The Caterhamian 2016/17

CATERHAM SCHOOL

THE CATERHAMIAN Review of the Year 2016-17

Front cover artwork by Olivia Dowle, Upper Sixth

THE CATERHAMIAN 2016-17

CONTENTS

2 Farewell 4 Speech Day and Prize Winners 8 Academic Results 13 Pupils on the Move 17 Caterham School Society 32 House Reports 41 House Events 46 Art 51 Photography 54 Textiles 56 3D Design 61 Arts Week 64 Science 66 History 67 Study Buddy 68 Boarding 72 Music 80 Partnerships 87 Charity 88 Geography

89 Individual Pupil Success 93 Independent Research Project 94 Careers 95 Debating 96 Clubs and Societies 98 Drama and Theatre 108 English 111 Maths 114 Modern Foreign Languages 117 Innovation Centre 118 Library 120 London Academy of Excellence 121 CCF 130 Outdoor Learning 131 Psychology 132 Skiing 133 Talent Show 134 Miscellaneous 135 Sport 171 Prep School

A SUPERB HEAD OF DEPARTMENT, A GREAT ADVOCATE AND FRIEND OF THE BOARDING COMMUNITY, HUGELY ENERGETIC IN THE AREA OF SOCIAL PROJECTS AND LINKS ABROAD.

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FAREWELL RICK MEARKLE Rick Mearkle arrived at Caterham School in September 2000 from the town of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, via ministry in Kent at Maidstone United Reformed Church. He left Caterham in July 2017 to resume his Ministry in St Neots, Cambridgeshire and his dog walking in Rutland.

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n the 17 years that Rick was at Caterham the school changed immeasurably – he served three Headmasters, saw the expansion of pupil numbers and physical building on the site, was Head of RS (and, for a while as Head of Psychology) throughout some of the most turbulent times of educational reform this country has ever seen. Rick’s own personal life changed immeasurably too and yet, returning as I did as Headmaster in 2015, in many ways the school had not changed at all from the one that I had left in 2004 and that was largely down to the influence of the most outstanding Chaplain the school could have possibly hoped for. The values, the ethos, the spiritual heart of the school were embodied by Rick and, through his calm and quiet and authentic presence around the school, he ensured that we never lost sight of our true purpose – the development

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of young people of character who are independently minded, strong on values and duty and who understand the meaning and value of community and connectedness.

Rick was never afraid to talk truth to power and ensured that successive administrations at the school never forgot their roots or the fact that they were custodians of a legacy that reached back into the radical non-conformist tradition in which Rick sat so comfortably. As a non-conformist Rick was also never afraid to be an iconoclast when required nor to attack needless hierarchy or tradition when it no longer made sense, and, despite the calm exterior, one could be sure that there remained a radical firebrand within.

The school will miss Rick enormously. I will miss our weekly discussions which, whilst supposedly about school business, were often anything but. More often than not

we found our common ground on the topics of philosophy, politics and American history, particularly the American Civil War. There is so much more that one could say about Rick’s time at Caterham – he was a superb Head of Department, a great advocate and friend of the boarding community, hugely energetic in the area of social projects and links abroad. Like all good ministers he lived the life of his community and ministered to them where he found them. I was delighted when Rick was inducted as minister at St Neots URC earlier this year. He has also become the Convenor of the Board of Studies of Westminster College, Cambridge. I know that he and Aimee will be busy for many years to come but I hope not too busy to visit us from time to time.

Mr Ceri Jones

FAREWELL

ANDREW TAYLOR Andrew worked at Caterham School for many years where he had a huge impact on the course the School was taking; he was instrumental in helping to take the School to where it is today.

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ndrew arrived at Caterham as a science teacher – and not only did he excel in this role, but his love for the outdoors also soon became apparent. For almost fifteen years, therefore, Andrew spent his afternoons organising trips and his holidays accompanying pupils and other staff on these incredible experiences. During these excursions, Andrew demonstrated how meticulous planning and his great and genuine concern for the wellbeing of the pupils and staff could fend off any obstacle – broken down buses, flash floods and even a waterspout that ripped through one activity – never phased him.

This professionalism and keen eye for detail led Andrew to becoming integral in Caterham School’s relationships with schools in the Ukraine, Tanzania, India, an orphanage in Romania and a charity that works with street children in Nicaragua. Here Andrew established contacts, helped the school raise money for these projects and showed his passion for helping those less fortunate. He scaled Mt Meru in Tanzania on numerous occasions, taught lessons at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro, hiked up volcanic vents in the skeleton of an ancient supervolcano, danced and sang with Maasai elders and warriors and was the key player in resolving what could have been a serious malaria incident.

Despite his busy schedule, Andrew was also a tutor in the senior boys’ boarding house and later on the junior boys’ boarding, where his loyalty to the pupils always shone through in his willingness to help and his love for being involved. Andrew saw his two daughters, Charlotte and Lucy, through Caterham School, where they thrived as successful and happy pupils. In the latter stages of his Caterham career, Andrew was appointed to the Senior Management Team, where he put into practice all the experiences he had gained as a boarding and trip leader.

He oversaw the school calendar and helped to implement a structured review of school trips that consolidated Caterham School’s love for taking pupils on adventures all over the world, ensuring maximum safety and maximum enjoyment.

Andrew will be missed by all as he moves on to his new role as deputy head at Prior’s Field School. We wish him all the best in this new stage in his already successful career.

DAVID KING In the eight years that David King worked at Caterham, he had a wide ranging and overwhelmingly positive impact on the school.

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ecruited as a bright young maths teacher with creative ideas about the best ways to improve attainment within the classroom, he quickly immersed himself in all areas of school life. His obvious commitment to the wellbeing of his students made it a very natural step for David to move into pastoral management, first as an outstanding Head of Year and subsequently as Senior Teacher Pastoral, taking on responsibility for a range of whole school pastoral initiatives.

An enthusiastic sportsman, David generously gave up his Saturdays throughout the year to coach hockey and cricket and to referee rugby matches. Beneath his calm exterior David was a natural competitor, clearly shown in his appearances for staff hockey and cricket teams, but he was also a great champion of gentlemanly behaviour on the sports field and rightly insisted on high levels of sportsmanship from his teams.

David was also an extremely popular boarding tutor, working for four years with the senior boys in Viney. His genuine interest in the boys’ progress and welfare and his willingness to spend time playing board games and discussing all manner of obscure topics with the boys ensured that he was extremely well-liked within the house, as was his dog Sinta, whose visits to the house the boarders always loved.

David’s great gift was his ability to combine the best elements of the traditional public schoolmaster with the dynamic energy of a young teacher constantly on the look-out for fresh ideas to improve the school experience for the students. Popular with staff, students and parents alike, David will be missed by all at Caterham as he moves on to a senior management role at Croydon High.

We wish him and his young family every success and happiness in the future.

By Mr Nick Mills

Mr Andi Van Niekerk

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SPEECH DAY 2017 Guest of Honour:

Ms Joan Deslandes Caterham School Hareston e Valley Road Caterham Surrey CR 3 6YA 01883 34 3028 enquirie s@cater hamschoo l.co.uk

caterham school.co .uk

Recently included in the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000, where she featured as one of London’s most influential educational thinkers, Joan Deslandes is one of the UK’s leading lights in education with a distinguished career spanning over two decades.

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oan is the Head Teacher of Kingsford Community School, an 11-16 mixed state school situated in the heart of the London Docklands district.

Joan is a member of a number of government advisory boards, including the Teacher Standards 2012 and Headteachers’ Standards 2015 advisory groups. In addition, Joan is a longstanding member of the Independent State

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Schools Partnership (ISSP) forum and governor of both the London Academy of Excellence, a highly successful free school, and Brighton College. Joan’s leadership has been characterised by innovation and partnership and has been judged repeatedly by Ofsted as outstanding. Joan gained her first degree at the UCL Institute of Education and she has an MA in Educational Studies.

SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS

PRIZE WINNERS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND EFFORT

ACHIEVEMENT, PROGRESS AND CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOOL LIFE First Year Prizes Alice Caiger Grace Godfrey Mili Greener Paige Griffiths Harry Jude Charlie Parkes Isabel Singleton Anastasia Spuma

Third Year Prizes Leela Ahuja-Hofheiz Caspar Barton Maisie Greener William (Yuk Lam) Kwan Cyrus (Chun Hei) Liu Ethan (Pok Man) Lo Julia Makin Alexander Richings Charlotte Tracy Amelia Wildman

Second Year Prizes Joani Baker Skyler Bennett Rachel Cliffe Nicola Finnegan Rosemary Goodall Cameron Hudson Laurence McLaughlin Isabelle Oliver

Fourth Year Prizes Louis Charlesworth Solyana Dawit Ilia Erin James Flanagan Om Goswamy Mollie Harris Abi Horsfall Katie Hudson Jack (Ho Sing) Lee Maddy Pullen

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD Gold Awards

Ria Acharya Catherine Andrew Josie Branson Oscar Ingrassia Alex Paul Shrina Patel

The Gregory Prize

Aislinn Flatley Joe Foggin Maisie Machugh Chloe Wyner Issie Yewman

The Gorman Prize

Luke Derry Tom Gilshenan ELoise Ibrahim

The Eothen Prize Old Caterhamians’ Prize

Grant Davidson Ashleigh Davies Natasha Derry Anna Gardner Joseph Haynes Sarah Lowe Lucy O’Geary Mary Neale-Smith Oliver Sullivan Maxim Zhelyabovskiy

Lower Sixth Year Prizes Natalie Bishop Millie de Leyser Sophie Dowle Jessica Fatoye Anastasiia Kedrina Joshua (Yat Nam) Ng Issac Quinton Carlos (Chun Sing) Tse Ben Wagstaff Judy (Di) Zhu

UPPER SIXTH ACADEMIC PRIZES The Allison Prize for English

Sophie Edmunds

Academic Prize for Biology

Hailey (Hei Yu) Sze

Academic Prize for Business Academic Prize for Chemistry

Lauren Hunt-Williams Hugo Soer

William Ayres Ria Acharya

The Coleman Prize for 3D Design Matthew

(Chun Hin) Au Yeung Academic Prize for Drama and Theatre Studies Academic Prize for Economics

Chloe Blatchford Sam Burns Jessica Calcutt James Lovell Howince Or Hana Peacefield

PRIZES FOR OUTSTANDING ALL-ROUND CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOOL LIFE The Rignall Prize

Fifth Year Prizes

Academic Prize for Fine Art The Hilton Prize for French The Stephen Smith Prize for Geography The Prize for German Academic Prize for Greek

Jessica Calcutt Brian (Fong Hei) Yu Joey (Yan Yee) Pang Megan Davies Meghan O’Connor Oscar Ingrassia Matthew Lee

The Leathem Prize for History Rainbow (Tin Hung) Cheng Academic Prize for Latin

Luke Derry

The Robert Jarrams Prize for Double Maths (Pure)

Luke Derry

The Robert Jarrams Prize for Double Maths (Applied)

Rui Huang

Academic Prize for Single Maths Academic Prize for Music Academic Prize for PE Academic Prize for Photography

Fred McAuley Henry Chappell Chloe Wyner Katie Starns

Academic Prize for Psychology Joey (Yan Yee) Pang Academic Prize for Physics

Aaron Cooke

Academic Prize for Politics

Daniel Davidson

The St John’s Prize for Philosophy and Ethics

Swaney Loh

Academic Prize for Spanish

Elise Butcher

Academic Prize for Textiles

Amy Stephenson

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SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS GAMES PRIZES Honours Cap – Representing your Country in Sport

Chloe Wyner

Honours Cap – Representing your Country in Sport

Sam Talbot

The Dunwoodie Cup – Lauren Hunt-Williams Best All-Rounder in Girls Sports The Dermer Prize for Top Sportsman The Whiting Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Girls Sports

SPECIAL PRIZES The Christine Walker Prize

Milly Tocher

The Baynon-Milnes Prize for Outstanding Concert Performance The Abbott Prize

Aldi (Mei Yi) Ho Annabel Chappell

The Andrew Fisher Prize for Outstanding Performance in Drama

Alice Fish

The Blake-Thomas Falaises Prize (CCF) James Lovell The Thomas Warren Prize for Backstage Support

Matthew Lee

The Thomas Warren Prize for Backstage Support

Oliver Locket

The Susan Herbert Prize

Olivia Mason

The David Rogers Maths Prize

Milly Tocher

The Jen Dodd Maths Prize

Tony (Huen Ki) Cheng

Moncrieff Jones Science Prize

Vladimir Kalinovskiy

Moncrieff Jones Science Prize

Hannah Pook

The Caterham Engineering Prize

Roman Streltsov

The Caldwell Cup for Musical Theatre Josie Branson The Chris Wright Cup for Junior Music The Susan Child History Essay Prize

Nick Hale

The Alexander Clarke Prize for Community Service

Henry Chappell

The Hilary Trehane Prize for Services to the Community

Timeyin Pinnick

The Ansell Reed Prize for Contribution to Boarding and School Life The Harvard Book Award The David Evans Award for Overall Academic Excellence

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Willow Park

Elkan Lau

Sophie Dawson Tooki (Sin Wah) Chu Lucy Etheridge Eric Fu Elliot McLean de Boer Shaun (Pengcheng) Ng Rebecca Phillips Aisha Symmons Sam Talbot

Joe Foggin Chloe Wyner

The Smith Prize for Oustanding Contribution to Boys’ Sports

Jack Trantor

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Girls)

Ria Acharya

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Girls)

Katie Starns

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Girls)

Katie Herbert

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Boys) John Villers Cup

Oscar Ingrassi

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Boys) John Villers Cup

Sam Thorpe

Darby Medal for Swimming

Angus (Ling Hong) Yuen

Darby Medal for Swimming

Amy Davies

SERVICE PRIZES The Bonarjee Prize

Raymond Ho Elkan Lau Anastasia Lykova Meghan O’Connor Angus Yuen

The Brooke Prize Dawn Howe

Howince Or Roman Streltsov Milly Tocher William Ward

The Wakefield Prize

Rachel Ackerley Anna Knight Oliver Locket Lizzie McCarthy Hana Peacefield Samuel Pye Clare Wandless

The Bacon Prize

Maya Ahuja-Hofheiz Tooki (Sin Wah) Chu Daniel Davidson Nadine Greenhalgh Vladimir Kalinovskiy Matthew Lee Swaney Loh Hannah Pook

SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS

CATERHAM AWARD The ‘Caterham Award’ is given to pupils who have participated comprehensively in the Caterham School community. The award winners represent a great variety of interests and talents, and they will all have demonstrated responsibility, creativity, and have taken part in physical activity. They will have engaged in public speaking, fulfilled their academic commitments, and contributed back into the community.

The Caterham Award promotes the School philosophy, ‘Inspiring Education for Life’.

Ria Acharya Rachel Ackerley Lucy Acton Maya Ahuja-Hofheiz Catherine Andrew Matthew Au Yeung Andrew Aubertin William Ayres Henry Beck Alex Best Chloe Blatchford Georgie Blunt Josie Branson Sam Burns Elise Butcher Jessica Calcutt Francesca Carver Leo Chan Henry Chappell Mark Chatfield Tony Cheng Amber Cheng Rainbow Cheng Tooki Chu Aaron Cooke Louis Crane Ben Creighton Gabriella Criscuolo Joe Cross Sophie Cunningham Mayo Daniel Harriet Das Daniel Davidson Megan Davies Rachel Dawson Daniel De Rocco

Luke Derry Samuel Duroshola Joe Earl Sophie Edmunds Aimee Egglesfield Lucy Etheridge Alice Fish Jake Flack Aislinn Flatley Joe Foggin Jon Chee Foong Eric Fu Tom Gilshenan Natalie Goodwin Thomas Green Nadine Greenhalgh William Hammond Phoebe Harrison Katie Herbert Raymond Ho Matthew Hogan Dawn Howe Rui Huang Bonnie Humphreys Fergus Hunter Lauren Hunt-Williams Ellie Ibrahim Daniel Iliev Oscar Ingrassia Harry Jones Vladimir Kalinovskiy Josh Kennedy Anna Knight Michael Lai Jasmine Lam Elkan Lau

Matthew Lee Oliver Locket Swaney Loh James Lovell Anastasia Lykova Maisie MacHugh Olivia Mason Frederick McAuley Lizzie McCarthy Edward McCrea Elliot McLean de Boer Georgie Miller Shaun Ng Che Ochugboju Meghan O’Connor Howince Or Harrison Paice Joey Pang James Parkin Riha Patel Shrina Patel Alex Paul Shruthi Paul Hana Peacefield Charlotte Pearson Tom Peck Rebecca Phillips Timeyin Pinnick Hannah Pook Ivan Pyatanov Samuel Pye Tiernan Quantrill Catherene Rocha Luke Romp Elena Rudakova

Pranay Ruparelia Karan Saraf Sam Saunders Lydia Self Aziz Sharif Hugo Soer William Sparrow Matthew Starbuck Katie Starns Amy Stephenson Michael Stewart Roman Streltsov Ieva Strelyte Aisha Symmons Hailey Sze Sam Talbot Katie Thompson Sam Thorpe Milly Tocher Jack Trantor Jay Tuyenbayev Josie Tyler Vlad Ustimenko Maxim Vakhidov Jeremy Wai Clare Wandless Hannah Wang William Ward Mark Williams Chloe Wyner Issie Yewman Angus Yuen Kaeli Zonfrillo

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A Level Results

65% 89% of grades A*/A

of grades A* to B

TOP MARKS FOR CATERHAM’S SIXTH FORM A Level results Caterham’s Sixth Form pupils have achieved a superb set of A Level results this year with a quarter of all grades achieved the top A*grade and two thirds graded A*-A. An outstanding 89 per cent were graded A* to B. These results place Caterham, once again, amongst the top performing co-educational independent schools in the UK. Mr Ceri Jones, Headmaster, said: “This is a remarkable achievement for our pupils. The recent reforms to A Level have increased the challenge of assessment for pupils and mean it is harder than ever to achieve top grades, so these excellent results are testament to the hard work of our pupils and the outstanding talents of their teachers. It also endorses our approach to education – inspiring and encouraging pupils to think for themselves and not just to regurgitate.”

“Caterham is about so much more than just academic results. Pupils in this year group have exemplified this superbly: they have performed at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, on the sports fields, in our concert halls, and in so many other extra-curricular pursuits. I am so proud of them.

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“I have always believed that our pupils can be successful in an environment which is caring, optimistic and encouraging. Our results are testament to the uniquely supportive environment that is Caterham’s hallmark.

“I am also delighted to see the variety and range of university destinations and courses that our pupils are moving on to; this year, they include prestigious apprenticeships with KPMG and Deloitte, and our first pupil to enrol on a degree in Cancer Biology and Immunology.

“As ever, there are some stunning individual performances in these results and from an academic point of view I am particularly pleased that our excellent record of success with Oxbridge application continues.

This year, several pupils have won places on some of Oxford and Cambridge’s most selective degree courses – including Classics, Engineering, Biochemistry, Medicine and Economics. These pupils will be joining the 62 Caterhamians that we have sent to Oxford and Cambridge over the past four years.”

ACADEMIC RESULTS

All-rounder AIMEE has recently returned from the Edinburgh Festival where she performed in Caterham School’s production of The Alchemist. Now her excellent grades in English Literature, Biology and Chemistry have won her a place at Bristol Universityto read Cancer Biology and Immunology. Aimee says: “The more we understand about the biology of cancer the faster we will find a cure.”

SAM is a leading international athlete who manages to combine his glittering sporting career with outstanding academic success. Sam, who achieved the Under 20 world record for indoor heptathlon at Sheffield’s EIS stadium and beat Daley Thompson’s decathlon record during his Lower Sixth year at Caterham, has now achieved straight A grades in Biology, Economics and Maths. He intends to pursue his athletics training over the coming year at Loughborough University.

MILLY has tremendous creative spark and her A Level grades in Art, Photography and Maths have won her a place to study Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. “I have been obsessed with design from a very young age!” says Milly, whose parents also work in related industries.

RIA has finished a distinguished career at Caterham, which hasincluded qualifying as a Caterham School ‘WildCats’ high-ropes instructor climbing wall and national pool lifeguard. Now she has a superb set of grades in Biology, Chemistry and Maths (A*, A and A) and will go on to study Chemistry with Industrial Experience at Birmingham.

ALEX has achieved grades A, B and B at A Level as well as a highly prestigious apprenticeship at KPMG. Alex, who has been a leading light in Caterham’s CCF and rugby squad, plans to take a gap year before taking up his position at KPMG in 2018.

ANNA’S story is inspiring. Having grown up on a dairy farm, she has always had a close affinity with animals – “I was often left in a pram beside the feeding calves!” she says. Now she has achieved the grades to pursue the BVM Veterinary Medicine and Science degree at Surrey University.

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ACADEMIC RESULTS OTHER TOP ACHIEVERS

Farewell to our Head Boy and Head Girl

LUKE joined the School in the Nursery fifteen years ago! An academic high-flyer, he has now secured a place to read Mathematics at Cambridge University. Luke says: “I would like to thank Dr Dimakos, my maths teacher at Caterham: he has inspired me to study maths at a high level.”

As an accomplished singer, composer, saxophonist and pianist, HENRY has been an integral part of our Music Department. Now his excellent A Level grades (A*, A, B) have secured him a place to read Music at Nottingham University.

Henry, who was the assistant musical director of the School’s recent production of Grease, enthused: “It is the teachers at Caterham who have inspired me to study music at a higher level.”

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LAUREN and HUGO have been terrific in their roles as Head Girl and Head Boy. They both wowed audiences at the School’s recent production of Grease as they took the lead roles of Danny and Sandy.

They have achieved a clean sweep of A grades in all their A Levels; Hugo will now read Psychology at Bristol University while Lauren will study Politics and International Relations at Bath University.

A LEVEL EXAMINATION RESULTS 2017 SUBJECT

A*

A

B

C

D

3D Design

1

2

0

0

0

Art

% Passes A*–A A*–B A*–C 100

100

100

1

2

0

1

0

75

75

100

10

22

10

8

1

62.7

82.4

98

Business Studies

3

4

8

1

0

43.8

93.8

100

Chemistry

6

18

11

7

2

54.5

79.5

95.5

Chinese

0

11

1

0

0

91.7

100

100

Drama

2

0

0

0

0

100

100

100

11

22

10

2

0

75

97.7

100

English Literature

1

8

10

4

2

36

76

92

French

0

1

4

1

0

16.7

83.3

100

Geography

3

6

3

3

0

60

80

100

German

0

1

2

0

0

33.3

100

100

Government & Politics

3

9

6

2

0

60

90

100

Greek

3

3

0

0

0

100

100

100

History

1

4

4

2

0

45.5

81.8

100

Japanese

0

1

0

0

0

100

100

100

Latin

5

6

0

0

0

100

100

100

Maths

31

32

17

4

1

74.1

94.1

98.8

Further Maths

13

9

2

1

0

88

96

100

Biology

HANNAH is part of a family of scientists. Her two elder brothers both studied at Caterham and both went on to read physics at university.

Her mother read biochemistry and her father graduated in microbiology! Now Hannah will continue the trend as she begins her six-year Medicine degree at Oxford University. In her final year, Hannah was also President of our prestigious Moncrieff-Jones Science Society. Bravo, Hannah!

Economics

Music

0

1

0

0

0

100

100

100

MATTHEW has secured a place at Cambridge University to read Classics. Alongside his outstanding academic success at A-level, Matthew has run an inspirational course on coding for his peers, been a leader in the School’s CCF, led our Politics Society – and as a DJ he even transformed our Sixth Form Centre into a nightclub as part of the Leavers’ celebrations!

Photography

2

2

0

0

0

100

100

100

12

14

8

4

1

66.7

87.2

97.4

Physical Education

0

0

0

3

1

0

0

75

Psychology

8

6

10

1

0

56

96

100

Religious Studies

0

2

3

1

0

33.3

83.3

100

Russian

4

3

0

0

0

100

100

100

Spanish

0

2

5

1

0

22.2

77.8

88.9

Textile Design

0

0

1

0

0

0

100

100

121 191 115

46

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Physics

Total %

24.9 39.7 23.9 9.6 1.7

65% 88.6% 98.1%

ACADEMIC RESULTS

BEST EVER GCSE RESULTS GCSE Results Caterham pupils are celebrating the School’s best ever GCSE results this year with a remarkable 85% of results graded A or A*. An impressive 55% of all GCSE results were graded A*, with 45 candidates achieving 8 A* grades or better.

Mr Ceri Jones, Headmaster, said: “I am delighted that our pupils have smashed all previous records to achieve these brilliant, best-ever results. They have achieved this despite the uncertainty surrounding the recent reforms to GCSE which have meant it is harder than ever to achieve top grades.

“Behind the percentages and grades hitting the

headlines are a wealth of personal achievements and the just reward for hours of hard work and dedication from this fantastic year group.

“As our Fifth Form now become the new Sixth Form, I will continue to stress the importance of ensuring a balance between that of hard work and on developing themselves as individuals, developing their own interests and passions and making lifelong friendships. Here at Caterham we continue to support our young people in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom, and on ensuring that they will become increasingly independent thinkers and learners.”

CATERHAM HIGH-FLYERS An amazing 45 pupils (over a third of the year group) achieved eight A*s or more. This pictiure shows just some of these high-achieving pupils.

ASTONISHING ANTON Anton has achieved a fantastic, straight 14 A*s in his GCSEs. Not only this, but when he achieved his A* Astronomy (which he took early, last year), his mark placed him amongst the 12 top-performing students in the UK.

EXCELLENCE IN EXAMS – AND AT EDINBURGH These pupils returned from the Edinburgh Festival in late August where they were cast members in Caterham’s production of The Alchemist. Now they have collected some brilliant GCSE grades. Pupils pictured are: Nell, Jade, Isobel and Ross.

SPORTING DUO Tyler and Jude have not only performed very well in their GCSEs, they have also achieved tremendous success on the rugby field. Both play for Surrey U16s and Jude was selected for the Independent Schools Lambs National XV at U16 level.

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GCSE EXAMINATION RESULTS 2017 SUBJECT

A*

A

B

C

D

% Passes A*–A A*–C

Art

6 11 7 0 0 70.8 100

Astronomy

6 7 0 0 0 100 100

Business Studies

36 11 4 4 0 85.5 100

Chinese

9 3 0 0 0 100 100

3D Design

4 7 6 4 0 47.8 91.3

Drama

4 13 8 2 0

63 100

English Language

68 50 7 1 0 93.7 100

English Literature

66 37 21 2 0

81 100

English (Second Language) 0 2 1 0 0 66.7 100 French

16 10 8 6 1 63.4 97.6

Geography

20 25 6 3 0 83.3 100

German

6 4 7 1 0 55.6 100

Greek

7 1 0 0 0 100 100

History

24 29 12 1 0

Human Biology

29 10 2 0 0 95.1 100

Italian

6 3 3 1 0 69.2 100

Latin

28 4 1 0 0

Mathematics (IGCSE)

78 38 12 1 0

Further Maths

33 9 5 1 0 87.5 100

97 100 89.9 100

Further Pure Maths

1 0 0 0 0 100 100

Music

1 6 2 0 0 77.8 100

Physical Education

4 8 3 0 0

Religious Studies Russian

80 100

24 27 4 0 1 91.1 98.2 5 0 0 0 0 100 100

Biology

92 11 2 1 1 96.3 99.1

Chemistry

69 21 12 5 0

Physics

79 21 5 2 0 93.5 100

84.1 100

Science Double (1)

8 8 5 1 0 72.7 100

Science Double (2)

2 8 10 2 0 45.5 100

Spanish Totals %

12

80.3 100

32 22 11 2 0 763 406 164

41

3

55.4 29.5 11.9 2.9 0.2

80.6 100 84.8% 99.6%

PUPILS ON THE MOVE

UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS AND COURSES 2017

92%

92 per cent of Caterham’s Upper Sixth Form leavers gained a place at a university of choice, with the remaining pupils having chosen to progress to work-based apprenticeships (3%) or take a gap year before continuing their studies (5%).

Pupils are actively encouraged to read subjects about which they are passionate. The choices made by 2017’s leavers cover a wide range of subjects including medicine, maths, engineering and modern languages and philosophy, politics and ethics. Over two thirds of those moving on to study at university gained places at Russell Group universities.

of Sixth Formers gained university places of choice

Leavers Rachel Dawson, Alex Paul and Jo Cross all won coveted places on either KPMG or Deloitte undergraduate programmes. Their places were secured by undertaking highly competitive application rounds against top candidates from across the UK.

Bath

8

Brighton

1

Architecture

1

Biomedical Science

1

Brunel

2

Economics Politics and International Relations

1

Biomedical Sciences with Professional Experience

1

Psychology

1

Economics

1

Motorsport Engineering with Professional Development

1

Accounting and Finance

2

Cambridge

4

Politics with Economics

1

Natural Sciences

1

Birmingham

6

Mathematics

1

Chemistry with Industrial Experience

1

Classics

1

Geography and Economics

1

Engineering

1

Mechanical Engineering

1

Cardiff

1

Geography

1

Politics and Sociology

1

Psychology

1

City

2

Nursing

1

Management

1

Bournemouth

1

Investment and Financial Risk Management

1

Sports Therapy

1

Coventry

1

Bristol

6

Computer Science

1

Zoology

1

Durham

4

Psychology in Education

1

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Edinburgh

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Exeter

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Liverpool

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Newcastle

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Glasgow

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Imperial College

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Nottingham Trent

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Biochemistry with a Year in Industry/Research

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Nottingham

Kings College London

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Geography

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Music

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Kent University

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History

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Lancaster

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Leeds

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Leeds Metropolitan

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Warwick

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Surrey

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OXBRIDGE PLACES SECURED All Caterham pupils holding offers for Oxford or Cambridge universities secured their places.

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hese pupils will be joining the 62 Caterhamians who have gone up to the world leading universities over the past four years. 2017 results saw pupils win places on some of Oxford and Cambridge’s most selective degree courses – including Classics, Engineering, Biochemistry, Medicine and Economics.

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Headmaster, Ceri Jones, said: “I am particularly pleased that our excellent record of success with Oxbridge application continues. Securing Oxbridge offers is but one measure of success at Caterham but it does say something important about the academic ambition and experience of the school which benefits all pupils whatever their own particular journey may turn out to be.

However we also remain committed to ensuring our pupils gain a place at the university and on the course that is right for them.”

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CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY THE CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY HAS HOSTED A VARIETY OF EVENTS THIS YEAR, ALL WITH THE AIM OF CREATING A WARM COMMUNITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERYONE IN THE CATERHAM SCHOOL FAMILY.

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SIMON CALLOW opens art centre

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HE CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS was officially opened by film and theatre actor and director Simon Callow CBE on Thursday 6 October. The ceremony was opened by musicians Hero Shimoji and Anastasia Kedrina, who were followed by speeches from the Headmaster and senior drama pupils Josie Branson and Oliver Locket. Mr Callow carried the audience with an entertaining review of his early acting career, which began with a three-page letter to Sir Laurence Olivier. Amongst the special guests attending the event were the Deayton family, who were there to celebrate the opening of The Deayton Theatre, one of the performance spaces within The Centre for Performing Arts.

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The Centre for Performing Arts - officially open

Macmillan Coffee Morning THE SCHOOL ENJOYED THE ANNUAL NATIONAL MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE SIXTH FORM PYE CENTRE. A record 1,200 cookies were made and bought before lunch, raising £609.28 for Cancer Research. This year was the first in twenty six years that Miss Hilary Trehane wasn’t running the coffee morning, but it was great that she could pop in and support us!

MR TONY FAHEY

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Aladdin, Cumnor House School

Cumnor House School

WRITTEN BY CATERHAM PUPILS, NELL FAHEY AND CHARLOTTE ROBERTS

PERFORM ALADDIN AT CATERHAM SCHOOL

In April, an audience filled with anticipation were welcomed into the magical city of Agrabah, in Cumnor House’s colourful rendition of Disney’s Aladdin.

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he show began with an entertaining, energetic greeting from Kyle Debrah, playing the Genie, closely followed by ‘Arabian Nights’, one of the many high energy numbers featured in the show.

The eponymous ‘diamond in the rough’, Aladdin, was played by Solomon Ekoku, who portrayed both the poor beggar and prince with maturity and strength. He was accompanied by a comical and troublesome trio: Babkak, Omar, and Kassim, played by Shehan Sivaranjan, Rayyan Ahmed, and Daniele Moscarello, who all partook in ‘High Adventure’ when trying to save Aladdin from the evil Jafar, played convincingly by Nathan Reeves. Iago, Jafar’s sidekick, played by Daniel Hage, left us in fits of laughter

following his scintillating and hilarious interpretation of an evil laugh. You could sense the magic on stage during Jasmine (Sofiya Davis) and Aladdin’s performance of ‘A whole new world’, where the whole audience could feel the passion and charisma coming from the two actors.

The magic carpet took us all on a journey with the actors.

The finale was executed with pizzazz and grandeur, with the entire cast reprising the opening song, ‘Arabian nights’, encouraging a standing ovation from every member of the audience. We were delighted to have such talented young actors performing at Caterham School and look forward to many more Cumnor House productions in the future.

OUR MUSICIANS PERFORM FOR LOCAL CHARITY In October, some of our pupils supported Cor Y Gyrlais – a Welsh Male Voice Choir – at a charity concert at de Stafford School in aid of CHECK, a locally based charity that supports Community Health and Education for the Children of Kimilli in Kenya.

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he three pupils involved were Natalie Bishop (L6U2, piano), Anna Simanova (L6R1, violin) and Isaac Quinton (L6A2, cello). They performed Miniatures by Frank Bridge and Carriage and Pair by Adam Carse. They received many compliments from

both the choir and the audience. The whole evening raised in excess of £2,000 which will go a long way to help the children of Kimillili. The CHECK Trustees would like to pass on their thanks to all involved.

MR ADAM ASSEN, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

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Hong Kong Reception

Mr Gabriele (Principal Deputy Head) and Mr Godfrey (Deputy Head, External Relations) hosted a reception in Hong Kong over Autumn half term

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ll current Caterham parents and pupils, as well as alumni in the area, were invited. Over sixty guests came, and it was a great opportunity to celebrate Caterham’s global community and to give our overseas parents an update on all School news.

It was great to talk to the Old Cats who came and to hear their fond memories about their time at the School.

MR MATTHEW GODFREY

HIGHER ORDER THINKING MR KIM WELLS Kim Wells’ Higher Order thinking evening was a fun and interactive look at strategies for thinking at an advanced level. Mr. Wells explored topics such as thinking creatively, demonstrating independence of mind, objective reasoning, and how to develop a growth mindset in your child.

CHRISTMAS FAIR On the final day of the Autumn Term the First and Second Years took to the Sports Hall for the Annual Lower School Christmas Fair. The stalls were designed and run entirely by pupils and their efforts made the event a fun and vibrant affair.

A special well done to 1R & 2O who both broke the £200 mark, raising £208.85 and £241.82 respectively. A huge thank you to all involved and for your support in raising a terrific £1592.69!

The Rotary Club CHRISTMAS COLLECTION Thirty four students joined Rotary volunteers in the annual door-to-door collections around Caterham. The total for the seven evenings’ work was £4,848.72 – a remarkable sum after 21 hours of collecting.

The money will assist local charities.

MR RICHARD STAMPER

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Over 60s LONDON LUNCH PWC WORKSHOP

In November, we were delighted to welcome two rising stars from global public services company PWC.

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ily Burki is currently in her second year on the school leaver programme

after studying Maths, Biology and PE at A-level. It was interesting to hear

The Caterham School Society’s Over 60s’ London Lunch at The Antelope, Sloane Square, on Thursday 27 October was a huge success, with over thirty Old Caterhamians in attendance.

The lunch was the first of its kind and promises to be a regular in the calendar of events this year. The OCs enjoyed themselves tremendously, from the sumptuous two-course meal to the singing of the old School song, ‘Debtors’.

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that she had already secured a place at university to read Maths but decided to turn this down to take this route instead.

Even more surprising were the minimum A level entry grades required – BBC in any subject combination. Kristofer McNaughtan is currently in his first year on the graduate scheme after studying Economics at Nottingham Trent University, a non-Russell Group university. In fact, four of his fellow university course mates

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were also on the graduate placement

AT THE END OF JANUARY, OVER ONE HUNDRED PUPILS AND PARENTS ATTENDED THE INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING TALK ON OXBRIDGE.

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he evening was organised by our Head of Learning and Teaching, Mr Kim Wells, who hosted Dr Mark Wormauld (University Lecturer in Glycobiology and Biochemistry at Corpus Christi College, Oxford) and Mr Richard Partington (Senior Tutor, Senior Admissions Tutor and Director of Studies for History at Churchill College, Cambridge) who shared their vast experience of life at Oxbridge and unravelled the mysteries of the application process.

The talk continued with Mr Kim Wells explaining how Caterham support and challenge their Oxbridge applicants. We currently have over fifty Old Caterhamians studying at either Oxford or Cambridge.

scheme, whilst Reading University, also of graduates for the programme this year. Over fifty students attended the event, gaining a valuable insight into the a prestigious organisation and what they could be doing now to prepare for the job market whether as a school leaver or a graduate. It was clear that a huge amount of time and preparation is required when job hunting, whatever the level and, in the case of PwC, it does not matter at which point you join the organisation, you will receive the same training, salary and the same professional qualifications. Of course, the added attraction of the school leaver route is no debt!

