Prepare your tastebuds for an Italian pizza making adventure.

All pupils will celebrate Harvest Festival.

We look forward to welcoming parents of pupils in the Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior Schools to this special event, when you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Association, the ways in which its members raise funds and how these are likely to be spent this year.

PFA committee members would welcome fresh ideas for fundraising and where you feel funds could be spent. 

Prepare your tastebuds for an Italian pizza making adventure.

A visit to Tesco's supermarket for a 'Farm to Fork' experience.

Junior School pupils in Years 5 & 6 are greatly looking forward to a lively performance of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' performed by Handlebards, a fabulous troupe of cycling actors including Lotte Tickner, former student of The Stephen Perse Foundation. Members of Year 6 will be a particularly keen and critical audience, having performed in a brilliant production of 'Shakespeare Rocks' in March.

After the show, the pupils will all be invited to participate in a Q & A session with the actors and in the afternoon the Year 6 pupils will be involved in specially tailored workshops. What a fantastic way of gaining a deeper appreciation of one of Shakespeare's plays!

Our Year 3 geographers will set out for Cambridge University Botanic Garden to practise their mapping skills.

What better location, in the season of autumn, than the beautiful Garden with its many paths and sweeping lawns? 3A's turn is on the Thursday and 3Alpha's turn is on the Friday.

We look forward to welcoming parents of pupils in the Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior Schools to this special event, when you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Association, the ways in which its members raise funds and how these are likely to be spent this year.

PFA committee members would welcome fresh ideas for fundraising and where you feel funds could be spent. 

Year 4 pupils will spend the day experiencing life in Roman Britain. Dressed as Roman soldiers or gladiators and carrying shields, which they are designing and making during Art lessons, they will set out for Latham Road where the wide open spaces will be ideal for marching in formation. Fingers crossed for fine weather.

Gillman and Soame photographers in school.

Year 3 Taster Morning when current Year 2 children will have the opportunity to see what it is like to spend a morning in the Junior School. There will be lots of fun activities and refreshments for those who attend.

Year 5 trip to Epping Field Centre. This is a Geography field trip linked to the theme ‘Run, river, run’.

Pupils will participate in a carefully structured investigation, looking at how a river channel changes downstream. They will learn about the water cycle and how the water moves through the surrounding area by visiting a local spring site. They will be measuring the width, depth and speed of the river. 

Pupils and parents of all our 3-11 Schools are warmly invited to visit the Senior School this evening to see the fantastic facilities, including the Sports Hall, in the New Building.

Year 6 pupils from the Junior School and Dame Bradbury's come together in the Senior School in order to get a feel for life there as a student in the near future.

This is one of several collaborative events for our Year 6 pupils who already know each other quite well and are looking forward to being in Year 7 together, from September 2018.

The Junior School Under 11 Girls' Hockey A team will compete in the IAPS National tournament at Millfield School in Somerset, having successfully qualified in the Regional tournament at Orwell Park School in Suffolk on 2 October!

Year 4 perform Roald Dahl’s revolting rhyme Jack and the Beanstalk.

In this week's music lessons pupils will be performing to each other. They will play instruments or recorder pieces, or sing class songs.  

We will all be wearing Green for Wood Green.  

A variety of fundraising activities will be on offer so please bring in a few pennies to spend at break and lunchtime to raise money for a fantastic cause. 

This trip links to our thematic topic ‘HOT HOT HOT’. Children will be given a fire safety talk and have an exciting tour of the fire station which will include an opportunity for the children to squirt the water hose!

This is an in-house event which will provide the opportunity to raise awareness of current e-safety issues and the management of these issues at home.

It is relevant for all of our parent body.

The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge provides a set of short problems called Bebras tasks, which are delivered online.

The tasks are fun, engaging and based on problems that Computer Scientists often meet and enjoy solving. The tasks can be solved without prior knowledge but instead require logical thinking. The aim is to solve as many problems as you can in the allotted time. 

