The Stephen Perse Foundation

The Stephen Perse Foundation

The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.

History of the Stephen Perse Foundation

Formerly the Perse Girls School, founded in 1881, the Foundation developed to become the Stephen Perse Foundation in 2007, and first admitted boys into the Senior School in 2017. The Foundation has grown over recent years, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s in Saffron Walden) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.

Predominantly a day school, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing students for the future.

Stephen Perse Foundation Schools

• Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Salisbury Villas
• Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Shaftesbury Road
• Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Madingley
• Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Saffron Walden, Dame Bradbury's
• Stephen Perse Junior School - Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge
• Stephen Perse Junior School - Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden
• Stephen Perse Senior School - Cambridge
• Stephen Perse Sixth Form - Cambridge

Mission, Vision and Values

Our Mission Statement

At the Stephen Perse Foundation, our mission is to educate and inspire the contributors to tomorrow’s world: intelligent young people with the creativity, compassion, confidence and conviction to question, evaluate and improve society.

Our Vision Statement

To deliver this mission, our vision is to create and sustain an outstanding educational environment that:

• Fosters modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum
• Provides outstanding breadth of opportunity and quality of experience through a rich and varied co-curriculum
• Nurtures and celebrates individuality, wellbeing, personal development, and contribution to the growth of others, through superb pastoral care, social and emotional education, and learning support
• Champions and models equality, diversity and inclusivity, and social and environmental responsibility with a global outlook

Our Values Statement

With excellence and creativity in teaching and learning at the core of each of our schools and nurseries, we value the positive difference our students can make in the world through:

• Scholarship and the advancement of knowledge and understanding
• Kindness, courtesy, inclusivity and collaboration
• Diligence, independence and self-reliance
• Humility, reflectiveness and the pursuit of self-improvement
• Character, individuality, wellbeing and confidence
• Conserving the environment and living sustainably