MRS CLARE BROWN

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INAUGURAL CSS INSIGHT EVENING A SUCCESS The first Caterham School Society (CSS) Insight Evening, held in February, was a big success with Dr Tim Tree engaging the audience and explaining his leading research into Type 1 Diabetes.

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t was great to see a whole spectrum of people associated with our School in attendance, including both current and former pupils, staff, parents and other friends, too. It was a great evening of learning, networking and discussion.

The next Insight Evening will be focussing on a cross section of entrepreneurs and guests will have the opportunity to hear from a panel of professionals, about their successes. Information to follow via our events listings.

Creative Careers Evening Over 100 pupils and their parents attended the Creative Careers Evening which was held in the library in March.

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number of parents, from Pre-Prep, Prep and the Senior Schools joined Old Caterhamians, external speakers and the Art Department for a wonderful look at some of the possibilities in the creative industries.

Guest speaker Matt Baker gave a fascinating presentation on 3D printing, which has mind blowing possibilities in the world of medicine and construction.

Faรงade engineering is another specialism that is a new concept to some of our pupils and we were privileged to welcome two parents, Mr Denny, a traditional architect, and Mrs Toufique, who has specialised in faรงade engineering following a degree in architecture, to talk us through the skills and routes to these professions.

Another of our guests, Ned Hoste, had travelled from his hometown of York to talk about his passions, Graphic Design, and using creativity within employment. He talked about how he set up his first business, drawing the houses

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A wonderful evening exploring careers in the creative industries

of the village he lived in, framing them and selling them to their owners before becoming a very successful designer of book sleeves.

Interior Design was another popular industry that pupils were drawn to. It was particularly interesting to hear how Mrs Sessi-Knott had made a bold move from a successful career in banking to retrain in interior design whilst bringing up a young family.

Pupils were also lucky enough to have the opportunity to research specialisms in digital media, PR (thanks to Mrs Mary Whenman, Vice President of the Old Caterhamians Association) and drama as well as looking at the opportunities to study Art, both at Caterham and Art College as a foundation degree. They certainly used every chance to ask searching and intuitive questions.

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SAFER INTERNET WEEK

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The message was clear: be aware of these odd behaviours, know how to report them and look out for one another.

On the Monday of Safer Internet Week, Lorin La Fave spoke to all pupils in First to Fourth Years. Her account of her son Breck’s tragic death helped to shed light on some online behaviours which should flag caution.

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he message was clear: be aware of these odd behaviours, know how to report them and look out for one another. Parents and guardians are not sharing the teenage online world, so the pupils must take it upon themselves to report potential dangers to themselves or their friends. Parents, too, attended talks after school and were again able to learn to recognise unusual behaviours.

The next day, 150 pupils took the brave step of handing in their mobile phone for safe keeping for 24 hours.

When the hour arrived to collect them on Wednesday, there was no stampede. Dozens forgot to pick up their phone entirely! Perhaps, with enough of a nudge, the grip of social media can be overcome after all.

As Safer Internet Week drew to a close, all pupils should have been made aware of how to contact Childline, CEOPs, or a trusted adult

at home or school, if they have any concerns.

Some of the older pupils took part in “hire them or fire them” exercise.

Given the details normally found on a job application, pupils ‘Googled’ each other to determine whether the online persona would earn or lose their friend a job. Strategies for creating a positive image were then discussed https://www.childline.org.uk/ https://ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

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CAREERS IN MEDICINE EVENING Over fifty parents and pupils attended the Careers in Medicine evening in November which featured three very helpful speakers.

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am Wickham from Brighton and Sussex Medical School imparted some invaluable information about the competitive nature of applying to study medicine and how pupils should focus on what they learnt and what attributes and skills they gained on their work placements rather than just talk about what they did! Fraser Kenney, an Old Cat currently in his third year of medical school (coincidently Brighton

and Sussex!) gave some very honest answers about life as a student and how he copes with the study regime, whilst Dr Richard Wright, a current parent, spoke about his role as a GP as well as that of his OC daughter, who has just qualified from medical school this year and is currently working at Guys and St Thomas’ in London. A massive thank you to all involved.

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England Rugby Pick for

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IN FEBRUARY, OLD CATERHAMIAN ELLIOT HALL WAS SELECTED INTO THE INITIAL 33- MAN ENGLAND SQUAD FOR THE STUDENT WORLD CUP.

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lliot, who is now studying Sport Science at Loughborough University, made remarkable progress in Rugby League after only taking it up at University. Until that point Elliot had focussed his attentions on Rugby Union where he had significant success, gaining representative honours at county level at Under18, representing London South-East Under 18 and also playing for the Independent Schools Lambs National XV.

MIND UK The 2016 Mind UK photographic competition exhibition took place in December in the Christine Walker Gallery.

The standard, as always, was exceptionally high with the theme of ‘mind over matter’ being widely translated into many visually exciting images. We also managed to raise a significant sum of money for the charity.

MS AMELIA WALLACE

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The winners were: B Prep: Tilly Golesworthy (P4T) B First to Fourth Year: Jake Safapour (1L) B Fifth to Sixth Year: Matthew Au Yeung (U6H1) B Parent: Mr Heath Greener B Staff: Mr Kim Wells

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WHITEHALL LAUNCH FOR SIXTH FORM PREVIEW MAGAZINE In March, Preview, the School’s political magazine produced

by Sixth Form politics pupils, was launched in the Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster.

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he launch event was well very attended by pupils, staff, parents and distinguished guests from Parliament. The evening included an engaging and entertaining speech by Preview team leader Daniel Davidson, who recounted the highlights of this year’s production process and regaled us with his views on current politics. This was followed by a keynote address by Mr Ben Wright, a senior Westminster correspondent

with the BBC. Mr Wright spoke enthusiastically about Preview and how impressed he was with the breadth and depth of the articles in it. He then unveiled the 2017 edition and copies were distributed to all guests. A caption contest, quiz and cryptic crossword kept guests entertained whilst the magazine encouraged ongoing discussion and debate, capturing the essence of what politics is all about.

NEW YEAR’S HONOURS:

MBE FOR JONATHAN BLOOMER

Many congratulations to our former Chairman of Trustees, Mr Jonathan Bloomer, who was recognised in the 2017 New Year Honour list for services to children and young people following his long service in support of the NSPCC.

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YOUNG PHILANTHROPIST SCHEME

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ollowing Joan Deslandes’ inspirational address at Speech Day, ten of our Lower Sixth Form pupils spent a week working at Kingsford Community School in Beckton, where Ms Deslandes is headmistress.

This is an annual programme which involves our pupils fulfilling a wide range of activities including assisting with academic lessons, drama and educational visits. To quote one of our participating students: “I found the experience incredibly rewarding, such as when we met up with some students who were unsure about what they could do in the future, and then explaining all the different paths that they could take and giving them some suggestions on what they could do in their future years. Meeting up with these pupils was also incredibly interesting because you were able to understand the passion and drive from these students to do well in their future life, even the ones from the most difficult backgrounds.”

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cclaimed film, stage actor and Old Caterhamian, Chukwudi Iwuji (OC 1987-1993), inspired Caterham pupils with an informal talk about his journey into acting and highlights of his acting career. Chukwudi’s work with the RSC, National Theatre, Old Vic and extensive work on Broadway provided rich anecdotes

and helpful advice for our young aspiring performers in a special lunchtime talk and workshop, held in the School’s new Centre for Performing Arts. Chukwudi boarded at Caterham School in the 1990s so was delighted to reflect on his memories and the developments within drama since he attended the school.

THANK YOU DINNER

In June, the headmaster hosted a thank you dinner for the Parents’ Association Committee and Form Reps to thank them for their support and hard work across this school year. Caterham is very fortunate to benefit from a large, active and incredibly supportive PA under the superb leadership of Chairman Sophie Locket and her wonderful committee.

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Old Cats of all ages attended the OCA Annual Dinner at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London, on Friday 17 March.

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ocialising together before the dinner, it was evident that, age apart, Caterham School unites us all. This unity was the theme of Rob Davey’s after-dinner speech, when he spoke for the first time since stepping down as Headmaster of the School in 2007. It was heartwarming to see the former Head Boys and Head Girls of 2015 and 2014 return to accompany the current Heads of School – a new tradition has been set!

It was a wonderful evening, and we look forward to next year’s dinner.

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ARTHOUSE PERFORMANCE

MACBETH REVIEW IN MAY, THE SECOND ARTSHOUSE PRODUCTION BROUGHT AN INTELLIGENT, EXHILARATING SPRINT THROUGH REVERED SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY MACBETH.

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isiting company Six Foot Stories led a workshop for pupils before a stunning performance in front of a packed audience in the Deayton Theatre.

The three actors played the key roles brilliantly with humour and violence where appropriate. The music interludes lightened the play

momentarily whilst instantly bringing the audience back to the reality of the storyline of Macbeth. The immersive set was made entirely of recycled objects, and deranged cast played Macbeth, and his wife, and all the other major characters, swapping roles like a gory game of pass the parcel.

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The launch of Caterham ArtsHouse took place at the beginning of May with the first live theatre production from a visiting company called Austentatious.

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arents, pupils and friends were treated to a roller coaster ride through the familiar world of Austen’s lovable characters, piercingly portrayed with razor wit and split second comic timing. More than one unfortunate audience member found themselves doubled up, unable quite to control their fits of giggles. In the words of Jane Austen, the Queen of wit herself, “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

It was a fitting and fun way to have launched Caterham ArtsHouse, the new Caterham live theatre venture, and I look forward to forthcoming evenings of outstanding performance.

REVIEW BY LYNN LOBB, CATERHAM DRAMA DEPARTMENT

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ARTHOUSE PERFORMANCE

SCORCHED BY OPEN SKY PRODUCTIONS At the end of May, Caterham ArtsHouse hosted one of its most moving and creative productions to date.

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corched presented the true story of a WW2 veteran, following his mind sinking into the sands of time. The production used physical theatre, incredible projections of animated tattoos and puppetry to tell Jack’s story of the Battle of Tobruk, from the armchair of his rest home. Robin Berry’s performance of the older Jack was sensitive and convincing, gripping audience members as he transformed into his younger self.

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t the end of June, ArtsHouse was pleased to invite pupils from Clifton Hill, and residents of Ormesby House to the Deayton Theatre for a matinee of The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon, performed by The Human Zoo, our resident ArtsHouse theatre company. A wonderful time was had by all, due to the mesmerising production and responsive audience.

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THE REVOLT OF THE RIGHT In March, Mr Cooper, Caterham’s Head of Politics, gave an insightful talk on the topic of ‘The Revolt of the Right’.

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peaking to an audience of pupils, parents, staff and guests in the Humphreys Theatre, Mr Cooper reflected on the recent electoral gains of UKIP, Donald Trump and others; he considered the reasons for this and what the impact may be for the future. His talk was followed by a lively Q&A session with the appreciative audience.

OC Gains Funded Fellowship IN MAY, WE HEARD THE GREAT NEWS THAT OLD CATERHAMIAN NIKITA KOMAROV HAD JUST BEEN OFFERED A FUNDED FELLOWSHIP AT THE WORLD FAMOUS FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE IN LONDON. THIS WAS SUPERB NEWS AS FRESHERS ARE VERY RARELY CONSIDERED.

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ikita was one of just twenty four successful applicants, from a total pool of 800, and is also the only first year to be successful in the past five years! His project involves modifying model organisms to mimic mammalian mitotic processes, which could, way down the line, have massive implications in regenerative treatment, and allow safe, ethical testing of certain factors

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on pathological disease, such as oncology or degeneration.

While Nikita’s project is only at the start of the journey, it is still invaluable knowledge and experience, that will hopefully lead to the betterment of understanding of cellular processes in model organisms.

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MATCH REPORT NEAR THE END OF THE SUMMER TERM, AFTER A FIVE YEAR ABSENCE, THE SCHOOL WAS DELIGHTED TO WELCOME BACK THE MCC TO TAKE ON THE 1ST XI CRICKET TEAM.

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he MCC brought a very strong side for the match, which included several Old Caterhamians like Richard Turner, Ross Powell and Ben Fullard. On winning the toss, the MCC elected to bat first.

The 1st XI produced their best combined bowling and fielding display in the morning session, and reduced the MCC to 119-6 straight after lunch. All of the bowlers made valuable contributions, but Antony McGowan was the pick of them with 3 wickets. Matthew Terry, Ian Haywood and Jude Williams were all miserly in restricting the run rate, while Sam Thorpe wheeled away with 14 beautiful overs of left arm spin. The MCC, however, rallied and declared on 200-7 leaving plenty of time for the 1st XI to chase the runs.

A very tight and hostile opening spell of bowling from the MCC put the Caterham batsmen under pressure, and there were a couple of early setbacks as we lost Louis Brown for 0 and Matthew Terry for 2. Captain Joe Foggin and Jude Williams, looked comfortable in building a 58 - run partnership. However once their partnership was broken, Caterham collapsed to 84 all out, to lose by 116 runs. Ben Fullard and Ross Powell both bagged 2 wickets to add to their 13 and 32 runs respectively.

The match was played in a wonderful spirit, and the Caterham pupils will have learned much from the MCC players both on the pitch and during their conversations over lunch. We very much look forward to making this an annual fixture.

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Engineering a Better World

Congratulations to Dima Leyko (OC 2011 – 2016) who was selected to represent UCL in the “Engineering a Better World” competition by the Royal Academy of Engineering. He represented UCL in the follow-up “Global Grand Challenges Summit” organised by Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), National Academy of Engineering (US) and Chinese Academy of Engineering in Washington DC this Summer.

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DIMA LEYKO (OC 2011 – 2016) WRITES: “Closer to the end of the first term a post circulated around EEE UCL Facebook group about the Royal Academy of Engineering competition. I didn’t give it much thought at first, but then a couple of my course mates decided to enter and were looking for another member to make up the team. They already had a rough idea of what they wanted to do, and as I had some experience with building RC planes, they were more than happy to have me on board. Little did I know that this competition would make us close friends. After the initial panic of filling out the application, we waited. Once we found out that we were selected to represent UCL, we were ecstatic and immediately got to work on developing our idea further.

“As a part of the competition we had to attend a two-day workshop that taught us how to correctly develop our ideas, starting with a problem statement. After this, we realised a hard truth – that our solution was not solving a real

problem; in other words, we had developed a solution, and then decided to solve a problem that did not exist! The workshops turned out to be very useful in preparation for the actual competition, as they showed what the judges look at throughout the competition. It took us a good week to rethink our idea, and adapt our solution so that it fit a problem, and not the other way round. We spent hours perfecting our poster and the speech for the presentation, and finally the big day arrived.

“The presentations went better than expected, and we received many wonderful questions, most of which we felt we answered well.

Unfortunately, we did not make to the finals in Washington DC. “Later, an additional opportunity opened up to submit our poster for a follow up competition, where five top teams would go to Washington DC to The Global Grand Challenges Summit to showcase their poster. We have managed to secure a place on this competition and are going to the GGCS in July to showcase our poster.”

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House Reports 2016-17 Caterham School’s Heads of House report on the year’s events...

BEECH HANGER MRS CLARE QUINTON

Yet again I look back on the last academic year wondering where on earth it went and with the memory of the start of the year still so vivid.

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he new team of prefects, ably led by the wonderful Timmy Pinnick, threw themselves into helping our new girls to settle into the routines of both the house and school. Also new to boarding were Dr Pilkington and Miss Jones who took to their roles with ease and brought both humour and chemistry expertise to Beech Hanger, much to the delight of the girls, and the boys, who quickly worked out when their duty night was.

This year in particular so many of the girls took advantage of the myriad of activities on offer at Caterham and the house was often very quiet

after school when they were all out sampling the many clubs, sports turnouts and societies available to them. The enthusiasm for our house events did not wane either and teams were easily put together with willing volunteers. This year Chi Chi Tang, Karen Ma, Nico Wong and Karen Ma clocked up an impressive ten house events each throughout the year in the intermediate competition, with Anastasia Karamzina out in front for participating in the most Senior House events. No wonder that she was voted in by both the staff and girls to take the helm as the next pupil Head of House, closely

followed by Stasy Kedrina, her Deputy.

The summer term whizzed by with a mixture of long summer evenings outside in the beautiful grounds of the school and several weeks of exam tension throughout the house and the results in August were a testament to all their efforts. It was with great sadness that we had to say goodbye to Miss Jones (to take up her post at King’s Canterbury), Dr Pilkington (to take up her post at Eton College) and Mr & Mrs James (who bought their first house!) and I am grateful to all of them for their dedication, huge support and passion for Girls’ Boarding at Caterham. All that remains is to thank the girls for their hard work and enthusiasm both in and out of the classroom and for making Beech Hanger such a lovely place to be.

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ALDERCOMBE HOUSE 2016-17

ALDERCOMBE MR ROBERT MUGRIDGE

What a year Aldercombe have had! As you make your way through the concourse, the trophy cabinet is awash with red ribbons, celebrating the victories we have achieved this year.

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or me, pride, passion and effort are all words that ‘Aldercombers’ have in abundance. Our greatness strengths are our house spirit and teamwork. I believe these are second to none. Throughout the year, ‘Aldercombers’ have shown great willingness to get involved in the plethora of house events on offer.

We always try our best to succeed and most importantly compete with a smile on our faces. This attitude has meant that over 110 students have represented the House in at least 1 event – with equates to 93% – with superb numbers in events such as Cross Country where the fun run was literally a red wave!

The incredible range of competitive events over the course of the year has allowed some notable victories for the reds. Our most successful team where the Senior Girls. These girls dominated the field and walked away victorious in 6 out of the 8 events on offer – a truly remarkable feat! Our Inter girls fought hard and secured victories

in Athletics and Lacrosse, whilst of ‘the reds are on fire’! second in Rounders and Badminton.

As Head of House, it makes me Not to be out done, our Junior girls proud that no matter what the event showed superb teamwork and spirit or result, it is clear that each student and recorded victories in Netball and represents the house with pride, Badminton. The culmination of all supports each other when facing a this hard work and endeavour meant challenge whilst competing with a our girls were crowned CHAMPIONS sense of fun and enjoyment. and awarded the Diana Raine Cup. I and the rest of Aldercomble Congratulations ladies! would like to thanks all the leavers For the boys, ‘Aldercombers’ have shown great willingness unfortunately we weren’t quite as to get involved in the plethora of house successful but events on offer. enjoyment was always had. We did record victory in Senior for all they have done for the house Hockey, whilst came 2nd in Senior over the years and wish them every football and Junior Swimming. I am success in the future. A special thank certain that with a bit more luck, more you has to be for Chloe Wyner and victories will be on the horizon!

Joe Foggin who lead the house with However, our achievement didn’t vigour and gusto. You have lead the stop there! We were CHAMPIONS house with enthusiasm and positive in the Jim Seymor Mixed Cup! energy which I am sure has had an Highlights of the year where house impact on the younger years and music which was expertly led by their performances. I am already Upper 6th students. With their relishing the chance to notch up expertise we turned out quite the some more victories next year and performance, I mean who does not hope we improve on our already love a confetti canyon and a rendition impressive participation numbers.

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HOUSE REPORTS

LEWISHAM MR DARYL TODD

LEWISHAM BOYS RETAIN TROPHY It was a remarkable achievement to repeat the success of the previous year, especially when we had lost such a very strong year group which had moved on to university.

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ur boys were invincible in the Inters Hockey and the Senior Rugby (a ‘touch’ competition which proved fortuitous for our small but skilful players). We also won House Football with ease thanks to Ed ‘Messi’ McCrea. The highly talented Jack Trantor was our top all-round sportsman with Ben Creighton in a strong supporting role. However, winning the Boys’ competition is ultimately about teamwork. We have so many guys who simply get involved. This year, we enjoyed less outright wins, but we continued to score well in our weaker events, and therefore we are always in with a shout when the points are added up.

Similarly, our girls enjoyed great success, but only in the mixed events. Milly Tocher and Aislinn

Flatley were, as ever, our leading sportswomen who have been quite amazing in their commitment to the House for seven years. We do have some excellent sporting girls, but not enough ‘A’ team players to push for success in the major sports. Nevertheless, we won Junior Chess, Spelling Bee (with superstar Anastasia Spuma) and House Improvisation (directed by Phoebe Salem). Last, but by no means least, our Senior Debating team proved too strong for the competition. Oli Locket, Anna Gardner and Rory Moore quietly but clinically jostled argument and counter argument with great skill and coolness.

Many thanks to our long serving and talented Heads of House, Aislinn Flatley and Tom Gilshenan who have always set such a fine example. Lewisham continues to

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Lewisham continues to be blessed with loyal and gifted individuals, but above all, we stick together as a team. I am never disappointed with the positivity and commitment of our girls and boys across the years.

be blessed with loyal and gifted individuals, but above all, we stick together as a team. I am never disappointed with the positivity and commitment of our girls and boys across the years. Thank you everyone.

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RIDGEFIELD HOUSE 2016-17

RIDGEFIELD MS REBECCA SMITH

As Katy Perry’s ‘you’re going to hear me roar’ echoed around the House Music marquee, it struck me just how apt those lyrics were in reflecting Ridgefield’s drive and determination this year.

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nce again, Ridgefield have proven themselves to be an impassioned force to be reckoned with in the House Cup. More importantly however, they have continued to uphold the values of Ridgefield with their gritty determination, unfaltering enthusiasm and desire for mass participation in events. A few highlights of the year include: the boys dominating the rugby competition, coming away with 1st place in all three age groups, securing the House quiz crown for the second year in a row and seeing

countless wins in the junior categories including rounders, tennis, athletics and hockey! I am delighted the House has experienced lashings of success throughout the year, mainly because it is a just reward for all the effort, passion and commitment shown. However, the successes are just the icing on the cake; so long as we continue to have full teams at events, smiles on our faces and the all-important ‘give it a go’ attitude, Ridgefield is winning in my eyes.

This year was a historic year for Ridgefield because it saw the introduction of the official

... they have continued to uphold the values of Ridgefield with their gritty determination, unfaltering enthusiasm and desire for mass participation in events.

Ridgefield crest. After pitching each year group against one another in assembly to design a crest, it became apparent that we had a wealth of creative visionaries among us. Sonya Starodubtsev in the first year volunteered to combine the works of several designs and created Ridgefield’s first official crest including the fearsome ‘Green Dragon’!

My thanks must go to all the upper sixth leavers and particularly to Issie Yewman and Oscar Ingrassia for their outstanding dedication to the House. I could not have hoped for two better heads of House; your enthusiasm and love of Ridgefield has undoubtedly been passed on to the younger students. The very best of luck to Lydia Ip and Lachlan Coyle in leading Ridgefield next year – here’s to another great one!

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VINEY HOUSE 2016-17

VINEY

MR NICK MILLS

The academic year 2016-17 has been a busy and successful one in the senior boys’ boarding House. The boys were as committed as ever in their approach to the House competition.

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he fact that the boys will give just as much to a losing cause on the hockey pitch or in the House quiz as they will to more traditional areas of strength like the badminton or chess competitions is testament to the spirit of the House and the attitude of the boys. Particular highlights this year were the breath-taking performances on sports day and the House swimming competition which saw Angus, Desmond, Antony, Howince and Max dominate almost every race.

As always the boys have enjoyed a wide range of trips and social activities, ranging from restaurant, cinema and shopping trips to more physical activities like ice skating and paintballing. There have also been a great range of in-House social activities and I am very grateful to

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Particular highlights this year were the breath-taking performances on sports day and the House swimming competition

the prefects for organising a range of events from casino nights to formal dinners and discos. The upper sixth prefects have proved to be a really effective team and Angus Yuen, ably assisted by Elkan Lau and Max Vakhidov, has been an excellent Head of House.

It is always sad to say goodbye to the departing Upper 6th boys and this year is no different. Some of the leavers have been resident in the boarding House since the first year, contributing enormously to the boarding community for the past seven years, while others have made a great impact in the two years

since joining the school for the sixth form. They have contributed to all areas of school life with boys such as Mayo, Che and Sam contributing much to school sport, while Howince, Matthew, Raymond, Elkan, Angus and Jay have entertained us with their contributions to performing arts, always keen to perform in concerts, services and talent shows.

Academically the Upper 6th have been outstanding, and I am delighted that four boys received Oxbridge offers, with the remainder of the Upper 6th boys taking up places at top universities in the UK and overseas.

HARESTONE HOUSE 2016-17

HARESTONE

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As my first year as Head of House, Harestone have exceeded my expectations.

The pupils’ loyalty to the House has been outstanding with 100 out of 109 students representing the House at an event.

MISS REBECCA GODDARD

It has been another tremendous year for Harestone.

As ever, the calendar is always packed with numerous events that are so diverse, there really is something for everyone.

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e had many great performances this year with special mentions to netball, lacrosse, swimming and public speaking all reflecting amazing teamwork and dedication. A personal highlight of the year must go to winning the House Drama competition and bringing home the hat-trick.

A huge thanks to Maisie MacHugh and Henry Chappell, my Heads of House, who supported me from the word go with great enthusiasm and determination.

There is no doubt that the House would not have been as successful last year without them. In terms

of positioning, the Harestone girls managed to impressively jump up from coming 7th up to 3rd and the boys superbly from 4th to 2nd. Thank you so much to all the pupils who stepped up and made that happen.

As my first year as Head of House, Harestone have exceeded my expectations. The pupils’ loyalty to the House has been outstanding with 100 out of 109 students representing the House at an event. This figure fills me with great pride and excites me to see what more the House has to give. I would like to thank every one of those mighty blues who participated in making Harestone an even greater house.

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HOUSE REPORTS

TOWNSEND

MR ANDION VAN NIEKERK Another year has flown by and once again Townsend House has lived up to its reputation of focusing on the enjoyment of participation and crowd participation.

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he very wide range of inter House events have allowed pupils of all abilities to feel part of the House competition system and the competition includes a multitude of unique opportunities to show off skills. Townsend House is very well known for arriving en masse to support and cheer others on, no matter the time, no matter the weather. It is this unified spirit that make the boarders successful and seem like winners, despite the results.

As always, the House swimming event proved to be a highlight; not only due to the nail biting races, but also the vocal abilities of the crowd that nearly made the roof tumble down. What makes Caterham School’s House competition so special, is that it caters for everyone.

Spectators were once again entertained and put to the test during the very enjoyable inter House

Spelling Bee contest – words that even baffled staff were thrown into the pot.

Creativity was put to the test in preparation for the House drama contest and a near full House was gifted the feast of the best acting the Houses have on offer – a personal highlight to say the least. In boarding we celebrate diversity and our melting pot of cultures during Sunday evening presentations where boarders get a chance to share the best of their countries – an obvious extra few minutes always spent on mouth-watering delicacies that are unique and special to the multitude of countries represented in the Houses. Another such an event is the Mid-Autumn Festival, where prayers and wishes are gifted with flying lanterns to the stars under the watchful eye of the full moon. Moon cakes are shared and the boarding House comes together as a unit,

celebrating the harvest and saying thank you for what we have.

Ignoring the cold, the House went out in full force to compete and watch the House cross country contest and it is on occasions like this, despite competing against each other, that boarders and day pupils come together to enjoy an event, despite the competitive element.

An ever-growing event, the gruelling race, despite the cold and muddy uphills, is enjoyed just as much by staff, who are joined by pupils running the course a second and some even a third time just to see the staff suffer.

In Townsend House, we encourage all boys to take part in all aspects of school and boarding life as we see the importance of a balanced lifestyle and a worldly education. We learn together; we play together, but most importantly, we strive to identify the strengths in each other in order to accept and neutralise the weaknesses. We lead by example and we carry our diverse cultures with pride and without prejudice. Our doors are open to other Houses and we say, today we compete against each other, but tomorrow we eat biscuits together in the matrons’ room of Townsend House.

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UNDERWOOD HOUSE 2016-17

UNDERWOOD

MR HARRY HAWKRIDGE (IN MRS KATIE KOI’S ABSENCE) UNDER WHAT? UNDERWOOD! The 2016-2017 school year was a successful one for Underwood, not only in competition but also in participation and House spirit.

Mr Hawkridge ably led the House in Mrs Koi’s absence, supported by the ever enthusiastic student Heads of House, Lauren Hunt-Williams and Alex Paul.

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he junior members of Underwood recorded excellent results in the House events, coming first in the boys’ swimming, girls’ swimming, cricket and girls’ cross country. The intermediate Underwood teams were not to be outdone with the girls recording the most points across all of the age groups and both securing first place victories in boys’ badminton, boys’ cross country, girls’ tennis and rounders. Despite the seniors not recording any first place victories, both led the House in participation and were excellent leaders during mixed competitions.

The absolute highlight of the year was House Athletics. As a Head of House, I lay awake at night worrying and wondering who will volunteer

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Underwood recorded excellent results in the House events, coming first in the boys’ swimming, girls’ swimming, cricket and girls’ cross country.

to race in the more difficult events as House Athletics approaches. This year we had numerous volunteers for the dreaded 1500m and hurdles!

It was also great to have so many members of Underwood step up in fill in events when another pupil became injured. The Underwood Senior Girls accrued maximal points for their A and B string competitors in two events, 400/300 and 800m.

Amelia Watson broke a school record in the shot putt and hurdles while Freddie Hull set a new school record in the high jump!

Now it is time to say goodbye and good luck to all of our leavers, Underwood is only as special as the people who make up the House and this year we will be losing a lot of great members! Mr Hawkridge must also get a special mention as a fantastic Assistant Head of House and he (as well as his memorable assemblies) will be greatly missed as he moves to a new school.

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NEWINGTON HOUSE 2016-17

NEWINGTON MR NEIL PARKER

I started my second year in charge of Newington with a sense of realism about our chances of success in most of the competitions. I decided early on not to set any sort of target for I felt that even a modest goal might be over ambitious.

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was of course proved right. But as ever with these things it really did not matter. We always had, or nearly always had, enough people who knew how to hold a badminton racket, could swim a length of butterfly, could scream around a rounders field and could move a chess piece correctly. As a result we may not have had the greatest of years if we measure success purely on positions in the competitions, but we certainly had a great many laughs along the way. My favourite moment was the house drama, with Seb Kensey and Ross Furley-Smith creating hilarious impersonations of myself and Mrs

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Fahey. We repeated our wonderful (and only) victory of last year in the inter spelling bee as well as bringing home the lost property cup. I was exceptionally proud though about the way we won the junior cricket – with a breathtaking innings from Tom Williamson on the 1st Xl pitch on a beautiful summer evening.

It reminded me that winning isn’t everything – but it is rather nice. We then came bottom again in house music the following week! Great thanks to Ellie Ibrahim and Luke Derry and then Emily Thompson and Theo Boutell who over the year have provided great help and support as heads of House across the year.

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As a result we may not have had the greatest of years if we measure success purely on positions in the competitions, but we certainly had a great many laughs along the way.

HOUSE EVENTS

BY MRS NANCY DAWRANT

The House competitions run for three terms culminating in the House Cross-Country at the end of the Easter term, after which the three trophies are awarded; the Diana Raine Cup for girls, the Stephen Smith Cup for boys and the Jim Seymour Trophy for mixed competitions.

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ouse events are very varied and are not confined to the main school sports competitions, with Art, Drama Improvisation, Spelling Bee, Football and Basketball having been added in recent years and Table-Tennis and a Maths Challenge being trialled this coming year. The lunchtime House Chess competitions are a spectacle to behold, as are the fun and entertaining House Badminton events and the finals evening of the House Prose and Verse, Public Speaking and Debating is inevitably awe-inspiring. In addition, the whole school House Music, House Drama and House Cross-Country are major events in the school calendar. You can see from the list of results below the sheer diversity of the events, allowing all pupils the chance to represent their house in numerous events each year.

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HOUSE EVENTS

Results of the house events held in the academic year 2016-2017 were as follows: GIRLS

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BOYS

Junior Netball

Aldercombe

Junior Rugby

Ridgefield

Inter Netball

Harestone

Inter Rugby

Ridgefield

Senior Netball

Aldercombe

Senior Rugby

Ridgefield

Junior Badminton

Aldercombe

Junior Badminton

Lewisham

Inter Badminton

Harestone

Inter Badminton

Underwood

Senior Badminton

Boarders

Senior Badminton

Boarders

Junior Swimming

Underwood

Junior Swimming

Underwood

Inter Swimming

Newington

Inter Swimming

Harestone

Senior Swimming

Lewisham

Senior Swimming

Boarders

Junior Lacrosse

Harestone

Junior Hockey

Ridgefield

Inter Lacrosse

Aldercombe

Inter Hockey

Lewisham

Senior Lacrosse

Aldercombe

Senior Hockey

Aldercombe

Junior Cross-country

Underwood

Junior Cross-country

Harestone

Inter Cross-country

Harestone

Inter Cross-country

Underwood

Senior Cross-country

Aldercombe

Senior Cross-country Lewisham

Junior Tennis

Ridgefield

Senior Football

Lewisham

Inter Tennis

Underwood

Junior Cricket

Newington

Senior Tennis

Ridgefield

Inter Cricket

RAINED OFF

Junior Rounders

Ridgefield

Junior Athletics

Ridgefield

Inter Rounders

Underwood

Inter Athletics

Harestone

Senior Rounders

Aldercombe

Senior Athletics

Boarders

Junior Athletics

Underwood

Inter Athletics

Underwood

Senior Athletics

Aldercombe

HOUSE EVENTS MIXED EVENTS Junior Chess

Aldercombe & Lewisham

Inter Chess

Lewisham

Senior Chess

Boarders

Prose & Verse (Junior)

Newington

Public Speaking (Inter)

Harestone

Debating (Senior)

Lewisham

Quiz

Ridgefield

Drama

Harestone

Drama Improv

Lewisham

Basketball Boarders Junior Art

Boarders

Inters Art

Ridgefield

Senior Art

Lewisham

Art

Lewisham

Junior Spelling Bee

Lewisham

Inter Spelling Bee

Newington

When the Annual Competitions were concluded at the end of the Easter Term 2017 (including the Summer term 2016 events’ results, as well as the Autumn and Spring term results from the lists above) the Cup Standings were as follows: Diana Raine Cup for GIRLS

Stephen Smith Cup for Boys

7th Boarders 109

7th Aldercombe 134

7th Underwood 91

6th Newington 154

6th Newington 158

6th Harestone 113

5th

Lewisham

191

5th

168

5th

Newington

123

4th

Ridgefield

200

4th Boarders 177

4th

Lewisham

127

3rd

Harestone

240

3rd

Ridgefield

178

3rd Boarders 132

2nd

Underwood

242

2nd

Harestone

191

2nd

Ridgefield

134

1st

Aldercombe

251

1st

Lewisham

205

1st

Aldercombe

136

Underwood

Jim Seymour Mixed Trophy

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HOUSE

ART 2017

Fantastic work was on display at the 2017 House Art competition, in a variety of mediums ranging from iPad drawing to printmaking, from painting to textiles – all based on the theme ‘Contrast’.

The panel of judges comprising the Headmaster Mr Jones, Mr Wells and Mrs Neville, had a difficult job selecting the top works of Art. Congratulations to everyone who took part.

JUNIORS

INTERS

SENIORS

Winner: Eva Zeng (Boarders)

Winner: Imogen Richings (Ridgefield)

Winner: Christy Bennett (Lewisham)

2nd Place: Paris Singh (Newington)

2nd Place: Jonny Featherstone (Lewisham)

2nd Place: Rainbow Cheng (Boarders)

3rd Place: Josh Craddock (Harestone)

3rd Place: Georgia Bennett (Harestone)

3rd Place: Milly Tocher (Lewisham)

INTER HOUSE SWIMMING In March, the Third and Fourth Year pupils competed in the Inter House Swimming competition.

Winners of the Inter boys were Harestone with 54 points and the winners of the Inter Girls were Newington with 58 points. However, when adding up both scores, the overall winners were Ridgefield with a total of 82 points. The winners of the Darby medal (150m sprint) were Amy Davies (4R) in a time of 1:39:00 and Angus Yeun in a time of 1:43:65.

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HOUSE IMPROVISATION

DRAMA CHALLENGE The House Drama Improvisation entertained a packed Humphreys Theatre with fast-paced action, quick thinking and witty interpretations.

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his year there were over one hundred participants, all keen to spontaneously respond to props, play titles and phrases. New games were added to challenge the actors and, of course, they rose to the challenge with their usual creativity and flair. This year Lewisham were the winners.

In March, the School turned out to claim the last available points for the House Competitions in cross-country.

House Cross Country Run

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ver two thirds of the School (including teachers) conquered the enormous hill and slippery conditions, with a particularly impressive turnout from Newington and Lewisham.

The School’s team runners put in dominant performances after months of training on a familiar course to turn fortunes around for their Houses. The Underwood Senior Girls’ A-team was particularly impressive in almost lapping the rest of the field over only a three leg relay. The commitment and determination on show across the whole of the School from staff runners to first-time runners in the Juniors was incredibly impressive and provided a fitting finish to the House competitions.

