Speedy returns to St Peter’s

8 May 2025 • By Steph Bell-Jenkins Share:

Jason Speedy St Peter’s School head.

Jason Speedy is the fourth head of school at St Peter’s School in a decade; the Cambridge school only had five in 80 years before that. Steph Bell-Jenkins talks to the man whose mischievous nature saw him push a fully-dressed chaplain into the school pool and how he intends to put things right.

Jason Speedy (centre) chats with St Peter’s Cambridge students (from left) twin brothers Idris and Elias Baker, Oli Lawrey and Charlie Galpin. Photo Steph Bell-Jenkins

Jason Speedy’s personal mantra is spelt out in huge, metre-high letters on a building at St Peter’s Cambridge.

The  sign  reads: “be the best you can be”.

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