The Caterhamian 2017/18

CATERHAM SCHOOL

THE CATERHAMIAN Review of the Year 2017-18

Front cover artwork by Hermione, Fifth Year

THE CATERHAMIAN 2017-18

CONTENTS

2 Farewell 5 Speech Day 9 Academic Results 14 Pupils on the Move 18 Headline Stories 20 Caterham School Society 25 Support Us 26 House Reports 33 House Events 34 Boarding 41 Well-being 43 Individual Pupil Success 44 Art 50 Photography 52 Textiles 53 Arts and Humanities 55 Science 57 History 58 Geography 60 Music 70 Independent Research Project 71 Drama and Theatre

82 Psychology 83 English 84 Maths 87 Economics and Business Studies 88 Politics 89 Modern Foreign Languages 93 Innovation and Technology 99 Careers 103 Library 105 Debating 106 Clubs and Societies 107 Enrichment Programme 109 London Academy of Excellence 110 Partnerships 117 Charity 118 CCF 135 Outdoor Learning 137 Skiing 138 Talent Show 139 Miscellaneous 140 Sport 175 Prep School

FAREWELL

From Circus Skills to Anthropology, his enthusiasm and determination for children to learn made him an exceptional teacher both inside and outside the classroom.

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FAREWELL ANDION VAN NIEKERK, OR MR VAN AS EVERYONE KNEW HIM, CAME TO CATERHAM IN JANUARY 2003 AS A GAP STUDENT TEACHER, HAVING RUN AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS IN ORDER TO JOIN A SCHOOL!

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e made an immediate impact with his calm, endlessly patient manner and amazing ability to enthuse his students, no matter what the subject. Many a Geography lesson was lit up by his anecdotes and knowledge of the topics covered, and in English his passion for writing and storytelling shone through.

He was a true professional in the classroom, always thinking about what was best for the pupils and their learning, and coming up with innovative ways in which to get his message across.

Relentlessly charming, enthusiastic, jovial and good humoured, he was also a tremendously inspirational Head of Townsend, the Junior Boys’ Boarding House. He consistently modelled so many fantastic qualities that it was no surprise to see these rub off on the children. His warm persona always

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brought out the best in the boys and it is no exaggeration to say that every single pupil who came through the boarding house under him grew in both confidence and character.

Townsend House became a brilliantly diverse place where the boys felt safe in growing in to who they wanted to be, whilst also curious and truly accepting of one another.

Andion was proud to share his wide-ranging and unique interests with all pupils. From Circus Skills to Anthropology, his enthusiasm and determination for children to learn made him an exceptional teacher both inside and outside the classroom. Many pupils have gone through the school having learned to walk on stilts, juggle, tightrope walk or unicycle – and this is a feature that is set to continue as he will be back on a regular basis to ensure these unique skills are not denied to other generations of Caterhamians.

Furthermore he was a story-telling raconteur of formidable talent – he had an ability to create imagery in words, easily eliciting emotion and a feeling of escapism for a truly enraptured audience, be it in the boarding house, in his classes or at Fright Night in the woods!

Andion is a sensational teacher who will be sorely missed from the classroom, boarding house and Common Room. He instilled an integrity in his pupils and his legacy is one that cannot be downplayed; his positive, dynamic approach in his care for each and every one of the boys meant that he was universally loved. He moves on (but not entirely) to pursue a career in writing and we wish him, his wife Sarah and son Reyn the very best of luck in their lives down in Deal.

STUART TERRELL & ALEX MOORE

FAREWELL

I HAD THE WONDERFUL PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH COLLETTE PATEMAN FOR 10 YEARS AT CATERHAM SCHOOL.

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t the beginning I was her Head of Department and we developed 3D Design as a creative and diverse subject within the School.

When I moved to become Head of Outdoor Learning, Collette took over the reins and pushed the subject into new and greater areas. Collette was passionate about design and continued to develop and expand her expertise in jewellery making.

She regularly led evening classes and workshops and undertook a successful sabbatical to New York.

Her passion for jewellery making led her to set up her own business in the summer of 2018 and she now runs a successful workshop in the docklands area of London. Collette will be missed by all who knew her and I wish her well for her new business venture: htps://collettedawnjewellery.com/ BEN WILKINSON

STEVEN MARLOW’S DEPARTURE LAST SUMMER, AFTER 10 YEARS AT CATERHAM, WAS A SAD BLOW FOR THE SCHOOL AND IN PARTICULAR THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT WHERE HE WAS DEARLY LOVED AND IS NOW DEARLY MISSED.

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teven joined Caterham straight from Oxford University where he studied Biochemistry. His depth of knowledge, particularly in the area of molecular biology and DNA technology was second to none, but what made him stand out was his love of biology and his thirst to learn more.

Although I had started the Warhammer Club some 10 years before his arrival, Steven introduced me and the School to an awesome new game - Blood Bowl. It is simply the best game ever invented and through his passion for this game the club grew and grew and is now the largest Blood Bowl Club in the country. Steven arranged for pupils to take part in many tournaments, but the most memorable by far were the World Championships. No one who has been to these will forget the

Steven introduced me and the School to an awesome new game - Blood Bowl.

It is simply the best game ever invented and through his passion for this game the club grew and grew and is now the largest Blood Bowl Club in the country.

event and we are forever in Steven’s debt for introducing us to this.

With a young family, the time was right for Steven to move on to a new school and nearer home. The Bio Dept are all still in touch with him and see him from time to time. His spirit lives on in Bio and he will always be welcome here.

Steven, I thank you for all you did for Biology at Caterham, for the many field trips we ran together, for fun and the jokes and, of course, the Blood Bowl. We hope you are not rolling too many double skulls at Eltham DAN QUINTON

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FAREWELL

ALICE O’DONNELL JOINED CATERHAM ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN 2007. SHE QUICKLY ESTABLISHED HERSELF AS AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER: INSPIRATIONAL, SCHOLARLY AND TOTALLY COMMITTED TO HER PUPILS.

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he has led the department through some challenging times; English is now established as one the most forward-looking and innovative academic departments at Caterham.

Alice has a tireless work ethic, leading from the front. She taught across the whole range, even venturing into the Prep School in her final year at Caterham. She proved equally adept with the youngest as with Sixth Formers. Her commitment to her pupils went beyond achieving the best possible results; she also wanted them to love English. Her lessons were fun. One recent leaver wrote: Dear Mrs O’Donnell – Thank you for making my last year studying English at Caterham so enjoyable.

Whether it was a Monday morning of Gatsby or a Thursday afternoon of Chaucer, your friendliness and wisdom brought something new to every 40 min chunk and made me realise that in the end my enjoyment of English should not be defined by a grade.

Her colleagues in the department were equally impressed by her kindness, her commitment to high standards and her attention to detail.

One wrote: One of Alice’s gestures is to write a very personal card to each of us at the end of every term. I’m not sure she realises just how important these have been to me or how many times I’ve been buoyed up by her

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She taught across the whole range, even venturing into the Prep School in her final year at Caterham. She proved equally adept with the youngest as with Sixth Formers.

Her commitment to her pupils went beyond achieving the best possible results.

affirmations. I’m still in denial about her going and will hugely miss her wisdom, kindness and calmness. Her new school is VERY lucky to have her.

Another colleague said this: The cherry on the cake is that she is such a sweet softy, small but scrappy and although I’m losing the best boss I’ve ever had, I’ve gained a friend for life.

I first observed Alice teach on a Friday afternoon in November. She was attempting to teach poetry to a 5th Year class who didn’t seem to want to be in school at all, let alone learning poetry. She could have played it safe; she knew I was coming to watch her lesson, and it would have been easy to choose something easier. However she stuck to her script, and by the end of the lesson the pupils were not only fully engaged, I had the impression that they were enjoying the poem. It was a masterclass.This illustrated for me perhaps Alice’s strongest quality; her determination not to drop her standards. She put everything she

could into every day at school and every pupil she taught.

The English department was not the sole beneficiary of Alice’s time and energy. She was an excellent tutor; passionate about the welfare and success of all her tutees. She was a regular contributor to the horse-riding club and many other co-curricular activities. A hugely talented actor, it was to Caterham’s loss that her commitments elsewhere prevented her from taking a fuller part in school drama.

Alice leaves us to Join Kimbolton School as Head of English. Their gain is indeed our loss; we will miss her very much indeed. On a personal note, I have appreciated very much Alice’s total honesty and her kindness; she is a truly delightful person.

We wish Alice, Graeme, Fleur and Alexander every success and happiness in their new surroundings.

Her colleagues and generations of pupils will remember her fondly for many years to come.

TOM MURPHY

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Speech Day SATURDAY 7 JULY 2018 Extract from the Headmaster’s Address at Speech Day:

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s an historian, one of the things that intrigues me most is the notion of continuity and change. We spend a lot of time examining and explaining that which changes, but too often we neglect the narrative arc that draws us back to our beginnings.

John Townsend, Thomas Rudd, Allan Mottram, Daniel Hall or Terry Leathem may not recognise the school that they were once Headmasters of, but they would, I am confident, recognise the values we espouse and the education that we continue to provide. The values and principles upon which the school was founded have not changed over the past two centuries – summed up in six words: Independence; Integrity; Innovation; Curiosity; Courage; Community.

Indeed, on this very platform in 1961, the then Headmaster, Terry Leathem, said that the purpose of this school was to ensure that pupils ‘go out with a feeling of responsibility, realising that they have something to give beyond their technical or paper qualifications – that they can, by service, leadership and example, play a useful part in the community their life leads them to enter.”

There is always a danger that in looking backwards, it can sometimes

Pictured left to right: Tom (Head Boy), Mrs Elspeth Finch (Guest of Honour), Mr Ceri Jones (Headmaster), Natalie (Head Girl) and Mr Duncan Finch.

lead to a conservative tendency to cling on to what you believe to have been a better time and a better place.

I take a different view. I think the fundamental values of our school are incredibly progressive and, given our new found independence, we have a great opportunity to reinterpret these foundational values in fresh, exciting, purposeful and relevant ways to ensure that Caterham School continues to provide an inspiring education for life for generations yet to come.

At the heart of those who founded our school, particularly John Townsend and William Wilberforce, is a conviction that when the transformative power of the community is harnessed positively, effectively and purposefully, there is nothing that cannot be achieved… that by working together the benefits flow through everyone. A belief that collectively we have the power to change things and make a difference to the world around us.

To our Sixth Form leavers: go out into the world and live by these values and you will not go far wrong.

Go and be courageous in following your dreams and passions, be ever curious about what is just beyond the horizon, be independent in your views and your intent, follow your own path, don’t see problems as roadblocks, be innovative in finding your way around them, great things come from challenge, be authentic to who you are and live your life with integrity. Perhaps the greatest of these attributes is the notion of community – find strength in those around you and never underestimate the power of connection. As you move on to new challenges and new opportunities, never forget that you will all always be part of the Caterham community and that you will always have a connection with each other and with us.

Ceri Jones, Headmaster

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SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS

SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS ACHIEVEMENT, PROGRESS AND CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOOL LIFE First Year Prizes

Second Year Prizes

Genevieve Alcock Isabella Beadle Millie Carmona Amali Carter Jack Forde Sophie Hobbs Finn Ogilvie Edward Poolman

Krishan Ahuja-Hofheiz Theo Charlesworth Holly-Heather Cook Grace Godfrey Harry Jude Charlie Parkes Eloise Smith Anastasia Spuma

Third Year Prizes

Fourth Year Prizes

Skyler Bennett Rachel Cliffe Emma Davies Nicola Finnegan Amelie Griffiths Sophie Hammond Caitlyn Hocking Madeline Korvin Isabelle Oliver William Pye

Piers Bryn Luc De Beer Holly Cottam Catherine Hillier Rachelle Morris Ekaterina Oblasova Hope Smith Louie Steel Thomas Wildman Oliver Wynn

Eloise Bull Thomas Larsson Amy Dickson Ben Soden Natalie Bishop Lydia Ip Ryan Ma Suzannah Latimer

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

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Fifth Year Prizes

Lower Sixth Year Prizes

Benjamin Brown Rhianna Harding Riad Hulkhory Charlotte McDonald Jessica Small Mulang Su Alexander Thomas Joshua Thorpe Siu Ting (Ellen) Tong Yinqi (Hermione) Zhou

Annabel Chappell Rowena Field Anna Gardner Chak Ming (Amos) Ho Jimmy Hoogendoorn Chung Hay (Haley) Lo Sarah Lowe Oliver Sullivan Wenxiao (Mandy) Yu Maxim Zhelyabovskiy

UPPER SIXTH ACADEMIC PRIZES The Allison Prize for English

Lucy Wellman

Academic Prize for Biology

Millie de Leyser Isaac Quinton

Academic Prize for Business

Suzy Latimer

Academic Prize for Chemistry

Ying Ting (Olivia) Jia

The Masters Prize for Computer Science

Muang Su

The Coleman Prize for 3D Design

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD Gold Awards

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND EFFORT

Kaitlyn Galvin Callum Chaney Yat Fung (Truman) Luen Kwesi Effina-Williams Tom Larsson Katia Auletta

The Gregory Prize

Issac Quinton Zach Welford Anastasia Karamzina Phoebe Paton Abigail Barrett

The Gorman Prize

Lucy Wellman Chak Hei (Arthur) Wong Edward Caiger

Academic Prize for Economics Academic Prize for Fine Art

Emelie Speak William Meng Christy Bennett

The Hilton Prize for French

Anastasia Karamzina

The Stephen Smith Prize for Geography

Kamen Kyutchukov

The Prize for German

Anna Zarankina

Academic Prize for Greek

Amy Hill

The Leathern Prize for History Academic Prize for Latin

Kaitlyn Galvin Megan McGlashan

The Robert Jarrams Prize for Double Maths (Pure)

Chun Sing (Carlos) Tse

The Robert Jarrams Prize for Double Maths (Applied)

Isaac Quinton

Academic Prize for Single Maths

Wai Cheng (Joshua) Wong

Academic Prize for Music

Charlotte Bridson

Academic Prize for PE Academic Prize for Photography Academic Prize for Psychology

Anna Simonova Saffron Gilbert Anna Simonova

Academic Prize for Physics

Anastasiia Kedrina

Academic Prize for Politics

Niamh Williams

The St. John’s Prize for Philosophy and Ethics

Sophie Dawson

The Eothen Prize

Natalie Bishop

Academic Prize for Spanish

Anastasia Karamzina

The Old Caterhamians’ Prize

Thomas Blake

Academic Prize for Textiles

Saffron Gilbert

SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION PRIZE The Parents’ Association Prize for Senior Debating

Anna Gardner

GAMES PRIZES Honours Cap – Emily Thompson Representing Your Country in Sport Georgia Tuckett

Pippa Lloyd

Charlotte McDonald

Holly Mead

Kaitlyn Galvin

Roberta Lack

SPECIAL PRIZES The Christine Walker Prize

Heidi Ng

The Baynon-Milnes Prize for Outstanding Concert Performance

Natalie Bishop

The Abbott Prize

Christopher Smith

The Andrew Fisher Prize for Outstanding Performance in Drama

Phoebe Salem

The Blake-Thomas Falaises Prize (CCF) Callum Chaney The Thomas Warren Prize for Backstage Support

Callum Chaney

The Susan Herbert Prize

Charlotte de Leyser

The Pidgeon Prize for Literature

Hermione Zhou

The David Rogers Maths Prize

Mary Jones

The Jen Dodd Maths Prize

Kamen Kyutchukov Natalie Bishop

Pi Prize

Jintai (David) Li

The Caterham Engineering Prize

Ho Yin (Ryan) Ma

The Caldwell Cup for Musical Theatre

Charlotte Bridson

The Chris Wright Cup for Junior Music

Isabelle Beadle

The Susan Child History Essay Prize The Alexander Clarke Prize for Community Service

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

Emily Thompson

The Dermer Prize for Top Sportsman

Matthew Terry

The Whiting Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Girls’ Sports

Hannah Owen

The Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Boys’ Sports

Lachlan Coyle

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Girls)

Holly Mead Lydia Ip Katie Lloyd

Games Prize for Consistent Contribution to Games (Boys)

Ian Haywood

John Villers Cup

Theo Kenyon

Thomas Blake

Moncrieff Jones Science Prize

The Hilary Trehane Prize for Services to the Community

The Dunwoodie Cup – Best All Rounder in Girls’ Sports

Nicholas Hale Emily Buchanan Alice Medlock

Man Yik (Desmond) Chui

Man Yi (Kyrstal) Lee Di (Judy) Zhu Jasmin Leung Sophie Dowle Yat Nam (Joshua) Ng Ka Ip (Justin) Sun Ben Wagstaff Edward Caiger Tangyue (Allen) Zhang

SERVICE PRIZES The Bonarjee Prize

The Brooke Prize

The Wakefield Prize

The Bacon Prize

Ben Hull Lexie Edwards Saffron Gilbert Josh Clark Kamen Kyutchukov Ian Haywood Man Yik (Desmond) Chui Ho Yin (Ryan) Ma Phoebe Salem Ben Oliver Lachlan Coyle Lydia Ip Charlotte Bridson Amy Hill Charlotte de Leyser Holly Mead Conor McNeil Millie de Leyser Benjamin Prego Suzy Latimer Louis Brown Theo Kenyon Cameron Swayne Emily Thompson Theo Boutelle Caitlyn Lefevre Seb Paul Hannah Owen

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SPEECH DAY PRIZE WINNERS

THE 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’.

Rupert Arnold Katia Auletta Abigail Barrett Christy Bennett Natalie Bishop Tom Blake Oliver Bolton Emily Buchanan Eloise Bull Edward Caiger Callum Cheney Bryan Cheong Joshua Clark Lachlan Coyle Sophie Dawson Millie de Leyser Charlotte de Leyser Ben Deans Amy Dickson Olivia Dowle Sophie Dowle William Driscoll Lexie Edwards

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Kwesi Effina-Williams Jonny Engel Jessica Fatoye Kaitlyn Galvin Sahil Gandecha Helena Harman Jessie Hayes Ian Hayward Anna Heaton Amy Hill Ben Hull Lydia Ip Matthew Ireland Joseph Ireland Mary Jones Alexander Junglaussen Anastasia Karamzina Elise Knowles-Cutler Tara Kosky Kamen Kyutchukov Stella Lambert Tom Larsson Suzy Latimer

Matthew Lee Caitlyn Lefevre Jasmin Leung Katie Lloyd Ryan Ma Megan McGlashan Edward McMillan Conor McNeil Alice Medlock Danielle Mercer Elise Miller Joshua Ng Heidi Ng Ben Oliver Hannah Owen Maja Pardew Ria Parsons Phoebe Paton Sebastian Paul Eleanor Percival Charlotte Playle Ben Prego Isaac Quinton

Guy Raeburn Phillipa Roblett Phoebe Salem Chloe Salter Jessie Sampson Anna Simonova Sophie Slape Ben Soden Rose Song Timothy Tam Matthew Terry Emily Thompson Olivia Tikare Fran Tute Jack Wang Andrew Watson Lucy Wellman Niamh Williams Joshua Wong Yuki Yang Oliver Young Daisy Zhang

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A Level Results

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60 85 of grades A*/A

of grades A* to B

CATERHAM SIXTH FORM PUPILS HIT THE MARK ONCE AGAIN!

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lmost a quarter of all this year’s A Level grades achieved by Sixth Formers at Caterham School were the top A* grade.

Another year of outstanding success saw 85 per cent of A Level results graded A* to B, and an impressive 60 per cent of results graded A*-A. This year’s results place Caterham School amongst the top performing co-educational independent schools in the South East, based on A*/A grades at A Level.

Mr Ceri Jones, Headmaster, said: “Congratulations to our Upper Sixth who have achieved such a strong set of exam results. I am equally delighted that they have ensured their time at school has been spent on developing themselves as individuals, developing their own interests and passions and making lifelong friendships.

“Pupil wellbeing in the round, rather than merely exam performance, remains at the heart of a Caterham education – and, of course, it is this very approach which helps our pupils cope with the challenges of exams.

“As ever, there are some stunning individual performances in these results and from an academic point of view I am particularly pleased that nearly all our leavers have won places at their chosen university – and also that another dozen or so pupils will be joining the 60 Caterhamians that we have sent to Oxford and Cambridge over the past four years.”

BRILLIANT HEADS OF SCHOOL

NATALIE and TOM (both pictured here with the Headmaster, Mr Jones) have been terrific in their roles as Head Girl and Head Boy. Natalie achieved A*, A* and A grades in Biology, Maths and Chemistry and has won a place to read Medicine at UCL: “I think I may become a paediatrician,” she says. She joined Caterham Prep School when she was just six years old. “I’ve had such amazing friends for so long – now I’ll have to meet loads of new people at uni!” Natalie is also an accomplished musician, having achieved Grade 8 in both oboe and piano during her time as a Sixth Former.

Tom’s grades (three A*s and one A) have earned him a place at Oxford University (Pembroke College) where he will read Maths. “Caterham has been amazing – I’ve made so many friends and have so many memories.

The academics have been great but I’ve also done so much else.” Tom counts the recent school rugby tour to Australia as one of the highlights of his time at Caterham.

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ACADEMIC RESULTS

The sky’s the limit for Cameron

Many congratulations to CAMERON whose A Level grades have won him a place at Exeter University to read Business Management. Cameron, who joined Caterham when he was 11 years old, fell ill with grey zone lymphoma and had to go through treatment alongside his studies. He was given the all-clear in January. “I didn’t know how deepnI could dig until I had that experience.” Bravo, Cameron!

A historic moment?

NICK achieved a clean sweep of three A* grades in History, Politics and Geography and will go on to Exeter University where he will read History. “I feel I have thrived at Caterham because it has challenged me academically – and I have also been able to do other things, too. I loved going on a recent ski-racing trip with the School and I have been a committed member of the Bloodbowl Society, too. It’s all been great.”

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Sophie’s off to Cambridge

SOPHIE has won a place to read Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) at Cambridge University (Homerton College). “It’s the perfect course for me,” says Sophie, “as it’s a combination of my A Level subjects, which I have loved. I am so grateful to my teachers – I have never met such inspirational people! In particular, Miss Smith, Mrs Webster and Dr Avery have been wonderfully supportive.”

Sophie achieved terrific grades: A*, A* and A in Biology, Psychology and Religious Studies.

“Caterham is such an accepting place”

AMY has won a place to read Classics at Cambridge University (Queens’ College). “I have been at Caterham since I was 13 years old; one of the reasons I came here was to join the Classics Department – and now I’m heading off to Cambridge! Thank you so much to the inspirational teachers – Mr Waite, Mr Owen, Mrs Hunter.

Caterham is such a welcoming, friendly and accepting place – I would say that anyone can fit in here. Thank you so much!”.

One of four sets of twins this year!

Twins JESS and JOSHUA have both been boarders at the School. Jess has won a place to read Medicine at Oxford University (Corpus Christi College). She achieved terrific grades in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and English Literature. Her brother, Joshua, is heading off to Nottingham University to read Philosophy having studied Economics, History and Maths at A Level. Joshua was also a member of the School’s 1st XV Rugby Squad.

“I wanted A Levels rather than the IB”

JASMIN joined Caterham in the Sixth Form from a grammar school in Kent.

“I wanted a friendly and academic environment where I could study A Levels. I am so grateful to my teachers, especially Mr Quinton (Head of Science) who has been so helpful and supportive: he has run lots of extra sessions to help us and he even took us on a special outing to Oxford University which was really inspiring.”

Jasmin will read Biological Sciences at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall).

ACADEMIC RESULTS OTHER TOP ACHIEVERS SOPHIE has been a creative powerhouse during her time at Caterham and has now finished with an impressive set of grades – A*, A and A – in Photography, Art and Business. She will now combine her creativity with her business sense by completing a degree in Banking and Finance at Leeds University.

Bravo, Sophie!

Many congratulations to ISAAC who achieved a clean sweep of four A* grades and will now progress to Warwick University where he will read Maths. “I think I started to realise that I was good at Maths when I entered the Senior School. I am so grateful to my teacher Mr Dimakos for all the help he has given me.” Playing hockey for the School has also been an important part of Isaac’s time at the school – and he has particularly fond memories of a school trip to Honduras which was focused on the ecology of the region.

Identical twins LOTTIE and MILLIE have both achieved Oxbridge places: Lottie will read Classics at Cambridge (Magdalene College) while Millie will read Human Sciences at Oxford (St John’s College).

