Newsletters 24 April 2020
Follow the links below to read the school newsletters sent to parents on Friday 24 April 2020:
Follow the links below to read the school newsletters sent to parents on Friday 24 April 2020:
Year 9 pupil Arthur has been selected as one of the AccessArt Young Artists of 2020.
Two of our fantastic teachers at Stephen Perse have given up their free time to continue to come on to site and make vital PPE for the community's key workers.
We are going to cast our minds back to summer 2019, and the Foundation-wide Festival of learning. This interactive day of sustainability-focused learning and collaboration is reported on by a team of Stephen Perse students, in an excellent piece of journalism in the style of a radio show. This podcasts has interviews from students, environmentalists and staff and captures the heart and themes of the festival.
Our Design & Engineering team are using the school's 3D printer to make protective visors for front line workers, to protect against Covid-19. Members of staff at the Senior School and Dame Bradbury's have used their time over the Easter Break to help NHS workers in this time of need.
Join Principal Tricia Kelleher as she talks to our Digital Art teacher Diana Scarborough about how she combines her passion and background in engineering and art to spread the message of sustainability.
Join Principal Tricia Kelleher as she talks to Dawn Hull, about her time living in Iran, and how being immersed in different cultures lead to a lifelong love of languages.
Ana Riquel from our Modern Languages department has shared how she has adapted her Spanish lessons so her class can continue to develop their language skills from home.
The Stephen Perse Foundation have been calling some of our more mature former students who still live in the Cambridge area to see if we can provide any help at this time of extraordinary change resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
It's the end of the first week of remote teaching - and what a productive week it has been! We are extremely proud of how both our pupils and staff have adapted to their new ways of working. Here are just a handful of the activities that have been happening over the last couple of days.
Join Principal Tricia Kelleher as she talks to Sara Gustafsson, our Inclusion Specialist at the Stephen Perse Foundation, about how to creatively remove barriers to learning for everyone.
With today normally being senior school assembly day, to stick to routine Dr Kemp has recorded an 'e'ssembly on tips on what we can all do to keep productivity and our physical and mental wellbeing high whilst we socially distance ourselves at home.
Since Monday normal school life at Stephen Perse has changed. Pupils across our schools have sat down at their dining room tables instead of school desks and teachers have grabbed their morning coffee from the quiet of their own kitchens instead of a busy staff room.
On Monday 16 March, Year 5 and 6 pupils from Rosedale House were treated to a fascinating and very timely lunchtime InspireMe Talk, titled “Help, There are Aliens Inside Me”.
Congratulations go to Isabella E who recently won the British showjumping 80cm novice class at Arena UK small pony premier.
As the school moves into a period of remote teaching and learning, the visiting instrumental and singing teachers are fully on board with our plans, and many lessons have already taken place via Google Meet.
In the last few days before schools were closed, our teachers began to use remote teaching so those students in self-isolation were not missing out on lessons.
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