THE RESULTS OF THE SEPARATE EVENTS WERE AS FOLLOWS:

JUNIOR GIRLS

JUNIOR BOYS

INTER GIRLS

INTER BOYS

SENIOR GIRLS

SENIOR BOYS

1st

Underwood 201

Harestone 227

Harestone 79

Underwood 72

Aldercombe 109

Lewisham 104

2nd Harestone 141

Newington 133

Ridgefield

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Harestone 57

Newington 85

Ridgefield

3rd Newington 118

Lewisham 124

Underwood 59

Newington 56

Harestone 77

Aldercombe 74

4th Aldercombe 98

Underwood 119

Newington 52 Boarders 54 Ridgefield

5th Ridgefield

Ridgefield

Lewisham 48 Lewisham 48

Underwood 75 Boarders 72

Aldercombe 46

Lewisham 44

Underwood 40

7th Boarders 13 Aldercombe 38 Boarders 26

Harestone 22

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6th Lewisham 62

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Aldercombe 41

Ridgefield

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80

Newington 70

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2016-2017 SAW ANOTHER VERY

ELLIE PALMER

BUSY AND VARIED YEAR IN THE

ART DEPARTMENT. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED A PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP, TRIPS, THE ROYAL ACADEMY DRAWING WORKSHOP

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AND THE SUMMER EXHIBITION.

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BEN BROWN

ART TATANIA OBRETETSKAYA

HEIDI NG

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ART

MARY NEALE SMITH

SUMMER ART EXHIBITION

The year finished with the Art, Photography, Textiles and 3D Design Summer Exhibition. We were delighted to see so many parents, pupils as well as current and former members of staff present.

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ll visitors enjoyed the wide range of work that our GCSE and A level pupils have created in the departments over the year.

The exhibition demonstrated the incredibly diverse range of skills that the pupils have learned, including dark room and digital photography skills, ceramics, embroidery, batik, laser-cutting, painting, drawing, CadCam and laser etching. Each pupil’s work demonstrated their total individualism as well as their incredible imaginative flair, conceptual grounding and strong technical skills. This exhibition rounded off another successful year for the Art department.

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BEAN WANG

KATIE STARNS

STELLA LAMBERT

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ART

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART LIFE DRAWING DAY Lower Sixth Art students took part in our annual life drawing workshop, led by a Royal Academy of Art tutor. All students were able to develop their drawing skills and awareness of observation. The pupils came away with more confidence and a wonderful set of drawings to add to their portfolios.

ARTIST INSPIRES The Lower Sixth students took part in a photography workshop with visiting artist and photographer Pete Mountford. The day was structured around the pupils’ working title of “Distort“.

Each pupil produced exciting outcomes that used in-camera editing, shooting through filters and prisms. In the afternoon, the pupils refined and developed their work in Photoshop.

RIA PARSONS

ART FESTIVAL WINNER We were delighted that Annie Deragon was a Highly Commended winner in the 8-11 years category at the Dulwich Festival Art competition. Many congratulations to Annie for an inspiring piece and a well-deserved win.

KATIE STARNS

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It has been another exciting year for the

Photography Department PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION Congratulations to Rachel Cliffe who was presented with her prize for winning the Rotary Club Intermediate Photography Competition at their annual awards evening in March. The pictures and other results have been displayed in the window of the old Costa Coffee Shop in Caterham town centre please do go and have a look as they are superb!

JAKE SAFAPOUR

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PHOTOGRAPHY MATTHEW AU YEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

HEATH GREENER

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TILLY GOLESWORTHY

PHOTOGRAPHY

DARK ROOM HOSTS YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS In January, we were thrilled to have nine pupils from Sunnydown School come to use our darkroom and have a lesson with Ms Wallace and three Sixth Form Photography pupils (Maja Pardew, Aoife Daniels and Abigail Barrett). Each of our visitors created a photogram and a pinhole photograph.

This was to tie in with the surrealism project they are undertaking for GCSE photography. It was amazing to see so many smiling faces at the end of the day; all were pleased with the work they had created.

MILLY TOCHER

MAJA PARDEW

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TEXTILES

KNITTING AND STITCHING SHOW

In October, the Lower Sixth textiles students went on a trip to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London.

At the show we had the opportunity to view the work of a huge variety of textiles artists and graduates, all displaying a wide range of different skills, techniques and concepts. We had the chance to interview the artists, asking questions about their work, training and inspirations.

ALICE MEDLOCK (L6R2)

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TEXTILES

AMY STEPHENSON

MILLY TOCHER AMY STEPHENSON

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3D DESIGN

JOSEPH IRELAND

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3D DESIGN

ASHLEIGH DAVIES

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3D DESIGN

EMILY SPEAKS

NEIL PATEL

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PHOEBE HARRISON

OLIVIA DOWLE

3D DESIGN

TYLER NORWOOD

WEIXIANG HAUNG

CAMERON MAYO

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3D DESIGN

OLIVER HEMSLEY

REBECCA WEBB

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MATTHEW AU YEUNG

‘GIANT’ PERFORMED BY HUMAN ZOO

It was another successful and varied

arts week at Caterham School

The School’s Arts Week this year was jam-packed with inspirational artistic and cultural activities, displays and performances.

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ll the events drew on the talents of our pupils, staff and the professional artists who chose to come and be part of our Arts Week. Highlights from our Arts Week included a day focused on the staging and filming of War Horse (First Years); a day trip to Hampton Court (Second Years); a trip to the RSC production of The Tempest at the Barbican Theatre (Third Years) and a day trip to Brighton (Fourth Years). The visiting professional performers came to our school to lead singing master classes, dance workshops, and drama sessions – and the Lower Sixth were treated to Human Zoo’s excellent play ‘Giant’.

SELECTION OF PHOTOS FROM ‘GIANT’ BY HUMAN ZOO

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THE ELIZABETHAN FESTIVAL

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ARTS WEEK

FIGHT WORKSHOP

DANCE WORKSHOP

GOSPEL SINGIN

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GREEK THEATRE

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SCIENCE

HELEN SHARMAN wows Caterham School We were proud to welcome the distinguished British astronaut and scientist Helen Sharman OBE to our School.

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er audience was gripped as she explained complex science in an accessible and inspiring way; she also peppered her talk with anecdotes about life in space! We invited Year 5 and 6 pupils from all local prep and primary schools to come and listen to her afternoon speech – and over 400 of them came! Over 300 parents and pupils came to her talk in the evening, which was wonderful. This major event did not disappoint and left all who came in awe of space and the possibilities of space exploration.

MR MATTHEW GODFREY

DEXTER

SCIENCE SPECIAL In March, 72 parents attended the ‘Dexter’ event run by the Senior Science department and the PA. Parents were invited back to school to be taught Physics, Chemistry and Biology. It was a fabulous evening full of experiments, laughs, frights and enthusiasm.

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SCIENCE

UPPER SIXTH BIOLOGISTS ENJOY WALES

Sixth Biologists spent a wonderful week in the summer holidays studying Marine Biology at the UK’s most prestigious, and one of the world’s oldest Field, Centres - Dale Fort in Wales.

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Getting up at 7am and working until 10.30pm each night was hard work. But hey, as I say, ... Biology is so engaging that hard work is fun...

MR DAN QUINTON

BRAVO

BIOLOGISTS! This year, the Royal Society of Biology confirmed that we achieved our biggest ever haul of medals in this year’s UK National Biology Olympiad. We won 14 medals in this year’s contest!

Many congratulations to these pupils: GOLD: Rui Huang, Tooki Chu, Vladimir Kalinovsky, Aishi Symmons, Hailey Sze

JUNIOR SCIENCE FAIR AWARDS The Junior Science Fair Awards evening, held in March, were dedicated to celebrating the unique research projects the Second Year pupils have been conducting over the course of this half term.

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he event was modelled on a scientific conference, where groups produce their own academic science poster which were displayed to invited pupils, parents and teachers. Guest speaker and Old Caterhamian Daniel Chaney, now a PhD researcher, was invited back as our guest speaker. He used the analogy of Cluedo to cleverly explain how scientists use the facts and information they have to

help them deduce answers to the questions they pose. Daniel also had the unenviable task of choosing two winning posters from the highly commended category.

Many congratulations to Anoushka Gulati, Sholto Kirk, Anastasia Leyko and Abbie McDowell for their brilliant poster on solubility at different temperatures and Euan Ashmore, Samuel Choi and Rosemary Goodall for their superb project on electrifying fruit.

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HISTORY

THIRD FORM TRIP TO YPRES

In the Autumn term, Third Year pupils travelled to the Ypres as part of their First World War studies.

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hey were able to compare different commemorations of the war by visiting Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Western Front, and Langemark, a cemetery for the German war dead.

They also visited Menin Gate and had a chance to see the town of Ypres, including a visit to a war museum and a much-needed trip to a chocolate shop. For many, the most moving part of the trip was a short service held at the gravestone of one of the seventy three Old Cats who are buried in the Ypres Salient. This was a long and emotional day but our pupils behaved impeccably and were true ambassadors of the School.

MRS KATY JAMES

HISTORY DETECTIVES EXAMINE HAMPTON COURT Second Year pupils had the chance to be History Detectives as they explored Hampton Court. The Palace was looking at its very best in the lead up to its Annual Flower Show and we enjoyed impressive sights including the Astronomical clock, Henry VIII’s Great Hall and the World’s oldest surviving Real Tennis Court.

FIRST YEARS make a castle First Year pupils have been studying William the Conqueror and how he kept control in England.

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hey were given a competition to make their own castle. Mili Greener (1W) won the competition with a beautifully detailed castle complete with a stone keep. Treve Ninnes (1D) and Tom Thurgood (1L) came second, with Treve creating a particularly clever game and Tom submitting an excellently labelled example of a motte and bailey castle. Special commendation goes to Holly-Heather Cook (1R) for a very well built keep.

MRS KATY JAMES

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STUDY BUDDY

STUDY BUDDY Scheme thrives

THIS YEAR, CATERHAM’S NATIONAL AWARD WINNING STUDY BUDDY SCHEME HAS CONTINUED TO FLOURISH THANKS TO OUR ENERGETIC AND COMMITTED SIXTH FORMERS. Every Wednesday over three hundred members of the Caterham Community descend on the Pye Sixth Form Centre, the Refectory and the Library to discuss the working week.

Sixth Formers provide coaching on all matters academic, but also core skills such as organisation, resilience and decision making. It is also great for younger pupils to meet up with and chat to a senior pupil.

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BOARDING

ANOTHER FUN FILLED YEAR IN

BOARDING

BOARDERS COLLECT SHOE BOXES Led by Mrs Quinton, the boarders this year filled and covered forty shoe boxes for the Samaritans’ Purse scheme, which raises money for victims of war and natural disaster. This is an annual charity venture for the boarders and this year was their greatest offering yet!

MRS CATH DRUMMOND

Christmas Carol Singing

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BOARDING

BOARDERS’ PICNIC In the summer, boarding pupils enjoyed the sunshine on Titch Pitch with a delicious picnic supplied by our Catering Department. Everyone enjoyed a lovely summer afternoon of games including rounders, touch rugby, Giant Jenga, hoola hooping and cricket. Many thanks to Mr Dodwell and his grounds team for the fabulous condition of the playing field!

Christmas Lunch ‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ GAMES

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HEADER

BOARDING

CHRISTMAS

Dinner Dance

FUN MAKING

GINGER BREAD HOUSES

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BOARDING

SPORTS AFTERNOON

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Autumn Concert

The inspiration for this year’s Autumn Concert evening was film music, and the audience was treated to everything from ‘The Godfather’ to ‘The Great Escape’.

Notable performances included Close Harmony’s beautiful versions of ‘Pure Imagination’ from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and ‘In The Still of the Nite’ from Dirty Dancing.

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ur brass team impressed with ‘Gonna Fly Now’ from Rocky and our female vocal ensembles sung haunting performances from Twilight, Pearl Harbour and Home Alone. The first half closed with Sinfonia and Chamber Choir coming together to perform ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’, with Natalie Bishop (L6U2) taking

the solo role which she performed beautifully.

Sinfonia began the second half with an outstanding performance of Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from Apocalypse Now, followed by our string ensembles, joined by prep pupils performing a vast repertoire from Harry Potter to Scent of a Woman. The final performance was our Symphony Orchestra’s arrangement of the Star Wars Suite, comprising three movements of the famous film score.

MRS HELENA RICHARDS

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MUSIC

ETS PERFORM AT URC SERVICE IN OCTOBER, ETS PERFORMED AT A SPECIAL SERVICE AT THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH IN CATERHAM. Many compliments were received from the congregation following the performances of Tread Softly (a beautiful setting by Alan Bullard of Yeats’ ‘The Cloths of Heaven’) and an uplifting arrangement of Be Thou My Vision. The service was conducted by Reverend Julian Thomas who praised the choir for their continued presence at these services. Well done to members of ETS.

MUSIC EXAM SUCCESS We are delighted with another fantastic set of Associated Board music exam results. Well done to everyone who took an instrumental or vocal music exam last term and also to those who sat a music theory exam. The music department congratulates all who took such exams but in particular would like to mention those who achieved distinctions: Grace Godfrey

First Year, Grade 1 Music Theory

Olivia Lee

Third Year, Grade 5 Music Theory

Henry Chappell

Upper Sixth, Grade 8 Singing

Alyssa Day

Third Year, Grade 4 Singing

Katie Hudson

Fourth Year, Grade 6 Flute

Anastasia Karamzina

Lower Sixth, Grade 3 Piano

Anastasia Kedrina

Lower Sixth, Grade 6 Piano

Hannah Lobb

Third Year, Grade 1 Violin

Ellie Shipsey

First Year, Grade 2 Piano

MR ADAM ASSEN

CATERHAM’S CHOIRS PERFORM IN PRAGUE AGAIN IN FEBRUARY, THE ERIC THIMAN SINGERS (ETS) AND THE CHAMBER CHOIR TRAVELLED TO PRAGUE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AT THE END OF THE HALF TERM BREAK AND DELIGHTED AUDIENCES WITH MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCES. The programme, centred around ‘Peace’, included a variety of motets and works by British composers including Purcell, Gibbons, Tallis and Old Caterhamian Eric Thiman.

The Chamber Choir performed the challenging and breath-taking Miserere by Allegri – a work very rarely attempted by school choirs.

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Perform a Recital of Reflection and Contemplation FOLLOWING NOVEMBER’S SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE, THE ETS PERFORMED A MOVING AND POIGNANT RECITAL OF CHORAL MUSIC.

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he programme included a stirring arrangement of In Flanders Fields based on the poem by John McCrae and a heart-rending setting of Tread Softly based on the poem by Yeats. The recital was presented by Revd Mearkle and was a fitting tribute to the words heard in the prayers and readings heard in the service earlier in the morning. The choir sang with spirit and precision – well done to all singers in ETS. MR ADAM ASSEN

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MUSIC

SCHOLARS’ CONCERT – Part One Part One of the annual Music Scholars’ Concert saw pupils from the First Year up to the Upper Sixth Form perform.

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he concert began with a triumphant performance on the cornet by Kaitlyn Galvin (L6U2). It was wonderful to see some thoroughly outstanding debut performances by Willow Park (1L) and Grace Godfrey (1L) from the First Year. Furthermore, Aldi Ho (3A1) gave a sublime performance of Puccini’s ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’

and had the audience close to tears.

Henry Chappell’s (U6H2) performance of Vaughan Williams’ ‘Vagabond’ from ‘Songs of Travel’ was both stylish and full of energy, whilst Francesca Carver’s (U6A2) performance of Faure’s ‘Au Bord de L’eau’ was eloquent and sensitive. Special mention must go to siblings Henry and Annabel Chappell (5H) for their

Music Exam Success for Natalie with Grade 8 Distinction CONGRATULATIONS TO NATALIE BISHOP (LOWER SIXTH FORM) WHO HAS RECENTLY PASSED HER GRADE 8 PIANO WITH DISTINCTION.

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stunning vocal duet performance of ‘Homeward Bound’ by Keen; this was a sublime performance. The performance concluded with a fine performance of Rory Moore’s original composition, ‘El Alma’. This was truly a concert of the highest calibre, which demonstrated panache, refinement and true musical talent.

MR TRISTAN HALL

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WORLD RENOWNED CONDUCTOR

Leads Workshop

On Tuesday 7 March, Sinfonia took part in an orchestral workshop, led by world renowned conductor Timothy Henty.

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r Henty worked on their performance repertoire – Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture and the third movement of Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade. The orchestra worked hard to capture the full power of these beautiful pieces of music and Mr Henty was full of praise for both their musicality and professionalism.

ETS, CHAMBER CHOIR AND SINFONIA

PERFORM AT CONCERT AT ST. JAMES’S PICCADILLY The concert, set in the beautiful St. James’s Church in Piccadilly, demonstrated the talents of Caterham pupils from Year 5 Prep to Upper Sixth.

ETS, our chapel choir displayed control, purity and dedication in their performances. The Chamber Choir sang with passion, precision and emotion. Sinfonia played with depth, reflection, force and majesty. Vocal soloists Henry Chappell, Aldi Ho and Francesca Carver left the audience truly captivated with their characterful and engaging performances. The trio, Anna Simonova (Violin), Natalie Bishop (Piano) and Isaac Quinton

(Cello) showed skill, musicality and confidence.

The repertoire performed at this concert was ambitious and demanding and Caterham musicians gave highly accomplished performances that sounded particularly impressive in the acoustics of St. James’s. Sinfonia performed the 3rd Movement of Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

and the Overture from Romeo & Juliet by Tchaikovsky. Chamber Choir performed Allegri’s Miserere and early motets by Tallis, Purcell and Gibbons. ETS performed a selection of motets by modern, British composers and together Chamber Choir, a mass setting by Bob Chilcott.

ADAM ASSEN

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MUSIC

Senior School

Carol Concert

THE SENIOR SCHOOL CAROL SERVICE TOOK PLACE AT THE UNITED REFORM CHURCH. IT WAS A WONDERFUL SERVICE WITH TRADITIONAL CAROLS AND READINGS.

CHAMBER CHOIR ENJOY WORKSHOP WITH AWARD WINNING APOLLO5 In February, Caterham School’s Chamber Choir enjoyed a workshop with the award-winning vocal group, Apollo5.

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he workshop day included inspirational performances from Apollo5, detailed work on Chamber Choir repertoire and new pieces. The informal concert in the evening demonstrated some of what had been achieved during the day. A fantastic day for all involved.

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LUNCHTIME LIVE CONCERT WE WERE TREATED TO SOME FINE PIANISTIC PERFORMANCES IN THE FINAL LUNCHTIME LIVE CONCERT OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR. PUPILS WHO PERFORMED WERE JULIA MAKIN, GRACE YE, LUCY YU, LILY GAO AND YVONNE XIE. ALL PERFORMANCES WERE THOROUGHLY PREPARED AND WERE FULL OF MUSICALITY. ALL PUPILS ARE ABLE TO PERFORM IN THE LUNCHTIME LIVE CONCERTS SHOULD THEY WISH TO DO SO, AND PARENTS ARE ALSO INVITED TO ATTEND.

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ORCHESTRAL OPEN DAY

Perform at St Christopher’s Festival in Epsom

Caterham’s ETS (Eric Thiman Singers) performed at the annual music festival in Epsom, run by St Christopher’s School.

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aterham School has always played a major part in this exciting festival and ETS appear as the guest choir, handling the complex harmonies and descants.

This year, ETS performed two breathtaking solos from their repertoire and delighted all who were present. Pupils from other local schools including Downsend School, Cumnor House and City of London Freeman’s School were in awe of the uplifting sound created by ETS and much praise was given by staff and Headteachers and the Mayor of Epsom and Ewell.

Joining ETS this year was the Woodwind Quintet, comprising of Upper and Lower Sixth Students from Caterham School. They entertained the audience prior to the festival concert with excerpts from West Side Story and a collection of solo pieces.

A HIGHLY ENJOYABLE DAY WAS HAD BY ALL WHO ATTENDED THE ORCHESTRAL OPEN DAY.

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hildren from nine local schools (including our own prep school) attended the workshop day which included sectional rehearsals run by our specialist staff, masterclasses on woodwind, brass and stringed instruments and a massed item of Uptown Funk conducted by Mrs Richards.

The event saw the launch of a new percussion team made-up from Caterham School drum kit players and led by our new Drum and Percussion teacher, Mr Arnold.

Parents and friends attended the short concert at the end of the day and high praise has been received for the whole event.

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MUSICAL Theatre Evening THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT HOSTED ITS ANNUAL MUSICAL THEATRE EVENING, A TRULY MAGICAL EVENING OF LIVE PERFORMANCE SPLIT INTO FOUR GENRES.

A Truly Magical Evening of live performances

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pening the show with ‘The Fantastical and Mythical‘, Close Harmony performed Unchained Melody from Ghost, followed by solo highlights from The Witches of Eastwick, Jekyll and Hyde, Starlight Express and Wicked.

Our choirs featured in the ‘Inspired by Opera’ section with dramatic performances of Bui Doi from Miss Saigon and Love Heals from Rent. Special mention must go to Anastasia Karamzina (Lower Sixth) for her incredible rendition of L’assasymphonie from Mozart, L’Opera Rock.

‘Music from the Big Screen‘ featured excellent performances from The Bodyguard, Footloose, Waitress,

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and Aladdin. In addition, Matthew Olukoga’s (Fourth Year) performance of I Just Can’t Wait to be King from The Lion King was met with huge applause, as was Morgann Bloquet (Third Year) and Nathan Freedman’s (Third Year) moving duet, Falling Slowly from Once.

‘The Written Word‘ was the final genre of the evening, with songs from Annie, Matilda, Just So and A Chorus Line. Chicago was the most popular show, with four numbers wonderfully performed. Indeed, the final song of the evening showcased some of our older pupils performing Cell Block Tango, brilliantly able to capture the spirit and character of the story. Many thanks to all involved, both cast and crew.

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SPRING TERM

SCHOLARS’ CONCERT

On the evening of Tuesday 24 January, Caterham’s music scholars performed a variety of different repertoire to a very receptive audience.

Thomas Boyd sang Amarillo, Mia bella by Caccini with elegance and sensitivity. Katie Hudson performed The Serious Doll by Elgar on the flute. This was a thoroughly enjoyable performance.

Francesca Carver performed Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G# minor on the piano. Francesca made a wonderful sound and performed with gusto in the climatic section of the piece.

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he audience was swiftly transported to France for Emma Knight’s delicate and colourful performance of Ravel’s Piece en for me de Habanera on the ‘cello. The Piano Trio which consists of Natalie Bishop (Piano), Anna Simonova (Violin), and Isaac Quinton (‘cello) performed Romance

by Bridge. Anthea Allen-Jubin performed Cantilena from Sonata for Flute by Poulenc. Anthea’s sound and delicacy in this performance was a particular highlight. Josie Tyler performed Florana from Five Bagatelles on the clarinet. The music department would like to extend our thanks to Mr Duncan White for his expert accompanying and congratulate all pupils on their thoroughly enjoyable and refined performances.

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PARTNERSHIPS

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTNERSHIP WITH

LERANG’WA SCHOOL, TANZANIA NATALIE BISHOP

In the summer, twenty Lower Sixth students accompanied by Miss Smith, Dr Avery, Mrs James and Mr James flew out to Mount Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania. We climbed onto the trusty RA Safari bus with a mix of excitement and anticipation. As we rattled down the dirt track, the sound of chanting slowly grew louder until we caught sight of the sea of deep blue uniforms.

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e had arrived at Lerang’wa Primary School, our partner school in Arusha. The next week was spent teaching Music, Art, PE, English and Mathematics to the pupils, with sometimes over 60 children in a class! With an aim to make lessons enjoyable and memorable, most of the teaching was delivered through songs and chants which were heard echoing around the school as the week progressed.

Every morning began with a short run, followed by both the Tanzanian and British national anthems.

Kamani, our local guide, gave us the opportunity to visit two Maasai ‘bomas’ (camps) and we received traditional welcoming ceremonies and authentic jewellery, handmade by members of the community. We also played in fiercely competitive games of football, volleyball and netball. Despite having half a team for football and a limited knowledge of volleyball rules, Caterham showed no mercy and we triumphed in all three matches. However, a win was narrowly missed in the running races - we faced tough opposition in the

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form of Maasai Warriors!

More than anything from our time at Lerang’wa, we were taken aback by the impact of our visit to the children. They were always laughing and excited to see us, happy with the simplest of things.

Although we were the ‘teachers’, over the course of the week we also learnt a lot from the children.

As our time at the school drew to a close, we then embarked on the most daunting aspect of the trip – Mount Meru.

It took four days to trek through beautiful scenery to reach the fifth highest peak in Africa, standing at 4566m. It was especially demanding

on summit day, when we awoke at 11pm to begin our final stretch to the peak. We managed to reach the summit at around 7am, witnessing a breathtaking sunrise. Despite our exhaustion, our spirits were high as we now had two days of safari to

look forward to; first, at Ngorongoro Crater then to Manyara National Park.

We saw lions, brushing up against our trucks to hide from the sun, as well as giraffes, zebras and elephants.

It was rewarding to see what the past decade has brought to Lerang’wa through our fundraising and support. Staff accommodation, a kitchen and food store and a toilet facility have all helped to improve the infrastructure of the school. On a couple of the days we also served lunch to the children, which is now supported

by Caterham’s charity Lerang’wa Lunches.

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LERANG’WA LUNCHES Funds raised last year by the school community for ‘Lerang’wa Lunches’ have provided food for meals for the students at our partner school in Tanzania. The partnership of 11 years has benefitted our school community and theirs in countless ways. Meals have a tangible effect on educational outcomes in vulnerable, largely Masai, communities, and are an element to our ongoing, direct commitment to our partners.

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Providing school lunches for our partner school leads to: n Improved diet for the children living in poverty who attend school. Many of whom come from vulnerable Masai communities. n Increased engagement to primary education for children for whom priorities would likely be elsewhere due to lack of food. n Increased progression within education, through greater attendance and engagement. n Improved health and well-being of the children of Lerang’wa. n Increased support for education within vulnerable communities, providing a lasting physical infrastructure in partnership with the local community. We have placed an emphasis on working with the community, sourcing food locally, improving local livelihoods. n Continued partnership giving opportunities for Caterham Students at Lerang’wa The tenth annual trip to Tanzania was an extremely eye opening and humbling experience, and we hope the partnership with Lerang’wa continues for many years to come.

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United Access is designed to give students from across United Learning the experience, confidence, challenge and support to fulfil their academic potential and access the universities of their choice

UNIVERSITY ACCESS PROGRAMME During the summer holiday students from schools across the country attended their first residential at Caterham School as part of a four-year programme. The programme is run in partnership with educational charity Accelerate and Access Foundation (AAF), writes Tony Fahey

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he pupils attended their first residential as part of a brand new collaboration to help academically gifted and ambitious young people access top universities in the UK. The programme, United Access, was launched last summer by national schools group United Learning and educational charity Accelerate and Access Foundation (AAF), and is modelled on a successful pilot which has been running in Kent over recent years. It will run for four years, with the successful Year 9 applicants attending a series of residentials and being supported by undergraduates and recent graduates from Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities through the application process to university.

The programme is open to students who are eligible for Pupil Premium funding, who would be the first generation in their family to go to university and who have been identified by teachers as having the academic potential to excel in Higher Education. After being nominated by a teacher, the shortlisted applicants faced a rigorous interview process at top independent school Caterham School, which is hosting the programme’s residentials.

The successful candidates – from United Learning schools including The Totteridge Academy and Midhurst Rother College – attended the first residential from 12 to 16 July at Caterham School. There, they engaged in a wide range of academic activities designed to go beyond the standard curriculum to challenge and develop their understanding.

Sessions ranged from letter writing and exploring Chaucer to debates on economic policy and learning drama techniques.

In addition, students got actively involved in orienteering, basketball and the high ropes course.

Martina Montecchiarini, United Learning’s Project Lead for the programme, said: “United Access is designed to give students from across United Learning the experience, confidence, challenge and support to fulfil their academic potential and access the universities of their choice. In particular, it is focused on helping those young people who would be the first generation in their families to go to university or who come from low-income backgrounds.

“This first residential was a chance not only for students to explore new, challenging and broader topics,

but for them to meet with peers from other schools and learn from the experiences of their graduate mentors. It has been a very successful, enjoyable start to the programme and has hopefully given students a taste of what they can expect from the next event and indeed over the next four years of United Access.”

Ceri Jones, Headmaster at Caterham School and co-founder of the Accelerate and Access Foundation (AAF), said: “This is a truly life changing programme – there is nothing else like this in the UK where independent and maintained schools, universities, undergraduates and other third sector organisations work together to support pupils for four years on a mentoring and residential programme. It demonstrates the transformative power of education and partnership and has tangible benefits for all participants – principally the pupils but also the schools, teachers and other organisations involved in delivery.”

The schools involved in the programme are Lambeth Academy, Midhurst Rother College, The Hurlingham Academy, The Regis School, The Totteridge Academy and Wye School.

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LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS St John’s Church of England Primary School and Clifton Hill School in Caterham

THIS YEAR, GROUPS OF OUR SIXTH FORM PAID WEEKLY VISITS TO ST JOHN’S PRIMARY IN CATERHAM, to assist at all levels in English and maths lessons. India Barton spent a week at the school on work experience during the summer.

Pupils from Clifton Hill school visited Caterham every Friday for games activities organised by our sixth form in our sports hall. This programme culminated in two sports days in the summer term, held at Caterham School, organised and supervised by Sixth Form students.

WANDSWORTH PRISON Mr Fahey and other colleagues have developed a relationship with Wandsworth Prison Education Department. Two of their teachers have visited us at Caterham to observe lessons, and following this staff from Caterham have delivered lessons at the prison on three occasions. This has proved to be a rewarding contribution to the community and an opportunity to share practice from different environments.

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Work Experience at

KINGSFORD COMMUNITY SCHOOL During the first week of the summer holidays, a group of ten Caterham students were given the opportunity to go and do a week of work experience at Kingsford Community School in Beckton, East London.

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hilst we were there, we were each allowed to say which subjects were our favourites and what we felt we would be most able to help with and were given timetables for the week. We spent the week attending a variety of lessons, at which we were able to help the students with their work and questions, see how the lessons were structured and worked as well as being able to talk to both the students and the teachers about the school and what their hobbies are and what they are interested in.

We were also given a tour of the new building and classrooms they have built on the site, in which we were asked to talk to a group of students about to start their GCSEs and another group who were starting to consider what they wanted to study at A level or after school and give them advice and answer their questions. This was one of my highlights of the week as we had some amazing conversations with the students here and it was really nice to discuss their different goals with them

This was one of my highlights of the week as we had some amazing conversations with the students here and it was really nice to discuss their different goals with them. and see what they all wanted to do.

A particularly memorable moment from that day was when we had a conversation with a pair of boys who were quite quiet and reserved at first, but once we got chatting to revealed that one of them was a very talented runner and the other had a passion for both music and football. They were both very funny and showed us videos of each of their talents which we really enjoyed seeing and talking about with them.

Another highlight was a day when we helped making Chinese

dumplings in food technology. This was massively fun and it gave us the opportunity not only to be useful pairs of extra hands but it meant that we were able to chat to the students and teachers as we helped. It was a special activity so multiple classes were present which meant it was very busy, and it was lovely to see how much the students enjoyed the activity and making the dumplings with their friends.

The staff and students at Kingsford were all amazingly welcoming and kind to us during our visit and the whole experience was very enjoyable and rewarding for us, I would definitely recommend it to any Caterham sixth formers who may be considering taking part.

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NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP SERVICE (NCS) NCS is a 3-4-week programme which 275,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 17 have taken part in so far, and this summer alone saw over 83,000 participants.

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uring the summer of 2017 we paid £35 for a programme that would normally cost over £1000 and is predominantly government funded. We had the time of our lives due to the diverse range of activities; we had an opportunity to do what we would not otherwise have done, as well as meeting new people in a unique situation who quickly become long term friends. NCS operates up and down the country, so that you can participate no matter which part

of the UK you live in. We took part in the Reigate and Epsom programmes consecutively. The first week was based around team building, going to an activity camp much like PGL and taking part in a variety of land and water based activities for example Daniel went and did raft building races and Miranda went kayaking. Week 2 was at Surrey University where we partook in a chosen activity, developed our public speaking abilities and were given a taste of University life. We each chose

WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY Following the successful first leg of the WRA exchange in Caterham last June, 11 Upper Sixth pupils went on a return visit to the Western Reserve Academy School in Hudson, Ohio over the Autumn half term break.

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ur pupils attended classes with their American partners and enjoyed a varied and exciting programme of visits. We had wonderful weather and enjoyed truly beautiful autumn days. Highlights in Ohio included a cycling trail through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and seeing a NFL game in Cleveland.

The second part of the trip was spent in Washington, D.C. where pupils

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were able to immerse themselves in American culture thanks to the numerous museums on the National Mall. We also enjoyed the opportunity to visit the Capitol building, the library of Congress and the Senate office building where we met with an assistant to the Ohio Senator, which was especially interesting due to the forthcoming American election.

MRS GAELLE SULLIVAN

Enterprise and Drama then used these skills in a showcase event. Then within the final week and a half, as teams, we planned and carried out social action projects, each raising over £300 for our charities doing street fundraisers, sponsorships and voluntary action with a partner.

We think that NCS is different and especially worthwhile because it is nothing like any other situation you would’ve been in before. It introduces you to unique people of various backgrounds, teaching you social skills which you never would’ve acquire otherwise. Moreover, we realised how despite the fact it takes up a lot of our summer we would’ve been sitting at home on our sofa doing absolutely nothing; whereas by doing NCS we ended up making a difference in our communities and getting new friends who have really impacted our lives.

DANIEL FARRIS, L6R2

CHARITY

CHARITY ACTIVITIES A WIDE ARRAY OF FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES TOOK PLACE, FROM THE MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING, TO THE POPPY APPEAL.

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he U6 Charity Committee and the Lerang’ wa team were particularly active with events including the Charity Talent Show and an innovative Wine Tasting evening. Charity Reps from each form group helped collect funds through our mufti days. There were too many events to mention individually, but special mention must go to the Fourth Year who collectively ran a marathon for the Brain Tumour Charity and 1RO who took it upon themselves to sponsor a child in Tanzania through World Vision.

The Charity Committee decided to focus their attention on Delight as a local charity this year. Delight is a charity dedicated to using books and immersive arts to improve engagement and learning. They work in partnership with Surrey Primary Schools where their work will have the greatest impact. Many of our students volunteered for Delight, meeting weekly to plan events and organise resources. Last year Delight rehomed over 8,000 books, and delivered carefully constructed programmes in collaboration with the Guildford Shakespeare Company and the Watts Gallery.

School fundraising also supported Lerang’ wa Lunches and our ongoing commitment to our partner school in Tanzania. This 11-year relationship has seen us funding infrastructure improvements at the school, and more recently supporting the diets within the vulnerable, largely Masai community.

Last year we were able to provide meals for every pupil every school day, and enhance the food storage facilities at the school. This has led to measurable improvements in enrolment, attendance rates and educational attainment.

The school community responded to events with considerable donations made to Red Cross and Save the Children Syria appeals, and a collection being made for the Victims of the Grenfell Fire.

Significant donations were made for charities with direct links to the school community including the Royal Brompton, The Brain Tumour Charity and the Starlight Foundation.

Collections were also made focussing on raising awareness for Mind, The Breck Foundation and Daniel Spargo. The Borders Carol Singing in Caterham raised funds for

St Catherine’s hospice. A contribution was made towards the ‘Purple Maze’ (Rotary against Polio) in Queen’s Park.

The second year conducted an Easter Egg Appeal for children in paediatric wards, centred on the Royal Marsden.

Total funds raised by the student body amounted to over £20,000.

Additionally Caterham students were instrumental in assisting the Rotary club collect over £4000 in their Christmas collection.

MR TONY FAHEY

PURPLE MAZE: ROTARY CLUB AGAINST POLIO In March, Upper Sixth Charity Committee members Rachel Ackerly and Shrina Patel went to Queen’s park for the opening of the ‘Rotary Maze’.

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he Charity Committee made a donation towards this project, which was recognised by stones within the maze dedicated to the Senior and Preparatory Schools. The project raised money to combat polio, and donations were ‘fund matched’ by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purple crocuses of the maze were chosen to reflect the practice of marking the thumbs of children who have been vaccinated with purple dye.

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Lower Sixth

Geography Field Trip to Wales 2017 ON THE FINAL DAY OF THE SPRING TERM, TWENTY INTREPID GEOGRAPHERS, FIVE STAFF AND BARRY THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT MASCOT DEPARTED FOR THE WILDS OF THE BRECON BEACONS NATIONAL PARK.

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fter an eventual journey, including being mentioned on Simon Mayo’s Friday evening Radio 2 show, we arrived and threw ourselves into four days of fieldwork. Measuring the changing characteristics of the River Usk took up the bulk of day one, and day two saw the pupils collecting data on urban development in Swansea. Day

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three involved studying the industrial legacy and the future for Swansea, and the final day saw us trek to the Ystrdafellte waterfalls in the Brecon Beacons.