Millie was attending a CCF Camp in Devon but drove all the way back to Caterham so she could collect her results – it was worth it! She is due back at the Camp tomorrow, and will soon complete a parachute jump!

“CCF has been a wonderful part of my time at Caterham”, she says. Her sister, Lottie, paid tribute to one of the School’s Classics teachers, Mrs Hunter: “She taught me Greek for five consecutive years! Thank you so much, Mrs Hunter!”

A LEVEL EXAMINATION RESULTS 2018 SUBJECT

3D Design

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B

C

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% Passes A*–A A*–B A*–C

4 3 1 1 0 77.8 88.9 100

Fine Art

4 2 2 0 0 75 100 100

Biology

7 24 8 5 5 63.3 79.6 89.8

Business

1 5 11 1 1 31.6 89.5 94.7

Chemistry

10 16 12 9 1 1

Drama & Theatre Studies

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Economics

1 17 18 3 0 43.6 92.3 100

English Literature

1 5 4 6 0 37.5 62.5 100

French

1 2 0 0 0 100 100 100

Geography

6 10 2 1 0 84.2 94.7 100

German

0 1 1 0 1 66.7 33.3 66.7

Govt. & Politics

2

Greek

0 2 0 0 0 100 100 100

History

1 11 4 1 0 70.6 94.1 100

Latin

4 0 3 0 0 57.1 100 100

Maths

33 29 12 9 0 74.7 89.2 100

Maths Further

18 8 3 0 1 86.7 96.7 96.7

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1

8

0

6

0

51 74.5 92.2

0

50 100 100

39.1 73.9 100

Music

0 0 1 0 0

Photography

2 2 4 0 0 50 100 100

Physics

0 100 100

14 16 8 6 0 68.2 86.4 100

Physical Education

0 1 2 2 0 20 60 100

Psychology

1 5 8 3 1 33.3 77.8 94.4

Religious Studies

0 6 3 4 0 46.2 69.2 100

Russian

5 2 0 0 0 100 100 100

Spanish

1 2 4 2 1 30 70 90

Textile Design

1 0 1 0 0 50 100 100

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ACADEMIC RESULTS

CELEBRATING ANOTHER TERRIFIC CROP OF GCSE RESULTS In the more challenging reformed GCSEs over a third of all results achieved were the top grade 9 and over 80 per cent of all GCSE results were graded A*- A or equivalent grade. 50 pupils each achieved eight or more grade 9s or A*s in their results today – a phenomenal number and a new record for Caterham School.

Mr Ceri Jones, Headmaster, said: “This year’s results include the grades for the newly reformed GCSEs, which have been designed to toughen up syllabi and cut down on the number of pupils getting the top grades. I am delighted that our pupils and teachers have risen to the challenge, confounded expectations and achieved stellar grades.KPMG and Deloitte.

“Our pupils have performed extremely well across all subjects, particularly the core subjects of English, maths and the sciences where biology pupils achieved 79 per cent at the top grade. Our first cohort of computer science pupils saw 74 per cent of grades at A*. 40 per cent of English Language GCSEs were the top grade 9 and almost half of grades in maths were the top grade 9.”

Mr Jones continued: “There has been a good deal of uncertainty surrounding the recent reforms to GCSE which have meant it is harder than ever to achieve top grades. Once again, our pupils have performed brilliantly. Not only this, alongside their academic achievements they have completed a dazzling array of extra-curricular activities.

These results are certainly a worthy reward for the hours of hard work and dedication from this fantastic year group and their teachers.

“As our Fifth Form now become the new Sixth Form, I will continue to stress the importance of ensuring a balance between hard work and 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 pupils sit a mixture of GCSEs with the new numerical grading and International GCSES which have retained the traditional letter grading of A* to E.

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Running high

BEN is an outstanding cross country runner and athlete – and he has now proved his academic credentials, too, by achieving exceptional GCSE grades: an incredible, clean sweep of A*s and 9’s (he also achieved an A in Additional Maths). He now plans to study A Levels in Further Maths, Maths, Biology, Physics and Economics. “I am considering engineering as a career,” says Ben. He is particularly grateful to the Head of Art, Mrs Veldtman.

Netball superstar shoots for the stars

KATIE has achieved great things as a netball player: she is part of the U19 Surrey Storm Development Squad and will soon complete a trial for their Academy Team. Her GCSE grades are fantastic – 6A*s, 4 ‘9’s and 2 ‘8’s (as well as an A in Additional Maths) – and she will now go on to study Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Spanish. “I am so grateful to Mrs Pearce, my maths teacher – she’s been so helpful.

I’ve also been fortunate to have Mr Webster as a very encouraging English teacher.

Jaw dropping George

GEORGE is planning to study A Levels in Maths, English, German and Politics after achieving fabulous grades at GCSE: 7A*s, 2As, 5 ‘9’s. George, who is a very keen cricketer, and a boarder here at Caterham, is modest about his success: “I guess it helps to keep a clear mind, to keep things in perspective, and not to let work dominate too much – my cricket’s been helpful in that way.”

ACADEMIC RESULTS

iGCSE and GCSE Results

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80.4

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iGCSE 1-9 AND GCSE EXAMINATION RESULTS 2018 iGCSE SUBJECT Art

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5

4

%Passes %Passes %Passes %Passes 9-8 9-7 9-6 9-5

11 4 4 7 2 0

3D Design

6

Drama

1 4 2 6 2 1

6

7

25

8

6

2

5

33.3 41.7 61.1 83.3

0

29.4 41.2 76.5 88.2

English Language (I)

54

French

10 13 14 8 3 3

45.1 72.5 88.2 94.1

Geography

17 20 14 14 6 2

50.7 69.9 89.0 97.3

Greek

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3

53.6 67.9 92.9 100.0

73.4 93.5 98.4 100.0

4 0 0 0 0 0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

History

12 11 13 7 5 4

41.8 65.5 78.2 87.3

Latin

16 7 1 1 0 0

92.0 96.0 100.0 100.0

Mathematics (I)

64

75.6 89.6 97.0 99.3

38

19

10

3

1

Music

2 3 1 0 0 0

83.3 100.0 100.0 100.0

Physical Education

4

8

6

4

0

1

52.2 78.3 95.7 95.7

19

7

4

4

0

0

76.5 88.2 100.0 100.0

Religious Studies Spanish Totals %

7 14 12 10 5 5

38.2 60.0 78.2 87.3

227 172 118 84 36 22 34 25.8 17.7 12.6 5.4 3.3

GCSE SUBJECT

A*

Astronomy

A

B

C

D

3 7 2 0 0

74.6 95.5

100

100 100

100

17 1 0 0 0

94.4

Computer Science (I)

10 15 6 3 0

29.4

73.5 91.2

100

English Literature (I)

47

37.9

75.8 95.2

100

2 7 2 0 0

18.2

81.8 100

100

German (I)

10 9 1 0 0

50

95 100

100

Human Biology (I)

16 22 2 0 0

40

95 100

100

Maths Further AQA

34 13 2 0 0

69.4

95.9 100

100

7 0 0 0 0

100

100 100

100

81

96.7 100

Russian

19

4

6

0

0

100

Chinese

24

3

83.3 100

12

47

14

25

Business Studies (I)

English Second Lang. (I)

38

%Passes %Passes %Passes %Passes A* A*-A A*-B A*-C

0

0

17.9

Biology (Jan & Jun)

98

Chemistry (I)

63 29 23 5 1

52.1

Physics (I)

80 28 10 3 0

66.1

89.3 97.5

100

100

76 95 99.2

Science Double (1) (I)

1 3 5 5 0

7.1

28.6 64.3

100

Science Double (2) (I)

0 3 1 7 3

0

21.4 28.6

78.6

Totals

400 241 96 32

4

%

51.7 31.2 12.4 4.1 0.5

Additional Maths – 21 2 3 3 (FSMQ)*

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UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS AND COURSES 2018

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ur focus is to support our young people to the courses and university about which they are passionate and which best support and enable their ambitions. In 2018, 99 per cent of pupils gained a place at their university of choice with the remaining pupils choosing to progress to a work based apprenticeship or take a gap year before completing their studies.

The choices of our 2018 leavers reflect the breadth of interests and diversity across this talented cohort of young people. Places were successfully secured on courses across a wide range of subjects including medicine, maths, Arts University of Bournemouth

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Commercial Photography Bath

British School of Osteopathy

1

Osteopathy 8

Brunel 1

Architecture

Mechanical Engineering

Economics

Cambridge 7

International Management and Modern Languages

Classics

Mechanical with Automative Engineering

Economics

Natural Sciences

Human Social and Political Sciences

Sport Performance

Mathematics

Birmingham 7

Modern and Medieval Languages

Civil Engineering

Natural Sciences

Geography

Canterbury Christ Church

Mechanical Engineering

Law

Philosophy

Cardiff 5

Philosophy, Religion and Ethics

Dentistry

Psychology

Environmental Geography

Brighton 1

Geography (Human)

Computing with Science

Medical Pharmacology

Bristol 7

Medicine

Aerospace Engineering

Cass Business School

Economics and Finance

Acturial Science

Geography

City 1

Law

Finance

Mathematics Politics and International Relations Sociology

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engineering and modern languages and philosophy, politics and ethics. Over two thirds of those move on to study at university gained places at Russell Group universities.

Of note this year are the 11 offers received from the London School of Economics (LSE) across a wide range of subjects, including Economics and Management and History. Medicine and science courses remain popular and competitive nationally, but our success rate in gaining offers has once again held strong. In addition to university offers, three pupils gained prestigious apprenticeships with big four firms KPMG and Deloitte.

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PUPILS ON THE MOVE

99% of Sixth Formers gained university places of choice

Durham 5

Kings College London

Biological Sciences

Midwifery Studies

Classics

Physics

Finance

Lancaster 1

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Film and Creative Writing

East Anglia

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2

Leeds 8

Business Finance and Management

Accounting and Finance

Edinburgh 1

Banking and Finance

English and Scottish Literature

Civil Engineering

Essex 1

Geography

History

International Business and Marketing

Exeter 9

International History and Politics

Accounting and Finance

Management

Ancient History and Archaeology

Politics

Business and Marketing

Liverpool 2

Flexi Combined Honours

Communication and Media with Business

Management with Marketing

London School of Economics

Modern Languages

Economics

Politics and International Relations

Finance

Psychology with Sport and Exercise

Mathematics and Economics

Sociology and Criminology

Management

Falmouth 2

Interior Architecture

Architecture

Loughborough 4

Illustration

Business Economics and Finance

Harper Adams

1

Animal Management and Welfare Glasgow School of Art

Civil Engineering Management Sciences

1

Mathematics Manchester 6

Textile Design Imperial College

4

Architecture

Aeronautical Engineering

Biology with Industrial Experience

Chemistry

Biomedical Sciences

Civil Engineering

Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology

Electronic and Information Engineering

Economics

Kent University

5

1

Management – Accounting and Finance

Criminology

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Newcastle 3

Southampton 5

Biology

Biomedical Science

Fine Art

International Relations

Sociology

Medicine

Nottingham 5

Politics and International Relations

International Media and Communications

Surrey 2

Medicinal and Biological Chemistry

Mechanical Engineering

Philosophy

Theatre and Performance

Philosophy and Psychology

Sussex 3

Veterinary Medicine

Arts and Humanities

Nottingham Trent

2

Business

Mechanical Engineering

Sport and Exercise Science

University College London

Oxford 7

Biochemistry

Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

Earth Sciences

Economics

Human Sciences

Engineering (Mechanical)

Medicine

Information Management for Business

Psychology

Mathematics

Real Estate Management

Medicine

Veterinary Medicine

Natural Sciences

Oxford Brookes

1

University of the Arts

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1

Sociology

Architecture

Plymouth 2

University of South Wales

Environmental Sciences

Master of Chiropractice

Mechanical Engineering

Warwick 3

Queen Mary’s University of London

1

1

Accounts and Finance

Engineering Mechanical with Business

Mathematics

Reading 1

Philosophy

Architecture

York 4

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

1

Foundation Acting Royal Holloway Sheffield Economics

Biology Politics

1

Economics Politics and International Relations

16

Business Management and Economics

1

Social Policy, Crime and Criminal Justice

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50 OXBRIDGE PLACES SECURED

Caterhamians currently studying at Oxford or Cambridge University

Congratulations to the 12 Caterhamians who secured their offers from Oxford or Cambridge University, and who will join the 50 Old Caterhamians currently studying at Oxbridge.

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he offers received from both Cambridge and Oxford University span a wide range of subjects including sciences, mathematics, classics and engineering.

The offer secured this year are of particular note when the national application to offer rate was just 14 per cent. The offer rate at Caterham, happily, is three times higher than this average. Nationally, applications for Oxford alone are up 40 per cent in just five years, so our young people are to be congratulated on hard-work and resilience.

“All of our pupils have worked incredibly hard over the past year or more to secure their offers, with the support and dedication of their teachers and this success also reflects warmly on the support of their teachers.

Our priority is always to support pupils to take the path that is right for them as they progress on from the School, whatever that be. Securing Oxbridge offers is just one measure of the success at the school, 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.�

Ceri Jones, Headmaster

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HEADLINE STORIES

TES Award Winner!

CATERHAM SCHOOL PROUDLY ACCEPTED THE AWARD FOR ‘BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY’ AWARD AT THE TES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, LONDON ON THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY.

THIS AWARD RECOGNISES measureable excellence in the use of education technology by a school In September 2016, Caterham opened a new Innovation Centre that includes a robotics centre, a virtual-reality room, a green screen/ editing room, animation pods, a video conferencing room and the base for a drone that films in high definition.

Of the Innovation Centre, the TES Independent

enormously proud of being recognised in this way – I am particularly grateful to Adam Webster and Neil Stokes who have

School Awards judges said, “Caterham’s Innovation

led so much of the

Centre has done that, bringing together technology and

work in the development of

opportunity, and allowing pupils to thrive as a result.”

the application and use of technology, but

Headmaster Ceri Jones said: “This is a fantastic

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We should all be

also to Kim Wells for the broader push on technology

affirmation of all the outstanding work we are doing

in the classroom. I am also very grateful to the PA who

in this area, including the use of iPads but particularly

provided a lot of the kit that pupils use in the Innovation

around the growth of areas like the Innovation Centre.

Centre.”

HEADLINE STORIES

ARTS MAGAZINE LAUNCH AT SPECTACULAR EXHIBITION

‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ Magazine Unveiled with Immersive Art Exhibition and Trail ON THURSDAY 5 JULY, OVER 100 PUPILS WERE INVOLVED WITH CELEBRATING AND EXHIBITING THEIR WONDERFUL WORK THROUGH THE LAUNCH OF THE NEW ARTS AND HUMANITIES MAGAZINE ‘CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS’. THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND STUNNING MAGAZINE FEATURES PIECES WRITTEN BY PUPILS OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM, ALONGSIDE SOME OF THE VERY BEST GCSE AND A LEVEL ARTWORK.

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upils from across the School have explored topics of intrigue or passion and submitted them to the magazine, with the very best pieces selected for publication; the full gamut of writing is displayed

with poetry, short stories, translations, investigative essays and discursive articles. Some pupils were invited to read their pieces from the magazine to an enraptured audience, making this a particularly special occasion.

The inspiration for the magazine came from an Old Caterhamian, Geoffrey Pidgeon, who wished to express gratitude to the School whilst also, as a published writer himself, promoting writing within the School. Therefore, all pieces submitted were considered for the Geoffrey Pidgeon Prize for Literature, to be awarded at Speech Day and we were delighted that Geoffrey was able to attend and present his own book The Secret Wireless War to the award’s first winner, Hermione, whose short story The Birds won for its mesmerising craft, nuance and compellingly ambiguous narrative.

Following the magazine launch, pupils and parents were lead on an exciting immersive trail through the school to explore the impressive proliferation of artwork on display and were even further delighted by the musical, theatrical and dance performances of pupils inspired by the art pieces. Visual and performative displays throughout the site created a treasure hunt of curiosity and creativity for guests, who were wowed by the talents of our pupils.

A huge congratulations to all the pupils involved and an even bigger thank you for their infectious passion and inspiring work – it has been a brilliant year for the arts and humanities thanks to you.

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The

CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY

A VICTORIOUS

Old Cats Day Sunday 12 November was a great day of sport and catching up with old friends and teachers at the School.

Old Cats’ teams were victorious in all three sports matches with the final scores being: Lacrosse Old Cats v School 11/7

Rugby Old Cats v School 7/0

Rugby Old Cats v Presidents 32/12

Well done, Old Cats!

ANNUAL SUMMER BALL At the end of last term the Parents’ Association held the Annual Summer Ball which was attended by parents from the Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior School in addition to many of the Upper Sixth Form leavers.

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he Ball was a wonderful celebration of our school community – it was such an enjoyable evening full of fun and laughter. Thanks to everyone who attended the evening and to all those parent volunteers who ran this event and did such a brilliant job.

Thanks to the many school staff who assisted with the event – special thanks must go to John Dodwell and his team, as well as Helen Richards who choreographed the Sixth Form dance alongside the Sixth Form pupils.

OC’S FANTASTIC

Singin’ in the Rain PERFORMANCE On 27 January I travelled down to Exeter to see an incredible production of Singin’ in the Rain, performed by The University of Exeter – Footlights Company at The Northcott Theatre.

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he production was creatively directed, beautifully choreographed and sustained an amazing energy throughout.

Old Cat star performer, Josie, was selected for the cast of 30 following extremely competitive auditions.

Josie gave an unbelievably professional and polished performance – her dancing, singing and acting were flawless. I could not have been more proud of her achievement.

LOUISE FAHEY HEAD OF DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES

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THE CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY

WORLD CUP STAR MATT DAWSON OPENS CATERHAM SCHOOL’S SPORTS PAVILION World Cup winning England Rugby star and Strictly Come Dancing finalist Matt Dawson MBE spent the day at Caterham School on Monday 27 November to officially open the School’s new sports pavilion.

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he BBC Question of Sport captain met all Year 9 and 10 pupils with a special assembly during which Matt reviewed the highs and lows of his international career.

He offered invaluable advice on combining study and training, plus how to cope with tough times and and success. Caterham School’s Sixth Form sportsmen and women enjoyed a dedicated session with Matt focusing on nutrition and maintaining peak performance.

Caterham School’s new facility is based at the school’s Hill Fields

site and also provides a base for local sports clubs including Old Caterhamians Rugby Club and Caterham Cricket Club On opening the new pavilion Matt Dawson said: “I have been incredibly impressed with the pupils I’ve met today and the fantastic facilities I’ve seen at Caterham. More than that, this new pavilion represents a unique link between the School and the local community, between school sport and club sport, which is fantastic and is to be encouraged.”

Guided by Year 7 pupils, Matt

Dawson tried his hand at lacrosse and scored his first ever goal! Matt’s rapid progress was approved by England International and Caterham Head of Lacrosse Miss Jen Simpson. Posting a video of his first lacrosse goal on Twitter (@matt9dawson) Matt said: “Reckon I missed my vocation!”

Headmaster, Ceri Jones, said “Today has been a special day for all of us here, particularly the pupils and our sports staff, with the opening of our fantastic new pavilion. We are incredibly lucky to benefit from superb sports facilities and grounds both at the main school campus and at Hill Fields.

“Our new pavilion and upgraded pitches are wonderful for the School, but the most important aspect is what the regeneration of Hill Fields has already begun to do for the local community – notably the town’s rugby, cricket and lacrosse clubs.”

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THE CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY CATERHAM LECTURE:

‘Why May lost’

On Thursday 12 October, Head of Politics and co-author of the latest A Level text book for Politics, Toby Cooper, gave a Caterham Lecture entitled ‘Why May Lost’.

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Woodland Walk PARENTS, OLD CATERHAMIANS AND FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL GATHERED TOGETHER FOR A WONDERFUL AUTUMN WALK THROUGH THE WOODS

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arents, Old Caterhamians and friends of the School gathered together on Tuesday, 7 November for a wonderful autumn walk through the woods. For many it was their first trip into the School’s Old Park Woods. The route was carefully planned by Mrs Jacqui Larsson, who organised the event, and woodland expert Mr Wilkinson, Head of Outdoor Learning. We were delighted that so many four-legged friends were able to join us and enjoyed the walk as much- if not more – than the rest of us! The event rounded up with some welcome hot drinks and cakes in the Leathem Room.

Our thanks to Jacqui Larsson for her initiative and planning of this wonderful event.

Bluebell Woods On two consecutive Fridays at the beginning of May we welcomed parents as they enjoyed a bluebell walk around the School’s Old Park Woods.

The woods looked stunning out in full, fresh leaf and with bluebells and wild garlic adorning the woodland floor. The school’s woodsman, Jay, was able to join one of the walks and talk about the mix of trees and the history of the woods in addition to the recently begun preservation work. It was super for the wider school community to enjoy this unique resource. Look out for future dates for parents and friends walks – four legged and two legged friends are most welcome!

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he lecture provided a robust, panoramic view of what happened in the last general election and the many factors which lay behind the result.

Whilst the political landscape shifts rapidly, we are fortunate to have such expert narration and explanation at Caterham. In addition to pupils and parents attending, we were delighted to welcome pupils from Oxted School, Reigate College and St Bede’s School to the lecture.

PARENTS ATTEND COACHING SKILLS SEMINAR On Thursday 26 April 20 parents and teachers attended the first of three seminars on coaching skills.

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hey learned about deep listening and put into practice a variety of psychological models in mini coaching sessions with each other. The evening was led by Mr. Kim Wells, Director of Learning & Teaching and ILM qualified Coach, and Mrs. Tracy Sinclair, Caterham parent and Chair of the International Coach Federation. Mr. Wells said:

Coaching is becoming an increasingly important part of the Caterham community.

It is wonderful to see parents and teachers working together to gain new skills to enhance their interactions with others.

THE CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY

OVERWHELMING SUPPORT for Evie at Caterham Donor Event Over 300 people showed their support by registering as a stem cell donor at Caterham School on Thursday 16 November.

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he event, run by blood cancer charity DKMS along with the school saw parents, Sixth Form pupils, former pupils, staff and many members of the local community queuing to register from early in the morning.

The stem cell donor registration event was held in support of Evie, one of Caterham School’s Year 7 pupils, who is battling cancer for a third time and is in need of a transplant.

Ceri Jones, Headmaster of Caterham School said: “Today has seen the whole community come together to support Evie, from the school and across our local

community in Caterham. The fact that we had so many people step forward to register is fantastic. It is a testament to the goodwill and best wishes we all send Evie and her family. Thank you to all who came along.”

The numbers who turned up were so great that at one point during the morning, the charity called on extra registration forms and kits to cope with the incredible response.

OC DELIVERS OXBRIDGE WORKSHOP A selection of Lower Sixth economists were put through their paces during an inspiring workshop led by Old Cat, Vincent Man.

SPECIAL OC 1ST TEAM

HOCKEY MATCH MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE MOST WONDERFUL HOCKEY MATCH BETWEEN THE SCHOOL’S 1ST TEAM AND A TEAM OF OLD CATS.

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r Todd and Mr Quinton stepped in to umpire what was an amazing game, which was eventually won by the current 1st team 5-4. Special thanks must go to Mr Willmott, father to OC James and current Fifth Year Matthew, for purchasing, bringing and engraving a special cup for the winners. There was a terrific atmosphere and a tremendous crowd appeared to watch the game.

Many thanks to all who participated.

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he Oxbridge process is a daunting one but the hopeful applicants came away from the session with a clear understanding of the process and bolstered motivation.

Vincent is fondly remembered by many in the school community and subsequent Heads of Viney House have all struggled to tread in his footsteps. After graduating from Cambridge last summer he has gone on to work at Schroders in London.”

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THE CATERHAM SCHOOL SOCIETY

Rosie Clarke TEAM GB AND OLD CAT Team GB athlete and Old Caterhamian Rosie Clarke was the guest speaker on Friday 16 March for the Old Caterhamian’s Annual Dinner.

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he sell-out event was held on HMS Belfast and was attended by Old Cats from across the generations. Rosie spoke about how she became a steeplechase runner for Team GB and how her time at Caterham inspired her. Following the event Rosie jetted off to Australia to compete in the Commonwealth Games, which took place from 4 – 15 April.

PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION JAZZ NIGHT On Thursday 10 May, over 100 parents and guests enjoyed an evening of world class Jazz with Mr&Mrs, featuring Liane Carroll and Georgia Mancio, who performed in the Humphreys Theatre. The award-winning musicians sang and played beautifully to an enthusiastic crowd and created a real buzz in the theatre. The evening was appreciated by all and a great success!

SEVCATS

WELL DONE TO SEVCATS, a group of Caterham School parents, all of whom live in the Sevenoaks area: at one of their regular coffee mornings, they raised a fantastic £305 for the Red Cross Hurricane Irma appeal.

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Support us We are fortunate to have a strong community of alumni, parents and friends who recognise the value of a Caterham School education and care passionately about building a bright future for our pupils.

Making a gift to Caterham School helps us to continue to provide a first class education in an environment where all pupils can achieve their very best. The School’s development and alumni office works with alumni, parents and friends to raise funds to support three key areas: THE BURSARY FUND, which provides access to Caterham School for children who would be unable to take up their place here without financial assistance.

SPECIAL PROJECTS, which provide school departments with additional resources that can make a real and immediate benefit to School life.

CAPITAL DEVELOPMENTS, which include a number of building projects on the school site.

Keep in touch Take a moment to reconnect with old friends and Caterham School by registering at: caterhamschoolsociety.co.uk Our new Caterham School Society platform offers networking and careers opportunities, event invitations, schools news and much more for everyone in the Caterham School community. Registering is quick and easy and we would love to hear from you.

If you are an Old Caterhamian you are also a member of the Old Caterhamian Association. To register please contact the Caterham School Alumni office on 01883 335091, email: oldcats@caterhamschool.co.uk or visit the website oldcaterhamians.com

All donations to the School make a significant difference, no matter how large or small. If you want to find out how you can be involved please phone Emma Collings, Development Manager, on 01883 335111 or email: development@caterhamschool.co.uk

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HOUSE REPORTS 2017-18 Caterham School’s Heads of House report on the year’s events....

UNDERWOOD MRS KATIE KOI UNDER WHAT? UNDERWOOD! When I look back over the 2017-2018 school year, I am filled with pride due to the community which has been created.

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ur assembly venue of Deayton Theatre was jam-packed every Thursday morning with members of the house leading assemblies, whether they were giving reviews of House Events which had occurred, speaking on a topic which interested them or celebrating the successes of their housemates. Our Heads of House, Caitlin Lefevre and Seb Paul, were key to this feeling of inclusiveness and will be greatly missed next year.

While participation and full attendance in House Events are the main priority for Underwood, we did have a number of successful events which need mention. Our lads

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fulfilled the Underwood promise of “if you can’t be first, at least beat Aldercombe” and finished sixth overall in the House Cup standings, whilst Aldercombe finished seventh.

The top performances for each age groups was a first place finish in cross country for the Inter boys, a second place finish in the hockey for the junior boys and third place finishes in badminton and football for the senior boys. The ladies of Underwood finished an agonisingly close second to Aldercombe in the Cup standings and had eight first place finishes between them! Our inter girls were the strongest age group having finished first in rounders, athletics, tennis and netball while the junior girls

were top in the athletics, swimming and cross country. The senior girls continued their dominance in all things running and finished first in the cross country.

The event highlight of the year was by far House Debate where the junior and inter teams both finished first. Debate is one of the more difficult events because it requires the participants to write speeches, memorise poems, read a passage from a book or prepare a topic to debate. The event then occurs over two evenings, so true house commitment is required to take part.

I was so proud of the pupils who took part and confidently represented themselves and the House to highest level.

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. Best of luck in the future and remember to wear your Underwood green with pride!

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BEECH HANGER HOUSE 2017-18

BEECH HANGER MRS CLARE QUINTON As I look out from Beech Hanger, the picture of our beautiful campus bathed in sunlight with the odd shadow cast by a scudding cloud mirrors the year which is fast drawing to a close.

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the lucky girls who will be educated in the remote Northern region of Upper Mustang. Already we have raised enough money to support Tsering for the year ahead and the girls are busy working on plans to keep the fund raising going in September.

To those occasional shadows cast

he uncountable sunlit

in her diploma for Aldi in the fourth

by scudding clouds. Life in Beech

moments multiply day

year and Ann in the sixth form, a prize

Hanger is a microcosm of everyday

by day: from the joy on a

from Cambridge for her outstanding

life where, as we all know, the sun

girl’s face when she walks

politics essay for Flavia in the lower

does not shine unceasingly. Without

through the door, bursting to recount

sixth and a place to study at the Royal

doubt, the most rewarding part of my

the day’s academic success to the

Academy of Music for Frances in

job is to witness the unquestioning

supportive whooping and high fiving

the fourth year are just a few of the

and generous support freely given

team spirit of participation in a House

fantastic achievements of our girls

one to another by the girls in times of

competition; from the delicious

this year.

need. Perhaps the most astounding aspect of this is that although

first mouthful of self-made pizza on

Changes to my team this year

Saturday evening to the university

have brought in their wake fresh ideas

sometimes sought, that need for

offer letter; from the concert platform

and new ways to ensure the girls are

support is mostly intuited, fuelled by

to the weekly volunteering.

offered a wide variety of evening and

some sixth sense of an inner struggle.

weekend activities; pizza making,

These are my proudest moments, the

skills and knowledge both academic

cupcake and shortbread decorating

times when I can clearly see the proof

and social within the girls’ boarding

(and eating!), fruit kebab making,

that our girls will go out into the

house is truly staggering, the level

rounders, Frisbee, inflatables fun and

world as truly rounded individuals.

of commitment and achievement

so much more always result in many

All that remains is for me to thank

likewise. Offers from Cambridge,

photos which grace the House walls

all of the wonderful staff in Beech

Oxford, LSE, UCL and many more for

and feature in our weekly twitter

Hanger who contribute so much to

our hard working Upper Sixth girls, a

bulletins @catsboarding. Miss Gibbs

the house and support the girls both

place in the Surrey netball squad for

introduced us to a wonderful charity

emotionally and academically year

Sharon in the third year, Distinction

in Nepal and we now sponsor one of

round.

The breadth and diversity of

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HARESTONE

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, swimming, tennis and football all reflecting amazing teamwork and dedication.

A personal highlight of the year must go to winning the House Drama competition and bringing it home for the fourth year in a row.

A huge thanks to Holly Mead and Theo Kenyon my Heads of House who supported me from the word go with such great enthusiasm and determination. They were always there to help me out whether it was organising teams, stepping up to

a variety of house events or just being generally great role models to the younger pupils in the House.

They will be hugely missed and the new head of house appointments certainly have big shoes to fill.

I would also like to say goodbye and good luck to Mr Marlow and Miss Pateman who are leaving the school and therefore Harestone this year. They have been such great assets to the house and Mr Marlow’s legendary assemblies will go down in the Houses history.

The pupil’s loyalty to the House has been outstanding again this

year with 101 pupils representing the House at an event. This figure fills me with great pride and really represents the mighty Harestone amazing house spirit. I would like to thank every one of those mighty blues who participated in making Harestone an even greater House this year. I am already extremely excited to see what next year has in store for us. At the beginning of the year I asked the pupils to come up with a motto for the House and this is what was thought of, ‘be blue, be true, be you’. This perfectly sums up this wonderful House.

LEWISHAM MR DARYL TODD The members of Lewisham House continue to amaze me with their ability, passion and commitment.

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e were so close to winning the Mixed

Senior Boys won all three events to grab the Stephen Smith Cup for

Trophy this year thanks to some

the third time in as many years. This is an outstanding achievement

outstanding performances from our

accomplished only once before in 2006 -2008 by ... (drum roll) ...

Debating, Chess and Quiz teams. In

Lewisham!

the end, Ridgefield edged ahead in the final events and were deserving winners. However, our 2nd place was just

highly competitive in all events while maintaining our ‘voluntary’

reward for many of our dedicated and talented girls in

philosophy. There is no pressure to win, only a desire to do our

non-sporting events.

very best and enjoy our victories and our losses. As ever, I rely

The Boys’ competition was also closely fought with

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Strangely and somewhat surprisingly, Lewisham manage to stay

enormously on the goodwill of virtually every member of the House.

three Houses in contention during the last week of

Luckily, Lewisham have a healthy number of loyal and ridiculously

competition. With just Senior Football, Senior Hockey

talented students who shall remain nameless, but you know who

and Cross Country to play for, we found ourselves in 3rd

you are! Well done everyone, and thank you for making me so

place and eight points behind the leaders. Remarkably, our

happy and so proud!

ALDERCOMBE MR ROBERT MUGRIDGE As a House, Aldercombe has continued to move from strength to strength. It has been a pleasure to see the number of pupils participating increase and a greater willingness by students to get involved in a wider variety of events that are on offer.

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ome of these events might take our students out

coming second in junior cross county, badminton and

of their “comfort zone” but they always try their

swimming. I am certain that with a bit more luck, more

best to succeed and most importantly compete

victories will be on the horizon! The future also looks bright

with a smile on their faces.

with our juniors securing the third highest overall points

In terms of success, the girls continue to excel and

successfully defended the Diane Raine Cup – a truly

total for their age group – well done lads!

I and the rest of Aldercombe would like to thank all the

remarkable feat! Our senior girls continued to lead

Upper Sixth leavers for all they have done for the House

from the front and were crowned champions in lacrosse,

over the years and we wish them every success in the

athletics and rounders, whilst our inters came second or

future as they leave Caterham. I personally would like to

third in 6 out of the 7 events on offer, a superb effort! Not

say a special thank you to Abi Barrett and Louis Brown who

to be outdone, the juniors achieved victory in lacrosse

led the House with passion and enthusiasm throughout the

and netball and finished second in tennis. Throughout

year. You both have demonstrated a great deal of positive

the year the girls supported one another and focused on

energy in your roles as student Heads of House, which I

teamwork no matter the event or the result.

am sure has had an impact on the younger years and their

The boys have continued to make positive strides

performances. I would also like to thank Mr Nick Sharman,

and although victories have not been that common,

the departing Assistant Head of House who fulfilled his

enjoyment was always had by those wearing bright red. If

role with good humour and will be missed by all. I am

results were down to passion in representing the house,

already relishing the chance to notch up some more

I am sure we would have won most of the events! We

victories next year and hope we improve on our already

did manage to record a victory in senior hockey, whilst

impressive participation numbers!

NEWINGTON MR NEIL PARKER

This was my Third Year in post and the last year with pupils who had been in another house prior to Newington’s creation.

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decided after the disappointment of last year’s positions in the cups to have a campaign to drum up more participation. I decided to approach my two wonderful Heads of House, Theo and Emily. So amazing was their effort in this that we saw a sea change in the readiness of pupils to have a go and we started to move up the rankings in most cups.

We have a very keen and enthusiastic group of pupils in the younger years and as they move through I am sure they will continue to generate the same levels of house spirit and energy as we have had this year. My thanks to these two for all their efforts and so I leave the rest of the report to them:

THEO: This has been an amazing year for Newington, highlighted by our triumphs in Senior Boys’ rugby and football, as well as junior boys cross country and cricket (which we had won last year as well). Which were just a few of many great moments, culminating in a 2nd place finish in the Boys’ Cup. None of this would have been possible without the dedication and willingness to take part from all house members, and hopefully we have left a legacy for future house success.

EMILY: Being Head of Newington for the past year has been a privilege. While it has been great to come out victorious occasionally and have many top 3 finishes, the highlight has got to be the levels of participation and enthusiasm displayed at house events. We have never failed to put out a team, and while some activities take a little more convincing to get volunteers than others, I always knew we’d have enough people. I would like to thank everyone for being so co-operative and doing Newington proud this year. #PinkPanthers

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TOWNSEND HOUSE 2017-18

TOWNSEND MR PHIL COMERFORD An incredible welcome to an incredible House, so the biggest possible thank you to the boys and staff of Townsend for providing it!

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eing welcomed into the Townsend at the beginning of the year was a fantastic feeling, one extended not just by the boys, but also the exceptional staff who support Townsend and make it a truly enjoyable place to be. Every day is different in any Boarding House, and throughout the year the boys have made all of these days as enjoyable as possible.

Academically there have been superb performances, with several of our Fourth Years who will graduate to Viney House putting in exceptional performances, all whilst making incredible contributions to the school in both sport and music. The third year look fantastic also, and well able to keep pace with the standards set and I look forward to another fun year with them ahead.

Time spent around the House

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is truly enjoyable but even more so is when we go en masse out of it; several successful trips and activities have taken place across the year with bowling, paintballing, international football fixtures, Thorpe Park, inflatables day, to name just a few. The greatest demonstration of Townsend spirit however will always be House events, and this year had no shortage of thrills. An atmosphere throughout badminton that would rival and football derby leading to a tremendous win, a hard fought battle showing courage and endurance in rugby for first place, a spirited and triumphant performance in cricket to take the house ashes, and a coldly calculating show in house maths to be the first to find x. These victories pale in comparison however to the teamwork and brotherhood the boys have shown throughout the year, with

the memories they will carry with them being far more valuable than any cup they may have either lifted, or narrowly missed. A massive well done to all the boys who showed that their blood runs blue and gold by getting out and either playing or supporting.

Whilst I have written about welcoming, I have to give the biggest possible farewell for the outgoing Head of Townsend; Mr Andi Van. Mr Van has been an incredible source of warmth and inspiration to all the boys who have made their way through Townsend’s doors over many years, and without him the house would not be the fantastically fun place it is today. His tradition of participation to take part in all that school offers will live on, with every boy who continues to pass through our doors encouraged grab hold of every opportunity to try new things, or to excel at old. My best wishes for the future, as do all of the boys and staff of the house go out to him and his new family.

VINEY HOUSE 2017-18

VINEY MR NICK MILLS The academic year 2017-18 was another year of enjoyment and achievement in Viney.

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n September we welcomed another cohort of new Lower Sixth boarders as well as a lively crop of Fifth Year boys moving up from Townsend, all of whom settled quickly into the senior boys’ boarding house.

The year proved to be very successful in terms of House competition, with Viney challenging for the Stephen Smith Cup right through to the final event of the year.

Particular highlights included the senior rugby competition where the boys, led by Kwesi Effina-Williams, achieved a creditable second place.

Viney’s domination of the house swimming event continued with Desmond Chui and Hanyang Li to the fore, while Tim Tam led the boys to victory in the badminton competition.

Other notable performances included Narek Nahapetyan’s dominant senior chess team and a wonderful performance by all of the boarders in

winning the house music competition.

The boys also continued to throw themselves whole-heartedly into the wide range of boarding trips. This year we were lucky enough to get tickets for a large group to go to see the England v Germany football match at Wembley, while the boys were also grateful to Mr Taylor and Mr Bovet-White respectively for arranging trips to watch Harlequins rugby and Surrey Scorchers basketball matches. The paintballing trip in the spring remained as popular as ever, while there was also a full coach of boarders which travelled up to the West End to see the School of Rock musical.

As always I am very grateful to the departing Upper Sixth boys for all of their efforts for the House, above all to Desmond Chui and Kamen Kyutchukov for their wonderful work as Heads of House. Together

with their prefect team, they did a great job of supporting the staff, representing the boys and organising some great social events. I have been very proud this year of the boys of the house and the full part they play in the life of the school.

This year the house provided the 1st XV captain and six of his team, four school prefects, the president of the Moncrieff-Jones Society, a senior officer in the CCF, a 1st XI opening bowler, members of the Gold DofE group, participants in the charity trips to Tanzania and Morocco, countless members of school music bands and orchestras, and all of this in addition to the boys’ sustained academic focus and excellent exam results. I am sure that the boarders’ commitment to the school and determination to make the most of the opportunities it offers will continue in the years ahead.

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HOUSE REPORTS

RIDGEFIELD MISS REBECCA SMITH The junior boys have been a sublime unit, winning the hockey, rugby and athletics. Not to be outdone, the inter and senior boys were also victorious at athletics, making it a clean sweep!

It’s been another great year for the dark green machine!

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idgefield has continued to impress me with both their talent and spirit this year, and I am convinced that this group of students are some of the most dedicated in the entire school.

Rocking up at house events whether it rain or shine, to swim or to spell, the Ridgefield students are always there with a smile on their faces and a gritty determination to give it their best shot. That is undoubtedly what the house system is all about.

That being said, we have also had our fair share of success this year.

The junior boys have been a sublime unit, winning the hockey, rugby and athletics. Not to be outdone, the inter and senior boys were also victorious at athletics, making it a clean sweep! There was also much

success in the girls competition.

Particular highlights were the senior badminton competition, and the nail-biting senior netball; both of which Ridgefield came out on top in. And finally, the icing on the cake was the mixed cup. After consistently strong performances across the board, Ridgefield walked away as winners of the mixed cup at Easter time. A phenomenal achievement!

My thanks must go to all the upper sixth leavers and particularly to Lydia Ip and Lachlan Coyle for their outstanding dedication to the house as student Heads of House. And finally, the very best of luck to Mary Neale-Smith and Tyler Norwood who will be leading Ridgefield next year – here’s to another fantastic year!

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HOUSE EVENTS

BY MR DIMAKOS AND MS SCOTT

INTER-HOUSE NETBALL

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t the beginning of February, the inter-house netball competition saw seven houses showcasing their netball talent. Playing through the snow, all of the girls displayed great skill and determination throughout the evening. Underwood, unbeaten, came out on top winning all six of their matches, closely followed by Aldercombe who lost just one match. With a draw in total points, Ridgefield and Lewisham placed joint third by winning a respectable three out of six matches. Great spirit was shown throughout the competition and the support for each house pushed the girls to play at an impressive intensity. It was a fantastic house event to be a part of; a huge well done to everyone who took part.

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HOUSE EVENTS

INSPIRING IMPROV

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his year, all Houses created original pieces of drama incorporating specific items given to them – a hat, an inflatable object and a slightly bizarre phrase.

We were taken on a journey through fairy tales and witches, Asda shopping trips and evil inflatable monkeys.

Once again our directors used their vivid imagination to create surreal, unpredictable but exciting plotlines.

Our judges were two experienced performers and directors; Jane Maisey and Catherine Blundell. This year’s winners were Harestone for the fourth year in a row with a journey into a world of sinister frogs. Ridgefield came a very close second. Ella and Zoe were awarded best actors, while Flora was awarded most amusing moment as she persisted in prowling the stage with her inflatable monkey until the rest of the cast remembered their lines.

Well done to all houses and congratulations on another enjoyable drama event.

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HOUSE EVENTS

SENIOR HOUSE MATHS CHALLENGE

HOUSE SPELLING BEE

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The fiercely contested House Spelling Bees took place in the Library in January. Pupils from First to Fourth Year gathered together to compete in our annual multilingual spelling competition. Individuals bravely stood up to represent their houses to demonstrate their expertise in English, French, Spanish and German. The eventual winners were Underwood for the Junior Bee, and Ridgefield for the Senior Bee.

n Thursday 1 March, Caterham School held the first House Maths Challenge (senior pupils).

Based on the UKMT Team Maths Challenge, this house event offered the opportunity to all pupils passionate about maths to compete and engage with difficult and challenging questions.

Each House had a team of four and the competition was split into three rounds. The first round was a group round where 10 questions (each one worth six marks) were given to the teams for 25 minutes. The strategies that Houses followed were different. Some of them decided to work individually, some of them in groups. By the end of the first round, four teams (Boarders, Lewisham, Harestone and Aldercombe) were ahead. The second round, and by far the most exciting one, was a crossnumber, which is a puzzle similar to a crossword in structure, but with entries which consist of numbers rather than words, and clues being mathematical problems. The teams had 30 minutes to compete for a maximum 60 points and in that round the performance of the Boarders (led by Carlos) and Harestone (led by Thomas) were exceptional achieving 54 and 52 points respectively.

Entering the final round (relay) it was clear that the first place would be a close call between Boarders and Harestone (90 vs 82 points), the third place was also a close call (Aldercombe 73 vs Lewisham 68) and the other three houses would fight for the best final position (Newington 53, Ridgefield 51 and Underwood 42).

Harestone performed the best in that round but it wasn’t enough to take down a super strong Boarders team (109 vs 103 points).

Final Standings were: 7th Underwood 6th

Ridgefield

5th

Newington

4th

Lewisham

3rd

Aldercombe

2nd

Harestone

1st

Boarders

Caterham School and in particular the maths department would like to congratulate all the pupils involved in the House Maths Challenge, as well as all the Heads of Houses and Mrs Dawrant for their support running this competition for the first time with the hope that it will become a classic one!

HOUSE BADMINTON

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HOUSE CHESS COMPETITION

INTERMEDIATE HOUSE MATHS CHALLENGE

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n Monday 14 May, Caterham School held the first Intermediate House Maths Challenge. Based on the UKMT Team Maths Challenge, this house event offered the opportunity to all pupils passionate about maths to compete and engage with difficult and challenging questions.

Each House had a team of four (two Third Year and two Fourth Year) and the competition was split into three rounds. The first round was a group round where 10 questions

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were given to the teams for 25 minutes.

The strategies that houses followed were different. Some of them decided to work individually, some of them in groups. By the end of the first round, four houses (Boarders, Harestone, Lewisham and Newington) were extremely close, separated only by three points. The second round, and the most exciting one, was a crossnumber, which is a puzzle similar to a crossword in structure, but with entries which consist of numbers rather than words, and clues being mathematical problems.

The teams had 30 minutes to compete for a maximum 58 points and in that round the performance of Boarders was exceptional, which gave them the lead.

Entering the final round (relay) it was clear that Boarders had the advantage but only seven points separated the second and the fifth place. Newington performed superbly in this round but it wasn’t enough to challenge the Boarders.

Final Standings were: 7th Aldercombe 38 6th Underwood 46 5th

Harestone

55

4th

Ridgefield

59

3rd

Lewisham

63

2nd

Newington

71

1st

Boarders

84

Caterham School and in particular the maths department would like to congratulate all the pupils involved in the House Maths Challenge. We would also like to congratulate and thank the heads of houses and Mrs Dawrant for their support running this competition for the first time with the hope that it will become a classic one!

Results of the house events held in the academic year 2017-2018 were as follows: GIRLS

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MIXED EVENTS

BOYS

Junior Netball

Aldercombe & Newington

Junior Rugby

Ridgefield

Junior Chess

Newington

Inter Netball

Underwood

Inter Rugby

Boarders

Inter Chess

Lewisham

Senior Netball

Ridgefield

Senior Rugby

Newington

Senior Chess

Boarders

Junior Badminton

Harestone

Junior Badminton

Newington

Quiz

Lewisham

Inter Badminton

Boarders

Inter Badminton

Boarders

Drama

Harestone

Senior Badminton

Ridgefield

Senior Badminton

Boarders

Drama Improv

Boarders

Junior Swimming

Underwood

Junior Swimming

Harestone

Basketball Boarders

Inter Swimming

Newington

Inter Swimming

CANCELLED

Junior Art

Ridgefield

Senior Swimming

CANCELLED

Senior Swimming

Boarders

Inters Art

Boarders

Junior Lacrosse

Aldercombe

Junior Hockey

Ridgefield

Senior Art

Boarders

Inter Lacrosse

CANCELLED

Inter Hockey

Lewisham

Overall Art

Boarders & Ridgefield

Senior Lacrosse

Aldercombe

Senior Hockey

Aldercombe

Junior Spelling Bee

Underwood

Junior Cross-country

Underwood

Junior Football

Harestone

Inter Spelling Bee

Ridgefield

Inter Cross-country

Harestone

Inter Football Lewisham

Verse & Prose (Junior)

Underwood

Senior Cross-country

Underwood

Senior Football

Newington

Public Speaking (Inter)

Underwood

Junior Tennis

Harestone

Junior Cross-country

Newington

Debating (Senior)

Lewisham

Inter Tennis

Newington

Inter Cross-country

Underwood

Table Tennis

Boarders

Senior Tennis

Underwood

Senior Cross-country Lewisham

Inter Maths

Boarders

Junior Rounders

Aldercombe

Junior Cricket

Newington

Lost Property Boot

Harestone

Inter Rounders

Harestone

Inter Cricket

Boarders

Senior Rounders

RAINED OFF

Junior Tennis

Underwood

Junior Athletics

Aldercombe

Inter Tennis

Newington

Inter Athletics

Harestone

Senior Tennis

Ridgefield

Senior Athletics

Aldercombe

Junior Athletics

Ridgefield

Inter Athletics

Ridgefield

Senior Athletics

Ridgefield

When the annual competitions were concluded at the end of the Easter term 2018 (including the Summer term 2017 events’ results, as well as the Autumn & Spring Term results from the listing above) the House Cup Standings were as follows:

Diana Raine Cup for GIRLS

Stephen Smith Cup for Boys

Jim Seymour Mixed Trophy

7th Boarders 107

7th Aldercombe 129

7th Harestone 109

6th Lewisham 139

6th Underwood 132

6th Underwood 119

5th

Newington

176

5th

Harestone

147

5th

Newington

121

4th

Harestone

183

4th

Ridgefield

166

4th

Aldercombe

143

3rd

Ridgefield

211

3rd

Boarders

169

3rd Boarders 148

2nd

Underwood

219

2nd

Newington

172

2nd

Lewisham

153

1st

Aldercombe

239

1st

Lewisham

180

1st

Ridgefield

181

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BOARDERS

BOARDING FUN WEEKEND ACTIVITIES Our boarding activities weekend at the beginning of March got underway with pupils from all three houses getting involved in a film night and dodgeball games.

