St Colette Pre-Preparatory School

History of St Colette's School

1913 –

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MA sent this note in 2025:

I went to school at St. Colette’s aged 3 and started learning French (Miss Barrett?) straightaway. I attribute this to my lifelong love and facility for learning languages. Then Mrs Tulip with her brown cardigan, pink rice pudding and a button box to sort through. Mrs Walker, we called Mrs Tiggywinkle. A huge felled beech tree in the grounds that we weren’t supposed to play on. The boys did ballet as well as the girls, rough sports like football were not allowed. At 7, I took the entrance exam for the Perse Junior School for Girls and got in. Lots of memories here of St. Eligius St, then my utter dismay when aged 10, dreaming of the Senior School, my mum now divorced and remarried to an RAF man, we were to move to RAF Germany. My Cambridge childhood ended there in January 1971. I did return after leaving school and worked in the Jesus College canteen for a time. 

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1962 St Colette

Mrs I L Walker principal