All in all, a superb trip was had by all, expertly catered for by Mrs Mesher with assistance from Dr Avery, and also accompanied by our own sheep and horse whisperers Mr Mugridge and Nigel.

INDIVIDUAL PUPIL SUCCESS

TEEN TECH AWARDS ************************* Congratulations to Caterham’s young engineers who had a brilliant showing in this year’s Teen Tech awards.

Sixth Form pupil Olivia Dowle’s ingenious prototype for a necklace which enables people with hearing impairments to ‘feel’ music caught the eye of the Teen Tech judges and saw her gain a top 20 placing out of 4,000 entries. Following the accolade given

by Teen Tech, Olivia hopes to move her invention towards production.

ROYAL SEAL OF APPROVAL

FOR SPACE STATION CODING COMPETITION Hannah Belshaw (1R) attended a special reception at St James’ Palace following her winning entry into a UK Space Agency competition.

Hannah’s winning idea was to recreate the International Space Station (ISS) and its immediate environment in Minecraft using live data from the ISS.

MATHS TEAM SUCCESS CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Dimakos and his Hans Woyda Maths team who won their away game against Woldingham. Tony Cheng (U6H2), Jeff Lee (L6H2), Hayes Fan (5U) and Esther Keyworth (3N2) represented Caterham in a very exciting and close game. After the first three rounds we were behind by 4 points (26-22). Our team responded brilliantly and in the last four rounds they performed extremely well, beating Woldingham by 5 points.

TEEN TECH NATIONAL WIN Receives Royal Approval Caterham School’s Teen Tech team, David Poolman (3NR), Ollie Wynn (3R2) and Caspar Barton (3AR), were presented with their winners’ certificates at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The three pupils were chosen as national overall winners for their design and prototype of ‘SensoSafe’ - a bike light that also detects vehicles approaching the cyclist from behind, alerting them to the potential danger.

Pupils take the UK BEBRAS CHALLENGE In November, all pupils from the First Form to those studying IGCSE Computer Science took the Bebras Challenge. This is an international competition organised by the University of Oxford and taken in over 40 countries, stretching pupils’ computational thinking skills. The Bebras challenges are made of a set of short problems called Bebras tasks and are delivered online. The tasks are fun, engaging and based on problems that Computer Scientists often meet and enjoy solving.

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INDIVIDUAL PUPIL SUCCESS

ELLIE PARMAR GB CADET CHAMPION

Ellie took part in and took the title in the British Fencing GB Cadet (U17) Championships at Nottingham University.

This was following not only exams (when she didn’t miss any training), but also after a physical week doing work experience with a garden designer.

Ellie fenced in a huge group of 63 fencers and competed in 11 fights, working to the final to win 15-12. Her coach said that she was incredibly calm throughout the day and that it was a well-deserved win.

This result will significantly contribute towards national rankings and international squad selection.

Caterham’s Computing Team Finish a Fantastic Second Place in

IBM’S NATIONAL APP COMPETITION From an initial field of approximately two thousand students from all over the UK, Caterham School’s Teen Health finished a remarkable second place. The team consisted of Third Year pupils Ollie Wynn, Caspar Barton, Dom Wells and David Poolman.

OLLIE GRAY COMPETES IN THE KARTING WORLD FINALS

CRICKET CATCH! On Friday 17 June, Louis Davidson (3A1) caught the ball at the 20/20 cricket match between Surrey and Middlesex.

As a result, he won £1000. Well done Louis!

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Ollie Gray (1L), who joined Caterham this year, is a kart racer competing in the British Super1 Championships and the BirelArt/EasyKart National Championship. In his second year of racing, he won the BirelArt/EasyKart UK National Championships – his prize was to compete in the 2016 World Finals in Castelletto, Italy earlier this month. The event lasted for five days and had over 200 drivers from a number of different kart classes competing. Ollie raced against forty three other drivers from around the world - in qualifying heats, pre finals and finals. He lined up 16th in the A Final and, after a 12-minute race, Ollie finished a tremendous 9th – the highest ever position a UK cadet has finished in these world finals. Well done Ollie!

INDIVIDUAL PUPIL SUCCESS

Representative Honours for Caterham Rugby Stars ************************

Caterham School sportsmen Tyler Norwood and Jude Williams were selected to represent Surrey at Under 16 level following the pair’s key role part in Surrey’s recent victory over Hampshire.

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wo pupils from Caterham School - Conor McNeil and Che Ocugboju – played in the South East Independent Schools Lambs Under 18 team for the Lambs’ recent regional festival.

The Lambs side comprises the finest players from schools across England.

Mr Dan Richards, Head of Rugby at Caterham, said: “Both boys did very well on the day and were great ambassadors for the School. Well done to all four boys on their representative honours, they are continuing a fine tradition and track record of representational honours for the side.”

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SEAFARING ADVENTURES Royal Astronomy Society

Many congratulations to Anton Konshin (5R) who came in the top twelve pupils nationally in the Edexcel GCSE Astronomy exam. This is a huge achievement – well done, Anton!

During the Easter break Fourth Year Caterham pupil James Flanagan sailed aboard the 34 -metre long TS Royalist from Gosport to Greenwich as part of a team of fifteen high flying cadets. Over the week he practised, and was assessed on, a range of skills including lecturing, weapons handling and map reading. He passed and is now a corporal with the Royal Marine Cadets.

PREP v SIXTH FORM CHESS COMPETITION The Science Labs were abuzz with excitement as Prep School pupils from Year 3, 4, 5, and 6 arrived to take on Sixth Formers at the annual David Green Chess Competition.

Named in memory of a former chess coach who helped train our pupils, this annual competition sees Prep School pupils pit their wits against Sixth Formers. This year, a particularly talented crop of Prep School pupils

– including the formidable Xavier Parker (Year 6), who defeated a whole run of Sixth Formers – won overall, with a total number of 32 games won, with their Sixth Form opponents winning 24.

OXFORD FIRST PRIZE Lottie de Leyser was awarded first prize in the St John’s College, Oxford Classical essay Competition in the Philosophy Category. This is a prestigious, nationwide competition which attracts fierce competition, so this really is a superb achievement.

Well done Lottie!

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DISTINCTION

DIPLOMA SUCCESS FOR

ANN WAI

Ann Wai has recently been awarded a diploma on the flute

by Trinity College London.

To become an Associate of Trinity College London you are required to perform a lengthy and challenging recital to an exceptionally high standard. Not only did Ann pass this hugely challenging examination, but she was also awarded a distinction, which is extremely rare. Only the top performers achieve this accolade.

Ann played flute in both the Sinfonia and Latin Orchestra at School and has gave solo performances throughout her time here. The music department would like to congratulate Ann on her fantastic achievement and we look forward to seeing her continue to develop as a musician.

BALL GIRL BOUNCES BACK AT THE O2 Georgie Young (3A) performed as a Ball Kid at the ATP World Tour Tennis finals at the 02. Having sustained a broken leg in Year 1, Georgie completed a long rehabilitation, and was successful in the trials to be one of thirty Ball Kids at this year’s finals.

She competed in the UK trials at the National Tennis Centre, and was delighted to have been chosen.

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Silver Medal at Cambridge Articulation Prize Final After winning our very strong school competition, Anastasia Karamzina (Lower Sixth), who studies History of Art, won first prize in the regional final of the Articulation Prize. She then took part in the national final of the Articulation Prize at Cambridge

University and defeated a number of impressive competitors to win second place. Judged by Tim Marlow, art historian, curator and TV presenter, the final featured the nine winners of the regional competitions from around the country.

GO KARTING Daytona Sandown Park hosted two very competitive go-karting races.

The first team had a very tight race, with James Becket (1L) taking pole position and fastest lap (3rd fastest lap in the circuit this month!). It was David MacBeth (5U), however, who dominated the race until the last lap, when he span and Adam Curness (5N) took the lead until the checked flag, with David second

and James third. The second race was dominated by Alex Smith (4U) from beginning to end. Alex took pole, fastest lap and victory, with Ben Moore (3U2) and Treve Ninnes (1D) completing the podium. Well done to all the boys and the girl who took part in the races. They set very competitive times in very tricky and slippery conditions, due to the cold weather.

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT

hugely impressive – perhaps the most impressive IRP yet

Independent Research Project MR KIM WELLS

Many congratulations to Joey Pang (U6H2), who was this year’s winner of the IRP – one of the School’s most prestigious academic prizes.

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oey’s project, which also won the Audience’s Vote prize, was titled A Terrible Week(ness) and was an insightful and strikingly original study of autism and the social difficulties associated with the condition. Swaney Loh (U6A2), who was awarded the second place prize, gave a fascinating talk to the audience on the ‘sworn virgins’ of

Northern Albania. Third place went to Rainbow Cheng (U6L2) who spoke about missionaries in nineteenth century China. Daniel Davidson (U6L2), Lucy Etheridge (U6U1) and Roman Streltsov (U6U1) were the other finalists in a contest which the judges described as “hugely impressive – perhaps the most impressive IRP yet.”

Thank you to our judges: Mr John Weeks (Headmaster of the London Academy of Excellence in Newham), Ms Lindie Louw (Headmistress of Hazelwood Prep School) and Mr Rob Baston (banker, mathematician and parent of two OCs).

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CAREERS Cambridge Visit for Sixth Form

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Lower Sixth formers visited Selwyn College, Cambridge on to be informed and inspired about studying at Oxbridge. After a talk and Q & A session with Dr. Keeler, Senior Tutor at Selwyn, they were treated to a behind the scenes tour of college with two current undergraduates and then lunch in the sunshine in Selwyn’s beautiful gardens. The Classicists and Mathematicians then benefited from meeting dons at King’s and Churchill Colleges. There are currently 49 OCs studying at Oxford and Cambridge – this group of Lower Sixth formers are now extra keen to join them one day!

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epresentatives from 35 of the UK’s top universities came from all over the country to the first ever Caterham School Universites Fayre. From Glasgow and St. Andrews, the London School of Economics, Manchester, Sheffield to Exeter, Swansea and even New South Wales, Australia, they travelled and what an event it was! One visitor even said it was the best event they had ever seen at Caterham!

Our students were able to ask about courses and accommodation as well as listen to talks on Getting into Medicine, Applying to Competitive Universities and Winning Personal Statements, to name but a few. This was a fabulous opportunity for our students to engage with university representatives and glean vital information for the next stage in their career journey.

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DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING

125TH ANNIVERSARY

OF OUR DEBATING SOCIETY

On 24 February, the 125th anniversary of the Caterham School Debating Society was celebrated by many of its former members, ranging from the class of 1955 to that of 2014.

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he Vice President (Rob Salem), in the presence of the President (Headmaster, Ceri Jones), chaired a debate that harked back to the very first motion discussed in 1892.

The seven Old Caterhamians and current pupil Chairman of the Society weaved persuasive arguments through a tangled web of delightful humour and gentle taunting, reviving memories of their own experiences of debating at the School in days gone by.

CATERHAM ECONOMISTS

In the Autumn term, the Caterham Economists took part in two fantastic debates against Lingfield Notre Dame school.

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he first, on the motion “This house believes that the needs of the UK public would be better served under a set of nationalised rail operators”, saw Ivan Pyatanov (U6U2), Daniel Iliev (U6R2) and Maxim Vakhidov (U6L1) successfully propose the motion. Despite their credentials as ardent free marketeers, they argued persuasively and coherently for greater state involvement. The second debate was entitled “This

House believes that immigrant labour is a disaster for citizens of developed economies” – a tough one for our overseas pupils to argue, again proposing the motion. Hannah Wang (U6L1), Brian Yu (U6L1) and Jasmine Lam (U6R2) spoke eloquently on the topic, but home advantage in this debate counted and the motion was defeated.

Well done to all for your involvement.

Mr John Weiner

BUSINESS STUDIES: FOURTH YEAR

In the summer term, Mrs Wallace had the Fourth Year testing quality control versus quality assurance methods in Business Studies.

By the looks of this tower, made entirely from paper, coffee stirrers and tape, the quality assurance team won.

A replay of the car industry in the 70s and 80s perhaps?

FRENCH SOCIETY POLITICAL DEBATE

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he French Society discussed the French presidential elections, focussing on the rise of the extreme right party and the legal battles facing some of the candidates.

Cecile, our French Assistant, gave us a presentation on different political parties, analysed the possible scenarios and spoke about the risks of different outcomes of the elections.

The presentation was followed by a “Speed-Dating” activity, for which Upper Sixth had prepared questions on their oral topics. Each person had two minute rounds, in which the teachers and the Lower Sixth asked Upper Sixth any questions related to their oral topic. This was a great exercise in helping the Upper Sixth gain confidence in speaking.

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

YEAR 5

Film Workshops

FILM FUN

SENIOR FILM CLUB Film Club made their very own Green Screen Film, ‘Around Caterham School in 80 Seconds,’ which premiered at Caterham School’s very first film festival in May. Meanwhile, Senior Film Club were also involved in filming many School productions

such as Grease and the Talent Show and were involved in helping Year Five in lunchtime film sessions.

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This year the Year 5 Film Partnership was launched by Miss Crick, with the aim of film working in partnership not only between the Prep and Senior Schools but across the subjects of English, Drama, Dance, Music, Innovation, Computing and technical theatre.

Year 5 Film Partnership Workshops took place in The Performing Arts and Innovation Centre. Pupils from Caterham Prep School took part in Drama and Dance sessions to learn how to interpret a chosen poem to create dynamic, creative and moving performances.

Pupils were treated to Animation, Green Screen, Storyboarding, Tech and Music sessions. Senior School pupils took part in teaching throughout the day – well done to Krista Goodwin, Shibiram Murugamoorthy, Laura Sessi-Knott, Matthew Sharpe and James Allison.

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BBC NEWS

School Report Success CATERHAM SCHOOL’S FIRST FILM FESTIVAL In May, the School’s first Film Festival took place, following the success of the School’s previous two Oscar Nights.

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he evening showcased the premieres of an exciting array of film projects which included Year 5 Partnership Programme Films, Year 6 Film Club Films, English Films, BBC School Report Film and a variety of films displaying the wealth of activities that happen at Caterham School. The evening also included a dance by Josie Branson and Jay Tuyenbayev in addition to a talk from Joshua Howgego, Feature Editor at New Scientist.

The evening started with mini interactive workshops for the audience which included Green Screen, Animation, Podcast, Editing and Robotics.

The evening ended with awards being presented by Charles Fearn, Picture Publicist at Channel 4, Rachel Bashford (Old Caterhamian and former member of Film Club), and Kate York, Freelance Producer and Director.

Well done to all pupils who were involved and worked incredibly hard.

The BBC News School Report Team at Caterham School worked very hard since October. The first BBC News School Report went live before Christmas with pupils reporting on the charity work undertaken by the local Caterham Rotary Club and our own Sixth Form.

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n addition, not only did pupils work on their own new reports but in January, the Caterham BBC News School Report Team ran two First Year workshops designed to introduce all pupils to what the BBC News School Report is. They learnt interview techniques and got a chance to interview Sixth Form and external guests from the different partnerships at Caterham.

The first week saw the BBC team teach interview and film techniques and explain their BBC News School Report to First Years. Pupils were then placed into teams and given a partnership which included charities - Delight, Romania, Clifton Hill and the Rotary Club - to devise questions for. These questions were then used in the second workshop to interview invited Sixth Form and external guests. The pupils threw themselves into the roles of reporting and filming. Indeed, the Rotary Club members commented on how impressed they were with the standard of both the questions and filming.

Whilst these interviews were taking place Matthew Sharpe, Laura Sessi-Knott, James Allison, Zoe Makele and Zara Makele interviewed the headmaster about community and the school partnerships. The best interviews were used in the final review report which went live on the School BBC webpage on News Day in March.

The News Day finally arrived on 16 March and the team had not one but two reports that went live on their BBC webpage on News Day. The pupils involved celebrated their success with a mini BBC party at lunchtime, where they watched the second report which had just gone live.

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Caterham School Production

In December, The Humphreys Theatre was transformed into Rydell High School as Greasers slouched on the bleachers, the Pink Ladies partied, Patty shook her pom poms, Eugene escaped from the clutches of Cha Cha and Miss Lynch tried to keep control of the seventy-five strong cast.

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ell known songs such as Greased Lightning, Summer Nights and You’re the One that I Want were brought to life by the amazing Grease Band and fantastic singing and dancing. Lauren Hunt-Williams (U6U2) as Sandy and Hugo Soer (U6H1) as Danny performed outstanding solos of Hopelessly Devoted and Sandy, creating a powerful emotional connection with the audience within an energetic, action packed show. The Teen Angel boy band and dancers, led by Nathan Freedman (3U2), made a theatrical entrance in a sea of haze, angel wings and hair curlers. The backstage and technical teams were entirely pupilrun.

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were outstanding as the separate departments – lights, sound, props, set, costume and make up – worked together to add context, colour and sparkle to the production. By the end of the show the audience were on their feet hand jiving with the cast as Johnny Casino (Will Ward U6U2) led the entire auditorium in a sensational reprise of Born to Hand Jive.

MRS LOUISE FAHEY

DRAMA AND THEATRE

Superb LAMDA Results for Caterham Actors The November Lamda exam session saw some excellent results in a variety of acting, devised and speaking of verse and prose exams.

WELL DONE TO ALL CANDIDATES BELOW:

particular well done to Zoe Makele (2M) who scored 92/100 for her Grade 5 Speaking of Verse and Prose and Poppy Labrosse (1R) who scored 91/100 for her Grade 5 Acting exam and to the First Year devised group who performed a brilliant piece all of their own making which resulted in five distinctions.

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LOVE and RABBITS The Underground Clown Club ARTSHOUSE was delighted to host ‘Love & Rabbits’ which the company describe as children’s poetry for adults.

Taking inspiration from Spike Milligan and Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Dr Seuss, two performers created scenes, stories and sketches out of a handful of props enthralling the audience with their energy and creativity. At times surreal, this imaginative performance left the audience wanting more!

Mihir Gandecha (4U)

Verse and Prose, Grade 7

Pass

Zara Makele (2O)

Verse and Prose, Grade 5

Distinction

Zoe Makele (2M)

Verse and Prose, Grade 5

Distinction

Krishan Ahuja-Hofheiz (1D)

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Eloise Smith (1D)

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Alice Caiger (1D)

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Penny Ogden (1R)

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Grace Godfrey (1L)

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Mili Greener (1W)

Acting, Grade 4

Merit

Hannah Lobb (3U2)

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Shreya Kumar (3H1)

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Isabella Burns (1L)

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Emily Worrell (1W)

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Paige Griffiths (1W)

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Laura Brooker (1R)

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Maaduri Anbukumar (1W)

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Hermione Zhou (4U)

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Millie Thomas (2O)

Acting, Grade 5

Distinction

Poppy Labrosse (1R)

Acting, Grade 5

Distinction

Ben Moore (3U2)

Acting, Grade 5

Pass

Ed Statham (4U)

Acting, Grade 5

Distinction

Alice Fish (U6L2) Acting, Grade 8 Gold Medal Merit

ST JOHN’S PUPILS VISIT In June, thirty two Year 4 and 5 pupils from St John’s CofE Primary School in Caterham visited the School for a Drama Master Class. The session was run by Mrs Fahey, aided by Fifth Years Jade Sanders and Nell Fahey. The group was bursting with talent and enthusiasm which we will be looking to help develop.

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LAMDA DISTINCTIONS CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR PUPILS WHO RECEIVED LAMDA RESULTS OVER THE HOLIDAYS. IN TOTAL THEY WERE AWARDED THREE MERITS AND TWENTY DISTINCTIONS! Alex Siminov

Acting, Grade 6

Bronze Medal, Merit

Lauren Bacchus

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Eleanor Norman

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Isabelle O’Geary

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Shreya Kumar

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Hannah Lobb

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Katie King

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Maaduri Anbukumar

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Laura Brooker

Devised, Grade 3

Distinction

Penny Ogden

Devised, Grade 4

Distinction

Alice Caiger

Devised, Grade 4

Distinction

Grace Godfrey

Devised, Grade 4

Distinction

Eloise Smith

Devised, Grade 4

Distinction

Lara Paul

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Zara Makele

Acting Grade 4

Distinction

Hermoine Zhou

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Keya Desai

Acting, Grade 5

Merit

Georgia Hebden

Speaking Verse and Prose, Distinction Grade 3

Max Stephanos

Speaking Verse and Prose, Distinction Grade 4

Lexie Edwards Acting, Grade 7 Silver Medal, Distinction Phoebe Salem Acting, Grade 8 Gold Medal, Distinction Taylor Gordon Acting, Grade 6 Bronze Medal, Distinction Anoushka Gulati

Acting, Grade 6

Bronze Medal, Merit

Amongst those receiving fantastic results was Phoebe Salem who started with her Grade 3 exam when she joined the school and who has just received a Distinction for her Grade 8 Gold Level (the highest grade) and achieved 93/100.

Phoebe describes what Lamda has meant to her: I joined the Lamda club back in first year not entirely sure what it was but I knew it involved acting so that was good enough for me. I started off straight away choosing my monologues and duologues for grade three with some friends in my year who I didn’t know as well then – but now I am great friends with, due to the Lamda process. When I had completed my Grade 3, which was a rather scary process at first, before I knew it, I was walking out of my Grade 8 Lamda exam knowing I’d tried my best and feeling over the moon when I found out I had received a distinction.

To those thinking of doing Lamda, I would really recommend trying it out even if it’s just for one grade as it’s a great way to get to know people better, develop confidence as well as playing some rather interesting and unforgettable characters!

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STOP WATCH THEATRE WARN ABOUT DRUGS The Stopwatch Theatre Company visited Caterham and performed “I love you mum, I promise I won’t die!” for the Fifth Year pupils. The verbatim play, written using the police transcripts which followed his death, trace the tragic night Daniel Spargo-Mabbs lost his life.

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he play demonstrated the dangers which accompany drug use, and the ease with which poor decisions can be made by normal young people. Daniel’s mother spoke to the Caterham Sixth Formers. Given Daniel’s proximity in both age, situation and location to our pupils, the message was powerful and her presentation much appreciated by the pupils.

The Spargo-Mabbs Foundation carries out workshops and presentations in the local area in order to raise awareness around the issues of young people and drug use.

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OUR DAY OUT IN FEBRUARY, A WONDERFULLY DYNAMIC CAST FROM THE THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR BROUGHT THE BITTERSWEET COMEDY OF WILLY RUSSELL’S LIVERPUDLIAN SCHOOL PLAY ‘OUR DAY OUT‘ TO THE HUMPHREYS THEATRE.

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aving worked tirelessly to perfect their accents, the cast worked as an ensemble to capture the chaos, mayhem but also poignancy, of a school trip to Wales.

There were some notably fine performances from Amy Lauder as Carol, Molly Cooke as Mrs Kay and Fin McEwan as Mr Briggs. The tension between the teachers was beautifully offset by the lads Reilly and Digga, played with authentic cheekiness by Chris Baker and Arjun Bisla.

Many congratulations to a very talented cast.

CATERHAM PUPILS ON STAGE IN

Three Caterham School students were selected for the auditioned cast of High School Musical on stage at The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill between 3 – 5 August.

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addy Pullen played the lead role of Gabriella Montez, Charlotte Roberts the role of Performing Arts kid and Lara Paul played an East High cheerleader.

Gabriella, Maddy and Lara performed in the YESOS Youth Musical Theatre production alongside young people from more than twenty different schools across Surrey and Sussex. YESOS were winners of a NODA award for excellence for their 2015 production of Les Misérables School Edition. High School Musical on stage is an up tempo stage production of the 2006 Disney movie. It features all the film’s hit songs, such as Start Of Something New, Stick To The Status Quo and We’re All In This Together.

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Music and Dance

LIVE!

The fifth annual MADlive took place on Saturday 25 March. The sell-out show included a cast of two hundred pupils, ranging from Year 5 to the Upper Sixth.

It was a huge spectacle of live music and dance, wonderfully compered by our very own Mr Fahey.

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ighlights in the first half included Bust Your Windows, Crazy in Love and Shut Up and Dance, performed by our Year Five prep pupils, Close Harmony and Vocal Point respectively. The second half featured gymnastics, tap, a beautiful pas de deux and an 80s-inspired performance of Dancing on the Ceiling. The full cast gathered on the stage for the finale – Waiting for a Star to Fall – to rapturous applause.

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DNA - GCSE DRAMA PERFORMANCE

DNA by Dennis Kelly was commissioned

by National Theatre Education as part of its Connection project; the play was first performed in the Cottesloe Theatre of the National Theatre in 2008.

A group of GCSE Drama students offered a poised performance of this difficult and disturbing play to an audience of parents, teachers and fellow pupils.

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he intimacy of the new Deayton Theatre space complemented the tense and oppressive atmosphere of the play. Despite the horrifying subject matter, we could not help but be impressed by the mature way that the students handled the themes and challenges involved.

Special mention should go to Jonathan Koo for his portrayal of the bewildered Adam, to Charlotte Cross in her role as the insecure Leah and Chris Smith as the unpredictable and threatening character of John.

Technical elements of the play were very ably provided by Matthew Wray (Lighting) Lauren Scott Smith (Set) and Charlotte Roberts (Props).

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GCSE DRAMA PERFORMANCE –

FIND ME

On Sunday 26 March GCSE Drama pupils performed Olwen Wymark’s powerful play Find Me.

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he play is based on the true story of “Verity Taylor” (not her real name), a girl who was institutionalised and locked away for behaviour which might now be recognised as autistic.

In the play we follow the distress of Verity and her family as they fail to get help with her violent behaviour.

She is incarcerated indefinitely in Broadmoor after setting fire to a chair, aged 20.

The actors were outstanding in

their communication of character and powerful emotions. The stylised performance created a sense of Verity’s experience of her world, supported by bold coloured props designed and created by Nell Fahey.

All actors were excellent, but special mention must go to all five actors that played Verity, Katie Colquitt for her sensitive portrayal of Verity’s mum and also James Blunden for his emotional portrayal of Verity’s brother.

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MATILDA – IN 20 MINUTES!

Caterham’s talented First and Second Years introduced an evening of drama with a comic performance of The Magic Finger. It was a creative and imaginative display with some wonderful puppets, and was enjoyed by the whole audience.

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ollowing a short interval, 36 First and Second Year pupils gave a wonderful performance of the concise version of Tim Minchin’s Matilda. It was full of energy and enthusiasm and every single pupil involved looked like they were absolutely loving it!

Hannah Belshaw played Matilda and she managed to capture the character wonderfully, giving a flawless and charismatic performance of the song, “Naughty”. Will Smithson played the infamous Miss Trunchbull; he got fully into character and had the audience in hysterics

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– one of the highlights prior to the performance was hearing him shout “I need my bra!”

The genius casting of Mr and Mrs Wormwood saw Fred Oliver and Abbie McDowell give extremely convincing performances.

The singing, dancing, and acting showed Caterham’s First and Second Year pupils at their absolute greatest and their engagement and enthusiasm for the performance showed great maturity. Special thanks must go to the technical crew, props, costumes, and make-up team for their fantastic, dedicated, and professional performances.

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TAPAS AND TRAGEDY – SPANISH PLAY

A LEVEL PERFORMANCE OF ART –

YASMINA REZA

IN MARCH, A LEVEL DRAMA PUPILS ENTERTAINED AN INVITED AUDIENCE WITH YASMINA REZA’S AWARD WINNING COMEDY ART.

Lorca’s powerful political tragedy Yerma about motherhood and the conflicting expectations of women in 1930s rural Spain was performed in June.

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he themes of the play echoed contemporary issues across the world and achieved a new life within the modern interpretation of our Sixth Form translators. The play’s intense message had a powerful impact on the audience.

The whole cast achieved fantastic performances, but special mention must go to Olivia Lindo who played the powerful lead role of Yerma and Max Fogelman who performed the role of Juan with confidence and maturity.

The play is a fast-paced comedy, exploring the disastrous impact on a friendship when one character buys a large, expensive, completely white painting by a fashionable artist. The play progresses through a series of hurtful revelations and truths and ends with a lie in order to preserve their relationship. The audience response reflected the superb achievements of the performers, particularly their excellent characterisation and brilliant comic timing.

Serge was played by Josie Branson, Marc

by Jess Calcutt and Yvan by Alice Fish.

DRAMA WEEK – THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

Drama Week this year was an exciting and busy week, filled with a wide variety of Drama events, recognising theatre’s ability to entertain, challenge and open our minds to new experiences.

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he week began with an extract of our Junior Rep’s performance of The Government Inspector which they performed excellently at The Leatherhead Festival this year.

Sixth Form drama students performed their powerful Verbatim play about road safety to a captivated audience. This was an intensely moving piece that had a huge impact on the young drivers in the audience.

Scenes from Matilda were performed to the Lower School as they celebrated musical theatre.

This was followed by Monologues and Muffins, in beautiful sunshine at the Orchard Theatre. Pupils from First Year to Lower Sixth performed monologues and duologues from classical and contemporary plays.

Wednesday’s performance of Lorca’s Yerma and Spike Milligan - style spoken word performance

of Love and Rabbits treated audiences to two excellent evening performances.

The third Caterham School House Improv! took place to mark the last day of Inspiring Drama Week, with seven teams juggling words and ideas to win the trophy. It was a packed and enriching week of drama.

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The cast achieved a sell out show on its last night

Edinburgh Fringe

Success for Caterham REP! In the summer, Caterham School made its first appearance at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing at the fantastic SpaceTriplex.

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he cast consisted of twelve actors aged 15 – 18 years who performed a high energy adaptation of Jonson’s The Alchemist. Our young actors rose to the challenge of performing in a professional venue; despite intense competition, the cast achieved a sell-out show on its last night!

The cast leafleted and performed tirelessly on the packed Royal Mile, entertaining the crowds with spontaneous performances and music. Their period costumes attracted the attention of TV cameras and photographers.

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Leatherhead Drama Festival 2017 Caterham Junior Rep once again thrilled audiences at the Leatherhead Drama Festival last week. Our 1st and 2nd year pupils performed Gogol’s ‘The Inspector General’ with beautiful comic timing and fantastic ensemble work. They successfully breathed new life into Gogol’s classic satirical play.

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aius Ramsden-Board took on the dominant role of the Governor with impressive maturity, supported brilliantly by his corrupt team – Georgia Hebden, Taylor Gordon and Andrew James. The manipulative Khlestakov, played by Joshua Millar, totally engaged the audience with his charm and ability to extort money from his hosts!

The adjudicator loved their performance, commenting positively on their excellent ensemble work, superb characterisation and ability to maintain a complex performance style throughout the play.

We were delighted when Joshua Millar was nominated for the best actor award. The winner is selected across all 16 youth groups.

BEST ACTOR AWARD FOR JOSHUA Second Year pupil Joshua Millar has been awarded ‘The Michael Caine award for Best Actor’ at the Leatherhead Drama Festival following the fantastic performance given by the whole cast of their chosen festival piece The Inspector General.

Joshua received the acccolade at the Festival’s Saturday Awards evening.

This is a remarkable achievement for such a young actor who was up against experienced and much older actors. Supported by a fantastic cast, the adjudicator felt that Joshua performed the role of Khlestakovwith maturity, purpose and perfect comic timing!

Johsua was presented with his award by TV presenter, Andrea McLean. We are very proud of your achievement Joshua! Well done!

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WORLD BOOK DAY Leading Voice in Teenage Fiction INSPIRES YOUNG WRITERS IN JANUARY, THIRD YEAR PUPILS WERE TREATED TO A WARM, ENGAGING AND THOUGHTPROVOKING TALK FROM AUTHOR BALI RAI.

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ali’s colourful description of growing up in Leicester kept pupils enthralled, and demonstrated why he is a leading voice in teenage fiction. Over seventy pupils bought one or more of his books and his lunchtime creative writing workshop was very well attended by Third and Fourth Year pupils.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RECITATION COMPETITION

BALI RAI WITH STUDENTS

AWARD FROM ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION CHURCHILL COMPETITION In February, Caterham School competed against other local secondary schools at the annual English Speaking Union Churchill Public School Competition.

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aren Ma (Fourth Year) provided some excellent questions for her speaker, who was chaired by Rory More (Fifth Year). Sophia Maisashvili (Fifth Year) delivered a timely and thought-provoking speech on ‘when they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair’.

The pupils did themselves and the School proud and we were delighted that Rory was awarded the prize of the best Chair of the night.

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An Evening with

TENNESSEE

The English Department hosted a very atmospheric, engaging and useful literary event, centred around Tennessee Williams’ classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which is currently a set text on the A-level syllabus.

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he evening comprised three lectures from Mrs Katy James (Head of History), Mr Godfrey (English teacher and Deputy Head) and from a visiting professional RSC actress, Rebecca Collingwood, who spoke about her experience playing the part of Blanche at the start of her career.

These lectures were interspersed with some terrific

performances from Fifth Year and Sixth Form students who performed scenes from the play. To top it all, many guests dressed in classic 1940s’ costumes, and the catering department even laid on some wonderful Cajun cuisine for us to enjoy in the specially decorated Wilberforce Hall as the talented Mr Crombie (also an English teacher) tinkled on the ivories.

ENGLISH TRAGEDY EVENT – Performed by the Sixth Form

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HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM PUPILS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS WERE TREATED TO THE INAUGURAL HUMANITIES’ SYMPOSIUM, WITH THE HEADS OF ENGLISH, HISTORY, RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND

HISTORY OF ART EACH GIVING THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE ON THE REFORMATION.

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rs James’s talk, titled The Language of Power, gave an historical perspective, while Rev Mearkle’s talk, Reformation Reflections, was insightful from a personal and theological point of view. Dr Gray explained how the Reformation is reflected in contemporary art during her talk (‘Art and Architectural Reformation’); and, finally, a literary angle was delivered by Miss O’Donnell in her presentation, ‘Cursed be he’: Corruption in Literature.

Many thanks to all who came; it was particularly pleasing to see so many from our School community engaging in this intellectual and cultural highlight of the term.

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MATHS IN ACTION IN NOVEMBER, TWENTY LOWER SIXTH FURTHER MATHEMATICIANS, ACCOMPANIED BY MR OGILVIE AND MISS DAWRANT, VISITED THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION (PART OF UCL) TO ATTEND A SERIES OF MATHS LECTURES.

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L to R: Isaac Quinton (L6A2), James Grime, Rupert Arnold (L6N2) and Tom Blake (L6H1))

SUCCESS AT MATHS OLYMPIAD AND MATHS KANGEROO CONGRATULATIONS to the large number of Third, Fourth and Fifth Years who qualified for Intermediate Maths Kangaroo and Intermediate Maths Olympiad, which was sat at the end of the Spring Term following excellent performances in the Intermediate Maths Challenge.

hese included “Bad Stats: What They Don’t Tell You on The News”, “Enigma and the Secret World of Code Breaking” and “The Hidden Maths in Pop Music” among the best of the five lectures. The pupils were thrilled to get to meet James Grime in person, having previously enjoyed his YouTube channel, and some pupils managed to get their photo taken with him. James Grime brought in an authentic, still working WWII Enigma Machine and explained to pupils how it worked.

All the pupils really enjoyed the trip, as did the staff.

MS NANCY DAWRANT

HAPPY PUZZLE COMPANY In November, all 186 pupils in First and Second Years were visited by the Happy Puzzle Company and took part in a Puzzle Challenge Day.

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he day saw pupils enjoying a variety of puzzles to crack; this task actively promoted teamwork and perseverance as well as engaging them in logical thinking tasks. The pupils had a great time solving puzzles such as placing twenty four penguins onto a moving iceberg without any falling off. Pupils also had to build a road out of a certain

number of junctions in order to create a system of roads with no dead ends. The day was centred around perseverance, which meant pupils couldn’t move onto the next puzzle until successfully solving the previous one. This made the successes much more fulfilling!

MS FIONA HUNTER-BLAIR

Special congratulations to Angela Sun for her Merit in the Maclaurin paper (for Fifth Years), and even more special congratulations to Lucy Yu for a quite stunning distinction in the Hamilton paper (for Fourth Years).

Of those qualifying for the slightly less demanding, but still very difficult, Kangaroo papers, Graham Gibbins, Oliver Sullivan, Anika Zhang and Daniel Blythe deserve warm congratulations for their Merits; but well done to everyone else as well.

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MATHS CHALLENGE MEDAL

MATHS CHALLENGE FINALS

WINNERS

CONGRATULATIONS to the 33 gold, 39 silver, and 30 bronze medal winners in the Intermediate Maths Challenge sat by Third, Fourth and Fifth years in February 2017.

S Having once again won the Surrey Final for the Senior Team Maths challenge, the School proudly represented the area in the National final held at the Royal Horticultural Halls.

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n the train into London, Isaac Quinton (Lower Sixth), Judy Zhu (Lower Sixth), Luke Derry (Upper Sixth) and Rui Huang (Upper Sixth) discussed the topic of Cellular Automata, which was the subject that they would be making a poster about as a fun way of starting off the day. The competition itself consisted of four rounds, including

a team relay. As one of 90 teams, competition was always going to be stiff. However, it was clear that our students had benefited from the preparation given by Dr Dimakos in the regular STEP lessons throughout the term.