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hile those enjoying the films devoured delicious Beech Hanger banana smoothies, the dodgeballs had pupils and staff alike ducking out of the way in the Rudd Hall.

After taking part in sports fixtures took on Saturday and Sunday, the junior gathered in the Wilberforce Hall in the evening to relax and enjoy quiz night. Amongst the questions included photos, logos and flags which has to be identified. The evening was rounded off with pizza and prizes.

The rain held off for long enough on Sunday, to allow more activities including a football tournament.

Boarders and staff all enjoyed playing the matches and the winners received certificates. Congratulations to the winners!

The weekend was rounded off with two fascinating ‘melting pot’ presentations; where pupils tell the community about their home country.

This weekend saw Cameroon and Russia being showcased. These presentations often see us add to the long list of places we’d like to visit.

Thank you to everyone who took part, especially to prefects and staff who helped to organise and run the events.

BEECH HANGER BOARDERS FUNDRAISE FOR ALTEVETTE SCHOOL On Monday 19 March pupils in Beech Hanger house were pleased to donate the £400 they have raised to sponsor a pupil of Altevette School: a school providing accommodation and education for girls from impoverished families in the remote Mustang Highlands of Nepal.

A new partnership begins…

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£350 will pay for the living costs and accommodation of a pupil for one year. The school provides the only education for girls in the region, providing opportunities for the pupils, without which their choices are very limited by poverty and often tragic. The rest of the money raised will contribute towards repairs to the infrastructure of the school or teaching costs. Co-founder of the school, Linda Ambrose, came to Beech Hanger to tell the girls some more about the school, and accept the money on behalf of Altevette school.

A new partnership begins…

BOARDERS

Boarders get busy with

ROYAL CELEBRATIONS

Royal wedding fever peaked in Beech Hanger!

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he Boarders spent an entire Saturday evening making bunting and decorating the dining hall in preparation for the big event on Saturday. All signed a congratulatory card which was sent to the happy couple. The traditional celebrations continued on the big day itself with cucumber sandwiches, scones with strawberries and cream and a sparkling elderflower toast to Prince Harry and Meghan.

INFLATABLE FINISH With exam week over, the boarders celebrated in style on Sunday 17 June with an exciting afternoon on Beeches Field.

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fter a picnic, it was time to have fun on any of the ten inflatable games on offer. Competition on the Pillow Bash and Jousting was strong, while many tried to outstretch the Bungee Run! Four friends attempted to unseat the Rodeo Bull rider, however ducking and diving on Total Wipeout was arguably the most popular pastime! The ice cream van proved popular after all that physical exertion. Fun and games were enjoyed by children of all ages!

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ANOTHER ACTION PACKED YEAR IN BOARDING

House Song

House Dram a

Trip to Brighton

Carols in Caterh am

Carols in Caterham

Learning to Knit during a Multi-Activities Evening

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as Dinn er

WELLBEING

Wellbeing Curriculum All pupils between First and Fifth Year have a period a week dedicated to promoting Wellbeing, taught by a team of teachers.

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hese lessons cove a huge variety of topics from understanding your emotions to interpreting a wage slip, campaigning for change to navigating ‘fake news’ and developing skills in critical thinking and relilience.

This year the Third Year have gained a timetabled period each week designated to Wellbeing.

This has been combined with their Physical Education lessons and a brand new course of ‘Outdoor Wellbeing’ has been created. The course is organised around our five strands of Wellbeing: Community, Spirituality, Readiness, Awareness and Health and includes activities such as taking time away from technology, nature walks in the woods, facing fears and meeting our maintenance and caretaking departments. Later in the year their wellbeing lessons on physical health focus on looking at covering topics like posture, leadership, trust, lifesaving, relaxing and body confidence.

This year has also seen the introduction of a brand new course for our second years designed to put Caterham students at the core of current, global ethical issues and debates. Stemming from the School’s historical affiliation with slave trade abolitionist and founding Governor William Wilberforce, students have been embarking on a campaign for change course. Looking at contemporary issues such as global warming, modern day slavery and LGBTQ rights to name a few, students have been learning how to campaign for changes in legislation and public opinion.

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WELLBEING

WELLBEING: DICK MOORE TALK TO SIXTH FORM We were delighted to welcome Dick Moore on behalf of the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust to speak at a Sixth Form forum back in February.

Following on from whole staff Mental Health Awareness training which took place in January, Dick’s humorous and heart-touching story helped our oldest pupils understand more about mental health including how to look after themselves and others.

Wellbeing Initiatives

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he summer term saw the launch of a Chaplaincy team made up of enthusiastic teaching and bursarial staff across the school along with our Chaplain, Rev’d Julian Thomas. The team are a supportive presence as well as a force ensuring that pupil’s spiritual needs are highlighted and met.

Begun as an initiative of the School council, this year we’ve welcomed Cleo as one of the Caterham Wellbeing dogs. Cleo, Rue and Button all visit us during the week and are available for pupils to walk, talk to or cuddle as the need arises. They’ve proved quite a hit!

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Wellbeing Lecture:

GREAT WOMEN AND GREAT MEN

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veryday Sexism Project to inform, inspire and challenge members of our Sixth Form on ideas relating to gender equality. After listening to a lecture and asking questions, many Sixth Formers continued exploring these ideas long into lunchtime and beyond.

Laura also spoke to our Third and Fourth Year girls including topics such as body image, gender stereotyping and case studying women around the globe who had made brave choices. Meanwhile our third and Fourth Year boys took part in Great Men Workshop led by the renowned Good Lad Initiative exploring gender stereotypes through discussion, games and using video.

DRUG AWARENESS FORUM A proactive and positive approach to anti-bullying and friendship has begun using a process we call ‘Cats on Board’ which is all about helping pupils recognise behaviours and correct their behaviour where necessary. This process is based on a programme called ‘Girls on Board’ which we’ve adapted to suit the needs of a co-educational school. Put simply we help pupils navigate the (occasionally) choppy waters of social issues during adolescence through role play and group discussions where scenarios are discussed and solutions suggested and found by the pupils, with a little help from trained staff.

ON MONDAY 30TH APRIL, WE

WERE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME BACK FIONA FROM THE DANIEL SPARGO-MABBS FOUNDATION.

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iona Spargo-Mabbs is a regular contributor to school events and has previously addressed parents and other year groups on drugs prevention and harm reduction. Lower Sixth pupils attended a drugs awareness forum run by Fiona. She used her moving personal story to encourage pupils to make safer and more informed choices when it comes to drugs. Fiona also gave pupils practical strategies on how to deal with peer pressure.

INDIVIDUAL PUPIL SUCCESS

Rory Selected as Youth MP Congratulations to Sixth Form pupil Rory who has been elected youth MP for Surrey, one of only 300 young people to hold the role across the UK.

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ory’s election to youth MP followed on from his selection as a Youth Councillor of Tandridge in the Surrey Youth Cabinet. The role will see him meet with MPs and Cabinet Ministers, in addition to attending meetings in the House of Commons, whilst representing young people from across the area.

Rory has been interested in politics since the Third Year at Caterham and his involvement both inside and outside the classroom as grown from there.

Rory began his selection campaign by compiling a manifesto – a challenging task.

Rory said: “I knew I had to be realistic but ambitious, and address the problems that face all young people across our region. It is important to me that young people from all backgrounds and situations have a voice and are consulted on issues that direct affect their future. I am honoured to have been selected for this role and the Surrey Youth Cabinet (formerly named Youth Collective) is a great way that we can speak directly to policy makers and influencers to make sure young people’s voices are heard.

Broadly speaking, political education in our country is not strong and this impacts all of us. The Youth Cabinet is an excellent way of improving this situation and encouraging young people to get involved.”

In addition to his selection as youth MP, Rory is also the Youth Cabinet Minister for Education, covering the impact of education policy on young people.

Royal Approval for Lexie Sixth Form pupil Lexie had the privilege of meeting the Duchess of York in November through Lexie’s work with the London Hospitals’ Youth Forum. The Duchess opened a teenager zone in one of the hospitals, a project in which Lexie held a key role.

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he Youth Forum is a group of teenagers and young people who work with the hospitals and their young patients to find ways of improving the experience of being in hospital. Lexie was part of a group which researched, proposed and saw through the launch of teenager zones within the hospitals. The zones provide a dedicated space within the hospital where young patients can

take a break and just ‘be themselves’.

The zones have been so popular with patients that they are being introduced to hospitals across the country.

Other projects in which Lexie and the Youth Forum are involved include easing the transition for older teenage patients as they move up from Pediatric wards to adult wards during their care in hospital.

CAMBRIDGE AWARD WINNER AFTER HER WINNING ENTRY FOR THE CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE COMPETITION EARLIER THIS TERM, LOWER SIXTH FORM PUPIL ANNA HAS SCOOPED UP A SECOND PRESTIGIOUS AWARD!

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nna entered the University of Warwick Global Sustainable Development Essay Competition with an insightful essay entitled ‘The expression “Think Global Act Local” provides the best guidance for achieving global sustainable development. Discuss.’ On Saturday 30 June Anna attended a campus day with the other shortlisted entries.

Whilst there she received the good

news and another trophy to add to her burgeoning cabinet!

Director of Learning & Teaching, Kim Wells said: “Anna is a shining example of the Caterhamian who engages willingly and deeply with their subject outside of the curriculum, not because we tell them to do so, but because they have a burning curiosity and thirst for new knowledge”.

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MATTHEW, GCSE

ART

Inspiring Young Artists Our Fifth Year artists

visited Tate Modern in September to collect primary research for their GCSE coursework projects. They were given bespoke plans to follow so that their research was focused to their own lines of enquiry and supported their practical work. The pupils enjoyed the visit and benefited greatly from the inspirational surroundings.

MILLIE, GCSE

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LUCY, GCSE

ART

GRACE, GCSE

GILLIAN ARNOLD WORKSHOP

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n Monday 20 November the visual arts team hosted a day of workshops led by artist Gillian Arnold. Gillian’s work is inspired by natural forms and she primarily uses sublimation printing techniques to create a variety of gorgeous products that she sells to high street and online shops.

The pupils were most enthusiastic about the techniques she introduced and the art department was buzzing after school and at lunchtime with pupils printing collage designs onto mugs.

We hope a new generation of artist /makers have been further inspired to see their own designs become a reality!

GRAPHICS CLUB LEARN TO USE PHOTOSHOP In the Autumn term Mrs Veldtman was joined by several keen young graphic designers working on projects learning to use Adobe Photoshop. The pupils designed book illustrations and Christmas mug designs.

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This year produced some very interesting and innovative topics: Lucas spoke engagingly about the nostalgic graphics in Moldenhauer’s computer game

‘Cuphead’, while Chloe passionately explored the feminist implications of Jean Paul Gaultier’s ‘Conical Corset’.

The judges, who included Dr Gray, Lottie (former Art History pupil) and Anastastia (Upper Sixth and current art history pupil), found choosing a winner extremely difficult but gave first prize to Chloe.

Chloe competed in the regional final in Folkestone at the end of January where she was given high acclaim for her presentation.

ART WORKSHOPS

The art department hosted two art workshops on Saturday 3 February to help raise money for the School charities – Shooting Star Chase and Lerang’wa Lunches.

Louise Sheridan ran the etching workshop and Sarah Parsloe ran a paper accessories session.

One of the parents who attended with her daughter gave warm feedback: “I just wanted to thank you and the staff who ran the art workshop this morning. Eva and I very much enjoyed learning how to etch and make prints of our butterflies.”

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LOWER SIXTH ART GROUP VISIT THE BARBICAN On Friday 24 November the Lower Sixth art group went to see the Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican Centre. It was truly impactful and enabled the pupils to consider the influences on Basquiat using their knowledge gained from the weekly art history classes within their course. The pupils also considered how their own work could be developed from some of the ideas this renowned artist explored.

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Photography PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB:

STUDIO SHOOT

ON FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER, PUPILS (FIRST TO FIFTH YEARS) ATTENDING PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB LEARNED ABOUT STUDIO LIGHTING. As well as assembling the lights, backdrop and working with coloured light-filters, the pupils got to experience being the lighting director, photographer and model, to understand how a studio shoot works.

They had a great time posing as models, giving directions and using a DSLR camera.

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n Thursday 8 February our Upper Sixth photography group went to London to visit a very impressive seven galleries in one day! These ranged from large galleries such as The National Portrait Gallery and White Cube to smaller galleries such as Hamilton’s Gallery and Beetles and Huxley. The pupils had a brilliant time looking at a huge variety of photographs from many eras and genres which will inspire them in their current exam projects.

VISUAL ARTS MORNING ON SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER THERE WAS A VISUAL ARTS MORNING, FOCUSING ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MEDIUM OF LIQUID LIGHT. Liquid light is a light sensitive emulsion that can be painted onto surfaces to allow for black and white film images to be printed onto (almost) anything that can fit under a darkroom enlarger. The Sixth Form pupils who came along had a brilliant time learning about this fun medium of photography and printing onto textured papers, card and fabric.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB HEAD FOR THE DARKROOM On Friday 17 November, the Photography Club had a wonderful first session in the darkroom, creating photograms.

Photograms are created by placing objects on top of the light-sensitive photographic paper before exposing the paper to light from the enlarger. The pupils learned about the health and safety needed for working in the darkroom as well as learning how to use the enlargers and processing their own images in the chemicals. The pupils were all really excited to see for themselves the magic moment when their images appeared in the developer.

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Mind UK –

Photography Competition Winners

THE EVENING OF WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER WAS THE OPENING EVENT FOR THE MIND UK PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION EXHIBITION IN THE CHRISTINE WALKER GALLERY. It was a brilliant event to showcase some of the outstanding entries received this year. We received many entries and managed to raise £111.75 for Mind UK. A huge congratulations to everyone whose photographs were selected to be displayed, and especially to the winners and runners up in each of the four categories: Prep School winning image by – Alice Runners up – Tilly and Aimee

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Fifth to Seventh Year winning image by – Nico Runners up – Wayne and Daria Staff and parents winning image by – Nick Mills Runners up – Ben Wilkinson and Ann Bentley

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First to Fourth Year winning image by – Lana Runners up – Anastasia and a second image by Lana

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They produced some beautiful and original designs, which were later upcycled into white shirts and t-shirts.

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ARTS WEEK AND HUMANITIES

Arts Symposium ARTS SYMPOSIUM 2 March 2018

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n Friday 23 February, Third Year pupils enjoyed participating in an Arts Symposium which offered the opportunity to enhance their understanding of topics studied in the curriculum whilst engaging in practical workshops. The focus of the evening was “Romanticism and The Gothic�. Following a piano performance by Natalie and a talk offering a comprehensive overview of the topic from Christy, pupils participated in creative writing, drama and art workshops led by staff and Sixth Form pupils.

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ARTS WEEK AND HUMANITIES

Arts Week THIS YEAR’S ARTS WEEK TOOK THE THEME OF “PUNKS

AND OTHER REBELS”, AND PUPILS WERE ENCOURAGED TO THINK ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH THE ARTS OFFER AN

OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A VOICE IN SOCIETY. THE WEEK ALSO INCLUDED COMMUNITIES DAY, WHICH SAW SIXTH FORM PUPILS WELCOMING PUPILS FROM LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND SUPPORTING THEM IN PARTICIPATING IN A RANGE OF ACTIVITIES. IT CONCLUDED WITH THE ART EXHIBITION AND LAUNCH OF THE MAGAZINE “CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS”

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he week was opened with an exploration of the opportunities for self- expression and social change offered through clothing.

The day began with debates on what to fight for and why, and how pupils might convey their points of view The resulting pieces of clothing showed the outcome of their collaboration and self-expression.

The Third Years worked with artist Chery Nugyen for a whole morning responding to the theme of being a ‘firestarter’. Chery recently had an exhibition in Deptford called “The Last Match” showcasing 26 giant matchboxes and her illustrations. The pupils explored their own ambitions with regard to being world changers and shedding light on issues which concern them.

The Fourth Year engaged with street art, painting the mural at the back of the Geography department.

The mural designed by Christy Bennett features a Hokusai style ocean with a life ring and ropes. The message on the life ring reads 'throw out a life line' and is in keeping with our well-being ethos at the School.

Third Year pupils participated in a drama workshop run by Stage Ed, a company with whom we have worked for a number of years. They worked on Much Ado about Nothing, a play they have studied this year, as well as other texts; they also got to grips with the world of puppetry.

First year pupils enjoyed a gospel- singing workshop, and joined second year pupils to hear Luke Wright, renowned performance poet, read from his latest work.

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JUNIOR SCIENCE FAIR AWARDS EVENING The Junior Science Fair Awards evening, on Tuesday 27 March was an evening dedicated to celebrating the unique research projects the 2nd year students had been conducting in their science lessons over the course of the spring half term.

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he event was modelled on a scientific conference, where groups produced their own academic science poster which were displayed to invited students, parents and teachers. Groups whose work was chosen as highly commended by Mr Quinton, Mr Keyworth and Mr Mansell presented their work to a captive audience. Old Cats Bethany and Ollie were invited back as our guest speakers and had the unenviable task of choosing the winning posters from the highly commended category. Many congratulations to Max, Jake, Holly and Nicole as well as Holly-Heather, Olivia, Aaron and James for their superb

projects. Thank you to all the second year and their class teachers for all their hard work and preparation – you made the event such a success!

Ollie and Bethany were guest speakers and judges at the Junior Science Fair Awards evening organised by Mrs Whitwell. The photo above shows them with the prize winners: Ollie, Holly-Heather, Olivia, Aaron, James and Bethany.

NATIONAL BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD

– Record Haul of Medals!

Many congratulations to the following pupils who have achieved recognition in the National Biology Olympiad competition. Special congratulations should also go to Isaac Upper Sixth, who has received a Distinction in the Maths Olympiad, a silver medal in the Physics Olympiad, a gold medal in the Biology Olympiad … and he has just been asked to go forward to the selection procedure for the GB Biology team for the International Biology Olympiad.

GOLD: Isaac, Jasmin and Ben SILVER: Kamen, Nat, Millie, Jess, Call and Tim BRONZE: Lottie, Stella, Justin and Kamila

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SCIENCE SOCIETY’S 50TH CELEBRATIONS A packed Humphreys Theatre audience listened to OC Dr Luke Bashford as he gave a lecture to celebrate the Moncrieff-Jones Society’s 50th anniversary. Pupils, parents, Old Caterhamians and friends of the School gathered to hear about Luke’s cutting edge work with brain machine interfaces. The evening also saw the launch of Quantum Ultimatum, the pupil-written annual journal of the Moncrieff-Jones Society.

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Max Bodmer MONCRIEFF-JONES SOCIETY TALK On February 26, for the second time in its 50th Anniversary year, the Moncrieff-Jones Society hosted an incredible lecture, this time on the topic of coral reefs. It was an honour that the founder of the half-century-old society, Mr John Jones himself, attended the talk.

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The speaker was the amazing Max Bodmer, a marine ecologist, who was the lecturer and one of the guides that led and taught the Honduras expedition team, during the marine section of the trip at Roatan Island, an experience all of us will remember for the rest of our lives.

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Max spoke about his field of expertise, focusing on topics ranging from what corals actually are as well as the algal threat to reefs and its causes and observed effects. He presented many amazing and weird organisms that live in such ecosystems such as the Parrot fish and the ability of female individuals to change sex and become a male fish in order to establish dominance and replace the previous male, as an addition to the fish’s peculiar reproduction tactics – involving sneaky beta-male fish secretly inseminating the eggs, while alpha males are competing against each other regarding who will get to reproduce. The invasive

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to the Caribbean lion fish was also mentioned and Max spoke about how and why it threatens many of the organisms in the Caribbean reefs.

A main focus of his talk was how coral reefs are threatened by modern day human activities and therefore why there is an incredibly big decline and loss of coral reef cover globally at an alarming rate, a grim reminder to all the audience. In the talk, small scale threats such as coral mining in the Maldives for building materials along with bomb and cyanide fishing were mentioned, as well as the more global threats such as rise in sea levels, temperature and acidity, which all go hand in hand with global warming. Subsequently he explained what can be done by humans to conserve and stop the drastic decline in coral reef health and cover. There was a glimmer of hope presented

by Max showing how the more small scale threats can be easily negated and how it is already being done; however for the global threats, he clearly stated that to improve the situation we would need immediate and drastic measures globally and that such actions will be immensely

challenging – including humans stopping the use of cars, something almost no-one on today’s society can imagine to do. He emphasised how serious this destruction is and the need for action to save coral reefs is and that we still have a long way to go in order to ensure these beautiful ecosystems still exist in a hundred years from now, for future generations to marvel at.

After the talk, there was a prolonged question session, when both parents and students asked detailed questions about the animals, the research that Max does and the different solutions to conserve reefs.

SCIENCE WEEK CELEBRATIONS Science Week wasn’t enough for us here at Caterham!

Science fortnight saw a raft of activity and experiments, lessons lead by our senior science pupils, plus the hotly contested Science Awards.

The senior pupils gave awe-inspiring assemblies to the junior and prep school pupils and easily recruited the next generation of science aficionados.

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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ENGAGES THIRD YEAR PUPILS ON WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH, WE WERE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME BACK HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR RUDI OPPENHEIMER TO TALK TO THE THIRD YEAR ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES.

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udi was kind enough to stay for the afternoon and he told pupils of his experiences moving from Germany to Amsterdam and then his time in several concentration camps. Our pupils asked a range of interesting and thoughtful questions and remained enraptured during the talk.

We are enormously lucky that we can still have this experience, and it was a talk that will remain with our pupils for a very long time indeed.

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Iceland was incredibly unique and beautiful, and I’m sure this was a trip that none of us will ever forget!

ICELAND 2017 Geography Field Trip

In the summer of 2017 a group of Caterham geography pupils experienced a 5-day trip to Iceland enjoying the amazing sights of this beautiful country.

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he intrepid explorers flew into Keflavik International Airport and started out sightseeing as soon as we got outside. Before visiting Reykjavik we were taken to see some impressive natural steam vents, lava fields and the Bridge Between Continents on a fissure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge.

Each day we saw so many amazing different features of the Icelandic landscape – including waterfalls that were 60m high, such as Seljalandsfoss which we were able to walk behind, and a geyser called Strokkur which we saw erupt several times.

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As well as this, we all really enjoyed the glacier walk on Solheimajokull with our Icelandic glacier guides and visiting the Secret Lagoon, a natural hot spring which we swam in. Another highlight of the trip was when we went to the Westmann Islands – here we climbed up a volcano, where we discovered there were holes in the rock giving off heat perfect for toasting sandwiches in! That day we also saw puffins which were very entertaining (as well as getting to see Mr Terrell perfectly execute going down a water slide standing completely upright!)

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Þingvellir National Park, where we walked through the rift valleys formed by the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates pulling apart by three centimetres per year and saw where Iceland’s first ever parliament was set up in 930AD. On one night of the trip we were lucky enough to see the Northern Lights, which was a definite highlight and a big surprise as we were told normally they cannot be seen until later on in August or September.

Iceland was incredibly unique and beautiful, and I’m sure this was a trip that none of us will ever forget!

