Latest news from the Stephen Perse Sixth Form. You can also read our parent newsletters, written by the Head of School, here.
Well done to Year 12 student Almudena who has been shortlisted for the ‘Unsung Heroes of Science’ video competition held by Hertford College at the University of Oxford.
Spanish teacher Ms Riquel has shared what her sixth form IB classes have been learning remotely recently.
On 13 February the Visual Arts department took Sixth form students on an A-level and IB Visual Arts research trip to London Galleries.
A group of Year 12 Drama scholars and students went to see Shelagh Delaney’s seminal taboo-breaking play A Taste of Honey, a co-production between The National Theatre and Trafalgar Theatre productions.
Ten students performed two very different plays for this year’s sixth form enrichment production.
This week our Year 12s had a visit from Cambridgeshire Police who came in to hold a workshop on road safety.
Recently our Years 12 and 13 Classicists attended a series of lectures in Bloomsbury Baptist Church, London delivered by world-class experts on the World of the Hero in Homer and Virgil.
We are extremely proud of our French and Spanish Sixth Form students' performance on 4 February at The Perse Upper School's Eastern Region Debating Competition.
The Stephen Perse Foundation (SPF) have gained success with their Under 16 Girls Netball
team who have, for the first time in the school’s history, qualified for England Schools
National Finals.
Our Year 12 A level Drama students have just begun the exciting, and somewhat challenging process of creating an original piece of devised theatre as part of their course.
Almudena from Year 13 took part in the Open Dutch Nationals in December, obtaining two personal bests. She competed in finals against Olympians such as Ranomi Kromowidjodjo and Femke Heemskerk.
On Tuesday 3 December sixth form students Sunny, Norrie, Charlotte H and Charlotte L competed in the regional final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge (STMC). The STMC tests mathematical, communication and teamwork skills and students compete against teams from other schools and colleges from their region.
On 6 December we went to see the play Antigone by the French writer Jean Anouilh (1944), at the Corpus Playroom, which is a reimagined version of the original Sophocles' ancient tragedy.
Recently, Sixth Form had 23 students take part in the Senior Maths Challenge and the impressive results could not go unmentioned!
Today we learnt about a range of topics including Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s reformation, Elizabeth’s golden age and Henry VII.
On the 28 and 29 November, Senior and Sixth Form students collaborated to produce and perform a very dramatic and visually compelling production of Sophocles’ Electra.
On 3 December, we held an award ceremony at the Sixth Form to celebrate the achievements and hard work of our students.
On 13 November Dr Guy Sutton, director of Medical Biology Interactive and honorary consultant assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Medical School, came to give a talk to our psychology and biology students.
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