Many thanks to Mr Ware for organising and accompanying the trip.

Eric Hao L6R2 (best in Lower Sixth), Peter Sun (U6L2), and Luke Derry (U6N1) who went

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l Jack

l Melody

Fan Su l Jonathan Koo l Mandy Yu l Oliver Sullivan l Graham Gibbins l Grant Davidson l Anna Gardner l Maxim Zhelyabovskiy l Oliver Cox l Anton Konshin

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Lee Thomas l William Sun l Ben Brown l Anika Zhang l Olivia Lu l Rhianna Harding l Caelan Thomas l George Thomas l Maddie McMillan l Mulang Su

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The Senior Maths Challenge was taken by pupils in the Lower and Upper Sixth in November. Congratulations to the 23 gold medal winners, 27 silver medal winners, and 11 gold medal winners.

Special congratulations to

The following 22 Y11 and Y10 students are through to the Pink Kangaroo follow on round:

The following 4 Year 9 students are also through to the Grey Kangaroo:

SENIOR MATHS CHALLENGE

Rui Huang U6N1(best in School),

pecial Congratulations to Angela Sun (Y11) and Lucy Yu (Y10) for jointly achieving ‘Best in School’ and Best in their Year with the fantastic score of 115. Angela is through to the extremely challenging Maclaurin paper and Lucy is through to the Y10 equivalent, the Hamilton paper. Christian Thomas achieved Best in Year 9, as well as qualifying for the follow on Grey Kangaroo.

Blythe l Shreya Ganesh-Kumar l Madelyne Garrett l Esther Keyworth

As a result of their strong performances in the SMC, the following qualified for the Senior Maths Kangaroo in December: l Tony

Cheng (U6H2) l Michael Lai (U6H2) l Hannah Wang (U6L1) l Aaron Cooke (U6N2) l Amber Cheng (U6U2)

l Jeremy

Wai (U6A1) l William Meng (L6R2) l David Il (L6A2) l Jack Wang (L6R1) l Isaac Quinton (L6A2)

l Tangyue

Zhang (L6N2) l Tom Zhang (L6A2) l Timothy Tam (L6A1) l Olivia Jia (L6U2) l Yuki Yang (L6H2).

on to take the British Maths Olympiad in December.

Of these, special congratulations are due to Jack Wang, Tony Cheng and Michail Lai for receiving merits in the kangaroo. Well done to everyone who took part.

DR ANTHONY LANGDON

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MATHS OLYMPIAD SUCCESSES CONGRATULATIONS to Scarlett Best, Cameron Hudson and Eva Zeng who qualified for the Junior Maths Olympiad taken in May. Eva achieved a merit, which is a fantastic achievement – but not to be outdone, Cameron achieved a quite stunning 44/70, resulting in a very rare Distinction and a silver medal.

This places him in the top 90 mathematicians out of his age group in the entire country. Well done, Cameron!

Maths Challenge In November, the School entered the Senior Team Mathematics Challenge Regional Final held at Cobham Hall School, near Gravesend. The team of Isaac Quinton (L6A2), Rui Huang (U6N1), Judy Zhu (L6N1) and Luke Derry (U6N1) came out victorious in a fiercely fought event. The School has now qualified for the Nationals which will be held in February. This is a wonderful event and the pupils are challenged with some very tricky problems. Our team worked well together and defended the title that we won last year. It is clear that the students are benefiting from the extension classes that are regularly run during lunch and after school.

MR CONRAD WARE

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n Friday 17 March, the School entered the Intermediate Team Mathematics Challenge Regional Final held at Trinity School.

Accompanied by Dr Dimakos, the team of Cameron Hudson, Eva Zeng, Alex Richings and Esther Keyworth performed really well finishing 9th in the region out of 39 schools.

The competition was split into 4 rounds: the group round (a set of questions attempted by all the members), cross number (like a cross

MEDAL HAUL IN THE JUNIOR MATHS CHALLENGE The results for the Junior Maths Challenge, taken at the end of April, were impressive. The First Year and Second Year pupils achieved 11 Gold medals, 15 Silver medals, and 24 Bronze medals.

Special congratulations to Scarlett Best (Best in School and Best in Year), Eva Zeng, Cameron Hudson, Nicola Finnegan, Sophie Hammond, Martin Smith, who all achieved a Gold medal and qualified for the Junior Kangaroo which will be sat on Tuesday 13 June.

Jack Carter, Samuel Choi, Ollie Van As and Rosemary Goodall also got Gold medals. Scarlett Sanderson in Year Seven achieved best in year with her Gold (the only one in Year Seven).

Well done to all who took part.

word but the words were substituted with digits and the clues by maths problems!), shuttle and relay, which were an intense mix of sprinting and problem solving.

CITY UNIVERSITY VISIT ON NOVEMBER 8, HALF A DOZEN STAFF FROM CITY UNIVERSITY VISITED THE LOWER SIXTH MATHEMATICIANS.

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ne group designed and tested load bearing structures as an introduction to Civil Engineering, and were invited back to the University to follow up their designs. Another group had an excellent introduction to the various different sub-disciplines within Engineering, whilst the rest heard about some Probability Paradoxes, competing against each other to see who could come up with the best strategy in a coin tossing game.

DR ANTHONY LANGDON

GCSE TRIP After a two hour coach journey, we arrived at the Institute of Education ready to learn more about maths outside the classroom.

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e were taught about maths’ greatest unsolved problems, listened to the structural engineer responsible for much of the ‘Shard’ and had a quick talk about exams. It was soon our lunch break. The next and last three lectures were our favourites – learning about ‘the Mould effect’, the wall of death, spinning things and

how juggling and guiding boats in and out of ports relate to each other.

Overall the day was very enlightening while also being funny and comical, and we have all learnt a lot about how much maths there is in everyday life.

AMY DAVIES (4R)

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The Spanish trip to Valencia was by far the most enjoyable trip I have experienced during my time at Caterham, leaving me with many amazing memories, such as trying new foods at the tapas restaurants each night and playing volleyball on the beach for the first time!

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he first day opened with an early morning flight to Valencia and checking into our hotel, followed by a trip to the Modern Art Museum. On the second day, everyone joined in the high standard game of volleyball, with a total record of two volleys over the net throughout the game (including the serve) - the first one volleyed by the instructor! On our penultimate day, we visited the City of Arts and Sciences. This was filled with many interactive visual displays, such as a machine that blasts you with air at the speed of a sneeze and a device that measures your strength.

PHOEBE CORNISH (3N1)

Au Revoir et Merci aux Upper Sixth At the final meeting of the School French Society this year, the topics discussed were the aftermath of the presidential election in France, the upcoming legislative elections and the new French government formed by the elected president Emmanuel Macron.

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ecile, our French assistant, gave an enriching overview of the new members of the French government and outlined the difficulties that they will have to face on their new posts. This political discussion was followed by a game of ‘Taboo’ where the students’ speaking ability was put to a test by a challenging task of describing nouns in French to their team without saying the nouns themselves under fixed time conditions ; some impressive scores were achieved by both teams during the course of the game.

We should acknowledge the remarkable effort of the Upper Sixth students who have run the French Society for the past school year and whose enthusiasm and hard work have truly inspired the Lower Sixth to engage in the culture of the French- speaking world. Special thanks should go to this year’s French Society President Anastasia Lykova and the Vice-President Meghan Davies for their incredible commitment and dedication.

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HOMER AND VIRGIL ENTHRAL CLASSICAL SOCIETY In the summer term, the Classical Society was delighted to host Fr Richard Smail, sometime Chaplain, College Lecturer and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford to Caterham School.

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r Smail spent the day running master classes on Virgil and Latin and Greek prose composition with Sixth Form classes, an invaluable experience in the lead-up to exams. In the evening he addressed a large gathering of pupils, staff and parents on ‘Why Homer and Virgil still matter.’ His lecture was powerful, compelling and fascinating, and the excerpts from these two great pillars of the classical canon, which he read out in Latin and English, were particular highlights. Pupils led the questions afterwards and received answers no less passionate or informative than the lecture itself.

Few could have left the Deayton Theatre that evening in any doubt as to the abiding power of the two colossi of the ancient literature.

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES GERMAN EXCHANGE TO

ANSBACH, BAVARIA The second ever exchange trip to Ansbach, Bavaria took place in the first week of the Autumn half term.

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nce again it was tremendous fun and highly enriching for students of German, who ranged from Third Year to Upper Sixth. All our pupils found lessons in Gymnasium Carolinum very different to those at Caterham. Although initially the prospect of staying with German families and being immersed in their culture was rather scary, by the end of the week everyone had tuned in and felt their German had come on, both in terms of speaking and understanding. Excursion highlights featured a full day in the city of Nuremberg, where everyone was in awe of the depth of the well at the Burg, half a day in Rothenburg where our guide walked us round the town and regaled us with hilarious anecdotes of its past history and a guided tour of the royal palace in Ansbach. The grand finale on our last day was a trip to the pizzeria followed by a trip to the ice cream parlour where several pupils competed with each other to see how many Kugel (scoops) of ice cream they could manage to eat!.

MRS CATHERINE CLIFTON

French Prize awarded to

SIXTH FORM ESSAYIST

ON TUESDAY 14 MARCH, WE WELCOMED OUR FRENCH PARTNERS FROM ST JO, NAY. ONE OF OUR L6 PUPIL , MEGAN MCGLASHAN, GAVE AN INSIGHTFUL AND ENTHRALLING PRESENTATION ON THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.

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e then enrolled our French partners to assist with a ‘speed dating session’ to practise different AS and A2 topics, such as integration, human rights, and different types of energy in France - en français bien sûr !

On Tuesday 21 March, we were delighted to welcome the Caterham Rotary Club who awarded their annual Prix de la Paix , a competition rewarding a Sixth Form pupil studying French for an essay written in French on the theme of Peace. The competition was fierce and the decision difficult to make as the standard was high. Thank you to everyone who took part.

The £100 Prize was awarded to Anastasia Lykova, Upper Sixth, for her incisive and original essay on the theme of terrorism in France. Anastasia then delivered a presentation on the same theme, sparkling a riveting and lively debate.

PUPILS HOST

ANSBACH EXCHANGE The last week of the Spring Term was particularly exciting for the ten Caterham pupils who welcomed their exchange partners from Gymnasium Carolinum.

The five month wait since our trip to Ansbach was finally over when the ten German pupils and their two accompanying teachers stepped off the coach into the warm March sunshine. They were able to have a mini tour of the school grounds followed by a very warm welcoming speech from Mr Godfrey on the Leathem Room balcony.

The beautiful weather continued throughout the week and made the Brighton trip particularly enjoyable for our German visitors, who enjoyed throwing stones into the sea on the lovely beach at Birling Gap, had a guided tour of Brighton pavilion and a typical British pub lunch up on Beachy Head. Other excursion highlights included an exciting ride on the Thames with London Duck tours followed by Wicked, the musical.

The fine weather also prevailed for the Hever Castle trip on the last day of term.

Several families had also been planning an action - packed weekend to round off the week with trips to Covent Garden, Oxford Street and Polesden Lacey, to name but a few.

Interestingly, however, when asked about their favourite moments, several German pupils cited the amazing food in the refectory and attending lessons with their English partners.

The tearful goodbyes at the coach on the morning of departure indicated that close friendships had already been formed which would also benefit both sides linguistically and culturally.

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ST JO, NAY

ANNUAL FRENCH EXCHANGE WITH

ST JO, NAY

Our French partners arrived in March for our annual exchange.

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fter collecting them from Gatwick at midday and a warm welcome from their English partners at school, it was straight into afternoon lessons and a taste of English school life. The French pupils quickly settled into the routine with their English host families.

The whole group enjoyed an exciting day in London visiting the Tower of London and getting to know a bit more about English history. This was followed by a minicruise on the Thames to discover the London sights by boat. After a very pleasant and relaxed meal, we all enjoyed a visit to the theatre to see School of Rock.

The rest of the week was spent at school in lessons and taking part in many co-curricular activities.

FRENCH SOCIETY For the first time this year, a pupil from Lower Sixth, Anastasia Karamzina (L6R1), volunteered to deliver to the French society a presentation on Impressionism.

She enriched us all with her knowledge on different artists, such as Claude Monet, and she demonstrated her ability to answer any questions that have been asked, developing her responses fully. It was just outstanding.

MISS ANASTASIA LYKOVA (U6L2)

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RETURN EXCHANGE VISIT At the beginning of the Easter holidays, we travelled to Nay for the return visit of the French exchange with our French partners in Collège St Joseph.

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he early start from Gatwick and the two hours’ drive to Nay after landing at Toulouse airport were quickly forgotten as soon as we saw St Jo with its amazing views of the Pyrénées still covered in snow. The warm and genuine welcome we received made us forget how tired we were and it was great to see partners catch up on news and wanting to know all about the trip. The English pupils found themselves having to speak not only to their partners but to half of their partners’ classmates as well.

It seemed as if all of St Jo’s pupils wanted to talk with us.

A little overwhelmed at first, the English pupils gained confidence and launched into enthusiastic conversations.

After some rest in the evening on Monday, it was straight into school on Tuesday followed by a visit to the Market. Have you ever seen an English teenager buying local products, discussing and sampling the differences between cheeses, finding out about the ingredients used for the local cakes or biscuits, advising other pupils in the group - all that in perfect French? Kitty impressed us with her knowledge and her confidence to do just that! We were worried about the suitcase weight on the way back! Other activities included a visit to Pau made famous by Henri IV (with an “i”), a trip to Cauterets ski resort with a memorable snowball fight and England vs France which ended in a draw. Thursday was a mountain biking hike (VTT) by the lake and a horse riding lesson in the Equestrian Centre, part of the Equestrian section at St Jo and in the afternoon, an amazing introduction to playing the local game of “Pelote basque’. On Friday the visit to the local cheese farm was also very enjoyable and instructive. The weekend was spent with families visiting nearby towns of Biarritz and Saint Jean de Luz. Some went skiing or visited nearby Spain.

Everyone had a wonderful time with our friends in Nay. Merci, et à l’année prochaine!

INNOVATION CENTRE

Computing Students visit

AMERICA’S CUP TEAM LAND ROVER BAR A GROUP OF SEVEN LUCKY PUPILS WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE HEADQUARTERS OF LAND ROVER BAR IN PORTSMOUTH. THE LAND ROVER TEAM, FOUNDED BY MULTI-OLYMPIC CHAMPION SIR BEN AINSLEY, IS THE BRITISH ENTRY TO THE AMERICA’S CUP.

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or part of the day, pupils were taught how to program a Raspberry Pi computer by the team’s technical partner, PA Consulting. One of the topics they learnt about was how to make the computer control a range of physical devices. This will be enormously beneficial as the pupils are each members of teams entering a competition to produce innovations that will improve the lives of people who have conditions that limit their ability to do things others take for granted. Inventions could range from technology which helps athletes win a medal in the Paralympics, aid visual impairment or learning difficulties,

to those which uses music therapy to help mental health.

Pupils also learnt a lot about the physics behind ‘the boats that fly’.

This included looking at the super lightweight, yet incredibly strong, materials the boat is made from and the hydraulics needed to sail the boat. They discovered how the

hydraulic pressure is generated, taking part in the grinder challenge. Bone-conductive hearing, which the sailors use in their helmets so they can communicate through the wind and the waves, was probably the weirdest experience of the day. As well as using Virtual Reality goggles to try and sail an America’s Cup boat they became incredibly competitive designing their boat, arguing the merits of speed vs stability to win a race. This was an incredibly enjoyable and memorable day!

TEEN TECH NATIONAL WIN RECEIVES ROYAL APPROVAL! Caterham School’s Teen Tech team, David Poolman (3NR), Ollie Wynn (3R2) and Caspar Barton (3AR), were presented with their winners’ certificates at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

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he three pupils were chosen as national overall winners for their design and prototype of ‘SensoSafe’ - a bike light that also detects vehicles approaching the cyclist from behind, alerting them to the potential danger.

Presenting the pupils with their certificates, HRH Duke of York, patron of TeenTech said, “As patron of

TeenTech, it’s a real pleasure to watch the organisation grow and to meet so many inspiring young people and their teachers.

TeenTech have consistently worked to prepare young people for the real working world of tomorrow – one which needs bold, brave thinkers with finely honed scientific, technical and digital skills, people

who can collaborate, create and communicate.”

This is a superb achievement for David, Ollie and Caspar, and for Miss Pateman and Mr Flood, and for all of the Design Technology department who supported and guided the team throughout. Congratulations to all of them!

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VISITING AUTHOR

In October, First Year pupils were treated to a thrilling talk from visiting author Chris Bradford.

Chris’ talk started with the ‘kidnap’ of an unsuspecting member of staff, and finished with a display of Samurai swordsmanship. Fifty pupils took the opportunity to buy signed copies of his books and the library has been buzzing ever since.

MRS DEBORAH MOORE

WORLD BOOK DAY

– Drop Everything And Read World Book Day was celebrated across the School in March, from the youngest pupils in Pre-Prep to the Upper Sixth Form in the Senior School.

Staff and pupils of all ages stopped what they were doing, picked up a book and read for 20 minutes to mark DEAR (Drop Everything And Read). Some pupils chose their favourite book while others read around a particular subject. Some read silently and others did it as a group activity. Many staff, led by the English Department, donned outfits of their favourite literary figures.

IBOOK LAUNCH Parents and pupils gathered in the Library on World Book Day to celebrate the launch of the first Caterham iBook.

Produced and edited by a small Sixth Form team, Destiny is a collection of art and writing from pupils across all year groups.

Pupils were delighted to have the opportunity to talk to three visiting authors about their writing. Old Caterhamians Rob Grant (2008) and Ellen Bashford (2010) spoke about juggling writing and working as a journalist and publisher respectively. Full time author Bali Rai said he was impressed by the passion and creativity of the work displayed.

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LONDON ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE

SURPRISE VISIT

In January, a lucky set of Lower Sixth Formers travelled to Stratford in east London to experience at first-hand the brilliant link between Caterham School and the London Academy of Excellence (LAE).

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veryone enjoyed enrolling in a lesson alongside our buddies from the LAE’s Caterham House. The afternoon entailed setting off in groups of both Caterham and LAE students to complete a treasure hunt around the Olympic Park. On the route, many of us bumped into Tom Daley at the Aquatics Centre, where he took a good deal of selfies!

Thank you to Dr Avery, Dr Pilkington and Mrs Wallace for accompanying us on the day. In addition, a huge thank you to Mr Fahey for organising the visit, and to Mr Parker for the colossal effort he continues to put into this unique link.

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CCF Air Experience Flying RAF BENSON

In October, twelve RAF cadets went to RAF Benson for a flying day.

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ith the weather looking grey, the day ahead looked a little grim, but Sqn Ldr Armitage played some lovely classical music and the sky eventually cleared for us. Soon we were all rushing through the practice and briefing to get into an aircraft as quickly as possible. The RAF pilots led us through many acrobatics such as Cuban rolls, stall turns and loops. Some pilots let us try loops ourselves! A couple of the boys stepped out of the cockpit looking pale and green, but we girls walked out with a skip in our steps!

CDT SIOBHAN CHOU (4N)

CCF PASSING OUT PARADE 2017

THE CURTAIN FELL ON THE CCF’S TRAINING YEAR ON HOME FIELD ON WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE.

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n front of a very large audience of parents, friends, staff and ex-cadets, over one hundred junior cadets and their NCOs marched onto parade to pass out of their respective phases of training.

Third Year recruits passed out of basic training and became cadets, while Fourth Year cadets marked the completion of their advanced infantry and aviation cadres. There were also promotions for several Lower Sixth

NCOs and the eagerly anticipated presentation of the Glancy Shield to the best platoon or flight: this year, Gibraltar Platoon under Sgt Ben Deans.

Lt Nick Doney (RN), who left Caterham and the CCF in 2005, told the parade of how what life as a cadet helped prepare him for his career as a submariner. He,

the Commanding Officer and the Headmaster, commended the cadets on their commitment throughout another very busy year. As the Union Flag and RAF Ensign were lowered, all Caterham’s cadets could feel very proud of themselves for all they had achieved over the past three terms.

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CCF Recruits’ Camp 2016: ST MARTIN’S PLAIN FOLKSTONE Seventy cadets from four year groups made their way to Folkestone in the middle weekend of the half-term break for the Unit’s annual October Camp.

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n bright sunshine, the Third Year recruits built on their fieldcraft knowledge through CQB lanes and fire and movement in preparation for Exercise ‘Wet Feet’ on Saturday evening – an escape and evasion exercise in the face of the perennial threat of the villainous enemy, Syrian Dawn. On Sunday the recruits returned to the area for exercises in stalking and navigation. The evening offered their first chance to fire live on the range, an exercise in night noises, and a chance to practise public speaking in mini-lectures, whose topics ranged from dabbing to Donald Trump’s hair. In a flash it was Monday and time for the inter-section Coke Can Challenge: after

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competitions in drill, on the DCCT range and on the obstacle course, it was 2 Section who emerged victorious.

Well done to all the new recruits and, as ever, to their stalwart Sixth Form NCOs who ran more or less the whole show.

LT MATHEW OWEN

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BUSHCRAFT

TRAINING DAY

On a wet Sunday in March,fifty four cadets were deployed to Old Park Woods to learn how to catch a spark even in the wet, build waterproof shelters from sticks and moss, and gut and cook fish and fowl on an open fire.

After lunch, it was off for three hours of combat laser tag. In teams the cadets put into practice their fieldcraft skills as they eliminated enemy forces with laser-adapted replica weapon systems and secured vital objectives for the Crown.

Impressive Display at CCF

ANNUAL GENERAL INSPECTION

AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS’ PREPARATION, THE UNIT WAS READY TO STAGE ITS ANNUAL SPECTACULAR ON SUNDAY TO A LARGE AUDIENCE OF PARENTS, STAFF, FRIENDS AND OLD CATERHAMIANS.

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his year’s inspecting officer was the Rev’d Dr David Coulter, Chaplain General of HM Land Forces.

The show began with an impeccable display from a Fifth and Sixth Form Guard of Honour, commanded by Capt Wilkinson. Guests were shown around exhibitions of cadets’ work in climbing, living in the field, archery, first aid and field craft. As guests returned to their seats, a group of disgruntled EU bureaucrats moved into view in their 4×4, setting up fortified positions on the Home Field. Only the Caterham Rifles could save the day: a platoon entered to the strains of Rule Britannia and soon put the enemy to flight.

Honours were shared in the annual races: the Army overcoming with brawn in the tug of war, the RAF with brain in the radio mast race. In a closing address, the Chaplain General congratulated the cadets on what they had achieved and calling to mind the sacrifice and service of those who keep our country safe. Recr Piers Branson (3A) was awarded ‘Best Recruit 2017’, FSgt Matthew Lee (U6R) ‘Best RAF Cadet’, and the Senior Cadet, CSM James Lovell, (U6H) ‘Best Cadet Army’.

Special thanks to the Chaplain, Dr Mearkle, who led the Unit in worship for the last time after seventeen AGIs.

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Forty Third Year recruits met at School on the first weekend of the Easter holidays to prepare for their two day self-reliance expedition.

CCF SELF-RELIANCE

EXPEDITION

The whereabouts of the cadets were unknown for several periods of the expedition, with the usual trespasses onto farmers’ fields, consecrated ground and gardens.

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ut eventually all recruits, carrying their bergens and wearing their blisters lightly, made it to the campsite for a good night’s rest on the Saturday. Thanks to the leadership of their dedicated section NCOs from the Fifth and Sixth Forms, the recruits marched out on Sunday morning and made their way through more checkpoints where they were tested on their map and compass skills, and relieved of their comestibles by the Unit’s dedicated officer corps.

CCF RANGE & OBSTACLE COURSE DAY, LYDD RANGES SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2017

Recruits, freshly through their weapon handling tests, had their first opportunity to fire the L98 A2 live on the ranges at Lydd on the Kent coast.

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hirty cadets across five year groups made up the party which undertook a 25m full bore shoot on a blustery spring day. Principles of marksmanship and weapon handling were honed for the Fourth and Fifth Year cadets, while the recruits used the opportunity to gain more confidence with the weapons. After lunch, cadets faced a demanding obstacle course which tested their courage, aggression and teamwork as well as fitness. The stiff winds from the Channel made the Burma bridge and twentyfoot-high cargo net particularly exciting.

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EXPEDITION

CATERHAM KAYAKER

In May, Fourth Year cadets undertook a five-day adventure course, which included training in climbing and kayaking. Nineteen cadets took part in the annual kayaking assessment at Mercers Park.

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he cold, choppy conditions did nothing to dampen their spirits as they took to the water to hone the kayaking skills previously taught in the swimming pool. The moderate cross-winds proved challenging at times to all but the strongest paddlers. However, the Caterham kayakers were seen to be very ably carrying out the British Canoe Union

Capsize Drills and Deep Water Rescue Tests.

Personal development and team building, incorporating lots of fun and games, were the order of the day, and after five hours of strenuous paddling everyone exited the water to the safety and comfort of the Aqua-Sports Café – to consume their entire bodyweight in chocolate.

Personal development and team building, incorporating lots of fun and games.

SUMMER LIGHTNING

EXPEDITION

AT THE END OF JUNE, THE CCF FACED OFF A DIE-HARD FACTION IN BRAMLEY.

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he enemy was driven from huts, pillboxes, tunnels and fortified positions in a string of fighting patrols, before a devastating night ambush on a vehicle convoy seemed to have destroyed any resistance. But after a few hours’ sleep, ‘stand to’ was called with reports that a small but die-hard faction was active again.

After lessons in section attacks and harbour drills, the cadets advanced to a harbour area and soon began to dominate the ground.

A downed helicopter was found and some straggling enemy eliminated, before a massive platoon assault on a trench and tunnel system finally scotched out the enemy.

The cadets who braved these exhausting two days, many of them recruits exercising for the first time, performed admirably.

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ADVENTURE TRAINING CAMP On the Saturday of Spring half-term, forty five members of the CCF bussed out to the Forest of Dean in snowy Gloucestershire for Exercise ‘Wye Wanderer’.

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he programme began with climbing and abseiling on the limestone faces of the famous Symonds Yat. A variety of climbs tested the strength and agility of even the nimblest cadets, before they faced an eighty foot abseil off the rock into the beautiful Wye Valley below. An evening at the bowling alley allowed the initially-confident Recr Haynes to be schooled in the art by his seniors, while LCpl Palmer led our outreach

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programme and charmed some of the locals. On Sunday, the CCF enjoyed some wildly fast and exhilarating mountain biking at Coleford during which most cadets clung on, followed by a therapeutic dip in a torrent.

St Martin’s Plain, Folkstone

JNCO CADRE CAMP 2016 While their juniors were busy learning the ropes of cadetship, the Fifth Year cadets were training to become leaders on the junior NCO Cadre.

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he cadets had a terrifying first meeting on the drill square with their Sergeant Major, WO2 Lawson of RMA Sandhurst. The afternoon’s programme included revision of skill-at-arms and some challenging command tasks, which assessed the cadre’s leadership and teamwork. At night, the cadets were given the tough task of leading young cadets in the field. PT, at dawn the next day was followed by a march onto the training area as the would-be corporals were each given a chance to lead a section attack on an enemy position, bark orders, and co-ordinate two fire teams.

An obstacle course in the afternoon followed, as this

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CCF physically and mentally demanding camp raced on. Then came the news everyone dreaded: a warning order for a deployment to a harbour area overnight. Cadets had to pack up their kit in bergens and webbing and give up the cosy sanctuaries of the billet houses for a night under the stars. It was not until late in the evening, with the harbour area established, that Lt North relented and allowed the relieved cadets to begin the long march back to camp. An assessment in the delivery of orders and a final parade on Monday allowed the staff and cadets themselves to see how far they had come during the camp’s rigours.

LT MATHEW OWEN

JNCO CADRE

PASSING OUT PARADE

THE AUTUMN TERM FOR THE FIFTH YEAR IS THE MOST DEMANDING IN A CADET’S CAREER AS THEY UNDERTAKE THEIR JUNIOR NCO CADRE.

A rigorous camp in October is followed by instruction in how to teach, and preparation for lessons in skill at arms and drill, observed and assessed by military examiners.

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t the end of this first stage of their NCO training in December, a record thirty six Fifth Year cadets passed out in front of the cadets, officers and parents of the Unit and were promoted to the rank of LCpl. Certificates of Merit were awarded to those who particularly excelled in elements of the course: in Skill at Arms to LCpl Natasha Derry (5N); in drill to LCpl Ryan Ma (L6N2); in fieldcraft to LCpl Oli Goom (5N) and also to LCpl Joseph Haynes (5U), the Cadre Best Cadet 2016.

LT MATHEW OWEN

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REMEMBRANCE SERVICE and OCA DAY

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OUTDOOR LEARNING

OUTDOOR LEARNING Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

DofE IS GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH AT CATERHAM SCHOOL WITH A 94% COMPLETION RATE LAST YEAR.

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e are also seeing even more pupils moving onto and completing their Gold Awards, a fantastic move forward. For me the best part of the Award is the Volunteering Section; pupils are often out of their comfort zone and learn so much about working with other. Last year the participants collectively spent 3081 hours volunteering which has a social value of £11,898 to the local community, brilliant!

Expeditions were undertaken in S Wales, Exmoor, Dartmoor, New Forest and the Surrey Hills. The competency of our students during their expeditions is improving and we have nothing but praise from the general public who meet our groups.

Ten Old Caterhamians, accompanied by Mr Ogilvie and Mr Wilkinson, attended a special ceremony at St James’s Palace for their Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award presentations. The pupils met HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on one of his last public engagements and were presented with their awards in the prestigious Throne Room. Our pupils spanned several years for the School and were proud to discuss their achievements with Prince Philip and the actor Jim Carter, who was the guest speaker for the day.

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My thanks goes to the massive number of staff who give up their time to supervise clubs activities, and to the dedicated team who organise and lead such great expeditions.

MR BEN WILKINSON

PSYCHOLOGY

A fantastic opportunity to get hands-on experience conducting ‘controlled’ observations of such infant abilities.

A special lunchtime session took place in Psychology just before the Easter holidays, where Upper Sixth psychologists put some of their Intellect Development knowledge into practice.

BUDDING PSYCHOLOGISTS

PSYCHOLOGY BOOK LAUNCH

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e welcomed Elliot and Millie (both under 9 months old) who were put through a variety of cognitive and social tasks, designed and conducted by the students, to test these little participants’ concepts of object permanence and violation of expectations. A core part of the A Level specification is to consider how human intellect develops, for example, at what point can a human being create and act upon internal, mental representations (e.g., that an object still exists even when it can’t be seen). For Psychology students, this was a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on experience conducting ‘controlled’ observations of such infant abilities. Students observed

critical differences in Elliot and Millie’s behaviour and were required to diagnose such observations according to the Cognitive Development theories of key psychologists Piaget and Baillargeon.

Students were encouraged to consider the flaws of the research paradigms that they implemented, possible alternative explanations for their findings and offer suggestions of how the research hypotheses could be investigated using more valid methods. A very popular departmental session indeed, contributing overall to an exciting year for Psychology with record A Level results. Special thanks to Mr Kim Wells for volunteering little Elliot Wells and his friend Millie!

DR RACHEL AVERY

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SKIING

THE SKI TEAM

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS SKI CHAMPIONSHIP

Caterham School entered the Independent Schools’ Ski Championships, which took place just before Christmas, in the French ski resort of Les Deux Alpes.

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he ski conditions were perfect with blue skies and great snow. Pupils gained so much from the expert tuition and from the opportunity to race in slalom events.

With over 180 students there, it wasn’t surprising that the standard of competition was fierce. However, our Senior Squad improved throughout

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the tournament and on the last day recorded an excellent team win over fellow competitors KCS Wimbledon!

Two pupils from Caterham Preparatory School, Coral McGarvie and Ava Ware, achieved Silver and Bronze medals respectively in the Under 9s competition.

Caterham School also won the Quiz competition!

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n Saturday 15 October, twelve of Caterham’s coolest skiers hit the slopes at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead; an indoor slope with artificial snow. The team certainly kicked off the ski season in style, displaying impressive carving skills throughout the evening, whilst meandering through the moguls and tackling the tricky terrain. We finished the evening off in true après-ski style by heading to a local restaurant; a fabulous evening was had by all!

MS RACHEL PILKINGTON

TALENT SHOW

CHARITY TALENT SHOW The winners were the school’s charities: the day raised over £2,000 IN FEBRUARY, THE SCHOOL HOSTED ITS CHARITY TALENT SHOW, A ROARING SUCCESS WITH MAGIC, MATHS, DANCING, GUITARS AND SINGING.

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he wide variety of acts in the matinee and the evening shows came to a climax with the traditional Upper Sixth Boys vs Girls dance off, involving over one hundred students.

Well done to matinee winners Maddy Pullen, Krista Goodwin and Drew McGlashan, and evening winner Nadine Greenhalgh. The show was a huge challenge to produce, and was largely organised and executed by the pupils, who learn so much about themselves and each other in the process. Once the dust had settled, the winners were the school charities: the day raised over £2,000.

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MISCELLANEOUS

SECOND YEAR CHALLENGE WALK

The annual Second Year Challenge Award Scheme reached its finale with an epic 25km hike across the Surrey Hills. Spirits were high as we rambled along the North Downs Way enjoying spectacular views on a lovely summer’s day. A huge well done to all!

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In December, the entire Second Year learnt how to juggle! The scheme has been running in their PSHEE sessions to introduce them to the power of GRIT, a whole School philosophy being explored this year. Pupils have made impressive progress thanks to Mr Van Niekerk’s expert tuition!

MR ALEX MOORE

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BLOOD BOWL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The School’s Bloodbowl team attended the World Championships in Nottingham, taking a team of thirteen pupils and staff.

Six games were played over the course of the weekend. Special mention must go to Ben Prego and his Nurgle team. Ben was the highest placed Under 18 finisher and therefore becomes the World Junior Champion; just surpassing Nick Hale’s vampires with the last roll of the dice!

The event set the record for the largest miniatures game individual tournament, with 210 people coming from all over the world.

RUGBY REPORT DANIEL RICHARDS, HEAD OF RUGBY

During the Autumn Term, Caterham’s rugby teams played 177 matches and, across our 18 teams, over 300 boys represented the school. For a co-educational school of our size to put out so many teams and to have so many boys playing for a school team is a feat that few schools can match. Putting out so many sides has presented challenges - increasingly we are having to play large, single sex schools which can often be very tough, particularly for our C and D teams. However, our main goal is to get boys onto the pitch, enjoying their rugby and enjoying all of the benefits that competitive team sport brings.

175 minutes without conceding a try, a run that took the team to the last 16 of the NatWest Plate for the second year running.

RUGBY 7S SUCCESS! The 1st VII headed to Hartswood Playing fields for the annual Charity 7s. This brings together 32 of the top rugby playing schools in the country and is a key tournament in the build up to National Schools Sevens at Rosslyn Park.

After playing well in the pool the boys advanced to the Plate. In the quarter final the 1st VII played Hurstpierpoint in a dress rehearsal for a group game at nationals.

Caterham, having now recovered, were superb in this game, scoring six tries in an emphatic win. In the semi-final the boys played a combative Wimbledon College side who had comfortably beaten John Fisher in their own quarter final. On a smaller pitch and in increasingly tough conditions the game was a real battle with no quarter asked or given. Once again, the Caterham side rose to the challenge and were good value for their 19-5 win which saw them through to the final where they faced Wallington

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n addition to increasing the number of boys playing rugby, there have been some remarkable victories across the board. The U12s have had a superb season, with great victories over KCS, Wimbledon and St. John’s Leatherhead, plus a hard draw with Epsom College.

The U13C team were the only unbeaten team in the school whilst the U14s have put in a number of sterling performances as an age group; the A team putting in an excellent team display to beat a very able Sevenoaks side, and the B team putting up an incredible fight to push a talented Whitgift side to the last play. In the U15s there was an epic victory for the A side over St George’s Weybridge whilst the Bs put local rivals Reigate Grammar to the sword in style. Both U16A and B have had a great season, with perhaps the performance of the season coming against a well organised Tiffin outfit.

At senior level the 2nd XV have earned victories, winning five games by one score or less, including a famous 10-7 victory over RGS. At 1st XV level there have been a number of standout performances, perhaps the best being the victory over Skinner’s that started a run of

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This meant that after the group stages Caterham Showing unusual hesitancy in defence the boys slipped advanced to the Surrey plate. In the quarter finals the to a 12-0 deficit with most of the first half gone. It was at side put in a dominant display against Emanuel showing this point that the group showed their incredible resilience some devastating attacking play in the process of a 35-15 and work ethic, working tremendously hard to victory. In the semi-final the 1st VII showcased their craft a try scoring opportunity that saw them defensive resilience, limiting what had been a go in to half time 12-5 down. The second free scoring Dulwich side to 12 points and Topping off an half was a different story, Caterham sealing a 22-12 victory. This meant that looked full of energy and determined Caterham would face John Fisher in the astonishing week of to give their all. They simply dominated Plate final. In a game that was streamed rugby .... the Under possession and territory and it is live on the internet the 1st VII showed 18s won the Surrey credit to the quality of the Wallington incredible desire and work ethic against Grammar side that they restricted a very physical John Fisher side. The boys Plate!

