émile Félix Bloch (born 21 October 1939 in Caen, Calvados, France) is a British anthropologist. He is famous for his fieldwork on the shift of agriculturalists in Madagascar, Japan and other parts of the world, and has also contribut ...
, anthropologist * Harold James, professor of history and international relations * W. E. Johnson, logician *
F. R. Leavis Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York. Leavis ra ...
, literary critic *
Michael Loewe Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (born 2 November 1922) is a British Sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient and ear ...
, sinologist *
Edward Henry Palmer Edward Henry Palmer (7 August 184010 August 1882), known as E. H. Palmer, was an English orientalist and explorer. Biography Youth and education Palmer was born in Green Street, Cambridge the son of a private schoolmaster. He was orphaned a ...
, orientalist *
G. L. S. Shackle George Lennox Sharman Shackle (14 July 1903 – 3 March 1992) was an English economist. He made a practical attempt to challenge classical rational choice theory and has been characterised as a "post-Keynesian", though he is influenced as well by ...
, economist * E. H. Warmington, classicist


Art

* Thomas P. Campbell, director of the
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Business

*
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,
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-based entrepreneur


Engineering

* Arthur Marshall, aviation engineer *
Anthony Michell Anthony George Maldon Michell FRS (21 June 1870 – 17 February 1959) was an Australian mechanical engineer of the early 20th century. Early life Michell was born in London while his parents were on a visit to England from Australia to which th ...
, hydraulic engineer


Film and theatre

*
Ranjit Bolt Ranjit Bolt OBE (born 1959) is a British playwright and translator. He was born in Manchester of Anglo-Indian parents and is the nephew of playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt.Programme notes for ''The Grouch'', West Yorkshire Playhouse Feb ...
, translator and playwright *
Marius Goring Marius Re Goring, (23 May 191230 September 1998) was a British stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in '' A Matter of Life and Death'' and as Julian Cr ...
, actor * Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company * Humphrey Jennings, film director *
Matthew Lloyd Matthew James Lloyd (born 16 April 1978) is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A highly decorated full-forward, Lloyd's AFL's honours include ...
, theatre director, Royal Exchange, Manchester *
Colin McFarlane Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane (born 15 September 1961) is a British actor, narrator and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Gillian B. Loeb in two films of Christopher Nolan's '' The Dark Knight Trilogy'', Ulysses in the STAR ...
, actor * Jeremy Silberston, film director


Law

* Mark Potter, Appeal Court judge and
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Media

*
Simon Akam Simon Akam is a British journalist and historian of the British Army. Early life Akam was born in Cambridge and educated at The Perse School, the University of Oxford, and Columbia University. During his gap year in 2003, he served a short ser ...
, author, writing on military history and the British Army since 9/11 *
Mel Calman Melville Calman (19 May 1931 – 10 February 1994) was a British cartoonist best known for his "little man" cartoons published in British newspapers including the ''Daily Express'' (1957–63), ''The Sunday Telegraph'' (1964–65), ''The Obse ...
, cartoonist * Rodney Dale, writer and publisher *
John Gross John Gross FRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011) was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic, ''The Guardian'' (in a tribute titled "My Hero") and ''The Spectator'' were among several pu ...
, critic and editor * Tom Harwood, journalist for '' Guido Fawkes'', ''
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'' and
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*
Tom Rosenthal (publisher) Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal (16 July 1935 – 3 January 2014) was a British publisher and art critic. Early life Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal was born on 16 July 1935 in London, the son of Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal (1904–1991), a Hebrew scholar an ...
(1935–2014), publisher and art critic * Mark Saggers,
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sports broadcaster


Military

*Group Captain
William Neil McKechnie Group Captain William Neil McKechnie, GC (27 August 1907 – 30 August 1944) was a pilot and senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal in 1929, which was exchanged for the George Cross in 1940. He was ki ...
, George Cross recipient *
Ralph Lilley Turner Sir Ralph Lilley Turner (5 October 1888 – 22 April 1983) was a British philologist of Indian languages and a university administrator. He is notable for composing an Indo-Aryan comparative dictionary. He is also the author of some publicati ...
MC, 2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles


Music

*
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, singer/songwriter * David Gilmour, singer/songwriter and guitarist of Pink Floyd * Spike Hughes, jazz musician and journalist *
Ronnie Ross Albert Ronald Ross (2 October 1933 – 12 December 1991) was a British jazz baritone saxophonist. Life Born in Calcutta, India, to Scottish parents, Ross moved to England in 1946 and was educated at the Perse School in Cambridge. He bega ...
, jazz musician * John Woolford, first boyfriend of
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Politics

* Anthony Browne,
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MP for
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*
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, leading figure in the Communist Party of Great Britain *
Julian Huppert Julian Leon Huppert (born 21 July 1978) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom and former Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015. He succeeded David Howarth, who stood down after one term as an MP. At the 2015 gene ...
,
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MP for
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2010-2015 * David Steiner, New York State Commissioner of Education *
Donald Tebbit Sir Donald Claude Tebbit (4 May 1920 – 25 September 2010) was a British diplomat. He attended The Perse School, Cambridge, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was president of the Trinity Hall alumni association, the Trinity Hall Association, 1984 ...
, diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia *
Quentin Thomas Sir Quentin Jeremy Thomas (born 1 August 1944) is a retired British civil servant, and former president of the British Board of Film Classification. He attended the Perse School in Cambridge and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was a c ...
, civil servant, head of the
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Religion

* John Polkinghorne, physicist and theologian *Bishop
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, an influence on the foundation of
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Science

* Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, pharmacologist * Sarah Martins Da Silva, gynaecologist and scientist *Associate Professor Anthony Lowe, mathematical physicist and actuary *
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, astronomer * Ronald G. W. Norrish,
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in 1967 *
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,
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in 1937


Sport

* Zaman Akhter, cricketer * Charles Clayton, cricketer * Owen Giles,
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rugby union player * Alex Coles, Northamption Saints rugby union player *
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, cricketer * Richard Hesketh, cricketer * Tess Howard, field hockey player * Reimell Ragnauth, cricketer


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 * Anthony E. Melville - 1969 to 1987. Formerly senior history master at Haileybury * Dr
Martin Stephen George Martin Stephen (born 1949) was High Master of St Paul's School (London), St Paul's School in London until 1 January 2011. He is an author and has been described as "one of Britain's highest profile heads". Education Stephen was educated ...
- 1987 to 1994. Subsequently, High Master of
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from 1994 to 2004 and then St Paul's School from 2004 to 2011. Director of Education for GEMS Education UK. Non-Executive Chairman of the Clarendon Academies Group * Dr Nigel P. V. Richardson - 1994 to 2008. Headmaster of The Dragon School from 1989 to 1992. Chairman of the
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in 2007. Governor of Magdalen College School and Haileybury. AGBIS board member. Author of the biography ''Thring of Uppingham: Victorian Educator'' * Mr Edward C. Elliott, MA - 2008 onwards. Joined the school in 1997 as head of sixth form and was senior deputy head before being appointed headmaster


Notable staff

* Henry Caldwell Cook, (1886–1939) educationalist * Frederick Crossfield Happold DSO (
Cantab. , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
) * Glenn Kirkham, captain of the England national field hockey team, served as a sports coach at the Perse from 2005 to 2014, including as assistant director of sport and head of hockey from 2012 to 2014. After three years away from The Perse School, Kirkham returned to the new post of Upper School Director of Sport in September 2017. Kirkham participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in
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, and the
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in
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* Helen Richardson Walsh, hockey gold medalist


References


External links

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School Roll of Honour for the World Wars
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