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Munira Wilson MP was the latest guest for the SWPS History and Politics Society this week on Zoom attended by a mix of parents, students and teachers.

Our Higher Education Fair is an important event in inspiring students to take ownership of their future by answering the questions surrounding the options available to them post A level.

Matt Killeen, the author of the bestselling book "Orphan Monster Spy" and its sequel - "Devil Darling Spy", talked to our students in years 9 & 10 about heroes in fiction and in reality, the resistance, and about his inspiration for writing books set during World War Two.

Our Academic Ambition seminars, held after school at 3.35pm, are designed to inform, provoke, stretch and challenge our intellectually advanced students.

In the first meeting of the student-led SWPS History and Politics Society on 19 January 2021, over 50 people, including students from Grey Court School in Richmond, attended an illuminating lecture and an extended Q & A from Dr Thomas Tunstall Allcock, a modern History specialist from the University of Manchester.

This term we have hosted a workshop with musical theatre star, Lizzie Bea. Lizzie is currently appearing in ‘Hairspray’ with Michael Ball, which will hopefully open in theatres later this year!

tudents in Years 7-9 have been engaging with events shared in our new Science Enrichment Club run and hosted by Dr Greg Limburn, Chemistry and Physics teacher.

Congratulations to our music and singing students for their ABRSM  exam results! Over 50 students took exams in the Autumn Term and their dedication is richly rewarded!

Listen into our wonderful virtual Christmas Concert 2021.

We completed an exciting and energetic term back at SWPS with a wealth of Christmas celebrations. From our traditional panto, to making gingerbread Cyclops, wearing fancy dress and recreating a traditional German market - lots of fun was head by all.

We were very excited to welcome Dr Miranda Malins to talk to our Year 8s on Friday. They have spent the term studying the bloodiest period in British History, the 17th Century, containing the British Civil War and culminating in regicide.

Our Christmas Carol Service will be broadcast virtually in 2020, with two live-streams from St Peter’s Church in Chertsey.

Our Technology and Spanish Departments joined forces to plan and deliver ‘Ready Steady Paella’ to Year 8 to coincide with the Food Technology Cultural Cuisine module and the Spanish department’s introduction to La comida española.

Watch our wonderful lunchtime performances from Year 8, with some memorable pieces from our talented students:

The annual Autumn Chamber Concert, a platform for our many talented musicians in Year 9 and above, was this year recorded as an ‘alternative concert’ to brighten the dark evenings of autumn.

Black History Month saw approximately 40 students enter our BAME Icon Competition. Our students selected figures from a range of fields; medicine, social protest, science, sport, culture, politics and even Space to write about. These included important individuals such as Paul Stephenson, Lilan Bader, Bass Reeves, Mary Seacole, Alice August Ball and Iqra Babar.

Each year some of our highest performing students take the next steps in their educational journeys to the venerable colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.

Students can purchase their poppies from reception

Year 7 turned up the fear factor this week by performing a dramatised horror poem... 'The Haunted Castle' by Jack Prelutsky.

Following another year of outstanding results, a high percentage of our leavers have gone on to their first choice destinations.

SWPS student Anika P, along with sister Anushka and cousin Sasha met with Richmond Park MP Sarah Olney recently to discuss their distribution of 10,000 bottles of hand sanitiser to food banks during the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic.

SWPS Computer Science Department was launched in 2015. The aim of this project was to inspire our students to continue Computer Science into GCSE and A Level study, in the hope that they would be inspired to apply for and accept places at University

Celebrating Sophie, Brooke and Charlotte from our senior sixth class of 2020, who gained 100% A* - A grades in A Level Design Technology.

SWPS Alumna Lara Kenny wins a Great Taste Award for her sustainable wedding cakes by her business Love from Lila.

Our staff and students in Design Technology were excited about their return to school this year, in anticipation of a new and improved Textiles Technology room - refurbished with a generous donation from the Friends of Sir William Perkins’s School.

The anticipation has been building for our Year 11s as this term heralds the opening of their new common room!

During an English session at our recent Taster Day for Year 6's. Students were asked to collaborate on a poem about Colour.

We have had a fantastic day welcoming Year 6 girls from local primary and prep schools to come and see SWPS and get a feel for what it's really like here.

We're back! And what a wonderful sight it is to see our classrooms full of enthusiastic students, happy chatter and smiling faces!

Our new catering partners CH&CO have kicked the term off in delicious style with a varied menu and lots of satisfied customers!

Join us for our Sixth Form Open Evening, 30 September 2020, 18.00-20.00; a tailored event for prospective Sixth Form Students and their parents.  

We are delighted to welcome Captain Mike Bannister to SWPS to take the post of Chair of Governors. He joins the school to replace Mr Geoff Want - our distinguished former Chair of eight years standing.

SWPS Director of Music, Mrs Scrutton, invited SWPS staff, students and families to come together to form the 'Big SWPS Choir' and record a one-off virtual performance of 'We'll Meet Again'.

2019/20 has been a fantastic year for SWPS students completing Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme.

Our Athlete Hotseat Series gave SWPS rowers an opportunity to participate in live interviews and Q&As with elite athletes - including World and Olympic medallists, Boat Race winners and Henley Royal Regatta winners. 

Our industrious Lower Sixth Physics students have earned a prestigious Gold Industrial Cadets Award this year.

SWPS Year 8 student Alexa Z took lockdown into her own hands and launched a 'Diddy-School' for nine year old sister  Lulu! Her lesson-planning, timetabling and teaching quality was so good that soon friends and family signed up their own children to benefit!

