St Faith's School

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St Faith's School
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Address
St Faith's School
Trumpington Road

Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB2 8AG

England
Coordinates 52°11′18″N0°07′23″E / 52.1883°N 0.1230°E / 52.1883; 0.1230
Information
Type Private preparatory school [1]
MottoIn fide fiducia
Established1884
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsSir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE Full list of Governors
HeadmasterCrispin Hyde-Dunn
Gender Co-educational
Age4to 13
Enrolmentc. 530
HousesBentley, Chaucer, Latham, Newton
Staff150, teaching and support [2]
Alumni Old Fidelians
Website www.stfaiths.co.uk

St Faith's School is a private preparatory day school on Trumpington Road, Cambridge, England, for girls and boys aged four to thirteen. [1] The headmaster is Crispin Hyde-Dunn, [2] and the school has in excess of five hundred children. St Faith's is part of The Leys and St Faith's Schools Foundation. It is named after the French martyr St Faith.

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History

The school was founded by Ralph Shilleto Goodchild, a graduate of Christ's College, around 1884. [3] It features in Gwen Raverat's autobiographical account of her childhood, Period Piece . [4]

The Leys and St Faith's Foundation share the motto (In fide fiducia) and coat of arms. [5]

Until the 1990s, most classrooms were in converted Victorian houses. Since then, the school has built Ashburton, opened in 1999, a large red-brick building. Ashburton was so named because the children were evacuated to Ashburton in Devon during the Second World War. The new building contains the School Hall, where assemblies and plays take place. Ashburton Hall's name commemorates the evacuation of some of the boarders during the Second World War to the Golden Lion Hotel in Ashburton, on Dartmoor in Devon.

In June 2006, the School opened a new building for music and technology, named The Keynes Building in honour of old boys Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes.

In May 2011 a state of the art Sports Centre was opened by Geoff Windsor-Lewis, a prominent Old Fidelian.

In November 2018, a £2M STEM facility named 'The Hub' was officially opened by Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS and Old Fidelian. It is designed to link all aspects of STEM education (Science, Maths, Computing, Engineering, Art and Design) in one large multi-functional space.

In December 2020, the School announced that they had appointed Dr. Crispin Hyde-Dunn as the next head of St Faith's, to succeed Mr. Nigel Helliwell who was due to retire in 2021. Crispin joined St Faith's in September 2021.

Reviews and awards

An Independent Schools Inspection of St Faith's, in April 2017, stated, "The schools meets the standards in the schedule to the Education (Independent Schools Standards) Regulation 2014, and relevant requirements of the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, and associated requirements, and no further action is required as a result of this inspection."

An Independent Schools Inspection of St Faith's, in June 2011, reported, "St Faith's is highly and conspicuously successful in meeting its stated aims, especially those aspiring to achieve high academic standards, and provides an inspiring education and a stimulating curriculum." Pupils' achievement was 'excellent'. Teaching across the school was found to be 'excellent', as was pupils' personal development and cultural and spiritual awareness. Pupils' social development was also judged 'outstanding' with the pastoral support a major strength of the school. [6]

The school has achieved Eco-Schools' Green Flag status. In 2014, St Faith's was awarded the much coveted Ashden Award for its pioneering approach to the teaching of sustainability. [7]

The Good Schools Guide reviewed St Faith's as: "Overall, a very impressive school. Plenty of space, an excellent innovative education but, most importantly, a joyous place to be...Curriculum very much based on the future, a very forward-looking school."

In 2018, St Faith's were shortlisted 'Strategic education initiative of the year' and 'Prep School of the Year' at the TES (Times Education Supplement) Independent School Awards, the school ended up winning the former award for taking the bold step of introducing Engineering as a core curriculum subject for all pupils in Year 3 and above. The judges commented "To introduce Engineering as a curriculum subject from age 7 is a bold and inspiration step. We were deeply impressed."

The Independent School Parent Magazine named St Faith's winner of the 2018 Healthy Eating Award. Judges were looking for innovative healthy eating programmes with a tangible impact on the school community.

In 2019, St Faith's announced that they had won the pre-prep/prep school of the year award at the prestigious Tes (Times Educational Supplement) Independent School Awards 2019. They had been shortlisted for the second consecutive year.

Publications

In early 2018, the Deputy Head Academic, Margaret White, released a book titled A Good Education which answered a key question – what constitutes a good education? Published by Routledge, it demonstrates a new 'four-dimensional' model by outlining its origins, implications and practice. The book received positive reviews by former and current headmasters at schools, and the Chief Executive of IAPS (the Independent Association of Prep Schools) wrote, "Anyone who cares about the education of our children should read it".

Since the first Engineering Training Course event in late 2019, St Faith's has trained in excess of 100 schools in how to introduce and run Engineering as a curriculum subject. In February 2020 St Faith's launched their Schemes of Work for Engineering in Year 5, Year 6 and Year 7, which are freely available to IAPS member schools and state maintained schools nationally.

Old Fidelians

Old Fidelians include:

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References

  1. 1 2 St Faith's is a member of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
  2. 1 2 "Staff". St Faith's. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "The History of St Faith's School, Trumpington". Trumpington Local History Group. 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood by Gwen Raverat (Faber & Faber, London, 1952) ISBN   1-904555-12-8 (hardback) ISBN   0-571-06742-5 (paperback)
  5. ↑ "The Leys and St Faith's Foundation, registered charity no. 311436". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ [ permanent dead link ] at stfaiths.co.uk (accessed 14 October 2016)
  8. ↑ HARTREE, Douglas Rayner in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online (accessed 22 October 2007)
  9. ↑ Archived 18 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine online (Accessed 17 October 2016)
  10. ↑ BROGAN, Prof. (Denis) Hugh (Vercingetorix) in Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 22 October 2007)
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