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Brecon Beacons During the Easter holidays, 17 pupils and six staff ventured into the Brecon Beacons to enrich the study of rivers, urban environments, mass movements, industrial redevelopment and, for the first time for many, geology.

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he trip began with possibly the wettest day ever encountered by a team of geographers, with horizontal rain cutting short the fieldwork on the River Usk. However, the next three days saw perfect weather for collecting data on Swansea, studying the industrial heritage and change that has occurred in the city, and also for exploring Penwyllt quarry to discover that geology rocks!

We also had time for bowling, a waterfall walk and also to celebrate Mr Mason’s 30 years at Caterham School! Staff and pupils came home tired, but well prepared for the exams in the next three weeks!

Not One, But Two Prestigious Awards for Caterham Pupil!

Congratulations to Anna in the Upper Sixth who won the ‘Corpus Essay Prize for Geography’, with her essay titled Is a borderless world a dream or a nightmare? Anna and Mrs Mesher attended the prize-giving ceremony at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge on Saturday. Dr Philip Howell, Director of Studies for Geography at Cambridge, commented in his feedback on how impressed he was, finding the essay ‘sophisticated in style as well as substance’. The essay competition in geography attracted far more entries than anticipated, so Anna beat 110 other pupils to win this prestigious award. However, Anna also entered the Warwick University Global Sustainable Development Essay competition, and answered the question ‘The expression ‘think global act local’ provides the best guidance for achieving global sustainable development. Discuss.’

She attended a Campus Day in June with other highly commended entries and was again awarded the prize for best essay - well done Anna!

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ MASTERS

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n Friday 16 March the Wilberforce Hall was buzzing as the Geography Department and Sixth Form pupils played host for the second annual prep school geography quiz. Nine teams from five different schools took part answering questions on capital cities, landmarks, country outlines and, of course, took part in the (nearly) world famous Play-Doh round.

A very well attended event, with over 50 prep and primary school children from Oakhyrst Grange, Aberdour, Micklefield, Nutfield Primary and our own Prep School wowed parents and staff with their geographical knowledge. After an exciting event there was a tie for first place between Oakhyrst and Caterham Prep. Oakhyrst finally won on a tie-break.

Parents and pupils loved the event and the cookies and goody bags went down a storm. My thanks go to Mr Mugridge for organising the event, and the Lower Sixth geographers who planned and asked the questions.

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AUTUMN CONCERT Opera in Concert MR ASSEN, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

An opera gala concert, attended by The Chairman of Tandridge District Council, Councillor Gill Black and The Worshipful Mayor of Epsom and Ewell, Councillor Liz Frost, was held in the wonderful setting of St. John’s Church, Caterham where all instrumental ensembles and vocal soloists performed a programme of opera music.

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he repertoire formed a musical timeline of opera with items from Baroque operas such as Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (sung by Chamber Choir with a wonderful solo by Alyssa), Ombra Mai Fu from Serse by Handel (sung

by Vocalpoint and Vivaldi String Orchestra) and items from romantic operas such as The Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner (performed with majesty by the newly-formed Concert Band).

Sinfonia, the School’s chamber orchestra, performed Mozart’s famous Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, with great skill and style, whilst the

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Senior Brass Ensemble enchanted the audience with an emotional rendition of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma, featuring William on Trombone. Vocal solos; Handel’s Lascia Ch’io Pianga sung by Olivia, Bizet’s Habanera sung by Charlotte and Delibes’ Flower Duet sung by Aldi showed great expertise and character.

Other groups such as Strad String Orchestra and the Clarinet Ensemble performed a variety of opera works, again with great style and precision.

The concert featured a soloist from English Touring Opera, Mr Bradley Travis who also performed comical, demanding and powerful pieces alongside Caterham School’s visiting

music teacher, Miss Carole Irvine – all expertly supported with ferociously difficult piano accompaniment by Mr Tristan Hall. The concert ended with the 160-strong force of our Symphony Orchestra and joint choirs in Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves – a triumphant finale to this celebration of opera music through the ages.

Thanks to the generosity of parents, family and friends, just over £400 was raised for St. John’s Church in the retiring collection. A wonderful evening was had by all who attended and all performances showcased the amazing talents of Caterham School’s musicians and singers.

LUNCHTIME LIVE Concert Series MR HALL, HEAD OF ACADEMIC MUSIC

Thursday 28 September saw the start of the 2017/18 Lunchtime Live Concert Series!

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Remembrance Day Recital MR ASSEN, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Following the Remembrance Service on Sunday 12 November, ETS (Eric Thiman Singers) and Chamber Choir performed in the annual recital of reflection and contemplation that once again, provided a stirring and moving soundtrack to the day.

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he words heard in the service just beforehand, were echoed in the lyrics of the pieces performed, which included a beautiful setting of For the Fallen and Elgar’s Ave Verum Corpus.

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, set to music by the well-known composer Howard Goodall, brought ETS and Chamber Choir together, and ended the recital with powerful words resonating with every person present.

The Remembrance Day recital is a poignant and touching musical occasion in the calendar, which reinforces the words by Hans Christian Andersen; ‘where words fail, music speaks’.

he performers, Caterham’s Fourth and Fifth Year GCSE pupils, played exceptionally well. The event was an ideal opportunity to practise performing, in preparation for their upcoming GCSE Performance assessments.

Yuka performed Sicilienne on the violin

by Faure; her performance was both lyrical and wonderfully phrased throughout.

Louis’ pianistic performance of Masquerade was full of energy and he produced a full and powerful sound.

Lucy’s performance on the piano of John Field’s Nocturne No. 13 was stunning, as she managed to capture the melodic shape of each phrase wonderfully whilst maintaining a quality sound throughout.

Thomas’ cello performance of Elgar’s Chanson de Matin was truly divine. His vibrato fully enhanced his warm, yet rich sound tremendously, and he was fully involved in this performance.

Drew performed on the electric guitar, playing Striped Shirt by Kit Morgan. This was a great contrast to the other pieces of music and Drew demonstrated his understanding of this composer’s jazz style and the sound required to fully capture it.

Well done to all our performers for their hard work preparing for the concert. All Caterham School pupils who have lessons inside or outside of school, are warmly invited to get involved in future Lunchtime Live concerts.

MUSIC SCHOLARS’ CONCERT MR HALL, HEAD OF ACADEMIC MUSIC

On Tuesday 23 January our talented scholars gave a variety of fantastic performances at the annual Scholars’ Concert.

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he concert opened with some Gabrielli which was performed by the Senior Brass Ensemble; the musicality that this ensemble is demonstrating this year is astounding to say the least and it is very exciting seeing them develop.

Sophie, Jae, Philip and Alice, all from the First Year, gave their solo debuts at Caterham School and it goes

without saying that they have made a sensational impact already!

The music department staff particularly thank the Piano Trio members: Natalie, Anna and Isaac, and Kaitlyn and Oliver who were in the Senior Brass Ensemble who are all in their final year at the school. All of whom have been true ambassadors for music at Caterham School and given so much to a variety of different musical events, ensembles and people.

Congratulations to all for giving such an awe inspiring set of performances, Bravo!

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LIVE LOUNGE: A showcase of Talent MRS RICHARDS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

THE DEAYTON THEATRE WAS THE IDEAL SETTING FOR THIS YEAR’S LIVE LOUNGE EVENT; A SHOWCASE OF ACOUSTIC COVERS PERFORMED BY MANY TALENTED PUPILS ACROSS ALL YEAR GROUPS.

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here were cover versions of huge hits by great artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, Ed Sheeran and Adele and also some lesser-known songs by indie artists.

All were performed superbly and with confidence; it was truly an evening of the most professional standard. Some pupils performed original songs which demonstrated yet more talent of the highest quality. Many moving and emotional performances throughout the evening made this year’s Live Lounge another massive success.

Congratulations to all who took part.

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LUNCHTIME LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE MR HALL, HEAD OF ACADEMIC MUSIC

A CELEBRATION OF

Christmas

We enjoyed a wonderful Carol Service at the United Reformed Church on Thursday 14 December.

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he choral singing was fantastic, both the individual choir items from ETS (Eric Thiman Singers) and Chamber Choir, and the descants contributed to congregational carols. The School’s brass group were able to add much to the joyful atmosphere. The annual carol service is a traditional service of nine lessons and is a highlight in the musical calendar. Anthems chosen this year were modern, by composers such as Will Todd and James McMillian. Our fantastic choirs performed their works to perfection – a wonderful and uplifting way to end the busy Autumn term and welcome in the Christmas festivities.

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livia (Fifth Year) gave a sublime duet performance of Lloyd-Webber’s Pie Jesu with Mrs Alison Duguid (Visiting Music Teacher). William performed on the piano, which was his first pianistic performance at Caterham School. Cyrus Liu performed a song from Mr Brian Hill’s musical, “Bruce Lee, The Musical”.

Morgann and Nathan performed a superb acoustic performance of Black and Gold.

Finally, I would like to thank Kaitlyn for her wonderful performance of Aroutiounian’s Aria et Scherzo on the trumpet – it was a great success and the variety of tone and musical detail were testament to her musicianship.

A wonderful concert of chamber music took place on Tuesday 21 November in the beautiful acoustics of the Wilberforce Hall.

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he senior brass ensemble opened the concert with two majestic pieces including the Charpantier Te Deum. Newly formed groups, the Piano Trio and Clarinet Trio performed excellent technical pieces by Faure and Bach whilst the choirs, ETS and Chamber Choir performed moving works by Vivaldi and Purcell. A special mention

goes to Alyssa who performed the solo for Dido’s Lament. The long-standing Piano Trio performed Faure’s famous Pavane with great style and precision. The concert was a wonderful celebration of chamber music through the ages which demonstrated the talents and skills of so many wonderful musicians and singers in the school.

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wo of our choirs, ETS and Chamber Choir, performed three magnificent concerts in Belgium over half term. The first concert, at St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres, a small parish church, perfectly suited the repertoire themed around ‘peace’. Bob Chilcott’s Peace Mass and other anthems such as In Flander’s Fields had particular significance in this church that commemorated pupils of British schools who died in the Great War. The choirs then performed underneath the Menin Gate singing two beautiful

a capella pieces chosen for their powerful words. The audience were visibly moved to tears as the voices soared in the acoustics of this historical monument to the fallen.

The final performance, in Ghent Cathedral, showcased beautifully the high standards of ETS and Chamber Choir in a choral recital that spanned choral music from Purcell to Goodall.

All singers should be congratulated on their professionalism and musicality throughout this tour. Many parents attended the concerts and it was wonderful to have shared some special musical moments with them in Belgium.

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Pianoforte Recital The annual pianoforte recital on Tuesday 30 January was an absolute delight. Hero, Yvonne and Elaine all performing a movement each of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata.

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ero demonstrating fantastic stamina throughout the first movement, Yvonne playing with delicacy and Elaine with drive and vigour – it was a fantastic performance! Lily and Lucy gave a performance of Mi-a-ou from Faure’s Dolly Suite. Their duo skills are absolutely superb; the balance of sound and clarity was excellent.

Louis’ performance of Merikanto’s Valse Lente was exceptionally musical and emotive throughout; the quality of sound, addition of rubato and melodic voicing was superb. Sahil gave a successful performance of Lazy Days by Wedgwood and he managed to capture the jazz style well. Morgann and William, both in the Fourth Year performed pieces by the South Korean piano sensation, Yiruma, both performing with delicacy and warmth. Jae of the First Year wowed the audience with his dexterous performance of Kuhlau’s Sonatine. The performance had excellent clarity, tone and sense of direction, and it was a delight to listen to.

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It was then time for the first of two pieces of Chopin; Jeremy of the Third Year performed Chopin’s Waltz in B Minor. I would personally like to commend Jeremy on giving such a successful performance as he has not played the piano for some time and has revised an old piece in a short time span and also managed to give his first concert performance, moreover a solid performance in a new school, in a different country!

Lucy’s performance of Field’s Nocturne in D Minor was thoroughly sublime. The phrasing and sense of ‘musical line’ throughout the performance was beautiful and she clearly understood how Field wanted the melodic lines to be voiced and phrased. Krystal of the Lower Sixth Form performed a relatively unknown Nocturne by Chopin; her tonal control, warm yet clear pedalling and dynamic range were just a few of several highlights of her performance.

Justin gave his first solo piano performance at Caterham School, performing a vigorous and rhythmical piece by Glover.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our final student performer, Natalie. Since her arrival at the school she has been a true inspiration to all pupils, musical or not. Her pianistic skills as amongst the best I have seen for someone of her age and her performance of the beautiful Schubert Impromptu on Tuesday was amongst one of the most refined, musical and emotional, yet controlled I have seen from someone of Natalie’s age.

She performs with panache and commitment no matter what she plays and, on behalf of the music department, bravo and thank you!

Our own Mr Hall closed the concert with an astonishing performance of Beethoven’s famous Moonlight Sonata and Gershwin’s Embraceable You. These contrasting pieces showcased perfectly the diversity of the piano as an instrument and demonstrated to all present the result that can be achieved through hard work, passion and dedication.

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ST JAMES’S PICCADILLY On Friday 9 March musicians and singers once again performed a magnificent concert in the beautiful venue of St James’s Piccadilly. The theme this year was music by British and American composers.

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he concert opened with an epic performance of Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna – a modern, powerful work by one of America’s most prominent choral composers. This was performed by both ETS (Eric Thiman Singers) and Chamber Choir, and left the audience spellbound with their emotive rendition.

Joined by a professional string ensemble, the choirs sang this demanding piece superbly well and demonstrated great musicality and professionalism. Other choral items included Elgar’s Ave Verum Corpus by ETS and Purcell’s moving Dido’s Lament by Chamber Choir.

Special mention must go to Alyssa (Fourth Year) for her outstanding

solo. Chamber music was provided by the Clarinet Quartet and Brass Ensemble who performed complex and demanding works. Vivaldi String Orchestra left the audience in awe as they performed to perfection, Barber’s Adagio. This incredibly powerful ANOTHER WONDERFUL work has EVENING OF been used in countless OUTSTANDING MUSICMAKING. films as a soundtrack that depicts immense tragedy and misery, captured expertly by our own musicians in this concert.

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First Year scholars’ ensemble, First Light for our string orchestra and Veritas for Sinfonia. William’s (Fourth Year) composition, Polyrhythm for orchestra, was a highlight of the evening and showcased his emerging talent as a composer. Other performances by Sinfonia included Copland’s energetic Hoe-down (Rodeo) which they performed with character and vigour.

Both choirs and orchestras included pupils from our Prep school and congratulations to all for another wonderful evening of outstanding music-making.

A Wonderful Day of Music

A Wonderful Evening of Music

MR HILL, HEAD OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

The music department flung its doors wide open on Sunday 29 April to receive musicians from schools across the local area.

On Wednesday 9 May, the music department hosted a wonderful evening of ensemble music, showcasing many of our smaller chamber groups.

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ifteen primary and prep schools were represented including pupils from Oakhyrst, Sandcross, St. John’s, Micklefield, Cumnor House and Banstead Community Junior School.

Together with pupils from Caterham Prep School, the children enjoyed a lively day of music-making culminating in a short concert, featuring the combined forces as a symphony orchestra, performing music from La La Land. Each section of the orchestra performed their own pieces and a masterclass was held with three selected candidates. Parents and children alike were impressed by the expertise and passion of the Caterham music staff, who led energetic and informative workshops throughout the day. A wonderful and rewarding day was enjoyed by all.

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he Brass Ensemble opened the evening with beautiful repertoire by Tallis and Gabrieli, our Clarinet Quartet impressed with Debussy and Berlin, followed by our Upper Sixth Piano Trio performing Beethoven with great conviction – Anna, Isaac and Natalie have been performing together since Year Six and this was their final concert as a trio.

Strad String Orchestra continued the evening with notable performances of works by Purcell, Delibes and Offenbach, and our Fourth Year trio entertained the audience with some classic jazz. Concert Band brilliantly performed works by Mussorgsky and Stalter to rapturous applause, and the Soul Band rounded off the evening with a fantastic swing and soul set. Congratulations to all who took part.

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Caterham Festival ETS PERFORM AT ST. CHRISTOPHER’S FESTIVAL, EPSOM ETS (Eric Thiman Singers) once again performed superbly at St Christopher’s festival on Thursday 15 March and were admired by all of the other children from schools in Surrey and South London.

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he special guest conductor, Bob Chilcott, was most impressed by their performances and commented on how inspirational they will have been to the younger children. Bob Chilcott’s music is well known by ETS singers, in particular his beautiful Peace Mass that they performed last month in Belgium. It was a great opportunity for them to work with such a respected choral composer.

Solo pieces from ETS included Elgar’s Ave Verum Corpus which was sung to perfection. ETS then provided harmonies and descents in the massed choral items which included Bob Chilcott’s anthem, Can You Hear Me?. This moving piece is unique as it employs sign language.

Congratulations to ETS on another stunning performance.

LUNCHTIME LIVE: ENSEMBLES SPECIAL MR HILL, HEAD OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

The School Concert Band and Strad String Orchestra featured in the Lunchtime Live concert on Wednesday 28 March which was held in The Humphreys Theatre. Both of these ensembles are going from strength to strength and once again they performed wonderfully. The strings played pieces by Purcell and Offenbach whilst the concert band gave energetic performances of Rampage and Night on a Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky.

Our Chamber Choir and String Orchestra, together with community choirs performed a massed concert of Vivaldi’s Gloria at St. John’s Church in Caterham.

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his marked the opening of the 2018 Caterham Festival – the tenth festival in this annual celebration of music and the arts. The music department were pleased to support this local event and feature our talented musicians and singers. Our Senior String Orchestra provided outstanding accompaniment to the baroque masterpiece – they played with vigour and style. Our Chamber Choir underpinned the massed choir; they were joined by members of Barisons Singers, Downland Chorale, East Surrey Choral Society and enthusiastic members of our school staff.

Together the chorus made a fantastic and uplifting sound in the wonderful acoustics of St. John’s. A special mention must go to our soloists: Charlotte, Aldi, Charlotte, Olivia and Charlotte R. Their complex solo movements were sung with precision and authenticity. The audience were highly impressed by the high standard of Caterham School’s musicians and singers. Congratulations and thank you to all pupils and staff who took part.

CHAMBER CHOIR – APOLLO 5 WORKSHOP On Sunday 25 February, the Chamber Choir took part in a workshop with award-winning Apollo 5.

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ur guests have recently entered the top 20 classical charts with their new album The Spirit Like a Dove. The talented singers gave the Chamber Choir coaching on the finer details of choral singing and worked on their ambitious and demanding repertoire for the forthcoming concert

on Friday 9 March at St James’s Piccadilly, together with ETS and Sinfonia. The singers also taught Chamber Choir some contrasting repertoire which was performed at the informal recital at the end of the day. Congratulations to the Chamber Choir on continuing to exceed

expectations as a school choir – their sound continues to be expressive and beautiful and is a joy to listen to.

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MR HALL, HEAD OF ACADEMIC MUSIC

The final Lunchtime Live concert of this academic year was held on Wednesday 23 May and featured some fantastic performances.

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he concert commenced with a stylish and note-perfect performance from the Fourth Year Piano Trio featuring Chi Chi (Piano), Cyrus (Clarinet) and Anthea (Flute). They performed Rae’s jazz pieces: First Class Single, Watching the Rain, and Secrets.

The Clarinet Quartet which features Ben (Bass Clarinet) Cyrus (Clarinet) Timothy (Clarinet) and Max performed Debussy and Berlin; again, these were superb performances.

There were four soloists, and they are commended for giving such successful performances: Elisha (Singing), Isobel (Oboe), Seb (Cello) and Jae (Piano).

It was fantastic to hear ‘Fretknots’, Caterham School’s classical guitar ensemble perform.

Lastly, the String Quartet gave their debut performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Bella, Harry, Frances and Caitlyn all performed with such stylistic awareness and we look forward to see

them continue to develop their superb musicianship.

Lunchtime Live is a fantastic opportunity for pupils to gain performance experience; it is an informal concert and any pupils are encouraged to get involved. For more information please speak to one of the music department staff.

Finally, I’d like to thank all the musicians who have performed in the 2017-18 Lunchtime Live series and I look forward to the next one to start!

MUSIC EXAMS: CHAMBER CHOIR PERFORM IN BLETCHINGLY Our Chamber Choir supported a local church, St Mary The Virgin in Bletchingley in their Pentecost service on Sunday 20 May. They performed beautiful motets during communion that included Bruckner’s Locus Iste and Purcell’s Thou Art My God. The congregation were hugely impressed by our accomplished Chamber Choir who consistently perform to a high standard. We were proud and delighted to present such polished performances to members of our community.

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OUTSTANDING RESULTS THE LATEST RESULTS FOR MUSIC EXAMS ARE TRULY OUTSTANDING- A STAGGERING NUMBER OF DISTINCTIONS WERE ACHIEVED AS WELL AS A HUGE NUMBER OF MERITS. Distinctions were awarded to: Rhian, Alyssa, Olivia and Alex (Senior School) and Elise, Zoe (Prep School).

A special mention must be made for Aldi’s incredible distinction in the new, post-grade eight performance diploma (ARSM) from the Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music. The examination is highly demanding and to achieve such a result is astonishing for a Fourth Year pupil.

Congratulations must go to Aldi on this amazing achievement.

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Brass Success MR HILL, HEAD OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

On Saturday 23 June, Caterham Senior Brass Ensemble joined forces with the principal brass musicians from the London Mozart Players and the Croydon Citadel Band to headline the first Festival of Peace (Croydon) with a beautiful and inclusive anthem as its centrepiece.

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aterham Senior Brass Ensemble were the only school ensemble invited to perform the anthem at the Festival’s community day in Park Hill, and performed as well as anyone on the stage.

The anthem and the Peace Festival were about core values and the sort of community we should all want to live in. The Caterham School Brass Ensemble closed the festival with poignancy and emotion.

We have received a complimentary message from the Executive Director of the London Mozart Players: “It was such a pleasure to welcome Caterham school brass players to swell the ranks of the LMP brass and the Croydon Citadel Band for the final event of the first Croydon Peace Festival in a performance of the newly commissioned Anthem for Peace It was a particular pleasure to see so many female brass players! LMP

looks forward to possible collaborations with the school in the future, well done Caterham Brass.”

Julia Desbruslais, Executive Director.

The members of the Senior Brass Ensemble have had an amazingly successful year together – from reaching the semi-finals of the Pro Corda International Music Festival to opening our prestigious London concert. Playing with members of the London Mozart Players was a fitting finale to an outstanding year.

Musical Theatre Evening MRS RICHARDS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

On Tuesday 19 June, the music department hosted a highlight of the musical calendar – an evening celebrating musical theatre through the decades, presented by our very own visiting music teacher - Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts.

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r Lloyd-Roberts is an international opera singer in his own right and is one of our most dedicated visitors in the music department. His vast stage experience, performing the most challenging roles on the most famous stages in the world, inspire and encourage our pupils during every lesson. He continues to be in awe of the standard of performance from our talented Caterham vocalists.

From Oklahoma to Hamilton, our talented cast of pupils all performed with maturity and energy.

Notable highlights included sets from Phantom of The Opera and Les Miserables, moving duets from Miss Saigon and Bonnie and Clyde, and Close Harmony (our boys’ choir) rounding off the evening with a fantastic rendition of My Shot from Hamilton.

Congratulations to all for a wonderful evening!

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INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT the results are in....

BY KIM WELLS

This event is a highlight of the academic year at Caterham and reflects our pupils’ capacity for independent thought and intellectual curiosity and rigour.

Many congratulations to Anastasia, who was this year’s winner of the IRP - one of the School’s most prestigious academic prizes - which took place on Thursday 23 November.

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nastasia’s project was titled The Sapir-Whorf Theory: can you prove incontrovertibly that linguistic relativity is true using constructed languages? and examined in what way the language we speak shapes how we think. Ben Prego was awarded both the second prize and the audience prize for his IRP which questioned the impact of CRISPR gene editing on the future of life on Earth. Ann Wai secured third place for her piece of original psychological research which examined whether smiling lead to

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happiness, using the facial feedback hypothesis.

Emily, Megan and Lottie were the other finalists in a contest which the judges described as ‘almost impossible to call’ and ‘of an exceptionally high standard’. Thank you to our judges: Mr Scott Baker (Headmaster of the London Academy of Excellence in Newham), Francesca Lagerberg (global leader for tax services with Grant Thornton) and Mr Rob Baston (banker, mathematician).

