To celebrate National Poetry Day, we were lucky enough to host poet-extraordinaire Lewis Buxton who visited the Senior School, and kept our students in Year 7 and Year 8 busy and entertained throughout the day with his magical gift of poetry!
Year 10 Design Engineering ventured out on an exploratory trip to the University of East Anglia in Norwich where they visited the Sainsbury Centre, on the UEA campus, and the engineering department: Productivity East.
In October students from across Years 11-18 attended a wellbeing and mental health talk led by our guest speaker Dick Moore.
This year’s Sixth Form Cabaret was coordinated by our fabulous Drama Assistant Rebecca Jones along with Sixth Form students Zoë, Claire, Joe and Katie.
It was lovely to see so many of last year’s Year 11 cohort return to receive their sports awards.
Former Stephen Perse Junior School Head Katie Milne visited the Foundation to present us with our traditional basket of blue hyacinths, marking our 142nd birthday on 17 January 2023.
As a French A Level student at the Sixth Form, we are often told that in order to really gain a true understanding of the language and the culture of France, we need to actually visit the place.
In November, our Year 7 French groups took part in a French workshop called ‘Les Trois Mousquetaires’. It was delivered in French and in English by the Freshwater Theatre Company.
We celebrated the European Day of Languages with a guest speaker from Cambridge University, Sebastián Bianchi
Lily R from last year’s Year 13 Art A Level had work selected for the Arts Society 6th Form Art Exhibition, held at the Michaelhouse cafe for a two week period in October 2022, organised by The Arts Society Cantab and Granta.
The Outdoor Education team took 15 Senior School students to Big Rock Climbing Centre in Milton Keynes. This was a first for our school and was clearly well received by the students.
On 18 November we were delighted to welcome alumna Venice van Someren to give an insightful and inspiring talk about her career as a professional actor.
Teams of five girls from both of our Junior Schools, Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge and Dame Bradbury’s, Saffron Walden, took part in the Year 5 Girls’ STEM Olympiad, hosted by Old Buckenham Hall School in Suffolk.
At the request of some of our 2020 GCSE alumnae, we invited the year group to gather for a catch-up over tea and cake with one another and some of their teachers on Wednesday 4 January at the Senior School.
We hosted colleagues from one of our partner schools, Keio Yokohama Elementary School, in September.
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We were tremendously saddened to hear of the passing of Sheila Cubitt, a much-loved and long-serving former member of the Junior School staff.
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and orchestrations by Larry Hochman.
It’s been another busy term for sport at the Senior School and Sixth Form.
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