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Exercise Lent Lightning strikes at Bassingbourn
7 May 2008
Army Section reconnaissance platoon v Cadre enemy troops
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Community Art with St Alban's Primary School pupils
28 April 2008
In March and April the Community Art group worked with St Alban's Primary School Year 5 pupils. The pupils visited The Perse Upper School Art Department and made decorative clay tiles which they then glazed. Perse pupils then visited St Alban's Primary School on Field Day, delivering the tiles and using the opportunity to work in small groups designing a mural for their class room.
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A selection of images from the Perse Players' production Pirandello's 'Henry IV'
17 April 2008
During a pageant to celebrate medieval Europe, a wealthy unnamed Italian falls from his horse and wakes up in the 11th century. Or so everyone thinks. An entourage surrounds him to perpetuate this fantasy and 18 years of madness ensue. Following the death of his mother, the wealthy Italian's nephew arrives at the 'Court of Henry IV' with a plan to unmask the illusion.
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Gallery: Year 6 DT
21 March 2008
Pulley Systems: The pupils were asked to design and make a model to transport a Play Mobil figure over a distance of 25cms using a pulley system. The pupils worked in pairs and developed a wide range of individual ideas and designs. Please note: These video clips are hosted on Google Videos...if any of them do not display try refreshing the page.
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Location Writing Competition
14 March 2008
Well done to all those who entered this term's 'Location Writing Competition'. The judges were very impressed by the variety of writing which included poetry, letter writing and short stories.
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Poet Paul Cookson celebrates World Book Day at Prep
13 March 2008
We were delighted to welcome poet Paul Cookson to the school as part of our celebrations for World Book Day.
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World Book Day
6 March 2008
World Book Day at the Prep is always met with excitement and enthusiasm. Today we dressed up as characters from our favourite books!
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Artwork of the month - March 2008
6 March 2008
March's 'Artwork of the Month' goes jointly to Angus Frost, Fifth Form GCSE, for his mixed media textile work based on natural forms and to Tom Norris, Fourth Form GCSE for his photographs based on architecture around London. Well done to you both.
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Author MG Harris visited the Prep
5 March 2008
To help us celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 6th March we invited MG Harris to talk to Years 5 & 6 about her exciting book "The Joshua Files: Invisible City".
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Thank you from CLAPA
4 March 2008
This year the Perse Prep Christmas Fair raised £2782! Our Charity was CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association) who have recently written to us to say a big thank you!
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French Exchange 2008
29 February 2008
A report on this year's French Exchange with Ste Croix de Neuilly, Paris
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Perse Netballers: mighty winners of a mini tournament
26 February 2008
The Perse School 1st Netball Squad took part in, and went on to win, a mini tournament held at Wymondham College on Wednesday 20th February.
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Prep girls sponsor a Galapagos tortoise egg!
21 February 2008
During our weekly form times in 3 Aleph we have all sorts of chats and discussions. One of our favourite topics has been animals / pets. Out of one discussion came a request for the form to sponsor a Galapagos tortoise egg! (It turns out to be a hot topic because the Galapagos Conservation Trust is about to launch an Easter campaign asking people to sponsor a Giant Galapagos tortoise egg as an alternative to buying Easter eggs. See information below.)
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Action author, Craig Simpson, tells Perse pupils: "Beware of fat men on street corners!"
12 February 2008
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Centre Stage Photographs
12 February 2008
Those of you who attended the performances of the Centre Stage production will have marvelled at the acting abilities and comic timing of our boys. It was a great production and warmest congratulations and thanks to all who took part, on stage and backstage. Here are a selection of photographs from "Three Murders, A Suicide and a Near Miss".
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Perse Prep raises over £2,700 for CLAPA
8 February 2008
The annual Prep Christmas Charity Fair, held at the end of last term, certainly launched the run-up to the festive season. Thanks must go to all parents, pupils, staff and friends for their most generous support of the Fair - we raised an amazing £2,700!
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Artwork of the Month - January 2008
16 January 2008
This months 'Artwork of the Month' award goes to Fourth Form Art GCSE pupil Robert Taylor for his mixed media drypoint/collograph prints based on snowflakes. Well done Robert.
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Flooded Out!