Caterham to two scores during a half of worked tirelessly for each other, defying the complete dominance. When the final whistle exhausting heat of the day and the fact that this eventually came the score was 12-19 to Caterham was their seventh game. Throughput the first half and the boys had won the plate. It was a thoroughly the game was evenly poised and at half-time the score deserved achievement after the incredibly hard work that was 7-5 to Caterham, following an excellent try from Will the boys have put in to prepare for the Sevens season.

Driscoll. In the second half the 1st VII really took control of The 1st VII will now move on to the Worth tournament the game, Che Ochugboju scoring a scintillating hat-trick before the Surrey 7s and finally National Schools 7s. of tries in a devastating period to take the game away from John Fisher and take his personal tally of tries for the UNDER 18s SUCCESS day to an impressive 12. This really was a complete team On Wednesday 15th March the 1st VII travelled to perfromance though with the entire squad contributing Richmond Athletic ground to compete in the Gullivers in every facet of the game, exemplified by a superb team Sports Surrey Sevens. Unlike at other age groups the try that was finished off by JoshFatoye. As the final whistle U18 tournament is an open invitational tournament and blew the final score was 29-12 to Caterham, an emphatic attracts the very best rugby playing sides from all over the victory over a very strong John Fisher side. This was an country. The Caterham side travelled in confident mood incredible achievement for the 1st VII squad boosting having put in strong performances at the Reigate and confidence ahead of the HSBC National Schools Sevens.

Worth tournaments. In the group stage the 1st VII were Topping off an astonishing week of rugby, the U16 and given a tough draw with Millfield, Peter Symonds College U14s both came top in Surrey, the U18s won the Surrey and Moulton College (Northampton Saints Academy Plate!

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CATERHAM U16 WIN SURREY PLATE IN UNBEATEN DAY AT SURREY 7s Caterham’s Under 16 Rugby team were placed the top co-educational school at the Surrey 7s tournament after winning the Plate.

The Caterham boys succeeded the whole day unbeaten, winning every game bar one group game which they drew 12-12 with KCS Wimbledon. The boys were unlucky to miss out on a Cup semi-final but finished second in the group to KCS Wimbledon on points difference, the teams only separated by 1 point.

They boys then made light work of Wimbledon College in their semi-final before beating St John’s Leatherhead in the final 28-26 to finish as the top co-ed school in the county.

UNDER 14s RUGBY ALSO PLACED TOP CO-ED IN SURREY Hot on the heels of the U16s’ success earlier in the week, Caterham’s U14s have produced a fantastic performance at their own County Sevens Tournament.

After a tough group which saw three emphatic wins and two narrow two point losses to strong sides from Trinity and Tiffin, the U14s finished 3rd in their group and advanced to the Bowl. After a very strong win in the semi-final the boys faced an extremely physical Glyn side who had easily beaten a strong John Fisher side in their own semi. It was a tense and bruising encounter with no quarter asked or given by any player on either side. After some ferocious work at the breakdown Caterham scored an excellent try to take a 5-0 lead into half time.

The second half was tense with tired bodies on both sides, Caterham showed superb resilience to repel wave after wave of Glyn attacks. As the game moved into the last play Glyn were on the attack when Caterham grabbed an interception and broke away to score under the posts to seal a 12-0 victory. This win saw the U14s finish 9th overall in Surrey, one of the strongest rugby playing counties in the country.

The boys also finished the day as the highest performing Surrey co-educational school, matching the achievement of the u16s the previous day who had won the Plate and finished 5th overall in their own tournament.

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Since the competition was restructured in 2014 to have a Cup and Vase competition, Caterham has competed in the Cup competition, aimed at the strongest 120 rugby playing schools in the nation. Caterham faced a tough draw on day one with two Academy colleges representing Exeter Chiefs (Ivybridge) and Newport Gwent Dragons (Newport High School) in their group alongside one of the strongest schools in the North of England, Queen Ethelburga’s College, and nearby rivals Hurstpierpoint College.

The 1st VII were simply outstanding in this group stage, showing determination and fierce work rate in defence combined with some sublime skills and blistering pace in attack. After four games the 1st VII were unbeaten having earned hard fought victories over each of their opponents and advanced to day two and the last 16 for only the third time in the school’s history.

At the start of day two, Caterham faced Whitgift in a game to decide who would advance to the Cup or Plate.

The 1st VII battled bravely but were a little slow to shake off the cobwebs from the day before and unfortunately went down to a tight loss. This meant the boys advanced to the semi-final pool of the Plate competition where they would face two more Academy colleges, this time from Bath (Beechen Cliff) and Bristol (Filton College) as well as one of the most famous names in schoolboy rugby, Wellington College. After strong performances against Beechen Cliff and Filton College, both of which were ferociously physical encounters, the 1st VII faced a winner take all shoot out with Wellington College for who would advance to the National Plate final.

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Ochugboju continuing his devastating form throughout the sevens season to score two wonderful tries, taking his personal tally for the tournament to an astonishing 17, to take Caterham out to a 12-0 lead. However, Wellington have not been crowned national champions on multiple occasions without showing some resilience and dazzling play of their own and they fought back terrifically to control the rest of the 1st half. It was only through heroic defence from the whole side that the 1st VII took their 12 point lead into half time.

In the second half Wellington again took control of possession and after some impressive play crossed the line to bring the score back to 12-5. Showing their class the Wellington side struck quickly again to bring the score to 12-10 with only two minutes remaining.

The Caterham boys dug in magnificently, producing some fantastic sevens despite the undoubted fatigue (this was their 10th game in 2 days) and Az Sharif made a spectacular break but was caught just short of the Wellington line. From here Wellington launched their own offensive but the Caterham boys were determined to not be beaten easily and defended as though their lives depended on it. Wellington, though, had their eyes on yet another national final and showed great composure and execution to eventually work an overlap and cross in the corner with the very last play to win the game 12-15 and seal their place in the final.

Understandably the Caterham squad were devastated in the initial aftermath of the result but should look back with huge pride on what was a phenomenal effort and hugely successful sevens season. Lead Coach for Caterham’s Sevens programme, Mr Alistair Taylor, said “the boys are obviously disappointed as we felt we had a real chance of going home with some silverware today.

But that just shows how far we have come, to not only be competing with, but beating some of the top names in schoolboy rugby is a fantastic achievement. With eight of this squad available for next year’s tournament there could be some exciting times ahead for Caterham rugby.”

ENGLAND TRAIL FOR CATERHAM RUGBY STAR CHE After a quite simply stunning Sevens season, in which he averaged 15 tries per tournament, Caterham student Che Ochugboju has been catching the attention of a variety of coaches.

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fter a dazzling display at Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens in which Che helped the Caterham side to a top 16 finish in the Cup competition Che was invited to trial for the England 7s Academy. This trial sees the 25 top sevens performers from across the country invited to

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train with the current England 7s squad to try and impress the coaches with the aim of gaining a full-time professional contract.

This is well deserved recognition for Che who has worked very hard at developing every aspect of his game during his time at Caterham.

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ELLIOT FOR ENGLAND SQUAD We are delighted, and very proud, to announce that OC Elliot Hall has been named in the England Students Rugby League squad for the forthcoming World Cup in Australia.

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his is an incredible achievement for Elliot who becomes the school’s first international representative in Rugby League, following in the footsteps of our Director of Sport, Mr Rob Clarke, who represented Great Britain Students in Australia whilst he was a student at Loughborough, which coincidentally is also where Elliot has chosen to study.

Elliot had a huge impact on the rugby pitch in his time at Caterham, most noticeably on the sevens pitch. Elliot was a key player in a very successful side in the 2015 season that reached

the second day of the HSBC Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens, making the last 32 in the country, for only the second time in the school’s history. Elliot played a vital role in helping to develop a performance culture within the rugby club at school, a culture that has seen the school make the last 16 of the NatWest Plate in the last two years and in 2017 make the last 16 of HSBC Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens.

We wish Elliot the very best on his adventure in Australia and look forward to hearing of more success in the future.

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he Friday before the end of term, the first ever Caterham School Girls’ team took part in the National School 7s. Playing a few pitches along from the successful senior boys’ team, the girls were clearly inspired by their male peers as they played some superb rugby.

The Caterham girls were entirely new to rugby this term and have made amazing strides in the game in a very short space of time. The first game of the tournament saw them face one of the tournament favourites, Sir Thomas Picton School from Wales. The Welsh girls were clearly very experienced (and aggressive!) but the Caterham girls put up an excellent fight in their 7-32 defeat. Sir Thomas Picton went all the way to the semi-finals so that is an indication of their strength and just how well Caterham did against them.

Next up was Perins School, another one of the tournament favourites. Perins lost to Sir Thomas Picton 5-10 so it was another stern test. But once again, the Caterham girls gave it everything and showed incredible bravery in a 0-27 defeat. Alice Medlock suffered a broken

nose in the match but didn’t let the injury dampen her spirits This group of at all – she was an absolute girls has got the trooper and inspired the girls to a superb victory in their best team spirit last match. that I have ever This last match was against St John’s, Leatherhead, seen... and it was one way traffic in favour of Caterham. The girls put into practice everything that they have learned and scored some fantastic tries. The final score was 38-5 and such a comprehensive victory was just reward for all of the girls’ fantastic efforts. To cap it off, Olivia Tikare was approached by an England scout after the game and was invited to trials. All after just three months of rugby!

This group of girls has got the best team spirit that I have ever seen and it has been an absolute pleasure to coach them. Well done girls. I am very proud of you. Roll on next year!

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Rugby 1st XV Back Row: C McNeil, T Gilshenan, T Kenyon, W Hammond, K Effina-Williams Middle Row: C Swayne, B Oliver, S Paul, H Jones, S Duroshola, C Ochugboju, O Young, W Driscoll, L Coyle, Mr D Richards Front Row: M Lee, J Williams, T Norwood, T Daniel, J Trantor (Co-Capt), A Sharif (Co-Capt), J Fatoye, A Paul, O Repton

Rugby U16A XV Back Row: W Huang, A Criscuolo, Z Acharya, L Young, S Herbert, D Hocking Middle Row: T Mason, C Smith, J Horsley, A Edwards, J Haynes, G Davidson, A Houson, Mr A R Taylor Front Row: E Andrews, S Kensey, O Baker, W Buxton, A Anastasi-Dow, A McGowan, C Heaton-Armstrong

Rugby U15A XV Back Row: C Thomas, I Salem, D Stevenson, M Hannah, L Green Middle Row: J Pinnick, D Coyle, Y Abdulle, M Lee, S Allouche, T Green, L Carter, Mr N Crombie Front Row: J Watt, T Carter (V Capt), M Robertson (V Capt), M Harrington (Capt), D George-Kalu, J Carter, G Thomas

Rugby 2nd XV Back Row: D Chui, B Deans, L Coyle, T Kenyon, Z Welford, L Blatch Middle Row: Mr N Mills, M Ireland, C Mayo, J Fatoye, L Crane, I Haywood, J Ireland, Mr C James Front Row: W Sparrow, H Jones, T Gilshenan, S Thorpe, O Ingrassia (Capt), M Chatfield, A Best, B Creighton, W Hammond

Rugby U16B XV Back Row: D Macbeth, J Savage, C Heaton-Armstrong, S Herbert Middle Row: W Huang, C Smith, A Kellaway, T Wright, A Houson, H Hawkridge Front Row: A Thomas, J Blunden, Z Acharya, C Sargent, D Farris, H Farrag, N Van Dort

Rugby U15B XV Back Row: A Weiner Hurriaga, O Cawood, J Chang, A Best, A Bond, M Olukoga Middle Row: J Thompson, B Oliver, S Khan, Y Abdulle, J Kelly, J Flanagan, B Brown, Mr J P Whyatt Front Row: R Palmer, T Boyd, J Blain, C Thomas, M Lee, D McGlashan, H Du Plessis

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Rugby U15C XV Back Row: J Warr, L Hennessy, O Zonfrillo Middle Row: F O’Sullivan, D Svenden, R Hope, F Hull, M Hristov, K Phanuvatsuk, O Hancock, Mr M Anderson Front Row: J Lee, H Poon, J Thorpe, M Willmott, A Patel, A Smith, D James

Rugby U14B XV Back Row: F Lewis, R Baruah, B Mistry, D Blythe, T Oluwa-Dahunsi Middle Row: L Davidson, C Baker, A Roblett, M Fogelman, H Hunter, A Haywood, P Lambrou, Mr T Graham Front Row: S Ahmed, C Stephanos, W Rose, C Kellaway, P Jato, M Termanis, B van As

Rugby U13A XV Back Row: M Lock, S Bennett, B Latty-Dennison, J Cripps Middle Row: E Smith, C MacDonald, E Pedersen, C Hudson, J Deale, F Parry, R Hunter, Mr R Mugridge Front Row: W Smithson, L Heaton-Armstrong, J Williams, J Craddock, S Kirk, C Greer, O van As

Rugby U14A XV Back Row: R Bailey, O Vancliff, L Steel, L Davidson, N Glass, A Lowe Middle Row: F Lock, J Featherstone, B Haynes, W Maisashvili, W Medlock, G Jones, T King, Mr R G Clarke Front Row: B Herbert, M Wellman, F Knox, C Thomas, A Richings, M Yip, L Denny

Rugby U14C XV Back Row: J Indranathan, W Blain, K Korchinov, A Chudasama, B Moore, S Gwynn Middle Row: W Kwan, H Moosa, C Liu, F McEwan, W Bagridge, B Elliot, S Deacon-Jackson, Mr M Owen Front Row: O Wynn, A Mabbutt, W Parr, T Wyner, A Simonov, P Branson, O Cannell

Rugby U13B XV Back Row: A Steedman, J Baker, E Ashmore, M Sharpe Middle Row: J Carter, N Wright, A Ravindran, A James, E Akinboro, T Williamson, G Cosby, R Soltysiak Front Row: J Allison, N Ibragimov, O Vickars, S Weiner Hurriaga, S Choi, A Reeve, S Nagawa

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Rugby U13C XV Back Row: S Jupp, F Clarke, S Murugamoorthy, L McLaughlin Middle Row: G Cosby, A Ravindran, C Ramsden-Board, J Allison, T Williamson, Mr P Comerford Front Row: E Ashmore, A Byakov, D Yendall, N Summers, J Millar

Rugby U12B XV Back Row: J Safapour, K Ahuja-Hofheiz, M Barry, E McLaggan Middle Row: Q Hayman, H Jude, R Allouche, J Davidson, J McCallion, C Parkes, S Patel, Mr S Marlow Front Row: J Duroshola, L Gaudoin, M Stephanos, S McGarvie, R Baxter, P Agnew, O Lewington

Rugby U12A XV Back Row: T Ninnes, L Smith Middle Row: H Kennedy, F Oliver, O Bailey, H Pluck, L Bishop, J Downes, A Houlton, Mr J Batty Front Row: O Gray, J Beckett, A Svendsen, J Naylor (Capt), J Hannah, M Barry, T Barlow

Girls’ Senior Rugby Back Row: L Furse, R Parsons, C Paice, J Baker Middle Row: O Tikare, S Lambert, P Roblett, N Williams, J Fatoye, P Wearing Front Row: A Medlock, J Leung, F Tute, S Slape, M Jones, C Playle, K Auletta

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HOCKEY REPORT ROBERTT MARC SCHENK, HEAD OF HOCKEY

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aterham School’s hockey is making progress every year, with our new astro turf pitch based at the school site providing players with an excellent surface to play on and a well organised and successful Hockey Academy allowing players the opportunity to play more hockey than ever before and access a high level of coaching.

In the back end of the 2016 season Caterham School started a girls’ hockey programme for players in 3rd year and above, which resulted in many girls taking up the sport for the first time. We were able to create two new teams of girls who trained and played every Thursday. This is a great start for girls’ hockey at the school and we hope to continue to arrange fixtures across the autumn term!

The Prep School has started its own hockey programme and they have already played their first matches. Of course, the future at Caterham lies within our young players and we will be aiming to drive this area in order to create more quality hockey players within the school from a young age.

In 2017 Caterham started a new season with more

fixtures than ever for all of our teams and the season looked busy, but promising. Unfortunately the bad weather conditions in early January led to the cancellation of the first two weeks of our fixtures. With fifteen teams turning out each week this leads to a tight and busy schedule but it is fantastic to see so many players representing the school.

The next few months flew by with teams and coaches building on our strategic plays and our skills, we managed to create not only quality hockey players but great teams that bonded and gave their best every week.

In spring half term, Caterham took some 3rd and 4th year players on hockey tour to Noordwijk in the Netherlands. Four busy days included hockey games against Alecto and Noordwijk Hockey Clubs, training sessions, fitness and fun on the beach. Next year we will be going to Holland again to keep this great trip going as it is a fantastic opportunity to play against teams offering different styles and techniques and the players get so much out of it.

On returning to Caterham, we had a busy six weeks

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Over the past ten years, hockey has made some significant changes, from playing on grass to astro turf and from playing with wooden sticks to carbon fibre hockey sticks, as well as the introduction of many new rules. These are changes that are making the sport faster, safer and more exciting to watch. With the huge success of our national teams over the past few years, particularly the women’s senior team and their gold medal success in Rio, hockey is stronger now with more people taking up the sport and more media coverage than ever before.

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left with huge games and tournaments.

We will be going The U16 and the U14 competed in a to Holland again very competitive Surrey competition. ... it is a fantastic The U16 found themselves in a tough opportunity to play pool and had the opportunity to play against teams offering against quality schools and although different styles and they were able to produce a good techniques standard of hockey, unfortunately it wasn’t enough to get them through to the next round. Our U14 played amazing hockey during their competition and were able to draw against St Georges and Reigate and won against Lingfield.

Unfortunately an inferior goal difference meant we didn’t go through to the next round but the hockey played looked promising for future years.

All of our teams were able to show improvement throughout the year and I was very impressed by the effort level put in by all year groups. We will look to continue this upward curve throughout the year through the work of the Academy along with extra sessions throughout the Autumn term next year so we can hit the ground running in January 2018.

As head of hockey I can’t thank the members of staff enough for their effort, energy and commitment throughout this term. Also, I would like to state a massive thank you to all of the parents for all of their efforts and support throughout the season. Our success would not be possible without you.

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Hockey 1st XI Back Row: Z Acharya, I Quinton, J Foggin, O Young, H Soer, Mr P Friend Middle Row: T Kenyon, B Deans, S Saunders, Z Welford, M Stewart, N Van Dort Front Row: A Criscuolo, B Prego, O Ingrassia, L Brown, M Terry

Hockey U16A XI Back Row: E Andrews, G Davidson, D Hocking, A Anastasi-Dow, W Buxton, Mr R Schenk Front Row: J Hume, O Sullivan, A Kellaway, S Herbert, C Sargent

Hockey U15A XI Back Row: L Carter, F Hull, G Thomas, N McGarvie, O Cawood Middle Row: M Willmott, I Salem, A Patel, M Hannah, T Carter, Mr R Mugridge Front Row: C Thomas, J Flanagan, J Watt, A Bond, A Weiner Hurriaga

Hockey 2nd XI Back Row: G Raeburn, S Thorpe Middle Row: D Prasolov, J Dyke, M Williams, A Best, T Quantrill, Mr D Todd Front Row: W Sparrow, B Creighton, M Chatfield (Capt), H Beck, T Blake

Hockey U16B XI Back Row: N Patel, S Kensey, C Heaton-Armstrong Middle Row: J Hume, S Dickson, E Denden, Mr K S Wells Front Row: F Brooker, L Young, T Mason, J Palmer, J Hoogendoorn

Hockey U15B XI Back Row: J Carter, M Newman, A Smith, D George-Kalu Middle Row: R Hope, O Pinnick, T Boyd, D Stevenson, J Thompson, Mr R Schenk Front Row: O Zonfrillo, C Thomas, O Hancock, J Chang, J Warr

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Hockey U15C XI Back Row: W Sun, I Erin, N Nahapetyan Middle Row: L Charlesworth, D Svendsen, J Thorpe, D James, M Gandecha, Mr R Schenk Front Row: A Thomas, R Hulkhory, O Zonfrillo, C Jasobhar, J Patel

Hockey U14B XI Back Row: L Steel, C Liu, W Maisashvili, M Fogelman, T King Middle Row: M Wellman, A Lowe, L Davidson, A Haywood, W Rose, Mr S Terrell Front Row: A Blay, B van As, O Cannell, C Kellaway, A Mabbutt, L Denny, A Richings

Hockey U13A XI Back Row: R Hunter, E Pedersen, C Hudson, M Lock Middle Row: W Smithson, L Heaton-Armstrong, J Cripps, J Craddock, J Carter, Mr P Comerford Front Row: O Vickars, J Baker, S Weiner Hurriaga, C Greer, O van As

Hockey U14A XI Back Row: N Glass, C Thomas, B Haynes Middle Row: D Wells, P Branson, A Simonov, D Blythe, M Termanis, Mr R Schenk Front Row: M Yip, W Parr, H Cunningham, F Knox, F Lock, C Stephanos, T Wyner

Hockey U14C XI Back Row: P Bryn, H Moosa, B Elliot, W Medlock, G Selbie, Mr A Webster Front Row: R Patel, K Korchinov, F Lewis, A Bisla, O Wynn

Hockey U13B XI Back Row: B Latty-Dennison, E Smith, J Deale, F Parry, C MacDonald Middle Row: E Ashmore, N Wright, D Yendall, S Bennett, N Ibragimov, Mr R Schenk Front Row: J Williams, M Tyler, M Sharpe, A James, S Kirk, M Smith, S Choi

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Hockey U13C XI Back Row: S Murugamoorthy, C Ramsden-Board, E Akinboro, S Nagawa, J Allison, Mr R Schenk Middle Row: J Millar, A Byakov, G Cosby, A Ravindran, F Clarke, N Summers Front Row: A Steedman, O Brand, A Reeve, L McLaughlin, S Jupp

Hockey U12B XI Back Row: A Svendsen, Q Hayman, C Parkes, H Jude, J Beckett, Mr T Graham Front Row: M Sephanos, O Gray, K Ahuja-Hofheiz, A Houlton, E McLaggan, L Gaudoin

Hockey U12A XI Back Row: J Naylor, H Kennedy, F Oliver, O Bailey, J McCallion, Mr R Schenk Front Row: T Barlow, J Hannah, S McGarvie, L Smith, P Agnew

Hockey U12C XI Back Row: Mr R Schenk, J Safapour, T Thurgood, J Davidson, S Patel, Mr J Batty Middle Row: Mr Barry, T Charlesworth, T Ninnes, S Drury, Z Sharif, R Allouche Front Row: J Duroshola, R Baxter, J Murray, H Pluck, M Stephanos, A Stuart, O Lewington

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CRICKET REPORT MR JONATHAN BATTY, HEAD OF CRICKET

It was a glorious summer for cricket with not one match being cancelled due to the weather, and there are very few grounds that can match Home Field on a warm summer’s day! It was also fantastic to see 197 pupils representing the school across 15 teams.

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he season began with high hopes for the 1st XI, a young side with lots of ability but lacking experience. There were excellent victories against Wallington, Eltham and Judd.

An early defeat to Reigate, having done the hard work and restricting them to 162, There were times themselves justice. But it will be also be a leaving the match there for the taking, when the batsmen season that will hold them in good stead in reply we were dismissed for 103. The played well, the for the future. With players like Matthew manner of the loss hurt the players and bowlers bowled Terry, Ian Haywood, Louis Brown, and set the tone for the rest of the season. beautifully and on Joe Ireland, whose glove work was often There were times when the batsmen occasions we fielded exceptional, we can look forward to a very played well, at times the bowlers bowled magnificently ... bright future for the 1st XI. beautifully and on other occasions we The U15As showed tremendous progress fielded magnificently; however, very rarely under Mr Crombie’s watchful gaze, with George did we manage to excel in all three disciplines in Thomas who took 24 wickets at an average under 12, the same match. Indeed we seemed to excel at grabbing and Ankush Patel the standout performers, both of whom every opportunity to lose games from winning positions. earned call ups to the 1st XI. Remarkably, five matches One major highlight was welcoming the MCC back the were decided on the last ball.

Caterham after a five year absence, and they boys will The two most successful teams were the U15B and have learned much from the experience of playing against U14B teams who both won over 80% of their fixtures. a strong side that contained several Old Caterhamians.

This is clear evidence of the enthusiasm for cricket Joe Foggin, the leading run scorer with 370 runs, within the school, and also the strength in depth within captained the side excellently and was ably supported the lower years. Throughout the season there has been

by Vice Captain Sam Thorpe who led the bowlers with some outstanding leadership from captains across many 24 wickets. Both Joe and Sam are leaving this year, and teams, none more so than Caelan Thomas for the U15Bs, I would like to thank both of them for their outstanding Achintya Chudasama for the 14Bs, Santi Weiner for the contribution to Caterham Sport. The team will reflect U13Bs and Luke Bishop for the U12Bs. on the 2017 season with the feeling that they didn’t do

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It was an up and down year for the U14As, but they played some superb cricket along the way. There were excellent centuries for Finlay Lock and Ben Haynes.

Alex Simonov showed outstanding progress and was a consistent threat with the ball, while the pace of Andrew Savage put fear into many opposition players. Christian Thomas also made valuable contributions with both bat and ball.

The U13s had an enjoyable season that culminated in the annual tour to Suffolk. The tourists returned home from matches against 3 very strong schools, with a win, a tie and an unlucky defeat. Tom Williams has been the stand out cricketer in any age group this year, scoring 580 runs at an average of 83 with 5, 50s and a century.

He is also growing into an excellent captain. Excellent contributions also came from Enzo Pederson and Will Smithson.

Mr Richards enjoyed watching the progress of the U12s, be it glorious driving from Harry Pluck, the swashbuckling innings of Jonny Naylor, the swing bowling of James Beckett, or the emergence of players like Treve Ninnes who had never played cricket before this season but became a major presence in the A team.

I would like to thank the 14 members of staff who helped take teams during the summer and also the headmaster who surprised the 1st XI by umpiring one of their matches. I must also thank John Dodwell and his team, who once again did an amazing job producing some fantastic cricket pitches, their efforts are greatly appreciated by myself and all the cricketers.

I thoroughly enjoyed my first year as Master in Charge of cricket, and whilst there is much work to do for all the players, starting in the winter, I am really excited about the future of cricket at Caterham.

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Cricket U15A XI Back Row: J Carter, D Coyle Middle Row: O Cawood, I Salem, S Khan, M Hannah, O Goswamy, Mr N Crombie Front Row: G Thomas, J Watt, A Patel, L Carter, T Carter

Cricket U15C XI Back Row: J Chang, J Flanagan, J Thorpe, H Du Plessis, M Gandecha Front Row: A Thomas, C Jasobhar, J Warr, R Hulkhory, O Zonfrillo

Cricket U14B XI Back Row: L Steel, C Kellaway, G Jones, A Haywood Middle Row: L Denny, R Patel, T Wildman, C Stephanos, W Parr, Mr R G Clarke Front Row: A Mabbutt, B van As, L Davidson, A Chudasama (Capt), T Wyner, S Ahmed, M Termanis

Cricket U15B XI Back Row: D James, H Du Plessis Middle Row: J Chang, N McGarvie, J Flanagan, D Stevenson, M Gandecha, O Zonfrillo Front Row: J Blain, J Watt, C Thomas, A Weiner Hurriaga, Y Abdulle

Cricket U14A XI Back Row: Mr J N Batty, F Knox, A Bisla, A Savage, C Thomas, F Lock, A Simonov Front Row: O Cannell, F Lewis, B Haynes, B Herbert, M Yip

Cricket U14C XI Back Row: B van As, A Mabbutt, B Moore, G Jones, A Haywood, T Wyner, Mr R G Clarke Front Row: T Wildman, D Wells, C Baker, W Parr, C Stephanos

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Cricket U13A XI Back Row: C Hudson, J Cripps, E Pedersen Middle Row: W Smithson, O Vickars, M Lock, J Craddock, J Williams, Mr J N Batty Front Row: B Latty-Dennison, S Nagawa, T Williamson, C MacDonald, D Yendall

Cricket U13C XI Back Row: A Reeve, E Akinboro, F Parry, C Ramsden-Board Middle Row: E Ashmore, N Ibragimov, G Cosby, F Clarke, O Brand, M Smith Front Row: A Steedman, S Jupp, L McLaughlin, A Ravindran, J Millar

Cricket U12B XI Back Row: H Jude, J McCallion, O Bailey, S Patel, A Houlton Middle Row: T Barlow, E McLaggan, K Ahuja-Hofheiz, L Smith, A Svendsen, P Agnew, Mr W Jones Front Row: Z Sharif, M Stephanos, M Barry, L Bishop (Capt), O Lewington, L Gaudoin, H Kennedy (V Capt)

Cricket U13B XI Back Row: J Allison, J Deale, A James, N Wright Middle Row: M Tyler, C Greer, J Baker, J Carter, S Choi, Dr C Sinclair Front Row: R Hunter, A Byakov, O van As, S Weiner Hurriaga, S Kirk, M Sharpe, S Bennett

Cricket U12A XI Back Row: F Oliver, R Allouch, L Smith Middle Row: S McGarvie, J Beckett, T Ninnes, J Hannah, R Baxter, Mr J N Batty Front Row: J Naylor, A Svendsen, H Pluck, O Gray, C Parkes

Cricket U12C XI Back Row: T Barlow, S Drury, T Thurgood, J Davidson, A Stuart, J Duroshola Front Row: J Murray, T Charlesworth, Q Hayman, H Jude, J Safapour

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LACROSSE REPORT MS JEN SIMPSON, HEAD OF LACROSSE

It was another fantastic year for the Caterham Lacrosse teams. We have recorded some incredible results throughout the year. Over the past two terms, there have been a total of 135 matches and 15 tournaments played across all of our age groups!

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ome specific highlights include our U12As and U15As finishing runners up in their respective Surrey County Tournament, U13Bs finishing as semi-finalist in the Coloma Cup, U14s finishing 3rd in their County tournament and 5 teams finishing at least top 16 in the Nation at the National Schools Tournamentmost notably our 1st team finishing Top 8, our 2nd team placing Top 6, and our U15s reaching the Semi-finals to finish Top 4 overall.

There has also been some fantastic individual recognition. 13 pupils were selected to represent the Surrey County in the new Super Counties Tournament, 8 pupils were selected to participate in the Regional Academy tournament and Chloe Wyner and Emily Thompson continue to represent Caterham in the U19 National Lacrosse Academy. While representing England, specific highlights include Chloe Wyner being monumental in England’s win over Japan, scoring the winning goal to give her team the narrow, 12-11 victory.

While accomplishments and recognitions have been tremendous, the dedication of the players has been what has really stood out. The participation at the U14 level has been incredible with 90% of the girls representing the school in matches. This same dedication is shown through the 50+ girls that come to stick work club every week, as well as the number of girls who stepped up to play in goal for their teams. The willingness to do anything for the team, has been inspiring but also a big reason teams have been so successful this year.

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While accomplishments and recognitions have been tremendous, the dedication of the players has really stood out.

A final highlight of the lacrosse year has to be the participation in the World Cup Lacrosse festival in Guildford.

Caterham sent two teams of 18 to participate in the U13 and U15 tournament that ran alongside the 2017 Senior Women’s Lacrosse World Cup. They played against teams from different countries over three days, as well as getting to watch some of the Senior World Cup matches.

In addition, five senior pupils represented U19 England or another senior select team in the U18 tournament. Such a great experience to play against different opponents as well as watch the top level of lacrosse in the world. The constant support from the Caterham community for Miss Simpson who represented England was also incredible!

Congratulations to all pupils who have participated and represented Caterham lacrosse this year. A special thank you to the U6 that will be moving on from Caterham. Thank you for all your energy and enthusiasm throughout your time playing. Looking forward to another great season for the LaxCats starting in September.

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Lacrosse 1st XII Back Row: A Flatley, R Lack, A Tocher, G Tuckett Middle Row: Miss J Simpson, D Foster, H Owen, E Knowles-Cutler, K Galvin, K Lloyd, P Lloyd Front Row: K Starns, H Mead, C Wyner, K Herbert, L Hunt-Williams, E Thompson

Lacrosse 3rd XII Back Row: R Webb, S Lagerberg, L O’Geary, M Brinquis Solomon Middle Row: Miss R Smith, E Percival, M McKeague, S Maisashvili, E Haasz, E Andrew, L Scott-Smith Front Row: H Lloyd, K Auletta, E Butcher, L Acton, E Buchanan, O Clarke

Lacrosse U15B XII Back Row: G Gair, G Fogarty, O Lu, R Sinclair, S-L Bagnall Middle Row: M Cooke, U Petrova, S Kingston, E Alexander, G Bennett, E Wilson, J Small, A Horsfall Front Row: A Pisannaya, G Gilshenan, A Watson, M Swayne, O Raymond, S Mak, N Wong

Lacrosse 2nd XII Back Row: A Barrett, C Watson, R Ackerley, D Mercer, A Mitchell, M Davies Middle Row: Mrs N Lomas, N Greenhalgh, A Gardner, S Lowe, A Trantor, A Satchell, C Andrew Front Row: M Hebden, G Criscuolo, G Miller, T Pinnick, L Ip, R Acharya

Lacrosse U15A XII Back Row: Y Okada, M Wallace, G Gilshenan, R Harding Middle Row: Miss J Simpson, K Watson, E Alexander, H Gale, O Lindo, H Williams Front Row: T Appea, Z Russell, M Watson, C McDonald, K Fitzgerald, A Wright, K Hudson, A Hammond

Lacrosse U14A XII Back Row: N Jones, M Alcock, A Kensey, G Young, S Greenhalgh Middle Row: A Lauder, E Keyworth, A Wildman, E Toone, C Hillier, A Fordyce, Miss H Walters Front Row: R Wright, P Sparrow, E Templeton, N Burke, H Park, E Hammer, O Lee

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Lacrosse U14B XII Back Row: J Makin, E Wood, C Tracy, M Greener, J Parkman Middle Row: L Hurley, M Frost, A Frackiewicz, R Morris, M Oakes, A Gaudoin, Mrs F Scott Front Row: P Cornish, H Stone, B Weeks-Greener, C Mear, A Day, M Overweel-Nord, H Wells

Lacrosse U13A XII Back Row: I Oliver, L Sessi-Knott, A McDowell Middle Row: Mrs N Lomas, R Cliffe, L Devlin, E Browne, K McGurrin, Z Wisniewski Front Row: V Quijano-Evans, J Gibbon, J Baker, P Oliver, N Finnegan, J Sam, O Ellam

Lacrosse U13C XII Back Row: Miss J Simpson, L Butler, S Jones, E Davies, M Thomas, R Goodall Front Row: P Singh, A Leyko, E Zeng, G Young, M Denton

Lacrosse U14C XII Back Row: E Carmona, H Smith, K King, I O’Geary, Miss J Simpson Front Row: K Desai, E Gilbert, E Norman, L Bacchus, C C Tang

Lacrosse U13B XII Back Row: A Saraf, S Best, Z Makele, A Gulati Middle Row: Miss R Smith, C Hocking, S George-Kalu, I Ibrahim, T Gordon, L Day Front Row: E Andrews, G Hebden, L Paul, K McGurrin, Z Makele

Lacrosse U12A XII Back Row: I Singleton, S Hayes, S Emery, R Thomas, R Burke Middle Row: Miss H Walters, G Godfrey, S Aldridge, T Welsh, E Shipsey, S Starodubtseva Front Row: S Henley, F Hancock, M Darwin, I Lack, A Fordyce, W Park, E Glass

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SPORTS REVIEW SPRING 2017 Lacrosse U12B XII Back Row: L Brooker, E Smith, S Emery, S Termanis, I Sampson Middle Row: Miss R Hart, I Burns, E Shipsey, L Bullock, O Morley, I Bartsch, F Prigg, P Ogden Front Row: P Griffiths, M Chinn, S De Bruijn, J Whyatt, S Mabbutt, H Bradley, I Amitrano

Lacrosse U12C XII Back Row: S Sanderson-Marsh, A Spuma, O Stone, A Nair, A Caiger, F Hannay Middle Row: Miss F Ryan, H-H Cook, N James, A Hunter, A Deragon, E Worrell, K Falkner, H Cooper Front Row: M Anbukumar, A Patel, M Greener, H Belshaw, E Sarves, P Labrosse, S Hashemi

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REPRESENTATIVE HONOURS Thirteen pupils from Caterham School have been selected for the Under 18 and Under 15 Super County Lacrosse teams.

The pupils successfully trialled against other top lacrosse players in the county to be selected. Super Counties is the new

Emily will join school lacrosse teammate Chloe Wyner (U6A2), who is also a member of the National Academy. Emily has long been a talented lacrosse player for Caterham School and it is fantastic to see all of her hard work recognised by the national programme. Congratulations

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NETBALL REPORT MS JACLYN LEACH

In the Junior, Inter and Senior Netball Awards Evenings held at the end of the 2015/16 season, the two key themes that all coaches spoke of were both resilience and the importance of ‘team’.