Our Year 7 students recently reflected on images of Jesus in Art. They were given the task of researching a title given to Jesus e.g. Jesus the Teacher. 

Inspired by the British Library and their #DiscoveringChildren's Books campaign, we encouraged our English students to create their own mini-books.

For their Summer Term project Drama students from years 7,8 and 9 studied silent film.

Drama students perform songologues, duologues, triologues and more - turning song lyrics into spoken performances.

The Stephanie Marks Diabetes Resource Centre recently celebrated a decade of patient care since it was officially opened on the 20th May 2010 by Sir Ian Botham OBE.

After the untimely death of former SWPS student 17 year old Stephanie Marks, who dreamed of becoming a doctor, a £1 million diabetes resource centre was opened in her name.

We are delighted to share the second part of our A Level Future series for our 2020 cohort of Senior Sixth students.

When Alumnae Officer Michelle Bradbury contacted SWPS alumna and eponymous chat show host Trisha Goddard she wasn't expecting to settle in for a chat, but that's exactly what happened...

Former student Alice Vassallo graduated from SWPS in 2009, studying Classical Studies at Royal Holloway University in London, before finding a passion for wildlife!   

Dan Jones, historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist is set to deliver a series of lectures on The Wars of the Roses and The Tudors to SWPS students as part of our Sixth Form Seminar Series.

Since leaving SWPS in 2009 former SWPS student Katie McDonnell has found success as an accomplished stunt performer and freerunner

Year 7 science student Sofia L has produced an exceptional animation of the structure and function of the inner ear using Procreate technology.

Our highly regarded Art & Design Team have curated a gallery of work created by our dedicated students since lockdown began.

Leena T was inspired by a Chemistry lesson on Climate Change with Dr Limburn to write, perform and design this stop motion animation on Global Warming.

Milly B (Amelia) in Year 9 recently sang for Andrew Lloyd Webber, Graham Norton and Sierra Boggess in Lloyd Webber's Cadenza Challenge; part of his #ComposerInIsolation series.

Year 9 student Charlize spent two weeks over Easter cracking the Rubix Cube, and can now solve it in the very respectable time of 1minute 23 seconds!

Laura H in 8P has been incredibly busy making laundry bags for NHS workers' scrubs.

Each SWPS Monday Biology & Chemistry Teacher, Miss Brown, presents Quarantine Chemistry from her YouTube channel of the same name.

This week saw the launch of our Post A Level Seminar Programme, designed to prepare our students for undergraduate and college study.

Our Athlete Hotseat Series will see our students involved in live interviews and Q&As with elite athletes - including World and Olympic medallists, Boat Race winners, Henley Royal Regatta winners and overseas rowers.

Introducing our new Head Girls Team - Sophie Hawken, Head Girl; and Mythili Chawan, Imi Elliott and Cece Tam as Deputy Head Girls.

Find out more about our recent report from the Good Schools Guide 2020.

HRH The Earl of Wessex and a host of celebrities send congratulations to Gold DofE Award Holders!

SWPS Alumna Hattie Taylor shares her career highlights - where it all started at SWPS - and looking forward to Tokyo 2021.

In response to a critical shortage in the NHS during the current crisis, SWPS donated essential PPE Equipment to St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

A whole range of emotions fitting for our times are conveyed in our wonderful Spring Concert Programme. A variety of inspiring pieces fit together to uplift us all.

Sir William Perkins's Higher Education Fair is an important event in inspiring students to take ownership of their future.

Science week got under way at SWPS with a huge array of activities, challenges, competitions, seminars and experiments; as well as rockets, burps and sea monkeys!

Following a masterclass with jeweller and silverware designer Theo Fennell at SWPS, Brooke was one of our two Senior Sixth to win a work experience placement.

Former SWPS Sports Teacher Rebecca Rowe is one of a crew of fearless female firefighters pitting their survival skills against the elements in a bid to conquer Antarctica.

Mr Dan Jones, a historian, a journalist and a bestselling author, visited SWPS last Wednesday to give a lecture to our 6th Form students...

SWPS joined in with Concorde’s 50th birthday celebrations by holding a wonderful Gala Dinner at Brooklands Museum last weekend...

Celebrations are taking place at Sir William Perkins’s School in Chertsey upon the arrival of the GCSE results...

Students and staff at Sir William Perkins’s School in Chertsey are celebrating today with an excellent set of A Level results that are even better than last year’s fantastic results.

The royal regatta at Henley is one of, if not THE biggest regatta in the world. Regularly attended by thousands of spectators and with crews coming from all over the world to compete. This year is the second consecutive year SWPSBC has had a crew qualify...

Sir William Perkins’s School rowers Ella Ayoade and Emily Keen won the J18 Junior Women’s Double Sculls at the weekend, the school’s first Henley win at this event since 2012...

Fiesta fun was to be heard at Sir William Perkins’s School this weekend, as our latest Year 4 Saturday Workshop focused on all things Spanish...

The annual SWPS Chertsey trail took place last weekend, when new Year 7 pupils and their families joined us for a morning to get to know the...

Following World Book Day 2019, we very much enjoyed the visit from Taran Matharu on Friday, who ran creative writing workshops with...

On Friday we were thrilled to welcome Sir Simon McDonald KCMG KCVO, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service, to talk to...

The SWPS cast and crew of Mary Poppins, our latest school production, did an amazing job bringing to life the rooftops of London last weekend...