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The Perse School is a private school (English fee-charging day and, in the case of the Perse, a former boarding school) in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1615 by Stephen Perse, its motto is Qui facit per alium facit per se, taken to mean 'He who does things for others does them for himself'. The Perse School took girls for Sixth form only from ...
This houses the Stephen Perse Senior School (ages 11–16), with Rosedale House (ages 3–11) occupying a site close by. The Stephen Perse Pre-Prep was established in 2010, after the Foundation purchased the Madingley site on the retirement of the previous owners. In 2017, the school completed a major building project on the main site.
The school motto is Qui facit per alium facit per se, usually taken to mean "He who does things for others does them for himself"; the Latin sentence ends "per se" in a word play on the founder's name. In 1881, the Perse School for Girls was established, now part of the Stephen Perse Foundation.
Former students from The Perse School, Cambridge, England. Pages in category "People educated at The Perse School" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
Perse may refer to: Persa (play), a comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus; Perse (mythology) (also Persa or Perseis), an Oceanid and consort of Helios in Greek mythology; The Perse School, an independent co-educational school in Cambridge, England; Stephen Perse Foundation, a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England
It should be noted that the school has changed its name to the Stephen Perse Foundation. Pages in category "People educated at the Perse School for Girls" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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Rouse was appointed headmaster of The Perse School, Cambridge, in 1902. He restored it to a sound financial footing following a crisis. He believed firmly in learning by doing as well as by seeing and hearing. Although the curriculum at the Perse was dominated by classics, he urged that science should be learned through experiment and observation.