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esilience was shown in abundance by every single member of the 23 teams that played in a total of 271 matches this season. Not every one of these matches has been won of course, but a fantastic 60% of them were.

There have been some matches that were possibly impossible to win, where we just needed to credit the opposition with a fantastic performance; there have been matches were we were going goal for goal and the whistle went just at the wrong time for us; there have been matches where we absolutely should have won, but unfortunately too many costly errors were made.

As ever though, it has been a season to be proud of and we have had some tremendous successes. To be able to put out four senior teams in itself makes us very proud.

Collectively the standard of netball these four teams have displayed has been incredibly impressive with particularly note-worthy wins against Sevenoaks, St Catherine’s, Reigate Grammar, St George’s and Hurstpierpoint.

The U16A won the Trinity Schools Fast Five tournament back in September. In October twenty seven U15 girls went on a very successful tour to Dubai and represented the school No matter what superbly well. For the first time in a long time we had the equivalent of the outcome of each an A, B, C and D team at U14 level fixture, these girls - forty girls remaining so dedicated showed incredible to their netball which makes us resilience and very happy. The U13A won the very teamwork competitive Burgess Hill tournament, beating the likes of Brighton College

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along the way. The U12A finished the season undefeated, and the U12B won the District Tournament, beating Reigate Grammar in the final. Finally the 2nd VII finished the season off for the NetCats on a massive high as they came runners up at the Surrey Finals, losing just one match out of ten matches played throughout the tournament.

We have had individual success with Sarah Lowe, Zara Russell and Katie Hudson all representing the Surrey County Academy; and Olivia Tikare being selected for Surrey Storm U18.

Over the entire season, no matter what the outcome of each fixture, these girls showed incredible resilience and teamwork to continue to move onwards and upwards, committing themselves to working together to get better and better as the season went on. There has been a real sense that the girls have cherished the bib they are wearing, and have had a great sense of pride at representing the school.

The NetCats win together, they lose together, and most importantly they have fun together, which at the end of the day is all that matters. Congratulations on a fantastic season, girls.

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Netball 1st VII Back Row: Miss J Leach, L Hunt-Williams, M Pardew, E Knowles-Cutler, H Owen Front Row: O Tikare, C Wyner, R Acharya, K Lloyd, G Criscuolo

Netball 3rd & 4th VII Back Row: L Furse, H Mead, M Jones, E Bull Middle Row: Mrs N Lomas, E Speak, P Roblett, E Percival, S Latimer, N Williams Front Row: J Fatoye, O Pinnick, A Tocher, K Galvin, J Baker

Netball U16B VII Back Row: M Hebden, S Lagerberg Middle Row: Miss F Ryan, N Kelly, S Maisashvili, E Haasz, S Zonfrillo, L Scott-Smith Front Row: R Webb, C Watson, A Trantor, L O’Geary, O Clarke

Netball 2nd VII Back Row: Miss R Hart, M MacHugh, C Bridson, N Bishop, A Flatley Front Row: E Thompson, L Ip, K Starns, K Herbert, A Barrett

Netball U16A VII Back Row: Mr T Cooper, A Gardner, S Lowe, M Neale-Smith, A Locket, P Lloyd Front Row: K Patel, R Lack, A Satchell, A Mitchell, G Tuckett

Netball U15A VII Back Row: Miss J Leach, A Wright, H Gale, A Watson, K Hudson Front Row: K Fitzgerald, O Lindo, M Watson, C McDonald, Z Russell

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Netball U15B VII Back Row: Miss R Goddard, L Slattery, K Watson, E Wilson, A Horsfall, M Harris Front Row: T Appea, G Gilshenan, E Alexander, M Pullen M Wallace

Netball U14B VII Back Row: O Lee, E Templeton, C Hillier, E Hammer, M Oakes, Miss R Pilkington Front Row: M Greener, N Jones, H Park, N Ryan, C Mear

Netball U13A VII Back Row: Miss R Hart, O Ellam, P Oliver, L Devlin, E Browne, Z Wisniewski Front Row: J Gibbon, J Baker, N Finnegan, J Sam, C Hocking

Netball U14A VII Back Row: H Wells, P Sparrow, M Alcock, A Wildman, N Burke, Miss F Ryan Front Row: S Greenhalgh, C Tracy, A Lauder, S Ganesh Kumar, G Young

Netball U14C VII Back Row: E Toone, F Chan, L Madgwick, A Kensey, A Fordyce Middle Row: R Morris, E Obretetskaya, M Overweel-Nord, L Bacchus, E Norman, Miss R Hart Front Row: R Wright, A Day, I O’Geary, K Desai, J Makin, H Smith, B Weeks-Greener

Netball U13B VII Back Row: Miss R Hart, L Day, R Cliffe, E Andrews, A McDowell, I Oliver Front Row: V Quijano-Evans, S George-Kalu, K McGurrin, I Ibrahim, M Thomas

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Under 14s Record Wins The Under 14, Under 15, Under 16 and 1st VII all had their qualifying rounds of the Surrey Schools in the Autumn Term, with the U16 VII going through in fantastic style, remaining undefeated after five tough matches. The Under 14 VII recorded the most wins they have ever achieved at this level and despite not qualifying for the finals, they are getting closer and closer and can feel very proud of their performance on the Netball U13C&D VII day. The Under 15 VII and 1st VII were Back Row: R Goodall, P Singh, L Butler, A Gulati, A Saraf unlucky achieve qualification, Middle very Row: Mrs N Lomas, S not Best, Tto Gordon, S Jones, E Davies, A Leyko, G Hebden, L Paul Front finishing Row: M Denton, G Young, Z Makele, E Zeng, with both 3rd in their section Z Makele, E Andrews, L Sessi-Knott and the 1st VII missing out on goal difference alone. These teams can only feel proud of the way they represented themselves on the day. Well done to all.

International Play for Seniors Other highlights from the season so far include the very successful and enjoyable U15 netball tour to Dubai; three teams of Senior, U16 and U12 players enjoying match play against touring Swiss club side Meinier; the 3rd VII being undefeated in all matches played in this first term; the 1st VII being Netball VII away from Regional oneU12B match Back Row: S Starodubtseva, A Fordyce, J Whyatt, S Henley Middle Row: Miss J Leach, E Shipsey, O Morley, T Welsh, I Bartsch, I Burns Front Row: R Burke, I Amitrano, S Mabbutt, H Bradley, S Emery

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qualification after wins against teams such as St Catherine’s, Epsom College, Reigate Grammar and Cranleigh; the U13A going goal for goal against Colfe’s and coming out eventual 22-21 winners; U12 C&D teams regularly enjoying Monday lunchtime matches against the Prep school; two impressive level ThunderCats matches; and rounding off the term the U12A beat Guildford High 10-8 in a what was a very thrilling match to watch.

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matches, winning a staggering 71% of these matches. Well done to all the players and we are looking forward to even more netball next term!

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ATHLETICS REPORT MR DAVID KING

GB ATHLETE VISITS CATERHAM In November, GB Athlete Richard Buck visited Caterham. Richard represented team GB in both the Beijing and London Olympics and is an international indoor Gold medallist with the 4x400m team. He spoke with several groups of pupils, including Year 6 from the Prep School, and gave an overview of what characteristics are needed to succeed at the highest level. His message of determination, with particular focus on one area for improvement, echoes the GRIT philosophy that pupils are learning about this year. Richard also discussed strategies for preventing bullying, accidental or otherwise. After a highly informative session with the A level PE group, and a performance discussion with the Caterham Athlete Programme (CAP) at lunchtime, he put the First Year girls through their paces in the afternoon with a session on acceleration.

KNOLE RUN On Saturday 14 January, Caterham Girls’ Cross Country competed at the Knole run in Sevenoaks, securing a top-ten position for the School.

Our top four runners of Olivia Dowle, Sophie Dowle, Caitlin Lefevre and Maddy Pullen put in very strong runs in tough conditions to all finish inside the top 40. They were ably supported by Hannah Williams and Holly Mead, who finished solidly in the middle of the field giving the team our strongest result for some years – sixth out of twenty two teams. The standard was, as usual, superb with GB and England runners leading the field. The team included four Lower Sixth and two Fourth Year pupils, indicating an even stronger performance for next year.

The Cross Country season at Caterham continues with a good number of boys and girls running for South Surrey next week in the Surrey Championships with a number of our runners capable of qualifying for the National Championships: Ben Brown, George Thomas, Maddy Pullen, Olivia Dowle, Sophie Dowle and Caitlin LeFevre.

RESULTS FROM THE KNOLE RUN: 1st Sevenoaks A 152

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11th Sevenoaks C

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13th Mayfield

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14th Cranleigh

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7th Epsom

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8th Coopers & Coborn 9th Shrewsbury

15th Downe House 517 16th Wellington College

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WELLINGTON CROSS COUNTRY RELAY WIN The Cross Country team travelled to Wellington College for the Wellington Relays, which involves some of the top running schools in the south-east. A wide range of schools competed, including Sevenoaks, Brighton College, Magdalen College School and Harrow. Despite losing our four strongest runners to the Surrey team competing in the Inter-Counties competition, a strong team performance from the Senior Girls’ team of Hannah Williams (Fourth Year), Katie Watson (Fourth Year), Poppy Oliver (Second Year), Eloise Bull (Lower Sixth) and Amy Dickson (Lower Sixth) saw them come out well clear of 2nd placed Brighton.

Eloise Bull put in a particularly strong run to finish six seconds shy of the fastest time, and a fantastic run from Poppy Oliver, competing against runners many years older, saw her come back with the 11th fastest time.

Caterham also entered Junior teams, with the Junior Girls’ B team (1st and 2nd years) showing the value of commitment to training by pipping the Junior Girls’ A team (3rd years) by just 2.5 seconds over a 45 minute race thanks to an exceptional final leg by Tabby Welsh and a very good run from Grace Godfrey. Nevertheless, both teams went home happy, with Caterham B in 2nd place, and Caterham A in 3rd. The Junior Boys’ team finished just outside the medals in 5th.

FOURTH YEAR MARATHON

On Thursday 6 July, our Fourth Year pupils completed a team marathon under the blazing sunshine. They completed the 42 km run in teams of up to 10 pupils in memory of a classmate to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity.

Congratulations to Lower Sixth pupil Caitlin Lefevre, who has qualified to compete for the Great Britain Under20 age group team in the Sprint Distance Duathlon World Championships, which take place in Penticton, Canada this summer.

Caitlin finished third her in age group in the qualifying race, which took place in Bedford earlier this month. The World Championship age group races are the non-elite format of the national team and enables athletes to compete for European and World Championships medals.

Caitlin is hoping that racing at the age group World Championships will give her the opportunity to be selected into the GB Elite Triathlon team. Six days after the duathlon, Caitlin will compete in the Aquathon Under 20 age group World Championships, which she qualified for after competing in a recent triathlon.

WELL DONE OLIVIA Congratulations to Olivia Tikare who has been selected for the England Women’s SE rugby training squad. This achievement is even more impressive considering that Olivia only started playing the sport in January this year! She was spotted at the Rosslyn Park National 7s tournament by an England scout who happened to be watching when she scored a sensational try against St John’s, Leatherhead. It was a fine example of the natural speed and power that she is gifted with. Well done, Olivia.

CONGRATULATIONS AMELIA Amelia Watson (4U) competed for the School in the ESAA Track and Field Cup. She was also an integral part of the U15 team who won the District Championships at the K2 Stadium.

In both meets Amelia was victorious in both the hurdles and shot putt, as well as running the last leg to take victory in the 4 x 100m relay. Amelia will now go on to represent ‘East Surrey’ at the Surrey Schools Championships. She also competed in the Surrey County Athletics Championships where she took the bronze medal in the hurdles, behind fastest 15 year old hurdler in Great Britain!

SURREY SUCCESS FOR SOPHIE AND OLIVIA Congratulations to Olivia and Sophie Dowle for their superb success in athletics. Sophie won Gold at the Surrey Schools (she was silver in the Surrey Club Championship). Olivia, as the only Surrey athlete for Steeplechase, came 4th overall in the race, but was the “1st” Surrey athlete - as such she has been selected to represent Surrey in the Senior Intercounties.

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WORLD LEADING SCORE FOR GB ATHLETE SAM TALBOT Upper Sixth pupil and GB athlete Sam Talbot competed in his first Under 20 decathlon. Sam smashed all expectations, apart from maybe his own very high standards, in an incredible performance.

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verall Sam set an astounding eight new personal bests in the 100m, 110m hurdles, shot putt, high jump, 1500m, 400m, discus and javelin to record a phenomenal score of 7377 points. Sam simply left the rest of the field trailing in his wake with his nearest competitor over 1000 points back on 6267. Sam’s huge total score gave him comfortable qualification for the upcoming European Junior Championships and also established a world-leading score for Under 20 decathlon this year.

Sam’s progress is unsurprising as he is a young man of remarkable talent combined with a ferocious work ethic.

Sam undoubtedly has a very bright future ahead once he leaves Caterham School in the summer to continue his studies and pursue his athletic dreams.

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BOYS ATHLETICS

Caterham travelled to Guildford Spectrum for the first Champions on the line for the squads, and the chance to round of the ESAA Track and Field Cup last Wednesday compete for a spot in the Surrey Athletics team to those which saw our athletes pitted against a strong pool of who performed with aplomb. schools for this initial Surrey round. Not to be deterred, The boys certainly didn’t disappoint on the big stage junior performances stood up to the stiff competition with the Inter boys finishing 3rd out of 15 teams, and with Nick Wright and Aaron Houlton both finishing in the junior boys being crowned District Champions, for top 3 for their 200m – with Aaron breaking a 10 year old the second successive year. This is a testament to the school record in the process with a time of 27.10s. hard work being put in during the early morning Aaron narrowly missed out on another record fitness sessions and lunch time conditioning with a commendable leap in the long sessions. jump of 4.35, both these performances Solid performances again from the The performance of earning the team an impressive 34 likes of Max Robertson, Laurie Carter the day had to go to the points. and debutant Isaac Salem helped impressive duo The inter boys’ year group earn the Inter boys team oodles of produced some exceptional points, with the Caterham athletes Christian Thomas and performances considering the taking up 13 of the 24 available Max Yip taking the triple short build up to this competition finalist spots. jump competition by with Gabes Jones and Logan Stand out performers for the storm to secure 1st and Green recording new personal junior boys were Will Maisashvili with 2nd place bests in the High Jump and 1500m a 1st and 3rd place in the hurdles and respectively. Tyler Green, brother of 300m. Finlay Lock with a 1st and 2nd Logan, determined not to be outdone place in the discus and javelin. A special produced a strong display in the 300m as did mention must go to Andrew Savage who had to Max Robertson. The top point’s scorer of the day went compete in 300m and 800m heats, then having qualified Laurie Carter who performed brilliantly in the 200m and had to race twice more in close succession in the final Triple Jump amassing 37points. for those two events, battling valiantly to earn the team A quick turnaround for Caterham athletics team vital points. The performance of the day had to go to saw sides competing at the district competition held the impressive duo of Christian Thomas and Max Yip at Crawley’s K2 Arena. This competition rewards both taking the triple jump competition by storm to secure 1st team and individual efforts, with the crowning of District and 2nd places respectively and earn the team maximal points.

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U14 AND U15 ATHLETICS REPORT It was a busy week for the athletes as the squads competed in both the ESAA and District.

The Junior ESAA team, comprised of First and Second Year girls, finished 4th out of 7. Particular highlights were Tabby Welsh in the 1500m, Sharon George-Kalu in the shot and Grace Godfrey in the 800m. The Intermediate ESAA team were not to be out done and finished 3rd out of 8. Amelia Watson and Hannah Williams were the top point scores of the day with 47 and 44 total points respectively.

Athletics U15 Back Row: A Wright, L Slattery, K Hudson, C Lewis-Orr, K Watson, A Horsfall, K Fitzgerald Front Row: M Wallace, M Pullen, C McDonald, Z Russell, T Appea

Thursday saw the U15 and U14 athletics teams travel to the K2 to compete in the District Championships.

The U14 squad finished 5th out of 15 teams. Amy Lauder became district champion in the Long Jump with a distance of 4.50 metres. Other point scoring performances were seen by Hannah Stone, Niamh Burke, Rebecca Wright, Anna Fordyce, Georgie Young, Charlotte Tracy and Anna Maisashvili. The U15 team

Athletics U15 Back Row: L Carter, M Robertson, T Green, O Pinnick Front Row: A Best, T Carter, L Green

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Athletics U14 Back Row: A Wildman, G Young, C Tracy, L Madgwick, M Alcock Middle Row: N Burke, H Stone, J Parkman, N Jones, A Frackiewicz, R Wright Front Row: P Sparrow, E Hammer, A Lauder, E Keyworth, A Fordyce

Athletics U13 Back Row: J Baker, S George-Kalu, N Finnegan, P Oliver Front Row: A McDowell, T Gordon, Z Makele, O Ellam, L Devlin

Athletics U12 Back Row: M Darwin, F Prigg, T Welsh, S Aldridge, G Godfrey, S Starodubtseva Front Row: R Burke, I Lack, R Thomas, S Emery, S Hayes

Athletics U14 Back Row: J Featherstone, G Jones, A Savage, C Thomas, F Lock Front Row: M Yip, N Glass, W Kwan, O Vancliffe, A Lowe

Athletics U13 Back Row: N Wright, J Deale, C Hudson Front Row: E Ashmore, O Vickars, C Greer

Athletics U12 Back Row: H Pluck, T Barlow, J Naylor, H Jude, J Beckett, R Baxter, L Bishop Front Row: O Bailey, F Oliver, A Houlton, J Hannah, J Davidson

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ROUNDERS REPORT JEN SIMPSON

On Wednesday 10 May, the Senior and U16A rounders team took part in the District rounders tournament hosted at Woldingham School.

The senior team played Woldingham 1st, Woldingham 2nd, Dunottar and Royal Alexander and Albert School. They played excellent rounders with impressive fielding and batting throughout the afternoon, winning three out of the four matches, narrowly losing to Woldingham 1st team.

The U16’s met Woldingham, Oxted and Royal

Rounders U15 Back Row: K Watson, E Alexander, C Lewis-Orr, H Gale Front Row: A Wright, K Fitzgerald, M Watson, C McDonald, Z Russell

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Alexander and Albert School in their section. The U16A team too played brilliantly, with a remarkable 14 rounders being scored in one match. The girls managed to win all three games and hold the title of District Champions for another year! Congratulations to the U16 for becoming District Champions for the 2nd straight year and to the seniors for finishing Runners up.

Rounders U14 Back Row: A Wildman, M Alcock, A Kensey, G Young, S Greenhalgh Front Row: A Fordyce, E Hammer, A Frackiewicz

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A huge congratulations to the Under 14A Rounders team who finished runners up to Woldingham in the District Rounders Tournament in May at Oakwood School.

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PARENTS V DAUGHTER ROUNDERS MATCH Over 100 people participated in the U12 and U13 parents v daughters rounders match. Some excellent fielding and batting was on display from the girls as well as their parents. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and participated or supported the event. It was a huge success and we are already looking forward to next year!

Back Row: J Gibbon, P Oliver, N Finnegan, J Baker, C Hocking Front Row: O Ellam, E Browne, I Oliver, Z Makele, L Devlin

Rounders U12A Back Row: F Hancock, W Park, M Darwin, G Godfrey, R Thomas, S Starodubtseva Front Row: S Henley, S Emery, E Glass, I Lack, S Hayes

Rounders U12B Back Row: N James, I Bartsch, T Welsh, A Fordyce, S Mabbutt Front Row: B Amitrano, M Chinn, E Shipsey, J Whyatt, H Bradley

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TENNIS REPORT MRS NATALIE LOMAS

The tennis season this year was actually played 99% of the time in fabulous sunshine which was definitely more fun.

Our seniors had more fixtures than ever now so many of the exams have moved and players are beginning to understand that exercise and revision goes hand in hand and is actually very beneficial to those brain cells.

The seniors look to have great depth next year so I am looking for them to go one better in the league and win their group instead of losing the last game. Over all they had great results against Christ Hospital and City of London to name but a few.

Senior Girls Tennis L Furse, N Williams, H Owen, A Barrett

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he U12s had so many keen players and where all out in force, dying to get a game whether they were just beginners or club players. They had a tough league group and were up against more experience at most of the fixtures. I believe this group, if they keep practising through the summer will do very well next season.

The U13s and U14s both fought hard in the league winning all but one of their matches. They benefitted from playing throughout the winter in the lunch time coaching sessions. The team that advanced the most however has to be the u15’s. The extra practice by more of the team meant they were ready going into the season. They won their league group beating the likes of St George’s Weybridge and St Catherine’s. They then went onto the finals were their nemesis RGS beat them into a 3rd/4th playoff. There they dispatched Woldingham with fantastic net play giving them a 3rd place finish in the Surrey Schools League.

Tennis U15 S Dawit, A Wright, M Harding, O Lindo

Tennis Back Row: L Denny, S Mullin-Henderson, A Richings, T Wyner Front Row: A Cunningham, F Knox, A Blay

Tennis U15A Back Row: K Fitzgerald, C Lewis-Orr, C McDonald Front Row: Z Russell, H Gale, M Wallace

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It has been great to see so many pupils and staff out on the courts this year. With added boys’ coaching session and the popularity growing at all abilities it definitely is going to benefit the sport.

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Tennis U14A Back Row: E Hammer, A Wildman, M Greener, E Toone, C Hillier Front Row: H Park, M Alcock, M Frost

Tennis U13A Back Row: P Oliver, N Finnegan, J Baker Front Row: L Paul, J Gibbon, V Quijano-Evans

Tennis U12A Back Row: S Starodubtseva, I Bartsch, G Godfrey, M Chinn Front Row: H Bradley, S Henley, M Greener

Tennis U14B Back Row: E Toone, M Greener, A Kensey Front Row: A Gaudoin, N Jones, A Frackiewicz

Tennis U13B Back Row: E Zeng, L Sessi-Knott Front Row: Z Makele, Z Makele, I Oliver

Tennis U12B Back Row: R Thomas, I Burns, S Mabbutt Front Row: E Glass, P Griffiths, I Lack

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SWIMMING REPORT MR ROSS SMITH Last year, Caterham swimmers had yet another outstanding season in the pool.

During the autumn term, Caterham pupils compete in Guilford for the Surrey School Relay Championships. n The Juniors girls’ team came 8th Freestyle relay and 10th in the Individual Medley relay. n Our Junior boys’ team finished 10th place freestyle relay and the I.M relay. n Our Intermediate boys had also finished 10th in the Freestyle relay.

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ur Intermediate Girls team consisting of Isabella Berlin, Amy Davies, Siobhan Chou and Leah Slattery once again qualified for the ESSA National Relay Finals, held at the London Aquatics Centre, qualifying for the freestyle relay in fourth place. However, we were unable to attend this event due to our girls qualifying for the British Nationals with their swimming clubs outside of school. This was a great start to the year and something immediately to build on.

In November, Caterham School hosted the Intermediate and Senior aged pupils District gala and again performed at the highest level.

Caterham performed fantastically well with our Inter Boys, Senior Girls and Senior Boys all finishing in 2nd place behind Reigate Grammar School, with our Intermediate girls coming 1st place to retain their district championship title.

The lower junior and junior teams (First and Second Years) competed in their district gala back in February

Bath Cup Team Back Row: H Or, D Chui, Mr R Smith, S Deacon-Jackson, L Slattery Front Row: A Davies, S Chou, J Lovell (Capt), I Berlin, N Ryan

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Swimming Team Back Row: P Oliver, J Baker, S Deacon-Jackson, L Bullock, D Chui, N Finnegan, T Welsh Third Row: H Jude, H Belshaw, M Yip, F Oliver, A Fordyce, J Whyatt, A Houlton, C Lefevre, Mr R Smith Second Row: N Ryan, H Cottam, L Brooker, J Lovell (Capt), E Bull, A Fordyce, I Bartsch Front Row R Baxter, T Barlow

and saw all Caterham teams securing 2nd place finishes.

Next year I challenge all age groups, Junior, Inters and Seniors to win each age group in the district championships to prove that without a shadow of doubt that Caterham School are the best school in the district.

This season’s highlight once again has to be the brilliant performance at the ‘Bath Cup, held at the Olympic Pool.

This prestigious event saw Caterham pupils compete against the very best independent schools across the nation. Our girls team consisting of Isabella Berlin, Amy Davies, Siobhan Chou, Leah Slattery and Niamh Ryan, matched their 5th place finish in the 4x50m freestyle event in a time of 1.56.58, and came a respectable 11th place finish in the 4x50m Medley Relay.

The boys’ team consisting of James Lovell, Angus Yuen, Desmond Chui, Seb Deacon Jackson, and Howince Or also shared success, coming 13th in the 4x100m freestyle and finishing 7th after all heats in the 4x50m I.M. relay. The team should be immensely proud of what they achieved.

This current season has seen the swims teams fixtures dramatically increase, and the team have already achieved great success in the at the ESSA relay championships with our Seniors girls team making it all the way to the final and finishing 9th nationally. An amazing achievement. The influx of new students joining swimming has had a real positive effect on our team, and we are going from strength to strength. With a long season ahead of us, there is no telling what are talented team can achieve.

CATERHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL 2016-17

Mrs Whittle, Mr Smith, Trustees, Headmaster, Parents, Honoured Guests, Members of Staff and Pupils. Good Morning and a very warm welcome to our Speech Day and Prize-Giving 2017.

MR HOWARD TUCKETT

SPEECH DAY 2017 a significant impact on the school over your combined years of service here and we are delighted that you are both able to be with us here, together this morning.

It is difficult to believe that another whole year has passed by since the last time we all met together for our end-of-year celebration.

Congratulations to all members of the Prep School community, pupils, members of staff and parents on all that has been achieved over the last twelve months.

I would like to make a special thank you this morning to all my colleagues at the Prep School. Our work is always very rewarding and

challenging but this year we have had one or two extra challenges to overcome and as you would expect from such a team of professional, they have risen to the challenge admirably.

From the outside the running of the Prep School may often appear to be seamless, probably only I know how hard our members of staff have all worked and how much extra time and effort our they have put into running the Prep School so successfully this year. My sincere thanks to them all.

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special welcome to our two special guests of honour this morning.

Ms. Neville, our former Deputy Head, now Head at Rose Hill School in Tunbridge Wells and the Reverend Mearkle, our own school chaplain, who retires from Caterham at the end of this academic year, after seventeen years of service. Revd. And Mrs Mearkle leave us for their next big adventure as Revd. Mearkle takes up parish priesthood once again in beautiful St. Neotts. Ms Neville will be awarding all our various prizes this morning and Revd. Mearkle will be addressing us. Thank you both for being with us to share our special day today. You have both made such

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Higgs and my other colleagues on the school’s managements team for all their assistance support and the interest they show in the Prep School.

To our Chairman and Trustees who work so tirelessly on our behalf, often out of sight of the day-to-day business of the school, I also offer my sincere thanks for all your hard work on our behalf over this last very busy and challenging twelve months In particular I would like to thank and congratulate Mrs Ingrassia on having made such a successful transition to the post of Deputy Head during the school year. I would like to thank her for all the hard work she has put in to keeping us all, me most of all, heading in the right direction every day.

Today marks the end of our school year. Many of us will be coming back in September, some of us will not. On the staff we bid farewell to Mr Schenk, who leaves us to take up the post of Head of Hockey at Hurst-Pierpoint. Mr Schenk we wish you every success in your new post and offer thanks to you for your massive contribution to our school over the last few years.

Some pupils leave us today to move to new locations with their families and to start at new schools in the autumn. To all those who leave us we wish you every joy and success and all the best as you start life at your new schools.

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To our bursarial colleagues too, my sincere thanks and congratulations for all your efforts and all you have achieved. To our administration team, led by Mrs Travers at the Prep and all the other bursarial teams who have supported us so ably through the year - my sincere thanks and congratulations.

Caterham is a large organization and the Prep School is only a part of it. In order for the school to work as well as it does, the whole school management team supports the work of the Prep and Senior departments equally. As such, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Headmaster, Mr Jones, our Deputy Head, Mr Gabrielle, the Bursar Mrs

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successful final year with us and we know that you are now ready to go out into the wider world. A special note of congratulation to our Caterham Scholarship winners, Jack Forde for his academic and sports scholarships and to Philip Morgan for his music scholarship. Congratulations and thanks too to Philip Morgan for his beautiful violin solo this morning.

Most of our Year Sixes are moving onto our senior school, some of you are moving to other schools.

Wherever September sees you starting your senior school career, you take with us our very best wishes for the future. Please don’t stay away, come back and see us often and let us know how you are getting on. I hope you all enjoy the Year Six Leavers’ books that you will be presented with later on. My thanks to the team of Year Six parents who have worked so hard to construct this very special book for you. Our thanks also to the Old Caterhamians’ Association and the Caterham Parents’ Association for their financial support of this project.

It is not difficult, working in this beautiful, secluded valley to feel as if the rest of life is taking place somewhere else. We can become very wrapped up in our day to day endeavours here at the Prep School,

to the extent that we could easily become a little disconnected from the rest of life.

If there was ever a time to step aside from the mainstream hustle and bustle of life though, surely your formative years are the ideal time to do so. We have all been made so aware over the last year what a difficult, challenging and sometimes brutal world this can be. Our own city, London, has been particularly hard hit with tragedies this year. Our pupils here before us this morning are the people who will inherit our challenging world. These are the young people who shortly will be stepping out, into the world to take on the challenge of steering our nation and our planet through its next chapter.

How beneficial that our pupils can prepare for their adult lives here, in an environment so sheltered and secure.

To learn about managing life in these friendly buildings and surrounding fields and woodlands is indeed a privileged start to life. We should never underestimate the power of our location in supporting our more overt educational aims. The calm and beauty of Caterham is evident to all, not least to our parents who often arrive a little rushed from a busy day to come to support a sports match or attend a school event and can be seen to be visibly calming down and breathing a little slower shortly after they arrive and start to breathe in the tranquillity of this valley.

We are living in difficult times. Our national politics seem to be in a state

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of constant disruption. If we are not having an election or a referendum, we have either just had one or we are heading towards the next one. The management of our nation seems to have descended into a repetitive cycle of crisis. Long gone are the days of Britain being ruled steadily and consistently.

Our great historic ally, the people of the United States, are going through their own internal turmoil.

Although it may pain us as Britons to admit it, the current uncertainties and fragility of the US Presidency causes us unease. We feel an unaccustomed draft at our backs.

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There are those in the World who wish us ill, simply for being British.

As a child I experienced terrorism here in England in the late 1960s and early 1970s and then in South Africa in the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980s. It had always been my mind-set as I grew older that things would get better and that such basic brutality would just fade away in the face of a modern World, with its ever improving civilization and technology.

Sadly, life has taught me very clearly that this is not the case. Wherever there are people in the World who feel themselves wronged, violence and intimidation continue to be a much quicker and easier default position to adopt than negotiation and political process.

Whatever political and international difficulties our children may face as they grow older,

one aspect of life will always be there to challenge them. Change.

Change is a necessary, constant in our lives. Change is what keeps us thinking anew and by its very challenges, refreshes our attitudes and approaches to problem solving – change is the business of life Last week our nation was rocked to its foundations by yet another ‘change’. In the House of Commons last Wednesday, the Liberal Democrat Trade and European Affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, rose to ask a question. The details of his question were entirely lost on the House as fellow members led by the Conservative MP! Peter Bone, questioned the fact that Mr Brake had dared to address the House without wearing a tie! The Speaker, John Bercow, no stranger to controversy or to implementing change himself, ruled in the face of that question that Members may now address the House without wearing a tie, as long as they are wearing ‘business-like attire’.

We just don’t like change and yet it is such a necessary part of running our world successfully. Whilst the few remaining male members of the House of Commons come to grips with the issue of how they should be dressing for work in the modern House of Commons, we at Caterham Prep are constantly dealing with the issues of change in our own little world.

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recent weeks by the very sensible and broad thinking of so many of our young pupils as we have taken the unusual step of remixing the classes going into Year Three, Four and Five for next academic year.

The sensible and enthusiastic way in which our young pupils have embraced these changes heartens me. Life in future is going to throw up many more sudden and difficult changes than reorganising classes.

I am very encouraged by the way our young Caterhamians have, as a group, reacted to this small example of life change.

I have a very good friend. His name is George Collins. George and I taught together for some years in a small Natal town called Nottingham Road. Nottingham Road isn’t a road at all. This little town gets its name from the small railway halt named after the military camp that was set up there by the Nottinghamshire Regiment, The Sherwood Foresters during the Second Anglo-Boer war.

It was only a matter of a few miles away, further up this same railway line that the young war correspondent, Winston Churchill, was famously captured by the Boers, before being transferred much further north, to Pretoria, from where he even more famously escaped.

George Collins was a great school master. That school will remember him most fondly for his snake collecting club. Our boarders were allowed to scour the hills around the school on Sundays to search for snakes. The snakes that were caught were usually Red-lipped Heralds and Berg Adders. The snakes that were caught each Sunday, were allowed to be kept by the pupil for one week in the school’s snake pit, before being released again the next Sunday. The idea was that no one snake would be kept in captivity for too long. The truth I fear, given the

number of pupils on the hills and the number of snakes in our locality was that the same snakes were probably captured and recaptured on a fairly regular cycle. Certainly snakes newly deposited in the snake pit, always seemed to know the way straight away to the nearest shady log or flat stone to wriggle under to resignedly serve out their time for yet another week in the pit.

On one famous occasion a seemly dead cobra was found by some pupils on the hills. It was brought back to school and duly presented to George for inspection. He laid the

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to emulate and I have always felt I never really cracked. George was a great letter writer. I should explain that these were the earliest years of my teaching career, long before internet and the ability to remain in touch with friends and family via electronic media had come into our lives.

Every morning before school started, over a mug of tea, George would write a letter. It didn’t really matter to whom. It didn’t really matter what about. George wrote to everyone he knew in turn, one person a day, just a sheet or two to tell them of the daily happenings, how he was feeling, things that had happened, and how he was getting on. George said that it could be a very difficult and rare thing to make a friend and

that he was not prepared to lose the ones he had through not staying in touch. George didn’t’ use fancy letter paper or a special pen or any other significant paraphernalia, he simply took whatever letter writing things were to hand and put pen to paper every morning.

Over the years I have got better at writing to people. After each major term ends, I do enjoy writing my thank-you cards to the pupils and their families who have so very kindly given me notes, cards or small gifts.

I try to write my ‘thank-you’s’ as soon as possible after term ends and it is an exercise I enjoy very much. Like George, I do my letter writing best in the morning, with a mug of tea to hand.

However, the fact remains that I am still not the letter writer I know I should be and so I thought I should do something about that. So for starters I thought I would write to you, my pupils. So I have, I have written you a letter. And here it is:

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four foot long snake out on the staff room table, prodded it and poked it with his red biro and certified it well and truly dead, after which it was put into an old ice-bucket and left on top of a pile of books waiting to be marked - the snake was to be pickled in a jar later.

Our Headmaster of the time, John Lees, was very proud of our outdoor education provision and an hour or two later reached for the ice-bucket to show the dead snake to a visiting parent.

As he lifted the white plastic lid off the ice bucket, the ‘dead’ cobra struck at the inner face of the ice bucket lid with a speed and force that caused the Headmaster to rather reassess his retirement plans. Fortunately he had the presence of mind to jam the lid back on the bucket, rather than pull it away, before the irritated cobra, which had been faking death, could do anything further.

George who had so confidently declared the snake dead, didn’t turn a hair. From his chair in the common room where he had been sitting during the whole incident, he just packed the tobacco down a bit into his pipe and muttered something about ‘they do that sometimes....’

The Headmaster had rather more to say about it after the parent had left.

His failings as a snake expert aside, George had one habit that I always admired, I have always wanted

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Dear Pupils of Caterham Prep School 2017 (That’s you!)

How are you? I am fine! Well actually I’m not so fine because I am currently stood behind a lectern in a huge marquee speaking to a lot of people - which can be a bit tricky - especially when many of them are looking a bit hot and bored. I have to be honest, I would rather be fishing - but more of that later...

Actually it’s a Friday at school, so of course I can’t go fishing - it’s a work day. Silly me! In that case, rather than being stood up here, I would rather be teaching. I love to teach. Teaching is really, really cool. You get to speak and everyone else has to listen. That the rules! Except of course when you have to speak in class and I have to listen and that is the really cool bit because I never stop being blown away by how amazing you all are.

You all have so much good stuff inside you. You never cease to amaze me by how much you know and what insight and knowledge you bring to almost any topic we discuss. And we have all talked about so many things this year, Boy, have we talked. You and me, just a few of us sometimes or in several hundreds like we are now.

Over this year we have variously talked together in assemblies, in classrooms, in aeroplanes, on ferries and in mini-busses. We have talked in my office at school, in my office on the back seat of coaches, we have talked in England, we have talked in France and we have talked in the Czech Republic. We have talked together at outdoor tables in the playground, at outdoor tables on the Isle of Wight, on benches in the playground, around tables in the classrooms, in the swimming pool, on the netball courts, on the lacrosse pitch, in the dining room, in lines waiting for lunch, on sports fields, at the top of the steps in the mornings, at the top of the steps in the afternoons, in town when you suddenly bump into me and look at me as if you don’t know who I am. We have talked when you are being good, we have talked when you are being not-so-good, when you are happy, when you are sad, when you are soooo excited and we have talked when you have been worried and exhausted and fed up.

