The Perse School Cambridge

• Overview
• Curriculum
  • Exam results
• Subjects
  • Art
    • Gallery
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Classics
    • Classical Civilisation
    • Greek
    • Latin
  • Design and Technology
  • English and Drama
    • Drama
    • English
  • Geography
  • History
  • Mathematics
  • Modern Languages
    • French
    • German
    • Japanese
    • Spanish
  • Music
  • Physical Education
  • Physics
  • PSHE
  • Religious Studies and Philosophy
• Pastoral care
  • Learning support
• The school day
• Extra-curricular
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Sport
    • Cricket
    • Hockey
    • Netball
    • Rugby
    • Tennis
  • Enrichment Programme
  • Perse Exploration Society
  • Duke of Edinburgh
  • International exchanges
  • Clubs and societies
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• Inspection report 2010

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Trips

We offer all pupils the chance to join our regular programme of trips to the theatre – in Cambridge, London, Stratford-upon-Avon and elsewhere.

Sixth Formers are taken to conferences and readings in order to augment their studies.

At school

The English and Drama department oversees a wide range of academic, extra-curricular and extension activities, including:

• Literary Society
• Junior Drama Club
• Middle School Drama Club
• Writers’ Workshop (Middle School)
• Sketch Club (comedy)
• Parents’ Reading Group
• Talks and readings by authors
• The Mastermind Book Challenge
• The Times Spelling Bee
• Poetry Live

We run two debating clubs:

• Junior Debating Society (the Forum)
• Senior Debating Society

We also enter pupils annually for a wide range of external Public Speaking and Debating events, competitions and workshops:

• Debating Matters
• The English-Speaking Union (two age categories)
• The Rotary ‘Youth Speaks’ competition (three age categories)
• Cambridge Union Society
• The Oxford Union

We hold annual events to celebrate:

• Book Week
• World Book Day
• National Poetry Day
• National Schools’ Film Week
• ‘Booked-Up’

We run a range of in-house writing and Public Speaking competitions, including:

• The Year 7 Arts Festival poetry and prose competitions
• The Caffall Cup for Public Speaking
• The Armitstead poetry competition

We offer pupils the opportunity to enter for external challenges including:

• The Rotary (Cambridgeshire) essay competition
• The Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize
• Poetry Now

We also encourage pupils to submit their writing to the school’s ‘Carpe Diem’ magazine and to compile their own anthologies and blogs.