Perse Preparatory School
| Perse Preparatory School | |
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Trumpington Road , , | |
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| Type | Independent preparatory school |
| Established | 1910 |
| Local authority | Cambridgeshire |
| Headmaster | Gareth Jones[1] |
| Gender | co-educational since September 2007[1] |
| Age | 7 to 11 |
| Houses | Barbarians (Red), Corinthians (Blue) and Foresters (Green).[2] |
| Website | http://www.perse.co.uk/prep |
The Perse Preparatory School is a co-educational prep school located in Cambridge, England. It is the junior day school for The Perse School (known as the upper school). It is situated in its own grounds around 1½ miles from the upper school and is totally self-contained. As of September 2007, the school accepted girls at 7+ and in September 2008 will accept girls at 9+.[1] Currently, the headmaster is Gareth Jones[1] and in 2009 the school held approximately 250 pupils.[3] At the end of the 2013-14 year, Gareth Jones will be stepping down from head. Many of the pupils go into the upper school at age 11.
History
The Perse School itself was founded in 1615 by Dr Stephen Perse, a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, although the Preparatory School was not built until 1910. In 1950 it moved to its current location in Trumpington Road, Cambridge, formerly one of the old upper school boarding houses.
The building which the school uses was originally called Leighton House. It was built for Robert Sayle who owned a city centre department store and who moved into the house in the late 1860s.[4]
Structure
In each year, pupils who enter at 7+ are put into to three mixed ability forms: 3A, 3Alpha or 3Aleph in which they remain throughout the school. Those pupils who enter before September 2007 are organised into two different forms.
Houses
Each pupil is placed into a house when they join the school, either Barbarians, Corinthians. or Foresters. The school has a house point system which gives pupils the opportunity to win house points for positive contributions to school life and has Strikes that will lose them house points when they are behaving badly.