This event is a highlight of the academic year at Caterham and

reflects our pupils’ capacity for independent thought and intellectual curiosity and rigour.

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PUPILS BRING DICKENS’ CLASSIC TO LIFE

A Dickens’ classic was brought to life by Caterham drama students in our David Copperfield senior production.

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ver 50 performers, from Third Year to Upper Sixth, invited an impressed audience into the fictional world of the Murdstones, the Yarmouth boat house, Salem House School, Murdstone and Grinby’s bottle factory and Wickfield’s law firm. The standard of acting and ensemble work was superb, with carefully considered, energetic and professional performances throughout.

The Yarmouth women led us through 48 scenes, as we follow David’s typically Dickensian losses, unhappiness, challenges, until a happy future emerges! Peggotty (Katie) led us into the play with energy and warmth, establishing the warm world of her Yarmouth family. Arjun gave an outstanding performance as Peggotty’s brother, Dan, with authentic Norfolk accent and superb characterisation.

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portrayed frighteningly well by Tom and Emelie. Contrasting their rigid world, the crazy lives of the Micawber’s filled the stage with colour and chaos. Mrs Micawber’s (Charlotte/Keya) squeals of ‘I will never desert you ……’ were met with equally passionate responses from Micawber (Ryan/Ed). Aunt Betsey brought further eccentricity to the stage, with exceptional performances from Jessica and Rosie. Agnes,

performed sensitively by Christy and Amelia, brought a sense of hope and friendship. Ross portrayal of Uriah Heep was exceptional. His characterisation chilled the audience as deceived and schemed, ultimately leading to his own downfall.

The role of Little David was played by Josh and Will. Both actors achieved outstanding performances, creating an incredible connection with the

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The ensemble in this production were incredibly strong, transforming themselves from fishermen to factory workers to school boys ...

audience as they brought this iconic role to life.

Special congratulations must go out to Seb who played the lead role of David Copperfield.

He gave an exceptionally mature performance, leading all action with energy and purpose and showing incredible awareness of the range of characters he interacted with.

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themselves from fishermen to factory workers to school boys ‌.

And countless other characters.

They brought the stage to life, with each individual character carefully considered and performed.

The production is professionally supported by an entirely pupil-led team of 15 technical and backstage crew, who ensure the production runs smoothly and that the audience is further drawn into the

world of the play through carefully researched props, atmospheric lighting and sound. Scenes are changed in seconds and props seemingly produced from nowhere, sound effects and lighting changes seamlessly merge!

The cast and crew can all be proud of this memorable production. Every pupil involved has contributed to its success.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

A cast of over 80 First to Fourth Year pupils brought Lewis Carroll’s delightful world of nonsense to life on Wednesday 7 February and Thursday 8 February. With an array of fabulously colourful costumes, the well-known and much loved characters entertained their audience with Carroll’s witty dialogue as well as a beautifully whimsical choral rendition of How doth the Little Crocodile accompanied by Paige’s wonderful dancing crocodile.

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here was also a glorious Lobster quadrille with 32 lobsters, seals and turtles reliving the Mock-Turtle (Hannah) and Gryphons’s (Ella) glory days. The two Alices (Lara on Wednesday and Millie on Thursday) shone as the young Alice Liddell, taking the audience seamlessly though some enchanting set scenes, such as the Mad Hatter’s tea party, which was very convincingly portrayed by Josh M as the March Hare, Josh C as the Mad

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Hatter and Scarlett as the soporific Dormouse. Act two also saw the stage of the Humphreys Theatre transformed into a world of cards playing a crazy croquet game with rolling hedgehogs, live croquet hoops and a formidable Anastasia as the Queen of Hearts terrorising every creature on stage, including the enigmatic Cheshire Cat (Olivia/ Reuben) before Alice finds herself back on the riverbank begging Charles (Lewis Carrol played

by Reuben Andriesz) to write down her

adventures underground and thank goodness she did. Mrs Yankova, the Director said, “this is my all-time favourite story and I loved having so many pupils, from so many different year groups, involved, both on stage and backstage, making props, doing make up and assisting with the lighting and sound. It’s been hard work with only one rehearsal a week but Caterham pupils, as ever, have risen to the challenge and done both themselves and the School proud.”

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ou may already have spotted Ed (Fifth Year) who starred as a young Chris Packham in the documentary Asperger’s and Me. The programme has been nominated for a BAFTA (best documentary) and has already won two craft BAFTAs for best director and best editing. A clip was shown at that ceremony, which included one of Ed’s parts.

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at the Leatherhead Festival 25 May 2018 BUILDING ON OUR SUCCESS LAST YEAR AT THE FESTIVAL THIS YEAR WE CAME AWAY WITH THREE AWARDS!

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JOHANN HARI, THE INDEPENDENT

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e were delighted to start our 2017/18 ArtsHouse programme with an energetic, cutting edge poetry performance from internationally acclaimed poet Luke Wright.

A workshop for pupils focused on creativity and originality in poetry, with each pupil attending finding they were inspired to stretch themselves beyond teenage clichés to producing work that reflected them as individuals.

The evening performance that followed included a collection of Luke’s ‘fast paced, witty poems’ interspersed with vivid anecdotes entertaining an audience of students, parents and visitors. His energy and passion for poetry was incredible and left the audience inspired and wanting more.

aterham School was awarded the Richard Houghton Award for bringing no less than six plays (five of which were new plays) to the festival. This award really reflects the dedication and commitment of our pupils.

The cast of Destiny were awarded ‘Best New Writing’ within the junior festival. This is the first play this group has written and reflects their creativity and hard work.

Also within the cast of Destiny, one of our young actors was awarded the ‘Best Actress’ award. Grace played a complex character, managing difficult issues and trying to maintain her place within a friendship group. Grace performed the role maturely and professionally and thoroughly deserved the award.

I am of course, extremely proud of all our talented performers and writers. A tremendous list of awards, well done!

LOUISE FAHEY, HEAD OF DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES

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OUTSTANDING RESULTS Congratulations to the 38 pupils who took their LAMDA examinations on 12 March. The results were outstanding, with all pupils awarded a merit or distinction. The examinations taken covered verse and prose, speaking in public, reading for performance, devised and acting. Grades taken ranged from introductory level to grade eight.

Stunning Performance from Drama Club

LAMDA EXAM RESULTS Francesca

Acting, Entry Level

Distinction

Lara

Acting, Grade 6

Merit

The weekly drama club had its final crescendo at the end of May with the final performance of Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer.

Lexie

Acting, Grade 8

Merit

Hermione

Acting, Grade 5

Distinction

Benji

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Kian

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Euan

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

he club is run by Caterham Sixth Formers for pupils of St John’s Primary. The Sixth Form leaders and directors were ably led by Ross who has been so dedicated. He devoted himself to preparing sessions and rehearsals, enabling the rest of the team to do such a great job. The enthusiastic actors from St John’s put on a stunning performance, displaying confidence and talent. Thanks goes to Mrs Daniels at St John’s and Mrs Fahey at Caterham for making the partnership work so well!

Millie

Acting, Grade 6

Merit

Eloise

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Ella

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Isabella

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Lana

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

Kristian

Acting, Grade 3

Merit

Josh

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Edward

Reading for Performance, Grade 6

Merit

Alice

Speaking Verse and Prose, Grade 3

Merit

Pia

Speaking Verse and Prose, Grade 3

Distinction

Alfie

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Lucas

Acting, Grade 4

Merit

Jessica

Acting, Grade 7

Merit

Achintya

Speaking in Public, Grade 4

Distinction

Ava

Devising, Grade 3

Merit

Stuart

Devising, Grade 3

Merit

Hamish

Speaking in Public , Grade 3

Merit

Caitlin

Acting, Grade 6

Distinction

Our Elizabethan Festival not only enjoyed beautiful sunshine in our lovely Orchard Theatre, but was expanded to showcase even more of our talented performers!

Ross

Acting, Grade 7

Distinction

Yasemin

Speaking in Public, Grade 5

Distinction

Keya

Acting, Grade 6

Merit

Zoe

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Laura

Devising, Grade 4

Distinction

udiences were treated to abridged versions of ‘As you Like it’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’. We also presented an original short play written by Flora Hannay (2nd year) and an extract of the comedy ‘Postcards from Shakespeare’ directed by Eloise Smith (2nd year). We are delighted that so many of our pupils are exploring writing and directing, amongst other key roles within the creative industries.

Asha

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Hannah

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Mia

Acting, Grade 6

Merit

Rosie

Acting, Grade 6

Distinction

Tristan

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Erin

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Penny

Acting, Grade 4

Distinction

Izzy

Acting, Grade 6

Distinction

Anoushka

Acting, Grade 3

Distinction

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And Then There’s Me…

LOUISE FAHEY, HEAD OF DRAMA AND THEATRE

CATERHAM PERFORMERS RETURNED FROM THEIR SECOND SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE, INSPIRED

BY INCREDIBLE THEATRE AND PROUD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN THIS COMPETITIVE PLATFORM.

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t’s the biggest arts festival in the world, so an exciting variety of over 3500 shows from 55 countries, so our pupils need to use all their creative and communication skills to make their show stand out!

This year we performed a piece of original writing focusing on the important theme of mental health.

We created a play celebrating difference and individuality called And Then There’s Me….. which required the cast to perform in a range of styles, work together as a tight ensemble and portray a range of characters. They achieved all these things brilliantly!

The pupils leafleted and performed tirelessly on the packed

Royal Mile, entertaining the crowds with spontaneous performances and music. I was impressed to see how they developed their marketing, confidence and communication skills as the week progressed.

Our actors learnt so much from interacting with other companies and professionals. Resilience, confidence and communication skills quickly develop when faced with the competition of other companies.

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The experience of working together as a theatre company, taking shared responsibility for the success of the show was invaluable. This is a real-life experience of team work as they take the production through from concept to performance. The creative skills gained through this process will support any future career path

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LAMDA EXAM RESULTS CONGRATULATIONS to the 24 pupils who took their LAMDA exams at the end of last term! Once again, exams ranged from Grade two to grade eight and varied in disciplines from Devising, Verse and Prose and Acting to the new Shakespeare exams. The excellent results, with all pupils achieving a merit or distinction, reflect the talent and hard work of the pupils.

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they choose. One pupil this year said, “The feel of being at the Fringe with so many other theatre groups, amateur and professional, was unforgettable and incredible”.

A massive thank you to all staff and parents who joined us leafleting on the Mile!

Caterham ARTSHOUSE Scratchworks Theatre Company offered a fresh perspective on the events of the Great Train Robbery in their high energy comedy performed at Caterham ArtsHouse on Friday 18 May.

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heir play, entitled ‘The Great Train Robbery’, follows four forgotten females as they leave behind their kitchen-sink lives and embark on a madcap adventure of mischief and mayhem. Using a raucous combination of physical theatre, live music and clowning, they uncover the truth about history’s forgotten women. They performed to a packed audience, who at times found themselves involved in the action, providing musical accompaniment or an alibi.

THIS PRODUCTION WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR’S ARTSHOUSE PROGRAMME

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ON TUESDAY 27 MARCH, PUPILS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND YEAR HAD THE FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH THE OPERA, SHACKLETON’S CAT THAT WAS PERFORMED BY THE ENGLISH TOURING OPERA GROUP. THIS WAS THE PERFECT FINALE TO THEIR TOPIC THIS HALF TERM. I AM EXTREMELY PROUD THAT ALL OF OUR PUPILS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A LIVE OPERA AND EXPERIENCE FIRST-HAND THEIR THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS PARTICULAR MUSICAL AREA. ALL PUPILS ENJOYED THE OPERATIC TELLING OF THE TALE OF SURVIVAL IN THE ANTARCTIC.

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MADLive On Friday 23 March, the sixth annual MADLive was finally able to take place having been postponed following the ‘Beast from the East’. Cast and crew rallied and put together a magnificent evening of entertainment, showcasing our wonderful musicians and dancers from across the year groups.

Notable highlights included the Soul Band, who kicked off the evening with their own set of soul classics, our newly formed dance crews performing to Charlie Puth’s ‘How Long’ and Bruno Mars’ ‘Runaway Baby’, and a performance by Morgan and Nathan, showcasing their own music. From Whitney to Hall and Oates, partner dancing to hip hop.

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PSYCHOLOGY FILM WORKSHOP STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT DR RACHEL AVERY

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psychology film workshop took place during the second week of November, where Lower and Upper Sixth pupils addressed the question ‘why and how can good people be influenced to do bad things?’ A core area of the A Level specification requires pupils to consider social factors which might enhance extreme, uncharacteristic, behaviours and so we watched the Stanford Prison Experiment. Based on the original social experiment conducted by psychologist, Professor Zimbardo, we watched and diagnosed footage of volunteer participants in a mock

prison environment. We observed dramatic shifts in the participants’ behaviour from ‘normal’ to clear adoption of new identities resulting in unethical, sadistic behaviour.

Pupils were encouraged to consider the flaws of this research, alternative explanations for behaviours observed and offer suggestions of how the research hypotheses could be addressed without the need to use such an unethical method.

This was a fantastic opportunity for psychology pupils to apply their knowledge, and for the upper sixth to share their more advanced knowledge of the subject with their lower sixth peers.

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NICK CROMBIE

The Great Gatsby evening proved to be a huge success...

The past twelve months have been incredibly busy and vibrant within the English Department.

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e have seen the launch of English Enrichment, the development of the Junior and Senior Literary Societies and some huge whole school events. We said good-bye to an outstanding Upper Sixth cohort who filled their two years with positivity and enthusiasm, and welcomed a whole new cohort into the life of A Level.

This year’s final of the Poetry Recitation Competition was the best yet; all finalists performed at an impressively high standard to a large, avid audience. The judges (and audience) thoroughly enjoyed every performance but ultimately were blown away by several outstanding and exceptional recitations: Eve took first place with a performance which belied her years!

We also hosted the inaugural Poetry Live! competition where five local prep schools competed for the honour of being crowned champions of the spoken word. St Michael’s School took home both individual prizes in the Year 5 and 6 competitions, but it was Hazelwood who were crowned overall winners.

We are already excited to host the competition next year!

The events continued in the New Year with ‘The Great Gatsby’ evening proving to be a huge success.

Over forty pupils attended a series of lectures and performances, fully immersing themselves into the 1920s America. Perhaps the most significant moment of the year fell at its conclusion with the launch of the brand new ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ – a magazine celebrating the cultural side of the School. In a huge event, joined

by Art and Music, students were provided with a feast of literature, all contained within the stylish and professional end-product. It was a perfect way to celebrate a wonderful year in the subject.

On a final note, it seems fitting to thank Miss O’Donnell for her many years of service – she has inspired so many students to continue in a subject she is so passionate about. We wish her all the best for the future.

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MATHS IN ACTION REGIONAL TEAM MATHS CHALLENGE – SILVER POSITION

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n Tuesday 14 November the Senior Maths Team travelled to Holcombe Grammar School, to compete in the regional Team Maths Challenge competition. The team which comprised of Isaac, Thomas, Mandy and Hayley, arrived at school early to make the drive over towards Chatham. As part of the preparation we had a team meeting in Costa in Chatham and then made our way over to the School.

The first round was a set of ten questions which the team worked on together. The second round was the cross number round which is

a basically a crossword with maths clues. Two of the pupils are given the across clues and the other two are given the down clues. The final round had sets of four questions with the pupils working in pairs where pupils needed the solution to the previous question to answer their own question. As defending champions, we were hopeful that we might do well again, and I am pleased to report that we came second only to a very strong team from the Judd School.

We are hopeful that as a high scoring runner-up we will still make the national final in London. It was a great day out and the pupils had a wonderful time. It was also interesting to hear the other teachers talking about the health of A Level mathematics in their school, and it seems that for many, they can only aspire to have the numbers and success of the Caterham maths department.

British Maths Olympiad: A SUPERB PERFORMANCE CONGRATULATIONS to the nine Sixth Form pupils who took part in the British Maths Olympiad round one at the end of the Autumn term. Special congratulations to Isaac and Tom in the Upper Sixth who received distinctions for their superb performances. Congratulations also to Iris for her merit in the Senior Kangaroo – the follow on round from the Maths Challenge – for those who did not qualify for the Olympiad.

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n Wednesday 22 November Dr Dimakos and Mr Buchan accompanied a group of 20 Sixth Formers to the ‘Maths in Action’ lectures in central London. Lecture highlights included a speaker from Imperial College talking about computer algorithms and their importance in everyday lives, Simon Singh’s description of Fermat’s last theorem, and a UCL speaker’ s take on the misuse of statistics in the media and politics. The whole concept of maths was also discussed – what is it? and what is it for? accompanied by a guitar, of course. The talks were rounded off with the application of AI to data science, including how it is used to guard against criminal activity and terrorism.

Who knows, maybe one of us, inspired by the talk on the immutable nature of mathematical certainties, will be forever remembered through his or her theorem, formula or proof.

UKMT INTERMEDIATE CHALLENGE MEDALS Well done to the 14 gold, 43 silver and 38 bronze medal winners from the Third to Fifth Year who took part in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge!

The gold medal winners are Sophie, Cameron, Eric, Jay (Third Years), Elaine, Lucas, (Fourth Years), Lucy, William, Amy, Olivia, Jack, Mulang, Mikhail, and Anika (Fifth Years).

Special congratulations to Lucy, Elaine and Sophie who got the best in their year groups.

Many of these pupils, as well as Tamsin (Third Year), qualify for the next round, called the ‘Kangaroo’, and Lucy and Sophie will compete in the exceptionally challenging Olympiad.

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aterham’s Hans Woyda team of Eva, Lucy, Haley, and Thomas from the Third Year, Fifth Year, Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth respectively, qualified from the group stage to the knockout rounds (finishing second in a group against Wilson’s, Nonsuch and Woldingham Schools). On 29 January our mathematicians competed away against Alleyn’s School. We started really well and after the first three rounds (Starter, Geometry and Mental), Caterham was ahead by

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SECURE TOP SCORES Caterham’s junior maths team braved the Beast-from-the-East to travel to Trinity School for the regional maths team challenge competition.

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he competition consists of four rounds of challenging questions, including a crossword type round with numbers and a relay event. In the first round our team scored a fantastic 58 out of a possible 60 points.

Unfortunately, with the time now at 11.00am news came through that Southern Rail had asked for people to conclude their journeys by 3.00pm that day. The competition organisers decided that we would only have time to finish the next round before sending us all home. With a score of 46 out of 56 in the cross number round, the team was hopeful of a top three finish, but it transpired that we finished just outside of the podium positions. Whilst great fun was had by all, we were pleased to make it home safely before the snow arrived.

This was a great performance by the pupils and a special thank you must go Dr. Dimakos for running the Junior Maths Club during Tuesday lunch times. At times, there have been over 20 pupils in M27 having great fun working through interesting maths problems.

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three points (23-20). In the next three rounds (team, calculator and algebra), Alleyn’s School managed to close the gap to one point (33-32). The game was super-exciting and the last round (the race) would decide the winner. Unfortunately, our opponents were faster which lead to a loss (46 – 33) and us getting knocked out of the competition. Our pupils really enjoyed the competition and the high standard of the competitors and are determined to do even better next year.

FOURTH FORM MATHS IN ACTION 2017 ON THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER MATHEMATICIANS FROM THE FOURTH YEAR TRAVELLED TO THE EMMANUEL CENTRE IN LONDON TO TAKE PART IN A MATHEMATICS IN ACTION STUDY DAY.

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hey joined students from many other schools to enjoy a variety of lectures about different aspects of Maths. All the speakers were practising mathematicians and it was interesting to hear about maths being used in lots of different areas.

The talk on ‘lateral thinking’ was particularly enjoyable because it made us think in different ways and view problems from different perspectives. We were given problems that challenged our way of thinking.

Other speakers linked maths and science and showed the range of available potential careers.

The enigma code-breaking talk linked maths back to its historical past and the speaker talked about how the maths they used during the Second World War is still relevant in our online society, which is only possible because of encryption.

Thank you to Mr Ogilvie , Mr Todd and Mrs Pearce for taking us on this enjoyable trip.

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PUPILS’ SUCCESS IN INTERMEDIATE MATHS OLYMPIAD Congratulations to the following pupils for their merits in the Intermediate Maths Olympiad papers following on from success in last term’s Intermediate Maths Challenge.

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CHALLENGE 2017-18 Well done to the 31 gold, 19 silver, and 14 bronze medal winners in the senior Maths challenge taken on Tuesday 7 November. The gold medal winners also qualify for the follow on ‘kangaroo’ round to be held on the 1 December.

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pecial congratulations to the eight students who qualified for the very challenging British Maths Olympiad round 1 to be held on the 1 December. These were Carlo, Isaac, Grace, Eric, Tom, Jack and David, all from the Upper Sixth. And special special congratulations to Carlos, who got best in school, a just reward for all his work on Maths beyond the syllabus over the past year.

We have offered to inform universities of their achievements.

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hird Year pupils Sophie, Cameron, Eva and Eric took the Cayley paper, Elaine (Fourth Year) took the Hamilton paper and Lucy (Fifth Year) the Maclaurin paper.

All have done well, though Cameron deserves a special mention for his excellent score of 28.

The following pupils, who qualified instead for the Intermediate Kangaroo, did well to reach that stage, and special congratulations to Mulang for his merit.

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STUDIES

Another busy year for the

ECONOMICS and BUSINESS STUDIES DEPARTMENT

BY JOHN WEINER

The Economics and Business Studies department have had another busy year. Enrichment visits in both subjects have been of great use to our pupils.

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n November, the Upper Sixth Form Economists attended the Institute of Economic Affairs Student Conference and our Business pupils visited the All England Lawn SUCCESS FOR OUR PUPILS IN Tennis and EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS HAS Croquet Club to learn about ALSO BEEN GREAT TO SEE, WITH A the business NUMBER OF ECONOMICS ESSAYS of Wimbledon.

SHORTLISTED FOR PRIZES IN Trips like these NATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITIONS. have enhanced our students’ understanding of the real world implications of what they are studying in the classroom and were well received by all. Success for our pupils in external competitions has also been great to see, with a number of Economics essays shortlisted for prizes in national essay competitions. Our team

of Lower Sixth Form Business and Economics students also did extremely well to reach the semi-final of the ICAEW’s Base Competition, again showing the enthusiasm they have for wider engagement in the subject. Enrichment within school also continues apace, with some outstanding presentations having been made by our Economics students to their peers in the Economics Society, reflecting the areas of particular interest in the world of economics that they have. Our Business students also impressed with some inspirational ideas and presentations as a part of their “Dragon’s Den” experience, indicating that there may well be a few of our pupils on the real show in years to come! Well done to all pupils who have engaged so well with the subjects this year.

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POLITICS

TOBY COOPER

Visiting Guest Speaker:

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n Monday 25 September we welcomed an American visitor, Mr Jim Bunting, an expert in American politics and constitutional law. He spoke to a group of pupils and staff and fielded questions on a variety of topics, most notably Donald Trump. He argued that the success of Trump in getting nominated and elected was in large part due to two factors. First- his ability as a political counter-puncher; he showed great skill in crushing anyone who opposed him in the Republican primaries.

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Secondly, his popularity relative to Hillary Clinton. Had those who disliked both Clinton and Trump split evenly between the two candidates, Hillary would have been elected. The 70-30 split for Trump from this group proved decisive. Mr Bunting also brought up the possibility of a Trump impeachment, arguing that the key determinant would be the House elections in 2018. He then fielded an excellent range of questions.

It was a pleasure to hear Mr Bunting, and to gain his insights into an increasingly political situation.

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FRENCH SOCIETY: Anglicism vs Gallicism During our French Society meeting in January we looked at Anglicism vs Gallicism in the English and French languages.

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e explored the various historical and cultural influences that resulted in English words firmly rooted in the French language like “football” (1880s) or “chewing-gum” (1940s) or indeed “cool” (pronounced with a French accent). We also looked at French words in the English language and the Sixth Form made up some funny mini-stories where the challenge was to use as many ‘Gallicisms’ as possible. As you can see in the results, there are a lot of French words we use all the time when we speak English.

En route to my rendezvous in a cul-de-sac, I had a deja-vu as I was eating a croissant and a pain au chocolat, about melting chocolate in a bain-marie. Then I went on to the patisserie to buy a baguette, macaron and eclairs. After I bought the food, I decided to go to the mall to buy some haute couture and ballet shoes as well as some rouge for my face.