Next week is Reading Week for KS3 students, a week when, instead of setting homework, we traditionally give students in Years 7, 8 and 9 the opportunity to fill their free time with ... reading. 

We would be grateful if you, as parents, could support us in our endeavours and encourage your children to read for pleasure: fiction, non-fiction, newspaper articles, whatever is of interest to your child. You might be interested in this article on the benefits of reading.

Around a third of William Shakespeare’s plays are set in Italy. Over the years, this has inspired much scholarly debate: whilst there is no concrete evidence to suggest he ever travelled there, he clearly knew a great deal about Italian cities and culture. Some schools of thought have even dared to suggest that Shakespeare was not born in Stratford-Upon-Avon but was in fact Italian.

Our trip to Italy will give us an opportunity to discuss this and many of his great works at length, with visits to three cities that all have a strong Shakespearean connection - Verona, Padua and Venice. Whilst there, we will, of course, also take full advantage of all the wonderful architectural, cultural and artistic opportunities that these cities offer.

We look forward to welcoming parents of pupils in the Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior Schools to this special event, when you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Association, the ways in which its members raise funds and how these are likely to be spent this year.

PFA committee members would welcome fresh ideas for fundraising and where you feel funds could be spent. 

Gillman and Soame are coming to the School to take individual photographs of the students. There will be an opportunity for Senior School siblings to have photographs taken together during common lunch.

This year Y11 Parents’ Evening will be held at our 6th Form College.

Some parking will be available in the car park opposite the College entrance.

The RS & Philosophy department presents:  World Philosophy Day, with Professor Simon Blackburn

On Thursday 16 November, the Foundation will be celebrating World Philosophy Day.

In the Senior School and 6th Form, a wide variety of events will be taking place, including lectures from Professor Simon Blackburn, a school wide Kahoot! competition and a Philosophy-themed lunch.

Assemblies will also take place in the week before and after the event, delivered to all students in the Senior School and 6th Form by 6th Form Religious Studies & Philosophy students. 

At our annual 6th Form Cabaret the Old Library in college will be transformed for one glorious night only into a glittering jazz club.

Tickets available at 6th Form reception:

• Adults - £5.00
• Concessions - £2.50

All proceeds from the evening will go to Alzheimer's Research UK.

Students will be given the opportunity to produce a Guardian-style feature page, devising, researching and planning their own short feature article inspired by current news. 

All of this will be done to a tight deadline to give them a feel of what it is like to be a professional journalist.

The Engineering Education Scheme Launch Event officially kicks off this year's activities for our Lower 6th Students.

They will be visiting the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University to learn more about the programme, which links teams of four Year 12 students and their teacher with local companies to work on real, scientific, engineering and technology projects.
 
The scheme provides students with an in-depth experience in science, engineering and technology that will enable them to make an informed decision about their future studies and career.

At the launch event they will partake in some team building excercises and meet teams from around the region.

Our students will be working with Engineers from ARM, a Cambridge-based company, which is a world-leader in the technology field, on a real Design Engineering problem for six months. Their work will culminate in a presentation event at the end of April 2018.

Dr Bateman, a Lecturer and Fellow in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, will explore how women made the West rich. 

Dr Bateman's research is currently focussed on the development of the European economy from early-modern times to the present. The questions motivating this research include: How did we become a rich modern economy? Why are poor countries still poor? What lessons can be drawn from history for current day economic policy?

Delivered in conjunction with our Economics Department. 

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The RS & Philosophy department presents:  World Philosophy Day, with Professor Simon Blackburn

On Thursday 16 November, the Foundation will be celebrating World Philosophy Day.

In the Senior School and 6th Form, a wide variety of events will be taking place, including lectures from Professor Simon Blackburn, a school wide Kahoot! competition and a Philosophy-themed lunch.

Assemblies will also take place in the week before and after the event, delivered to all students in the Senior School and 6th Form by 6th Form Religious Studies & Philosophy students.