And what have we talked about. Well I have probably heard more really awful jokes from so many of you than is probably good for me. We have discussed the best way of achieving the perfect ‘dab’. We have discussed the many, many places you have all gone on your various holidays. We have talked about politics and how unnecessarily complicated it all seems to get. We have talked about your work and any little difficulties

you may be having. Sometimes we have talked about my work. Often we have talked about other people and the difficulties that are having and some of you have come up with some brilliant ways of helping them.

We have talked about so much. Home, parents, pets, brothers and sisters, grandparents, rock concerts and pop stars, movies, books, the things you like to collect, (what is a fidget spinner?), so many conversations, so many talks so much about you and your lives as you are growing up.

Actually, most of the time you do the talking and I listen. I love listening to you talk, whether you are speaking to me or to each other or both. I am always heartened as I listen to you talk. You all have such high standards. You expect the very best of yourselves and from each other. When you are hurt or disappointed it is generally because you feel that either yourself or someone else has let you down.

You have such ambitions for the future. You want so much. Not in a greedy way but you want the world and your lives in it to be good, to be productive, you desire the world to be kind and creative.

The thought often arises at the back of my mind that as I listen to you when we talk, that I can hardly believe I am listening to such mature and ambitious thoughts coming from such young people. I had been head of the Prep School here for at least two years before any of you were born! Yet, I learn something from you each time I listen to you and talk with you.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that children can’t have big thoughts or important opinions. Childhood is not an unimportant time. It is not a waste of time Just because childhood is what children go through, that doesn’t make it childish. Childhood is a critical phase of your life. It counts! Use your childhood to grow your thoughts and develop your opinions because those are the thoughts and opinions that are going to lead our world very soon.

I could go on but I think I have said all I wanted to and so I must close this letter now. We have a lot to do this morning and I mustn’t take up any more time.

I hope you have all enjoyed this year, you have certainly all worked very hard during it. I wish you all a happy holiday over the summer. Be safe, look after your families and have lots of summer-time fun.

Yours faithfully Mr T.

Now it really is time, once again, to go fishing. Thank you.

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MUSIC NEWS

Eric Thiman Singers ETS ENJOYED ANOTHER YEAR OF PERFORMANCES OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD.

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s well as taking part in the Remembrance, Carols and Easter Services, they performed at St James’ Church Piccadilly with the Senior School and Chamber Choir.

Their repertoire included a selection of motets by modern, British composers and a mass setting by Bob Chilcott.

The highlight of the year however had to be the very successful 3 day tour of Prague. The programme, centred around ‘Peace’, included a variety of motets and works by British composers including Purcell, Gibbons, Tallis and Eric Thiman, an Old Caterhamian. Audiences were visibly moved by the performances and gave rapturous applause at both concerts which were ‘standing room only’. Aside from rehearsing and performing, they visited Prague’s most iconic cultural attractions in the beautiful city.

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REMEMBRANCE SERVICE

Orchestral Open Day AN ENJOYABLE DAY WAS HAD BY ALL WHO ATTENDED THE ORCHESTRAL OPEN DAY ON A SUNNY SUNDAY IN MAY.

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hildren from nine local schools (including our own prep school) attended the workshop day which included sectional rehearsals run by our specialist staff, master classes on woodwind, brass and stringed instruments and a massed item of Uptown Funk conducted by Mrs Richards.

The event saw the launch of a new percussion team made-up from Caterham School drum kit players and led by our new Drum and Percussion teacher, Mr Arnold. Parents and friends attended the short concert at the end of the day and were impressed at the amount that their children had achieved in one day.

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Music Week THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER SAW THE PREP SCHOOL CELEBRATE MUSIC WEEK. WE ENJOYED A VARIETY OF PERFORMANCES IN ASSEMBLY FROM SENIOR SCHOOL PUPILS, CONCERT BAND, PREP STRINGS AND CHOIRS.

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riday’s Assembly was led by Mr Tuckett who showed us his extensive range of guitars, including one he had made himself using a dog bowl and kitchen sink strainers!

Other highlights included Lower Sixth pupils working with our Year 6 pupils, and an opera workshop for our Year 5 pupils, who created a performance built around Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ in a morning.

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CONGRATULATIONS to our Year 5 Prep Dance Club who took part in MADlive in the Spring Term in The Humphreys Theatre. Dancing to a ‘Shut Up and Dance’ performed by a live choir, the dancers wowed the audience with their energy and polished moves.

Well done girls!

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WE HAVE ENJOYED MANY COLLABORATIONS THIS YEAR WITH THE SENIOR SCHOOL.

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his includes our more able pupils performing with Senior Brass, Vivaldi and Sinfonia. Our prep pupils have been delighted to take part in concerts such as ‘All Things Strings’, First Class Brass and MADlive.

ASSOCIATED BOARD EXAMS A record number of our Prep pupils took their Associated Board exams this year and for the first time we entered pupils in Theory Exams – a direct result of our co-curricular Theory Club led by Mrs Ingrassia. Well done to all those pupils and to our Visiting Music Teachers for their preparation for these important exams.

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CHRISTMAS in the PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS of Christmas in the Prep School included: The Whole School Carol Service in the United Reformed Church

Prep School Choirs and Concert Band entertaining shoppers at the Caterham Christmas Market

Parents and Pies concert to parents, friends and local residents in the Wilberforce Hall. This featured all our Prep Ensembles and some lovely solo items.

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Year Level Concerts CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE YEAR 4, 5 AND 6 PUPILS WHO ENTERTAINED US ALL AT THEIR RESPECTIVE YEAR LEVEL CONCERTS.

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s a music department it is heartening to hear the musical progress the children make throughout their time here and to see their performance skills and confidence flourish. All children have a chance to perform in the year level pieces, which range from African Drumming to guitar ensemble and vocal groups.

House Music During the last week of the academic year we enjoyed our annual House Music competition.

The competition ran throughout the School day and comprised of 14 classes involving 97 pupils!

Helena Richards, Assistant Director of Music in the Senior School, adjudicated the competition and complimented the pupils on their confidence and obvious enjoyment of their music.

THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION WERE: Year 3

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Emma Forde

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Jasintha Emmanuel

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Harry Francis-Bates

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Olivia Hudson

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Finn Ogilvie and Ben Whyatt

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Keyan Shah Skye Wilkinson

Sam Godfrey and Rhian Carne Alexander Mirza Tanya Challier

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Lilia Jackson

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Caitlin Prior

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Philip Morgan

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We were treated to a splendid run of Nativity plays from Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 with not a dry eye in the house! Here is a selection of photos from the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 productions.

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Years 1 and 2 gave an enthusiastic performance of their annual Nativity Play entitled ‘The Apprentice’. There was some amazing acting, superb singing and all the children delivered their lines with loud, clear voices. A fantastic team effort – thanks and well done to everyone involved!

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Produced and Performed by

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Many congratulations to the cast and crew of Caterham Preparatory School on their fantastic production! I’d like to highlight a few things from this group that stood out, wowed the audience and made this Shakespeare Schools Festival night an evening to remember.

The performances across the company were big, bold and confident.

It was wonderful to have a theatre the size of Leatherhead filled with enormous vocal strength from a young company that clearly enjoyed being on stage.

The cast had great clarity with Shakespeare’s words and ensured that these 400 years old lines were delivered in an interesting way with clear choices having been made.

The company revelled in the humour of Shakespeare’s language and his situations. Narrators, lovers, fairies and mechanicals, all found a moment to share their comedy with the audience and you played up wonderfully to the audience’s appreciative laughs.

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his was a imaginative Dream and the cast’s use of the hoops and chimes to create the magical moments of the production was a clear and playful illustration of the fairy world.

This was a MAGICAL and COLOURFUL Dream from a clear and very confident cast.

It’s a significant achievement to do something as difficult and aspirational as perform one of Shakespeare’s plays on a professional stage.

Everyone who’s taken part should be so proud of themselves.

Ruth Brock, SSF Chief Executive

I would like to congratulate everyone involved in this superb production.

I hope to see your school in the Festival again next year.

Ian Nicholson, SSF Stage Director

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ANIMAL MAGIC YEAR 1 HAD AN AMAZING ANIMAL EXPERIENCE THIS WEEK WHEN A TRAVELLING ZOO VISITED THEIR CLASSES!

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s a finale to their Science topic about ‘animals’, the pupils got ‘hands on’ with a variety of animals, learning facts about them, as well as getting cuddles.

Can you believe they met an armadillo, meerkat, salamander, owl, puppy, ducklings, an albino racoon, millipedes, a tortoise, bunnies and even a bearded dragon! The pupils were not the only ones excited about this experience - I do not think the Year 1 classes have ever been visited by so many teachers wanting to have a sneaky peep too!

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Our annual Produce Show resulted in some outstanding £88.50 was entries, from a handmade table, a cupcake that looked raised which was like a burger and chips, a stunning owl made from donated to one fruit and vegetables, seed tray gardens, lego models of our school’s charities. …… the list could be endless!

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owever, the most impressive entries in the Produce section according to our lovely judge from Knights Nursery, Kevin, were Brooke Patterson’s carrots and cabbage, for which she won the best in show cup for the second year running. Special mention, and a runners-up certificate were awarded to Luca Amitrano, who produced an amazing variety of produce, but there were many children who were close on these two children’s heels. The standard is improving every year.

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BEBRAS NATIONAL COMPETITION The results from the 2016 Bebras National Computing Challenge Competition are in. Every child in the School who was present on the day that their class took part should have a certificate and there are some excellent scores.

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he top score in the school was awarded to Sayano Takezawa who managed to get 146/152 in the Castors category for 8-10 year olds, nearly 93% - an outstanding result and she is awarded a well deserved Best in School certificate.

Certificates of Distinction for being in the top 25% in this category also go to Lukas Termanis, Phoenix Valentine, Luca Amitrano, Olivia Bainbridge, Rhian Carne Jas Emmanuel, Harry Francis –Bates, Bailey Lythgoe, Jason Charters, Cosmas Dunne, Alice Keyworth, Casey Mear, Jake Rochester, Oliver Walker, Yasser Adhair, Elle Davidson and Isabelle Seren Young.

In the Year 6 category (10-12 years), Finn Ogilvie obtained an excellent result of 145/200 and will also receive a Best in School certificate, This wonderful result is closely followed by Xavier Parker with 142, and Isobel Cawood, Jenny Lomas and Oliver Rose, Victoria Allison, Bella Beadle, Dexter Bishop, Liam Moloney, Ethan Nichols, and Pia Shah all being awarded Certificates of Distinction for being in the top 25%.

In the lower age group, the year 3 children worked as teams to answer many varied questions that challenged their special awareness, their logical reasoning and their ability to see things from various angles and points of view. The top scoring team consisted of Keyan Shah, Daniel Roberts, Roisin O’Donovan and Alaxander Mirza with a score of 92/120, and they receive the Best in School certificates for this category.

Certificates of Distinction in this category also go to Saffron Lambert, Zac Lauder, Daisy Parson, Ava Paul, Lucy Lomas, and Abirami Kumar.

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FILM CLUB MARIE CRICK

LEGO STOP MOTION AT FILM CLUB

SENIOR SCHOOL AND PREP FILM CLUB TOOK PART IN A LEGO ANIMATION COMPETITION.

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he pupils were set the challenge by Miss Crick to create a Lego stop motion about one of the partnership projects that the school runs. Pupils used special green screen pods and a stop motion app on the iPads. Sixth Formers involved in the partnership programmes popped in to give advice and further insight into the chosen projects. The competition was judged by Mr King, Mrs Hannah Graydon and Senior Film Club pupils and winners got a very exciting prize.

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FILM Festival On Thursday 25 May, the first Caterham School Film Festival took place, following the success of the previous two Oscar Nights.

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he evening showcased the premieres of an exciting array of Film projects which included Year 5 Partnership Programme Films, Year 6 Film Club Films, English Films, BBC School Report Film and a variety of films displaying the wealth of activities that happen at Caterham School. The evening not only premiered many exciting films, but included a dance by Josie Branson and Jay Tuyenbayev and a talk from Joshua Howgego, Feature Editor at New Scientist.

The evening kicked-off with mini-interactive workshops which included Green Screen, Animation, Podcast, Editing and Robotics.

The evening ended in awards being presented by Charles Fearn (Picture Publicist at Channel 4), Rachel Bashford (Old Caterhamian and former member of Film Club) and Kate York (Freelance Producer and Director).

Well done to all pupils who have been involved and worked incredibly hard.

Animation Workshop IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WELCOME A GROUP OF YEAR 6 MARKETING PUPILS TO THE INNOVATION CENTRE IN THE SENIOR SCHOOL ON THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER TO TAKE PART IN AN ANIMATION WORKSHOP.

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upils learnt how to produce a stop motion film using Lego, iPads and green screen pods. The pupils used the theme of community and focused on the Senior School Partnership programmes Delight, Rotary Club Christmas Door to Door project and Romania to create their stories. Senior Film Club joined the workshop during lunchtime and shared their film knowledge with Year 6. The films were shown at the Film Festival in May.

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FILM PARTNERSHIP This year the Year 5 Film Partnership was launched by Miss Crick, with the aim of film working in partnership not only between the Prep and Senior Schools but across the subjects of English, Drama, Dance, Music, Innovation, Computing and Technical Theatre.

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ear 5 Film Partnership Workshops took place across two days in The Performing Arts and Innovation Centre.

Pupils from Caterham Prep School took part in Drama and Dance sessions to learn how to interpret a chosen poem to create dynamic, creative and moving performances. Pupils were also

treated to Animation, Green Screen, Storyboarding, Technical Theatre, Film Theory and Music sessions.

Senior School pupils took part in teaching throughout both days – well done to Krista Goodwin, Shibiram Murugamoorthy, Laura Sessi-Knott, Matthew Sharpe and James Allison.

YEAR 6 HIGHLIGHTS FILM Year 6 pupils worked hard on many film projects during the academic year to produce entries for the Film Festival.

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ne of their many projects was the ‘Year 6 Highlights Film’. Pupils learnt interview techniques and were plunged straight into the deep end by interviewing the Prep Headmaster, Mr Tuckett! Each pupil took on an important role, from reporter to film crew. Reporters were Dexter Bishop, Reuben Chauban and Lorcan O’Meara, who conducted the interviews with questions that had been crafted by the whole team. Xavier Parker, Jack Forde and Anthony Sessi-Knott took on the daunting role of directors and made sure there was quiet on set! The film crew was made up of Finn Devlin, Ishaan Desai, Samantha Charters and Stuart Scott, who also filmed the whole process from the interview to film crew to be used in the highlights film. Well done to all budding reporters and videographers.

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CHRIS CONNAUGHTON – Visiting Speaker

In October, the Preparatory School enjoyed Chris Connaughton’s storytelling and acting once again.

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e kept the attention of all the children with his engaging manner and interesting monologues.

Year 6 loved the performance of Robinson Crusoe and considered such themes as being alone, family separation and the important things in life, Year 5 shared their information on Lewis Carroll with Chris, watched his Alice in Wonderland stories and discussed the theme of symmetry through the book and Years 3 and 4 watched some more of Chris’ interpretations of traditional tales. It was a great day of drama in the English Department.

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THE LEARNING DOME IS AN INFLATABLE 4.8M PORTABLE PLANETARIUM.

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he projector accurately depicts the stars at any time of year as well as the positions of the Sun, the Moon in its correct phase and the major planets, all of which combine to give a startlingly realistic representation of the night sky. First in the dome were Year two, who learnt about day and night and the constellations of the stars amongst lots of other interesting facts. Then the Year four pupils were able to enter the dome and learnt why we have four seasons and why the moon appears to change. Both year groups found their time in the dome entertaining, stimulating and helped with their learning when they returned to the classroom.

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who help us THE RECEPTION CLASSES THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THEIR TOPIC ON ‘PEOPLE WHO HELP US’ AND WERE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE LOTS OF VISITORS WHO TOLD THEM ABOUT THEIR JOBS AND HOW THEY HELP PEOPLE!

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he police showed lots of different equipment and uniform which the children were able to try. The children got to go inside a riot van and hear the sirens!

Mrs Paine, our school nurse, involved the children in some role play and bandaged up some wounded children. They were then taken on a tour around the Health Centre over in the Senior School.

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Graham, a member of the maintenance team at school, taught the children how to build small wooden boats which they were then able to take home!

The Godstone firefighters arrived with their fire engine and talked to the children about fire safety. The children were lucky enough to go on the engine and also squirt the water hose! Mrs Taylor, a vet from a surgery in Nutfield, came in to tell the children about the animals she looks after and kindly brought some guinea pigs with her for the children to meet!

Mrs Malik visited the children to talk about her role as a doctor and how the children can stay healthy.

We would like to thank all the visitors involved as the children had a wonderful time and will hopefully remember the experience for many years to come!

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The Plague and Great Fire Workshop Year 2 were visited by several people from the past!

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he children really enjoyed learning about the Bubonic Plague from the plague doctor and the Great Fire of London from Samuel Pepys. This workshop was the start of our history topic about the Plague and the Fire of London which we learnt were both within one year of each other in 1665 and 1666!

The children are excited to learn even more in the coming weeks and asked fantastic questions to our visitors whilst showing excellent behaviour.

Well done Year 2!

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Roman Day In May the Year 3’s had an exciting interactive day with our Roman visitors. They particularly enjoyed learning new skills at Gladiator School, spotting real or fake artefacts and trying on real armour.

A feast prepared using Roman recipes tested their taste buds and a hilarious trip to the amphitheatre rounded off the fantastic day.

‘It was the best day ever in my life!’ Francesca Wallis ‘My favourite part was when I was a Celt and got blue face paint.’ Zac Lauder

‘I wish we could do the whole day again!’ Grace Howe ‘We made lucky charms and got to wear them at school.’

Poppy Laffey

‘I loved eating the smoked fish because it was so yummy!’

Abirami Kumar

‘It was fun when we dressed up as Roman women.’

Maisie Baker

‘I liked beating Rehan in the Gladiator fight because everyone was cheering.’ Sam Owen ‘The honey cake was the best food ever! The cheese was horrible!’ Orin Denton ‘I really liked the face paint because it made you look scary.’ Rehan Young ‘Now I can speak a tiny bit of Latin.’ Louie Janes 197

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n Monday 4th July the Reception children set off on their annual visit to Ladyland Farm! When the children arrived they were asked if they would be Ladyland Farmers for the day and help look after the different animals. Farmer AnneMarie was their guide and the children helped her feed many animals such as sheep and some very young calves. The children met all sorts of other farm animals, including some Shetland ponies, pigs, chickens, goats and owls. The highlight of the trip was a very bumpy ride in Farmer Phillip’s tractor! All involved had a wonderful day!

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TRIP TO BODIAM CASTLE Year 1 travelled to Bodiam Castle as a finale to their History topic. They had an amazing time whilst there and got the opportunity to dress up as knights.

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hey also wore different costumes and acted out jobs in the castle, such as being the Lord and Lady as well as servants. All children managed to climb up to the top of the battlements and loved spotting elements of the castle that they had learnt about, eg, murder holes and a portcullis. They were incredibly well-behaved and made us all proud. Thank you to all the mothers and grandma that came

and helped out on the trip. On Thursday, the children spent the whole morning preparing for a medieval feast. They baked bread, made vegetable soup and gingerbread cakes. They also created their own costumes and made musical instruments to entertain the Lord and Lady with at the feast. The afternoon was spent eating, dancing and laughing. A great end to their Castle topic.

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YEAR 2 VISIT

REDHILL MOSQUE Year 2 had a very interesting and enjoyable visit to Redhill Mosque. The children (and adults!) learned lots and it was a great way to introduce our RE topic about Islam.

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BIRDWORLD Year 3 had a fabulous time at Birdworld! Here is what Ava Dubell and Abirami Kumar had to say: We saw the keeper feeding fish to the pelicans. They were so scary - they had a giant beak and a long neck. One of them bit the keeper!

Caterham Prep School have adopted a penguin. We saw an amazing number of birds of different shapes and sizes, some cute, some scary. These included chickens, peacocks, parrots, love birds, macaws, owls, crowned pigeons, hornbills, but not the Elephant Bird - it is extinct!

Birdworld is such a wonderful, fun place. Do you want to know more about birds? Do you like birds?

If you do, then COME TO BIRDWORLD!

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YEAR 4

AT RHS WISLEY

On Friday 19 May, Year 4 visited RHS Wisley to study how plants adapt to live in various habitats.

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he weather was a little suspect, but we managed to avoid the rain by visiting the Bird hide where we identified the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinches, Chaffinches, Blue-tits and many other birds. Using the iPads we tried to identify species of pine trees, although we discovered that Wisley had such a wide variety that our app was unable to cope. Finally we

visited the greenhouses, looking at alpine areas, desert and tropical areas and the root zone. The children were impeccably behaved and were enthusiastically able to answer many questions about the adaptation of the plants that we saw. However, the highlight was when a duck took an opportunity to steal some shortbread from Bailey and almost bit his fingers!

YEAR 5 AT BOUGH BEECH

Reservoir and water treatment centre in Kent.

WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A MILD DAY AND NOT A RAIN DROP INSIGHT, ALTHOUGH THE RESERVOIR LEVELS WERE RATHER LOW AND PERHAPS COULD DO WITH A FEW MORE MILLION RAIN DROPS IN IT. HERE ARE SOME OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT OUR TRIP: I learnt that water had to go through different stages to become clear. I also learnt that water is precious and we must use less than we usually do.

Joshua Adu-Kwapong My favourite bit was when Jo kindly led us through the tunnel. We went underneath the dam and the reservoir. It was amazing! I enjoyed it so much! It was so much fun to be underneath all that water. I was in a long tube that wasn’t very big. Jo who works at Bough Beech made it fun. I learnt that you should use 130 litres a day but we are using 160 litres a day so we are using too much.

Elise Bloquet

Although it was a bit scary I enjoyed going through the tunnels and look-ing up to the top of the tower.

I learnt I should probably not use as much water as I normally so. We need to use 30 litres less.

Casey Mear

I learnt that we shouldn’t have a long shower and it should be no longer than 4 minutes. I am going to try and convince my parents to order the free resources to try and not use so much water in our house.

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YEAR 5 TRIP TO HAMPTON COURT

In October, Year 5 pupils set off for a History trip to Hampton Court Palace.

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hey were all astounded by the size of the Palace and its grounds as it came into view. The morning was spent discovering The Great Hall, Henry’s apartments and the courtyards. The pupils also learned much from becoming Historians, looking at Tudor artefacts linked with Henry VIII and what they tell us about the Great King. After lunch, the afternoon was spent learning about

the Chapel Royal and how it was used and changed throughout the years.

The Tudor kitchens were visited, showing different foods, meals and how Henry VIII fed his servants, guests and friends. The pupils then learned about young Henry’s story, including some amazing, original Tudor portraits of Henry and other members of the Royal Family. The trip was enjoyed by all and the pupils behaved impeccably throughout the day.

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YEAR 5 RESIDENTIAL TRIP TO

ISLE OF WIGHT

Year 5 were all as keen as mustard to set off on their travels to the Isle of Wight. We were absolutely delighted to be able to include Mrs Hudson, Mr Tuckett and Mrs Wallis in our numbers to enjoy what always proves to be a very exciting experience.

of excitement now that the pupils knew who they were rooming with.

During the first evening we had a campfire with hot chocolate and marshmallows. This gave the group a chance to sing songs, work together and get rid of any excess energy they may have still had before bed.

With a good night’s sleep behind us Saturday proved to be very exciting.

There were giant swings to ride, telegraph poles to climb and jump off of, zip wires to fly down and sensory trails to experience. The day was challenging, but many fears

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e were blessed with the sun coming out as we made the short journey across the sea to the Isle of Wight. Our first destination was Carisbrooke Castle, famous for many things, including Charles I being held prisoner there for a short while. Whilst at the castle we learnt how water was drawn from the well by prisoners walking around a giant wheel (nowadays it is a donkey who walks around the wheel to show tourists how water was lifted up from the deep well), the various jobs that people who lived at the castle did; and all about some of the armour and weapons that were used in battles against the French.

Unfortunately it was too windy to walk around the battlements and up to the keep but it was still an incredible sight.

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were overcome and positive team building experienced. The evening provided the children with the chance to play a giant game of hide and seek in their groups. Another chance to form bonds and work together to try and win was found!

On Sunday we spent the day completing more activities in our groups. These overcoming fears of heights by abseiling, creating and riding buggies and playing a high energy game of aero ball. The evening involved us spending time at the local beach investigating the various tidal zones and learning about the inhabitants of each. Crab hunting proved fascinating, as whoops of joy were heard every time a large crab was revealed from its watery home.

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Monday morning arrived all too soon.

We had time to enjoy a few more activities before we set off home towards Caterham, complete with lots of fabulous memories about the weekend. The children enjoyed one last trip across the Solent, with certificates handed out, before the journey home. An excellent trip where the year 5 pupils behaved impeccably.

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YEAR 6 ADVENTURES AT BUSHCRAFT Rumours of bad weather were never going to deter the intrepid pupils of Year 6 as they set-off for their Bushcraft Residential trip. We managed everything planned (some activities a little soggier than others!). Fire making, shelter building, wilderness first aid all took place. We were even able to sleep outside in the shelters for one night - an unforgettable experience. Food was prepared and cooked on open fires, entertainment was provided by ‘Tribes got Talent’ and a great time was had by all!

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FRANCE

It was a dark and early start for our Year 6 students on Friday 21st October. Everyone was on time meeting at 5.00am in the school car park. After boarding the bus, travelling to Folkestone and crossing over to France our day proceeded without a hitch.

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irst stop was the market at Etaples where the children were split into groups with a teacher, given a specified amount of Euros and sent off to purchase their lunch (en Français).

The children’s highlights from the market included being able to bargain with the stall holders, hearing French being spoken all around them, seeing the freshly grown or made produce, having a large variety of foods to choose from, trying out new foods, smelling the delicious scent of freshly baked bread and roasting chickens, having to purchase their products using Euros and speaking a different language. Many French people enjoyed the experience of seeing our well-behaved children dressed in their school tracksuits.

French school children do not wear a uniform to school.

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amazing aquarium. Due to the rain we were able to devour our picnic lunch (made up of our purchases from the market) in an indoor space, before wandering through the unique and exhilarating displays on offer, which included a 4D film in French all about the effects of the sea, pollution and global warming on our delicate planet of Earth.

The children loved seeing the live Jackass penguins from Cape Town as well as watching human divers cleaning the massive tanks from the inside surrounded by a large variety of sea life swimming around them.

It was like plunging into the heart of the oceans. It would be impossible to come away from Nausicaa without realising how some of our fragile ecosystems work and how we can work towards maintaining our environment in an eco-friendly manner. Towards the end of our time at Nausicaa the children were

allowed to purchase some gifts from the gift shop, providing them with another chance of using their Euros, and speaking/communicating in French.

The final part of our day consisted of a trip to Boulangeri Le Fournil where the children were given a lesson in croissant making and shown how an artisan bakery works. It has to be said that many children enjoyed this part of the trip as their French vocabulary was put to the test in a humorous way.

Before leaving this bakery, each child was given a croissant and a pain au chocolat to take home.

Thanks to our amazing coach drivers we had a smooth journey back to the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais and another smooth ride all the way back to Caterham School.

PREP SCHOOL SPORT Football The Colts A team had a successful football season led well by Angus Robertson and Liam Moloney. The boys won 4 and drew 3 of their 9 games. Notable victories were a 6-0 win over Surbiton and 3-0 wins over Micklefield and Lingfield College. Sebastian Quijano Evans was solid in goal and Zac Ferguson and Louis Devlin dominant in midfield.

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he B team had an even better season winning 7 of their 9 games suffering only the one loss. The boys recorded huge wins over Elmhurst, Homefield and Priory.

Sammy Houlton was player of the season working tirelessly in midfield. The C and D team also had fine seasons only losing one of their 9 each. Our strength in depth was illustrated with E and F team also performing admirably with both winning over 50% of their games.

The Under 9 and Under 8 football seasons indicates a bright future for Caterham football. The Under 9 A team were fantastic all season winning 11 of their 12 games.

The boys also won the highly competitive Lingfield College Cup and only lost out in our tournament on penalties. Phoenix Valentine was phenomenal all season scoring freely in every game. The Under 8 team went one better than their U9 counterparts going undefeated all season winning 8 of their 9 games. Luke Hague and Zac Lauder were impressive all season.

Football colours awarded to: Liam Moloney, Angus Robertson, Zach Ferguson and Jack Forde.

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Cricket

Rugby

The Colt’s cricket season was somewhat of a mixed bag. The A team lost all four of their games but the B team won all their games quite convincingly.

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he C and D teams also performed well winning 6 of their 7 games. The Under 9’s made steady progress throughout the term winning their last three games after a shaky start. The Under 8’s were introduced to cricket and played some lovely cricket in their game against Reigate with the boys striking the ball hard and bowling consistently well.

Cricket colours awarded to: Jack Forde and Dexter Bishop.

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he U11A lost just the once and recorded huge victories over Micklefield, Copthorne and Aberdour. The result of the season was a win against Reigate St. Mary’s when after being 30 - 0 down at half time the boys rallied to a magnificent 40 - 30 victory. The Under 10A win all their games with great wins over Micklefield and Reigate.

Angus Robertson, Jack Forde and Zac Ferguson were very impressive all season.

The Under 9’s found the season tough going against some very physically imposing sides but the Under 8’s thrived winning all 6 of their games in some style with Luke Hague playing with a maturity that belies his age.

Rugby colours awarded to: Liam Maloney, Angus Roberston, Zach Ferguson, Jack Forde, Dexter Bishop, Lorcan O’Meara, Anthony Sessi-Knott and Louis Devlin.

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Cross Country Well done to all Under 11 and U9 girls who competed in a tough Somerhill X country competition in October on a gruelling and hilly course.

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ll girls finished strongly and despite losing a shoe on the way round Ella Patterson was our first runner home, finishing 42nd out of a field of 130.

U11 Finish order: Ella Patterson, Lilia Jackson, Victoria Allison, Isobel Cawood, Ava Clarke, Isabella Hague.

Athletics Due to the bad weather the Prep School only managed one Athletics meet in the summer.

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owever in this meet they did not disappoint with a convincing win over Micklefield. Caterham were by far the superior technical athletes in the field events winning every field event. Caterham’s domination continued on the track which they finished with a clean sweep in every single relay.

Athletics colours awarded to: Angus Robertson and Dexter Bishop

U9 Finish order: Brooke Patterson, Livvy Bainbridge, Lucy Bentley, Molly Jones, Jasintha Emmanuel.

Congratulations to all those who took part.

The Caterham U11 and U10 X-country teams also competed against 5 other schools during December in what proved to be a highly enjoyable and competitive Oakhyrst Grange meet. The course had a few tricky uphill sections which tested the runners but all pupils performed very well and should be proud of their performances.

Year 6 Results

Position

Victoria Allison

5th

Brooke Patterson

3rd

Ella Patterson

6th

Olivia Bainbridge

6th

Lilia Jackson

9th

Molly Jones

7th

13th

Alexa Hawken

8th

Isobel Cawood

19th

Lucy Bentley

11th

lana Golesworthy

23rd

George McAree

12th

Ava Clarke

Swimming With the aid of our new Swimming coach, Mr Ross Smith, the swimming at the school has gone from strength to strength.

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Year 4 Results

Position

Louis Devlin

5th

Max Anderson

3rd

Zach Ferguson

6th

Bradley Browne

7th

Liam Maloney

8th

Sam Godfrey

10th

Dexter Bishop

11th

Joel Adu-Kwapong

11th

Bailey Lythgoe

13th

Thomas Bartsch

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he pupils swam very well in winning galas over Oakhyrst, Royal Russell and Hazelwood. We also took part in the IAPs swimming championships for the first time. One major result was Jess Harmer who qualified for the national finals then came second in the whole country in the freestyle. With extra swim squads being laid on we hope to develop the swimming at Caterham further still in the coming years.

Sebastian 15th Quijano-Evans

Swim colours awarded to: Lana Golesworthy, Jenny Lomas, Bella Beadle, Victoria Allison, Isabella Hague, Anthony Sessi-Knott, Dexter Bishop and Sebastian Quijano-Evans.

Year 5 Results Isabelle Grace Young 2nd Beth Ellam

3rd

Jessica Harmer

4th

Caitlin Prior

5th

Isabelle Seren Young

6th

Elle Davidson

7th

Ethan Van Huyssteen

1st

Jake Rochester

3rd

Samuel Houlton

5th

Jack Bradley

10th

William Agnew

11th

Casey Mear

12th

X- Country colours awarded to: Ella Patterson Lilia Jackson Victoria Allison Anthony Sessi Dexter Bishop Sebastian Quijano-Evans

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Netball Over 90 Netball matches were contested over the 2016/17 season with all girls benefitting from a fully inclusive and competitive programme.

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ome year groups found the fixture list quite challenging but all teams demonstrated great spirit and determination irrespective of the score line. Our most successful teams, in terms of results, included the U10A’s and U8B’s, narrowly losing only one game throughout the season and the U9B’s who managed to secure 7 wins from 11 matches. The U10 girls also swept the board at the Burgess Hill Netball tournament in March beating all opposition quite comfortably and securing the winners’ trophy. To top off the successes, the U9’s came runners up in our own tournament and the U10’s once again came away with gold medals and the winners shield. Links continue to be forged with the Senior School with several Colts fixtures played against U12 opposition at lunchtimes throughout the season. The Prep girls contested these matches well, winning more than their fair share of games against girls of greater stature and experience and should be congratulated on their performances.

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Rounders Once again the Caterham girls threw themselves in to the short Rounders season with great energy and enthusiasm, playing over 25 matches in the time available.

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ll girls represented the school in all age group categories, with most teams accumulating a good number of victories in their respective fixtures. The U8 B’s, U9A’s, U10A’s and Colts B’s and C’s did not lose a match – congratulations to all girls on a very successful and enjoyable season!

End of season awards: Unsung Hero: Francesca Dunn, Coral McGarvie, Rhian Carne, Caitlin Prior, Aurelia Yip. Most Improved Player: Ava Paul, Tanya Challier, Zoe Terrell, Imogen Freeland.

Player of the Season: Emma Ford, Olivia Bainbridge, Jessica Harmer, Isabelle S. Young, Jenny Lomas.

End of season awards: Unsung Hero: Grace Howe, Coral McGarvie, Jess Harmer, Estella Yip. Most Improved Player: Maisie Baker, Ruby Shipsey, Rhian Carne, Mathilda Nelson-Smith, Molly Smithson.

Player of the Season: Emma Ford, Olivia Bainbridge, Isabelle S. Young, Bella Beadle.

Netball colours awarded to: Pia Shah, Bella Beadle, Jenny Lomas, Lilia Jackson.

Rounders colours awarded to: Bella Beadle, Isobel Cawood, Imogen Freeland, Lana Golesworthy, Pia Shah.

PREP SCHOOL - SPORT GOLD MEDAL In early November ten Year 5 pupils participated in a Hockey Workshop led by the 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist, Alex Danson.

Despite the weather conditions it was a great morning and the girls were put through their paces, learning new skills and tactics and participating in exciting small sided games. There was a very interesting and motivating question and answer session with Alex at the end of the event and the girls were able to get signed autographs of the star before leaving.

Congratulations to all the girls who took part.

Hockey There has been an exciting innovation for the Caterham Prep girls this year with the introduction of Hockey to the curriculum.

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t has proved to be a popular option across the age range and the girls’ enthusiasm and love of the sport ensured success at picking up new skills and tactics. With the continued support and expertise of Mr Schenk, the Senior School Head of Hockey and Mr Friend the head of the Hockey Academy, all groups have experienced fun-filled coaching throughout the Autumn term. Invaluable experience was gained by all girls and the Prep School hope to continue to strengthen these exciting links with the Senior School over the next few years.

Lacrosse The Lacrosse programme at the Prep School continues to go from strength to strength with large numbers of girls attending early morning and lunchtime clubs in order to gain valuable experience for Senior School.

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o matter what the weather, all girls have attended regularly and adopted enthusiastic, positive attitudes and admirable competitiveness. Year 6 pupils once again gained incredibly valuable experience from Miss Simpson and her colleagues at the Senior School and came bouncing back from after school practices full of enthusiasm and good humour – a testament to the fun-packed, committed and highly professional approach adopted by our talented American coaching staff. In late November the Prep and an U12 senior team came head to head in a Lacrosse fixture which proved to be an excellent showcase for the developing links between the two sites, with the Prep narrowly losing the match 9 goals to 6.

Well done to all girls who made it such an enjoyable and fulfilling occasion.

End of season awards: Unsung Hero: Matilda Park Player of the Season: Lilia Jackson Most Improved Player: Tia Singh

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This year the weather was very kind and the sun shone brightly all day for the Prep School Sports Day. There were many fine performances and eight school records broken. Eventually after a hard day’s competition Foxburrow won the day by the finest of margins on the last relay of the day.

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