I had a rendezvous to play petanque and had a déjà vu as I played. I stopped off to get some mange tout and croissants. I asked what my friend’s favourite cuisine was and after I served escargots and fruit de mer, I said ‘bon appetit’ and ‘sante’. Unfortunately, he preferred to go to the patisserie so I put on my best gilet.

French Language Poetry S.V.P. In the first week of February, pupils in First to Third Year French classes worked on some French poems to stretch their intellectual curiosity and give them a different insight into language learning.

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here was a choice of three poems according to the year group. The poems had been translated by the Lower Sixth French pupils to assist the class teachers and give their input about the importance of looking at poetry when learning a foreign language. The skills developed during the competition will greatly assist the pupils in developing their intonation, accent and pronunciation, essential skills at GCSE level and beyond. The standard was very high and it proved difficult to choose the finalists who competed for the overall year prize for their respective year groups.

Well done to all the finalists:

First Year: Harriet, Ria, Katie, James, Sophie Second Year: Quentin, Nicole, Hannah, Anaiya Third Year: Daniel, Nikita, Oliver, Lauren Thank you to the French department for their support and to all the Lower Sixth French pupils who so ably led and judged the competition.

The overall winners were:

First Year: Sophie Second Year: Hannah Third Year: Dan Special Prize - Prix d’interprétation: Bobby

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First Year visit

PARIS

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n Friday 20 April we had to be at school for a quarter past six, so many of us had to get up at five o’clock in the morning; we were all very tired. We took the coach that we booked for the weekend to Dover, and got the ferry to Calais, only to get back on the coach to our hotel in Paris. The hotel was called the Explorers’ Hotel, and was very spacious. We were in rooms of about five. On the Friday evening, we went to watch Buffalo Bills’ Wild West show, which was super exciting! We got to see live horses and buffaloes in the arena, and we ate unique Wild West food for dinner. It was very tasty! After that we concluded the evening with some shopping in Disney Village.

The next morning we woke up to alarms at seven am, ready for a full blown day in Disneyland. We had a buffet breakfast downstairs in the

Then we went 56 floors up in a lift to see all of Paris from the top of the Montparnasse tower. hotel. We were in the park ready for it to open at nine am and the queues were not too bad. All day we went on rides and ate lots of burgers and slushies. Our favourite ride was Big Thunder Mountain and the Indiana Jones ride. Later we went into the Walt Disney Studios and we went on the Ratatouille ride four times!

The final day of the trip we headed into Paris. We saw the Eiffel Tower in the sunshine and took lots of photos. Then we went 56 floors up in a lift to see all of Paris from the top of the Montparnasse tower. It was

FRENCH SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE We were delighted to welcome the Caterham Rotary Club during our French Society meeting in March, who came to award the annual Prix de la Paix essay competition.

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ur winner was Anastasia in the Upper Sixth. Bravo! Many congratulations as well to the two Lower Sixth runners-up, Isabel and Flavia.

We also had the pleasure to welcome Megan, an Old Cat, currently in her first year at Durham University who came to give a fascinating and most interesting talk about studying languages at university, en Français, bien sûr! | A great way to end the term.

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so beautiful. Finally we walked up to the Sacre-Coeur and had lunch in Montmartre, which was really busy!

We were so excited to shop in the little shops and buy our lunch in French. We got back onto the coach and began the long journey home.

We had a fabulous time in Paris and are so happy Mrs Roberts, Mr Jones, Mr Christou, Mrs Unwin and Miss Troughton could take us on this amazing trip.

FRENCH SOCIETY TRAVEL TO LONDON The French Society attended the first ever adaption on stage of Albert Camus’ existentialist masterpiece, by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.

Camus, a Nobel laureate was a French philosopher and novelist.

He is considered as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. Ben Okri ‘s play represents “a dramatization of one of modern literature’s most celebrated works.” The debate and analysis of the play promises to be riveting as the Sixth formers start preparing for it for next meeting.

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FRENCH EXCHANGE: Les Français Debarquent!

NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR, THE FRENCH EXCHANGE ‘CUVÉE 2018’, TOOK PLACE IN MARCH.

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ur partners from the Collège Saint Joseph, in Nay in south west France arrived Tuesday 13 March with their teachers Mrs. Bourigault and Mrs. Osdoit, to start a week- long programme of total immersion in the English school system and culture. It allowed them to get a flavour of the English way of life staying with their host families and taking part in the day to day life of their hosts, including attending lessons and after school clubs at Caterham School.

On Wednesday 14 March, the French and English pupils enjoyed a fabulous trip to London where the

Caterham pupils proved to be first class hosts for their partners: welcoming, friendly, attentive and engaged, the best combination for a successful exchange. Thank you to them for being such great ambassadors for Caterham School. Thank you to parents to for your support of this excellent initiative.

Our return visit to France will take us back to Nay during May half term. Having formed strong bonds with their partners, the French pupils can’t wait to help us discover their part of France and introduce their families and their school.

Vivement les vacances de Mai!

FRENCH EXCHANGE: Notre Tour DURING MAY HALF-TERM WE TRAVELLED TO NAY FOR THE RETURN VISIT OF THE FRENCH EXCHANGE WITH OUR FRENCH PARTNERS IN COLLÈGE / LYCÉE ST JOSEPH IN NAY.

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aking part in a Foreign Language Exchange is surely one of the most exciting challenges pupils can undertake. Finding yourself immersed in a totally different culture and language, eating some, let’s say ‘unusual’ food could have deterred more than one pupil but not the Caterham French group.

After an early start from Gatwick, we were delighted to be reunited with our French partners at St Jo. Their incredibly friendly and genuine welcome set the tone for the rest of the week. After a welcome ‘goûter’ and catching up on news, it was time to spend our first evening with our host families.

The week was spent going to lessons and visiting the area. The market was amazing allowing us to fully appreciate the cultural background and discover all the local products.

The highlights were the activities at school, the mountain biking (VTT) and the horse riding sessions (again seeing some of Caterham pupils getting out of their comfort zone but embracing the challenges with determination), following instructions in French and mastering new skills with enviable ease and confidence.

The weekend activities with families were equally exciting and varied.

Another amazing time at St. Jo thank you to the Head, Monsieur Ginesta and the staff for welcoming us, and also a big thank you to Kate Bourigault for organizing such an amazing week. See you next year!

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n Wednesday 20 June we took a group of Lower Sixth Spanish pupils to the Tate Modern to see the Picasso exhibition entitled The EY Exhibition PICASSO 1932.

It was a great afternoon finding out about this prolifically creative year in Picasso’s life. Afterwards we enjoyed some very authentic tapas in a Spanish restaurant where the pupils had to speak Spanish to order their food and drink and converse with the waiters. A great day out!

German Exchange to ANSBACH, BAVARIA The sun shone on us for a large part of this exciting and enriching stay in Ansbach.

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veryone found life at Gymnasium Carolinum very different, especially in terms of the structure and length of the school day.

As usual the program of activities was very rich and varied, involving Caterham pupils spending a certain amount of time in lessons with their German partners but also plenty of time exploring the beautiful middle Franconian region, both with host families at the weekend and with the whole group during the week.

Caterham pupils really dived in and spoke German at every opportunity, such as when ordering ice creams

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at the Eiscafe and keeping score during the mini golf at Gunzenhausen. Other highlights included a guided tour of the fascinating DB German railway museum in Nuremberg, a tour of the Ansbach Resisidenz, which was attended by the local press and new for 2017, a tour round the Kriminalmuseum in Rothenburg, where we were all horrified at many of the ancient instruments of torture on display! German food seemed to feature highly on several pupils’favourite cultural aspects, especially the Currywurst!

We all eagerly await another action packed week in March when the Carolinum pupils come to Caterham.

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR INNOVATION AT CATERHAM SCHOOL There were so many highlights, it’s difficult to pick just a few to draw attention to. Overall however, no project better illustrates what innovation means to the pupils at this school more than the arcade machine. This was a project that no one pupil could have achieved on their own, but the spirit of collaboration and a willingness to learn and listen to one another meant that the finished product was something inspiring, which everyone involved could be immensely proud of. This attitude, combined with a desire to learn new skills, is what sets our innovation projects apart.

This attitude, combined with a desire to learn new skills, is what sets our innovation projects apart.

AMAZING CREATION: ARCADE MACHINE A diverse team of pupils have worked together to build an arcade machine from scratch. The pupils designed and built every element of the machine and its games. This is a project which has not only required a huge amount of collaboration and planning, but has also highlighted just how talented our pupils are across a range of skills.

The machine had its first outing at the Christmas Fair with all money raised from games played on it going directly to the School’s charities.

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Caterham School welcomed speakers from PwC, Deutsche Bank and Apple for the School’s first Education 2.0 conference which explored the future of education and how rapid changes in industry and commerce might impact our pupils’ futures.

EDUCATION 2.0 Monday 4 June

Caterham used the conference to unveil their response to the changing educational and corporate landscapes – a new course for Sixth Form pupils entitled Digital Inquiry. The course requires pupils to learn a digital skill, such as programming, graphic design, app development or film production, and apply this to a real-life problem which they solve, or aim to, to complete their qualification.

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he conference was attended by over 70 delegates from a wide range of backgrounds, covering state, independent and primary schools, as well as those in higher education and industry.

There were keynote presentations from Apple, PwC, Deutsche Bank and Steam School, and seminars delivered by a range of professionals working in education on topics as diverse as coaching, design thinking and leadership in the digital age. One delegate commented that this was ‘one of the most interesting and thought-provoking insets I have ever been on’. Keith Budge, headmaster of Bedales School noted that the conference’s theme was on an ‘area Caterham has so much to offer.’

The Digital Inquiry course which Caterham School will offer from September 2018 comes not only in response to meeting the demands of an increasingly digital world, but builds upon a long history of encouraging and celebrating independent research and in more recent years, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Caterham’s Director of Innovation, Adam Webster said ‘We have created a course which celebrates the best of tradition and innovation, with pupils beginning the course by learning more about how to conduct high level research, critical thinking, ethics and logic. They will move on to explore the influences and importance of social responsibility and wellbeing, before embarking on a module entitled ‘Design Thinking’, which will challenge them to problem solve, create and develop ideas in new ways. The final module is about developing a digital skill

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which can then be used to solve a problem the student has identified.

‘We want our pupils to take what they are already passionate and interested in and develop their thinking and understanding of these things. What this means in reality, is that a passionate historian, or budding chemist will be able to leverage the skills and tools made available through the Digital Inquiry course so that it enhances their A level courses, and gives them an outlet through which to actively engage with, and contribute to the understanding of their areas of interest.’

Whilst not every pupil taking this course will be a fully-fledged programmer, film director or designer upon its completion, every pupil will have a more thorough understanding of the complex decision-making process behind developing a new idea, they will know more about the different strategies which can be employed to problem solve, and about how digital literacy will enable them to create change and innovation in any industry.

Digital Inquiry will be delivered online, through a bespoke website, which will monitor and assess student progress, but there will also be opportunities for face-to-face interactions with staff, external speakers and mentors, and students will be encouraged to collaborate and learn together.

One delegate commented that at Education 2.0 she felt she had met a ‘real-life disruptor’ and that Digital Inquiry was an ‘interesting initiative’ which was ‘creative and relevant’.

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APP DESIGN COMPETITION SUCCESS Four teams from the Third Year have made it through to the penultimate round of the National App Design Competition, organised by entrepreneur generation company 7billionideas.

Terrabusters (Emma, Megan and Lucy) want to create an app that educates people on terrorism and what to do if an attack happens when you are present.

Whale (Sharon, Rosie and Tireni) want to publish an app designed to teach people how to sign so that they can communicate with deaf people.

The teams have now been tasked with creating a short promotional video for their entry. Success at this stage will lead to the finals to be hosted at IBM in the spring.

Wild Cats (Ananya, Valentina and Sophie) are planning an app designed for children aged 9+ to learn about their future lives as an adult. They will learn a wide range of things including how to manage taxes, bills and family life.

Hidden Sport (Nagim, Mariella, Andrey and Andrew) want to create an exciting app to explain everything you need to know about a wide range of sports, whether you want to improve in a sport or try something new.

MR STOKES, HEAD OF COMPUTING AND DIGITAL CREATIVITY

INNOVATION IN EDUCATION TALK In early November our Director of Innovation, Adam Webster delivered a TEDx talk to a sold-out audience at the World Wildlife Foundation’s Living Planet Centre in Woking.

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e spoke on the subject of innovation in education, using the work being done at Caterham to illustrate his hopes for how education will adapt to the modern world and an unpredictable future. He closed his talk by saying: “One Elon Musk is great, but we need more people with big ideas and the wherewithal to see them through, so that the future is not created by an elite group of visionaries, but by everyone.” He

believes that increasingly the pupils at Caterham are understanding the importance of the opportunities presented by the digital world and that the School stands as a beacon for innovation in both teaching and learning and the opportunities we are offering our pupils to interact and engage with technology.

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INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY NEIL STOKES, HEAD OF COMPUTING

APPLE’S SILICON ENGINEERS MEET CATERHAM SCHOOL PUPILS To mark Apple’s support of the government’s Year of Engineering scheme, pupils from Caterham Computer Science met some of the company’s best silicon engineers from the new Silicon Design Centre in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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upils met and spent the morning chatting with three of the engineers who work on chips for different Apple devices. They explained the processes involved in refining silica in sand to create thin wafers of silicon.

Layers of circuits are added to create microchips containing billions of microscopic transistors.

As well as having a thrilling demonstration of a range of Apple’s technologies, such as augmented reality using ARKit apps, pupils also learnt about the skills needed to get to the top in engineering which has 20,000 unfilled graduate vacancies each year.

Apple’s senior vice president hardware technologies, Johny Srouji was quoted in media saying: “The

UK is home to some of the most highly skilled silicon engineers in the world and we’re excited that our UK Silicon Design Centre is located in an area with world-renowned universities and a high concentration of incredible talent to help us advance even further ahead.

“We are hiring the very best engineering talent from across Europe in the fields of silicon design and verification and offering a range of complementary roles in software engineering and modelling.

“Engineering touches every part of our lives and during the UK’s Year of Engineering we’re also delighted to be supporting efforts to inspire interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.”

DRONE SQUADRON READY FOR TAKE OFF! Pupils in the Third Year have been learning to fly drones in their computer science lessons.

However, at Caterham School we don’t like doing things the ordinary, boring way. It’s far too easy to fly a drone with a traditional controller so we teach our pupils to program their drones instead.

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fter an introduction to yaw, pitch, roll and gaz, pupils learned how to write lines of programming code on their iPads in the language Swift to control the drones.

They soon had them taking off, hovering and landing.

Challenges to fly their drones in controlled horizontal and vertical square formations were quickly completed,

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Caterham School recognises the importance of engineering and the vast opportunities presented to our pupils and were delighted to be invited to the event.

Last year we launched a new computer science department for all our pupils as well as a new innovation centre where pupils can come and create whatever their imagination will let them. Pupils have used the facilities to create inventions ranging from a full-sized arcade machine running games programmed by fellow pupils to self-guided walking robots as well as a plethora of apps launched on the App Store.

Caterham School is one of only a handful of schools in the UK to be formally accredited as an Apple Distinguished School. In February this year we proudly accepted the ‘Best Use of Technology’ Award at the TES Independent School Awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, recognising “measurable excellence in the use of education technology by a school”.

all the time controlling the drones speed and distance.

As soon as the basics were mastered more complicated manoeuvres were introduced. The most popular of these was to flip the drone in mid-flight. Drones were seen flying across the hall, flipping and returning to their owners. The most complex programming of the day required pupils to make their drones ascend and descend in a spiral formation.

This took a great deal of thought and some very precise programming. Success brought great adulation.

Of course, programs sometimes crash when they are not written correctly. So did the drones!

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TECHNOLOGY DISTINGUISHED STATUS CONFIRMED BY APPLE Caterham School has once again been recognised as a leading school for its application of technology in teaching and learning with the extension of the school’s Apple Distinguished status. The School is one of only a handful of UK schools be formally accredited as an Apple Distinguished School.

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he extension of Caterham’s Apple status follows the execution of a best practice programme to integrate the use of iPads alongside traditional teaching methods. Since the full roll-out of the programme in September 2015, students have used iPads in a range of innovative ways, including receiving instructive and interactive verbal marking and feedback on homework via their iPads.

Since the launch of the programme, the School has received interest and visitors from across the globe, keen to learn from Caterham’s experience and success. The School’s innovative approach to technology has also brought a shortlist

nomination for the Times Educational Supplement ‘Best Use of Technology’ awards, to be announced early next month.

Adam Webster, Director of Innovation says: “Our experience has proven that the correct use of technology can reinforce our ethos: that learning extends beyond the classroom and is a lifelong experience. Our approach extends well beyond the simple use of technology and also prioritises wellbeing and equipping our young people to make good decisions and effectively manage their use of technology. They are heading out into an ever tech-dependent world and it is vital that schools prepare them, in every sense, to thrive online

and offline. They need to know when and how to use technology, and how to best maintain their mental and physical wellbeing.

“Our approach to digital learning is a partnership with parents. The Caterham Online Partnership (available on Firefly) provides a wealth of resources and information to support teachers, parents and pupils in keeping safe and healthy online.”

The Caterham Online Partnership is designed to ensure that parents and pupils remain informed about the experiences young people are having online and the decisions both young people and the adults charged with their care are making to keep them safe.

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CATERHAM SIGN UP TO THE

TECHSHECAN CHARTER

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e are delighted to announce that we have signed up to the TechSheCan Charter which has the aim of improving the gender balance in technology roles in the UK. The Charter signatories recognise that this is an important society problem that can only be solved by taking coordinated action to improve the number of women looking to pursue a career in technology. This is a cause which very much stands alongside our own values of encouraging all of our pupils to consider the plethora of opportunities offered by the ever-changing technology landscape.

SUMMER OF CODE

COMPETITION WINNERS

Congratulations to Michael (best overall entry), Mulang (best entry Fourth Year to Upper Sixth Form) and Nathan (best entry First to Third Year) who all won top spots in our first ‘Summer of Code’ competition.

To enter, pupils had to come up with games, apps or websites around this year’s theme, ‘Planet Earth’. Each of our winners chose to design a game, and we were incredibly impressed with the quality of these entries. Overall winner Michael, came up with a game called ‘Cosmos’ which is inspired by some of the arcade classics of the past. He not only wrote the game, but also the score that runs through the game. The game is currently listed on Kickstarter.

ROCKET CAR CHALLENGE Friday 4 May saw four of our First Year pupils compete in the regional finals of the ‘Race for the Line Rocket Car Challenge’ at Brambletye School in East Grinstead.

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oyo, Erin, Lorcan and Pia represented the School against schools from all over the south-east in a competition designed to test design, maths, physics as well as team-work skills. The aim was to build the fastest model car, taking inspiration from Bloodhound SSC and its attempt to break the world land speed record and reach an incredible 1,000mph.

Having won the school heat earlier in the year, the team were tasked with improving their initial concept, while also designing and manufacturing their own wheels

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and axels. The day was made up of building their new improved car, constantly checking to ensure it met strict safety guidelines. With help from the army, their car passed scrutinising to be put on the start line. A rocket was then inserted and the car fired down the race track.

The team managed a tremendous speed of 33 mph in their run which resulted in a very respectable eighth place in an extremely competitive and closely- fought competition.

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CAREERS MRS CLARE BROWN, HEAD OF CAREERS

Careers Evening: Engineering Opportunities

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PWC Workshop for Budding Accountants

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n Tuesday 21 November 35 pupils from the Fifth Year and Sixth Form attended our PwC event, to hear about the option open to them at this prestigious organisation. The Flying Start programme, for example, is a fantastic opportunity to gain a fully sponsored degree that allows you to complete 80% of your ICAEW Chartered Accountant exams as well as earning a competitive salary.

And it only takes four years to get to this stage.

huge thank you to everyone involved in the Careers in Stem evening on Monday 20 November. We were extremely lucky to welcome two young engineers, Rebecca Hogan and Matt Trayner, an Old Cat (2009) who talked about their very different roles and the routes they have taken to get there. It was shocking to hear that the engineering industry experts are predicting a yearly shortfall of engineers of 20,000 – that is an ENGINEERING INDUSTRY astounding figure and EXPERTS ARE PREDICTING one that our country really A YEARLY SHORTFALL OF needs to address. It is clear ENGINEERS OF 20,000 that we need more young people to embrace the endless opportunities that this profession can offer as well as the very transferable skills you can build on. Technology is moving so fast and to be able to be at the forefront of such innovation, as Rebecca and Matt are, is something I hope our pupils will consider as a serious option for their future careers.

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Careers Evening: Starting your own business ON TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY WE WERE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME FIVE FANTASTIC SPEAKERS TO OUR ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAREERS EVENING, ALL OF WHOM OFFERED SOME VERY DIVERSE IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES. MRS CLARE BROWN

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ndy Prickett (OC 2003) founder of White Tent Events , a local wedding and event marquee hire company, was brave enough to highlight how naïve he was when he first started the business and how, with hindsight, better preparation and research into the size of his product may have resulted in a less stressful beginning! Elliot Grant, also an OC, talked us through his HE IS OFTEN CONFRONTED WITH THE journey to setting QUESTION “WHERE IS YOUR BOSS?” up his travel app WHEN DEALING WITH CEOS AND, WHILST company The Hoof. His particular A LITTLE UN-NERVING, RELISHES THE route included OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE HIS WORTH! two unsuccessful ventures which, rather than putting him off, taught him some valuable lessons. Vet on the Hill owner Ian Mathers, talked us through the huge financial commitment setting up an independent veterinary practice requires and how finding a property to suit his very specific needs, in a location where people would be prepared to travel to, involved much research – something his vet science degree didn’t teach him. Seb Schyberg (OC 2009) talked about how important making contacts and networking can be. He also talked through his concerns about how

being too young and inexperienced might have an impact on his success. He is often confronted with the question “Where is your boss?” when dealing with CEOs and, whilst a little un-nerving, relishes the opportunity to prove his worth! Our final guest, Jimmy Scott, co-founder of Koy Clothing talked about finding a niche market and making sure you surround yourself with people with different strengths in order to be successful. He also talked about how he believes in the ethics behind his company, who through designing clothing using authentic Kenyan fabrics and involving the Kenyan people in their business, are able to give back to the tribes who inspired their products through the funding of their communities.

The pupil and parent audience, asked some poignant and thought-provoking questions and we were delighted to hear that, despite all the stress associated with running your own company, none of our speakers felt they would want to return to working for an organisation that wasn’t theirs! That despite never being off duty, not having regular holidays, pensions or healthcare and sometimes finding working for yourself a little isolated, they would all do it again.

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OCs return for

Lower Sixth Uni Day

We welcomed back eight Old Caterhamians (OC 2017) to school on 3 July, to enlighten the Lower Sixth students on what to expect in their first year of university.

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hey gave numerous pearls of wisdom from choosing courses in Sixth Form through to managing the work-life balance at university.

Prevailing themes were to choose a subject that you love, keep on top of your work load, be a tolerant yet understanding flatmate and to get involved in the sports and clubs on offer.

Tom’s advice was to be prepared to be flexible with your university choices. He had always planned to take medicine, but after a last minute change to Bio Medicine at Kings, now says “I wouldn’t change a thing, as I have fallen in love with my course”.

They all felt there was a remarkable difference in the style of learning and support from Caterham School to university. They unanimously agreed that you need to be self-motivated as there is no-one at university to push you to work and reiterated the importance of attending all your lectures and finding a couple of hours each day to review the work covered, in order to avoid an otherwise inevitable end of year cram! Ayesha highly recommended purchasing condensed revision books that may be worth reviewing at the start of your course to prepare you for what is to come. Although her best

advice was that “if you follow your gut and choose a subject that you are passionate about, you will work harder”.

Naturally it can be daunting starting university and living independently, but universities are keen to help you settle in. As Henry reassured “everyone is looking to make friends, go to all the Fresher’s events, meet people and make the effort”. Becky added the benefits of joining societies to meet like-minded friends. Both Rhia and Chloe were enjoying their lacrosse and football, so felt “if you join a sports team, you’ll instantly have a team of friends”.