8 January 2008
The Year 3 and 4 production of Flooded Out, a musical based on the story of Noah, was a tremendous success. Enthusiastic singing, excellent acting and a good deal of humour were the hallmarks of the performances which played to audiences of over one hundred and sixty each night. Well done all!
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Community Art
13 December 2007
On Monday 10th of December the Community Art group visited the Hollies Residential Nursing Home on Queen Edith's Way. During the Michaelmas Term the pupils had made screen prints, paintings and Christmas decorations to hang at the Hollies. The work was delivered with mince pies and cake and the pupils chatted with the residents.
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Bursaries Fundraising Drive
6 December 2007
The Perse School launches a major new fundraising drive to double the number of bursaries.
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Highly-acclaimed BBC screenwriter, Heidi Thomas, shares her experiences with The Literary Society
6 December 2007
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PPA Charity Christmas Fair in support of EACH, East Anglia's Children's Hospices
5 December 2007
This year's Charity Christmas Fair was another resounding success. Grateful thanks go to Estelle Post, Sarah Thwaites, Jan Wojtecki and their large band of very willing and able helpers for organising such a wonderful event. Thanks also go to all parents, pupils, staff and friends for their most generous support of the Fair. All money raised will be given to E.A.C.H. (East Anglia's Children's Hospices).
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Egyptian Day
28 November 2007
Whist yesterdays weather was decidedly British - the atmosphere at School was Egyptian. Year 5 had the most wonderful day learning about this remarkable civilisation and we are enormously grateful to the kind mothers who bedecked themselves in an array of amazing garments and joined in the fun.
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7 a side tournament
28 November 2007
The Perse Prep U11 7-a-side Football Tournament took place last Saturday.
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Operation Christmas Child
23 November 2007
Some feedback and a picture from this year's Perse campaign.
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A collection of photographs from the Sixth Form Curwen Studio Workshop
23 November 2007
In November 2007 AS and A2 Art pupils attended an exciting printmaking workshop at The Curwen Print Study Centre at Chilford Hall as part of their A Level Art development. They spent the day working alongside professional printmakers exploring both traditional and new innovative techniques combining drypoint with monoprinting and viscosity printing. The group of 13 worked industriously and between them produced over 200 prints. Ms Clare Wood, Head of Art. See our collection of photographs...
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Girls' Sport
22 November 2007
Girls' Hockey has become more competitive with increasing numbers participating and are enjoying greater success.
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'Sell out Status' awarded by Edinburgh Fringe Festival Box Office for 'Black Comedy'
20 November 2007
Following the success of Shaffer's 'Black Comedy' at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we are delighted to announce that this production has been awarded official 'Sell out Status' by the Fringe Box Office. Many thanks to everyone who was involved and who supported this production.
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A taste of the absurd side of life
15 November 2007
The Fifth Form play, An Evening of Short Plays and Sketches by Samuel Beckett & Harold Pinter was peformed in The Perse School Lecture Theatre, Thursday 8th and Friday 9th November 2007. "Whilst plays such as Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Pinter's The Birthday Party are commonly performed at theatres across the country, the Fifth Form treated us to a much more obscure experience...". Read Ashley Ogden's full review in the document below.
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Wind Band tour to Iceland
16 October 2007
In October 2007 members of the Senior Wind Band performed two concerts in South Iceland. The first concert was in a brand-new School in Selfoss and was an inaugural performance for the School. The second was in the impressive Nesskirkja Church in Reykjavik in front of 250 pupils from the local School. All the performers also enjoyed sight-seeing thanks to the Essential Iceland Tour Company, visiting an erupting geyser, a volcano, two spellbinding waterfalls and a swim in the Blue Lagoon!
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Open Morning 2007
15 October 2007
A collection of photographs from this year's Upper School Open Morning which took place on Saturday 29th September.
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Pelican Hall Building update
10 October 2007
The children have been so excited to see our new hall actually beginning to look like a hall! We can peep through specially constructed viewing panels to keep an eye on the progress. So far we are ahead of schedule thanks to lots of hard work, team work and fine weather.
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Knox Exchange
21 September 2007
This term we again welcomed our exchange visitors from Knox School in Sydney.
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