Chloe warned that if you are going to a London university, be very careful selecting accommodation. If you find yourself too far from your campus, it is worth taking it up with the university and trying to find somewhere closer. It was evident that sharing accommodation can be a shock, depending on your flatmates, but they had some tips on how to ensure that you don’t let people take advantage of your good nature and equally don’t be too judgemental of others if they don’t have quite the same standards as yourself!

Cathy impressed the importance of healthy eating “if you eat badly,

you won’t feel good”. They were all familiar with the inevitable temptation to resort to junk food, but had suggestions on budgeting and bulk cooking to freeze.

If ever you feel overwhelmed, or have a friend that might, it is essential to find out what support services are available. As Will said “it’s important not to take responsibility for friends, rather seek professional help”. Henry had been fortunate to have a good relationship with his personal tutor so would use him for help and guidance.

Clare Brown reassured students that if they are ever concerned that they may be on the wrong course or that their university experience is not working out, that they can still contact her and Caterham School for advice.

Ayesha – Exeter, Law Rhia – Birmingham, Chemistry Henry Chappell – Music, Nottingham Will – York, Chemistry Chloe – Kings, Bio Medicine Cathy Andrews – Surrey, Psychology Becky – UCL, Bio Medicine Tom – Kings, Bio Medicine

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t the beginning of October the First Year pupils were treated to a fun and inspiring talk from authors Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler, an Emmy-winning and BAFTA-nominated writing partnership. Mark and Nick talked about the creative writing process, explaining how they come up with ideas for TV shows such as Danger Mouse, Thunderbirds are Go! And Shaun the Sheep. Over 70 pupils bought a book from their new Defender of the Realm series, a superhero action adventure which has been nominated for three book awards.

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MULTI-LINGUAL SPELLING COMPETITION The library was the place to be for the fiercely contested House Spelling Bees.

Pupils from First to Fourth Year gathered together to compete in our annual multilingual spelling competition. Individuals bravely stood up to represent their houses to demonstrate their expertise in English, French, Spanish and German.

The eventual winners were Underwood for the Junior Bee, and Ridgefield for the Senior Bee.

BOOK WEEK Book Week coincided with the snow in 2018 which meant our original plans were derailed by school closing early.

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e refused to be thwarted and re-ran World Book Day the following week. Hundreds of pupils across the senior and prep schools Dropped Everything And Read and staff from across the school dressed up in a variety of different costumes including Elphaba, the Woman in Black, and Stevens the butler to name but a few! Students competed to spot all the characters, and staff from the English department delivered assemblies to all the different Houses.

In the Prep and Pre-Prep everyone came dressed as a character from a book, following a whole week of bookish activities (creating book nooks, reading in unlikely places, scavenging words and researching their favourite authors). Perhaps the highlight of the day was when our U6 English Literature students went down to the Nursery to read their favourite childhood books to the youngest members of our school community.

SPONSORED READ TO SUPPORT

RAF BENOVELENT FUND As part of our World Book Day celebrations our Third Year pupils took part in a sponsored read in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund.

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upils were asked to read as many books as they comfortably could in a six week period. Between them they read a total of 97 books and raised ÂŁ368.00 in sponsorship. Special congratulations must go to Raife (7 books), Lucy (10 books) and Megan who read a very impressive 13 books!

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SIXTH FORM BOOK GROUPS Sixth form pupils attended a range of subject book groups over the year including Economics, Business, Psychology and Medics. We also had the inaugural Science and Maths Bookfest which was very popular with a wide range of STEM students.

Trinity Schools Book Award Visiting author Sarah Govett visited to talk to Third Year pupils and launch the Trinity Schools Book Award.

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he TSBA Committee determines a theme each year and shortlists books nominated by librarians in the Trinity group. The theme for the 2017-18 TSBA was ‘A New World’. Pupils across 22 schools read the six nominated books through the autumn and spring terms and we were delighted that Sarah was voted the eventual winner. The Territory, a dystopian thriller clearly resonated with our students, and was our most borrowed book in the year.

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Public Speaking and Debating Competition The final of the annual House Public Speaking and Debating competition has become one of the highlights of the year and this year was no exception.

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e were enormously impressed by the range of prose, verses and topics chosen by the junior competitors, which ranged from Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden to E. B. White’s classic Charlotte’s Web. All of our junior competitors competed with confidence and flair, no mean feat when asked to stand up and deliver in front of a room full of people. Particular congratulations goes to the winners the Underwood team comprising Isabel, Thomas and Sophia. As usual, our Inters competitors (Third to Fifth Year) took part in an English Speaking Union-style debate, with topics including gender inequality in mental illness, unequal pay in sport and corruption within politics.

Once again it was Underwood – comprising Nell (speaker), Matthew (questioner) and Ben (chair) – who emerged victorious. We were particularly impressed by the standard across all three roles of their team. Our senior debate was on the motion ‘this House believes that U.K. democracy is in crisis’. The judges were enormously impressed by the performance of both the proposition (Ridgefield) and their opponents Lewisham. Congratulations to Lewisham’s team comprising Rory, Anna and Neil for winning a very tough debate indeed. The night was a wonderful display of the myriad of interests our pupils have and an enjoyable and stimulating time was had by all.

Awards for Caterham at

ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION CATERHAM SCHOOL HAS AGAIN TAKEN PART IN THE ANNUAL ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION DEBATE, THIS YEAR HELD AT WILSON’S SCHOOL, WALLINGTON.

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his year our team comprised Nell (Fourth Year), Suzannah (Fourth Year) and Karen (Fifth Year). We joined six other schools for a lively and diverse evening where our pupils competed against some very accomplished young debaters. Although we were disappointed not to come first or second, we were delighted that two of our pupils came away with awards.

debating club, was awarded ‘best personality’ after a hugely stimulating talk on the merits of a cashless society.

A huge congratulations to our team, I was so impressed by the standard of their delivery and the support and encouragement they showed each other.

Suzie was awarded ‘best chair’ and Karen, a regular attendee of our own

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AMNESTY CAMPAIGN:

Write for Rights

The Sixth Form Amnesty group ran a ‘Write for Rights’ event in the library during the last week of Autumn term 2017.

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ollowing assemblies to raise awareness of Amnesty and the issues at stake, staff and pupils from every section of the school dropped in to write letters to people in authority to influence them, and to the victims of injustice to show support. ‘It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness’.

Dance Crews at EAST SURREY DANCE Two of Caterham’s top dance crews, ‘Fusion’ and ‘Adrenaline’, took part in the East Surrey Steps Up Dance Festival at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill.

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ur crews consist of 25 pupils ranging from the First Year to Upper Sixth Year, who meet once a week for training sessions. The crews have been working together since September and both produced performances of outstanding quality on show night. Well done and congratulations.

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THE FILM CLUB TOOK PART IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND FILM COMPETITION ENTITLED ‘WHAT INDEPENDENCE MEANS

BLOOD BOWL TOURNAMENT Podium Finishes:

GOLD & SILVER WINS!

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leven teams took part in the British School Karting Championship semi-finals on Monday 12 March, with three of these teams qualifying for the London and South-East regional final on Saturday 27 April.

Caterham School entered four teams, claiming first and second positions and only missing the third spot by two points.

Many congratulations to the pupils who qualified to the regional final, with Alex, Owen and Jack at the top of the podium and Adam, David and Sasha in second place.

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On Saturday 14 April, four pupils and two members of staff attended a one-day Blood Bowl tournament hosted by the Swindon and Wiltshire Blood Bowl League (SAWBBL).

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his was the first tournament for most of the team, all of whom did fantastically. Finn was placed 29th, Aaron was 46th Xavier was 48th and Graham was placed a noble 49th!

We all had an amazing day with some fantastic victories over very strong opponents. The Catzbowl tournament highlight occurred when Xav scored a touchdown against Mr Tyldesley in the last turn to equalise the match!

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upils made storyboards and scripts, interviewed fellow pupils and staff and made stopmotion animations to demonstrate what ‘independence’ means to them. They learned a great deal, received certificates and a trophy for taking part and are keen to repeat the experience next year.

Well done to all the pupils involved and good luck for the next competition.

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME

Enrichment Day The School campus was abuzz with action on Friday 8 September as all pupils were involved in all sorts of interactive activities as part of this year’s Enrichment Day. The day included: Lower Sixth getting to grips with the Crystal Maze teambuilding exercises on Beeches Games Field; the First Years orienteering all over the School site; the Fourth Years completing a First Aid course; the Fifth Years enjoying a Life Skills course – including some hands-on cooking and guidance about personal finance; and the Second Years benefited from a day trip to Herstmonceux Observatory.

2017 Scheme Launches – PUPIL AMBASSADORS In the first week of November the Pupil Ambassador Scheme began for the fourth year running.

The scheme allows Sixth Form pupils studying Mathematics the opportunity to learn more about the role of the teacher and see the classroom from the other side. Successful applicants give one free period or lunchtime each week to support a class or clinic. The Ambassadors will have the opportunity to work one to one, in small groups and moving around the classroom to support our younger pupils.

By the end of the year, many of the pupils will have had an opportunity to lead part of a lesson and try their hand at teaching! The standard of application was very high this year and demonstrates the dedication of our Sixth Form to their subjects and to supporting others.

Congratulations to all of you who were selected.

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FRIGHT NIGHT On Thursday 2 November The Rudd Hall was transformed into a gothic castle for Fright Night.

Over 90 excited Third Year pupils questioned staff volunteers in order to discover who had slain the leader of the vampires in his coffin bed. Mr Van Niekerk’s acting and storytelling skills were enjoyed by pupils and staff alike before the vampire slayers were revealed. Many thanks to the staff volunteers for supporting the evening with such enthusiasm, and to the catering team for the very popular hot dogs and brownies.

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LONDON ACADEMY of EXCELLENCE VISIT On Wednesday 13 September our Lower Sixth pupils hosted 35 new members of Caterham House, London Academy of Excellence (LAE).

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he visiting students joined in lessons, sampled our lunches and took part in a range of sociable activities including Wildcats high ropes, a quiz and a ‘mini hike’ to viewpoint led by Mr Parker and Dr Avery. The London Academy of Excellence in Stratford produced another set of stellar academic results this year, complemented by their co curriculum programme that includes sport, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and community engagement.

Both Caterham School and the LAE value these opportunities to network, learn from each other and consolidate our partnership for the next generation.

LAE, STRATFORD – PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION At the beginning of February a group of Caterham Lower Sixth Formers visited our partner school: London Academy of Excellence (LAE), Stratford.

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ifty Caterham pupils teamed up with pupils in ‘Caterham House’ to discuss such weighty issues as ‘independent/state school partnerships’ and ‘improving social mobility’. This framework allowed the participating pupils to get to know, understand and respect each other. The conclusion seemed to be that similarities were greater than differences, and that passionate teachers are often the key.

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TANZANIA 2018 Our trip to support vulnerable Massai children DR RACHEL AVERY

A team of 19 Lower Sixth pupils accompanied by five staff members recently visited our partnership school in remote, rural Tanzania.

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aterham School has supported the Lerang’wa lunches project for 12 years now, providing essential aid to ensure vital, every day, food provision for vulnerable Maasai children. The expedition was such an adventure and the relationships our pupils developed with the Lerang’wa community was just wonderful to observe. Caterham pupils taught various subjects, including lacrosse techniques on the playing field and prime numbers in the maths classroom.

The Tanzania 2018 pupil team have also hit a fundraising record, making the most money for the project in their 2017-18 year of fundraising efforts than any previous year! Such funds will have a huge impact on the provision of food for education at Lerang’wa school.

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TANZANIA LINK MRS ROBERTS’S SECOND YEAR TUTOR GROUP HAVE BEEN SPONSORING LUTHA, A PUPIL THEIR OWN AGE, THROUGH SCHOOL IN TANZANIA FOR OVER A YEAR.

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he tutor group raises £30 a month to fulfil this commitment and pay for his schooling. Lutha writes to the group regularly with news from rural Tanzania, much of it based on his role on the small family farm after school. A fantastic project – initiated by the pupils themselves!

“I have enjoyed all of the lessons and the trips we have gone on this week. I have also really enjoyed spending time with the mentors, they have really helped me revise.”

“I learnt that nothing is impossible and anything can be achieved through hard work.”

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

The programme has been modelled on the AAF’s current flagship programme, the University Access Programme, seed funded by the Sutton Trust with continued support from The Garfield Weston Foundation and private donors. This programme has been running in Kent for several years already and has shown early positive results which have been evidenced in a report prepared by the Centre for Evaluation Management at the University of Durham.

POSITIVE PARTNERSHIP AWARD CATERHAM SCHOOL’S ‘LERANG’WA LUNCHES’ HAS BEEN GIVEN AN AWARD BY THE LONGIDO DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.

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ur fundraising to support the infrastructure and diet of the vulnerable Masai children at our partner school in Tanzania continues to have a direct, positive impact. Whilst debate about the role of aid rages, our long standing mutual relationship and commitment with Lerang’wa School is seen as an example of how true partnership can work for the good of all.

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FOOTBALL FESTIVAL CHARITY TOURNAMENT Congratulations to the Morocco expedition team who organised a charity five a-side tournament.

For the senior event there were 16 teams, lots of supporters and a carnival atmosphere. The junior event will be held next week. All of the funds raised will be used to support the Community Education Centre in Ikhfr N Ighir. The team will be trekking up to the village in July to assist with teaching and help with some renovation, and of course experience cultural exchange.

COMMUNITY DAY

The Lower Sixth gave a warm welcome as they hosted 132 Year 5 pupils from Hillcroft and Furzefield Schools to Caterham School’s first Community Day.

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he morning was spent with small groups engaging in range of activities including maths, science, philosophy, drama, dance and rocket making. The afternoon saw a range of games activities on Beeches Field and the Astro. The Sixth Form stepped up by running inspirational, challenging and fun activities, whilst dealing with challenges when they arose. The Year 5s had a great time, learning as they went.

A very successful first ‘Community Day’ to be held at Caterham School!

Teacher in the making: WORK EXPERIENCE REPORT

by India Barton

I spent the week from 10 July at St John’s Primary School in Caterham. For three days I worked with a Year 2 class, which I grew to be very close to and the other two days I worked as a teaching assistant for the school’s French teacher. This was a challenging but rewarding experience especially considering I do not take French!

This experience allowed me to develop my interpersonal and leadership skills, as well as crowd control! I would like to thank Mr Fahey and Mrs Brown for offering me this amazing opportunity.”

St John’s Drama Club: IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCES The ‘St John’s Drama Club’, run by Caterham Sixth Formers for pupils of St John’s Primary culminated the week before half term with a performance of Thesius and the Minotaur, in the Deayton Theatre.

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arents and staff came to witness the impressive performances, and commented on the growing skills and confidence of both the Caterham and St John’s pupils. The club has run every week since October, working on improvisation and devised drama pieces, with a scripted play as the finale. A new group of St John’s pupils will be starting this week, the Sixth Formers having created an exciting programme for them.

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MOROCCO CHARITY TRIP Sixteen Lower Sixth pupils travelled to Morocco in July on a new charity trip.

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he team were based in the Bougemez valley in the High Atlas Mountains in a truly spectacular location.

They worked with the local community in two projects in the village, teaching English at the school, and renovating a building for the women’s carpet making co-operative.

Both projects were very rewarding and we left feeling we had made friends and developed a new partnership for the future.

The next part of the trip was a challenging three day trek through the mountains, setting up camp every night and accompanied by pack mules. It was physically challenging and a real test of resilience and team work.

The trip ended with an overnight stay in Marrakesh and a chance to see the sights and stock up at the souk before travelling home.

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YOUNG PHILANTHROPIST SCHEME Following 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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The partnership between the two schools sees Caterham Lower Sixth Form pupils planning and delivering the weekly games and social programme for Clifton Hill School.

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ach Friday, Key Stage 4 pupils from Clifton Hill come to Caterham School to take part in sports and social activities devised and delivered by Caterham pupils. This project was the brainchild of a Sixth Form pupil back in 2006 and has grown exponentially.

Initially heavily supported by teachers, the programme is now almost entirely run by the Lower Sixth form themselves, with each year group passing on their learning and responsibilities to the upcoming year group (the Fifth Year shadow the ‘old hands’ during each Summer Term).

In addition to weekly sessions, which run throughout the year, our pupils plan and deliver two sports days

annually which are held at Caterham School. These days are a wonderful, shared community occasion and a celebration for all the pupils involved from both schools.

The partnership between Caterham School and Clifton Hill helps both schools. Clifton Hill achieve their set goals in social integration for pupils and the provision of a sports offer in addition to their pupils enjoying the extra space/facilities to run around in and enjoy. Caterham pupils gain leadship skills and experience from their interactions with young people with disabilities. Each group of 20 Caterham pupils has two leaders – trained up by the previous year’s leaders.

OUTDOOR LEARNING FOR VISITING SCHOOLS

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uring June over 200 pupils from local primary schools St John’s and Essendene Lodge have been using our woodland and spaces for outdoor learning. Mr Wilkinson was helping to organise events as diverse as jewellery making to communication tasks. He also organised some fantastic weather!

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UNITED ACCESS Easter Residential Seventeen Year 10 students attended an Easter residential at Caterham School last week as part of the AAF and United Learning’s four-year university access programme United Access.

United Access was launched in summer 2017 to help academically gifted and ambitious young people access top universities in the UK.

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he programme consists of a series of residential events which take place twice a year for four years. It 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.

Having attended their first residential last summer, the programme cohort and their families enjoyed a meet-up event in November. Since then, they have been keeping in touch with their United Access mentors – who are current students at Oxford, Cambridge and Sussex Universities.

The theme of the Easter residential, which took place from 15 – 21 April, was ‘confidence and public speaking’, with the aim of

strengthening students’ communications skills through drama.

Across the week, students engaged in a range of lectures, workshops and enrichment activities designed to inspire, challenge and build understanding.

They also worked on a project centred on Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Mrs Fahey (Head of Drama Caterham School); students learnt and rehearsed key scenes which they then performed to parents on the final day.

Specific sessions included a workshop with film director Sami Abusamra, a personal development

exercise with Bryanston Square CEO Marcus Orlovsky and a talk with Professor Anu Ojha OBE – Director of the UK’s National Space Academy.

These sessions were supplemented by higher-level, subject-knowledge classes, wider skills classes such as coding and cooking, and a variety of sporting activities including

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I learnt that nothing is impossible and anything can be achieved through hard work. basketball, high ropes and climbing, delivered by the staff of Caterham School. Students also got 1:1 time with their mentors each day to review the essay they had to write before the residential, to talk about subjects they are passionate about, and ask questions about university.

A particular highlight of the week was a day trip to London.

Starting with a private tour of the National Gallery, students then got the chance to tour King’s College London’s Strand campus. There, they attended a session on how to get into competitive universities, choosing the right A Levels and what makes a successful candidate, as well as a Q&A with current undergraduate students.

On the Friday, students also took part in a biology lesson at Woldingham School in Caterham, where this summer’s United Access residential will be held.

Martina Montecchiarini, Project Lead at United Learning: “It was a pleasure to welcome our United Access students back for their second residential last week.

We wanted to put on another full programme that would be exciting and inspiring but also full of vital information, challenge and support as they look ahead to their university applications. As always, we were very pleased with the positive response from those students involved and we would like to thank all our guest speakers for their valuable input and to Caterham and Woldingham Schools for hosting us.”

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Anthony Fahey, Project Lead at Caterham School: “The second residential saw the group pull together and draw strength from each other as well as the wide range of sessions, speakers and visits. The extended commitment to this cohort allowed us to build on the experience of previous events with a tailored programme, and our under graduate mentors to develop in their role. There was tangible progress amongst the students, whilst the mentors and volunteer teachers found their experience thoroughly enriching as well.“ A student from the Totteridge Academy: “I have enjoyed going to London and seeing the different landmarks as well as the universities. I have also enjoyed all the different talks, which have given me inspiration and advice on different topics.”

A student from the Hurlingham Academy: “I have enjoyed all of the lessons and the trips we have gone on this week.

I have also really enjoyed spending time with the mentors, they have really helped me revise.

A student from Wye School: “I learnt that nothing is impossible and anything can be achieved through hard work.”

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

The programme has been modelled on the AAF’s current flagship programme, the University Access Programme, seed funded by the Sutton Trust with continued support from The Garfield Weston Foundation and private donors.

This programme has been running in Kent for several years already and has shown early positive results which have been evidenced in a report prepared by the Centre for Evaluation Management at the University of Durham.

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Charity Events

CHRISTMAS FAIR

The School community got behind many charity events including...

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.... the Macmillan Coffee Morning organised by the Charity Committee and the Poppy Day Appeal manned by the CCF with the addition of a Silent Soldier to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Armistice Day. 2RO continued with their sponsorship of a child in Tanzania through World Vision, and the Boarders of Beechanger decided to sponsor the education of a young girl at the Altevette School in Upper Mustang, Nepal. The Sports Department organised an ‘odd socks’ day and raised £500 for the Wooden Spoon Charity.

The Charity Committee nominated the Shooting Star Chase as our school charity. The Children’s Hospice has always been close to our school community and we have hosted their sponsored Santa’s Run for several years. The whole school got behind the cause after inspirational assemblies from Shooting Star outlining their amazing work, for the first time the charity logo appeared on the 1st XV rugby shirts. The Charity Committee were determined to reach new heights with fundraising and records were set with £3,200 being made at the Talent Show, and the 1st and 2nd years making £1,555 at their Christmas Fair. The music department also made sizeable contributions with collections at major concerts. The Committee was please to hand over £6,213 to Shooting Star Chase at the end of the year.

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Lerang’ wa Lunches and our ongoing commitment to our partner school in Tanzania. This 12-year relationship has seen us funding infrastructure improvements at the school, and more recently supporting the diets within the vulnerable, largely Masai community. This year the ‘Tanzania Team’ comprising the expedition members raised over £4,000 directly for this and so the school community was able to donate £6,000 in total.

We provided meals for every pupil every school day, and each child with a bowl and a cup for hygienic eating. This continues to maintain and improve levels of enrolment, attendance and educational attainment.

Alongside this, the library raised £368 for the RAF Benevolent Fund, £111 to Mind by the Art Department, £405 to the Yellowmen following MADlive, £202 from the boarders carol singing and the boarders sent off 25 Christmas shoeboxes via Samaritan’s Purse UK. The Morocco team raised just over £300, most notably through an ambitious five a side tournament, to buy materials to improve the community education centre in Ikhf n lghir, in the Bougumez Valley, where they taught in the summer.

Total funds raised by the student body amounted to over £15,000.

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

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Over half-term a party of fifty cadets, NCOs and officers made for the beauty of the Mendip Hills in Somerset and Yoxter Camp, a collection of buildings gradually being picked off by sink holes in the middle of nowhere, a few miles from Cheddar Gorge.

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aturday saw cadets abseiling at Split Rock, lowering themselves from a nauseating height in gusty conditions down a sheer cliff to the ‘encouragement’ of their friends at the top and bottom. Meanwhile, over in the equally-stunning Quantock Hills, an arduous and extremely muddy mountain biking package tested stamina and the claims of laundry powders in equal measure as cadets powered up and flew down the twisting woodland trails. An evening of laser tag allowed Cpl Palmer to demonstrate exceptional marksmanship skills and Cdt Auletta’s soi-disant friends manfully and literally to shoot him in the back.

A sunny Sunday brought a combined package of dry caving and rock climbing at Burrington Combe. Above ground, the dauntless cadets scaled six climbs on a tricky rock face, belaying one another under staff supervision. Far below them small groups vanished into the myriad natural caves of the Mendips, taking their first steps in caving and

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learning the basics of subterranean movement and navigation. The beauty of the rock formations combined with the exhilaration of the adventure in what was a claustrophobic’s nightmare, culminating in the Drainpipe: a thirty-metre tunnel just big enough for a grown man to wriggle along head first, and for Cpl Clarke to skip along. Such exertions amply warranted a relaxing night at the cinema before a good night’s rest.

Our final day was given over to advanced caving, and so more durable waterproof cover-alls and fleecy underlayers were donned as the party prepared to tackle the famous Swildon’s Hole. Entering the caves in the torrent of an underground river, juniors had an

extended trip around the waterfalls and thigh-deep streams of the upper series; while senior cadets abseiled down (and in) several underground cascades to the first sump, where the water level meets the roof.

A six-foot, pitch black, fully-submerged dive, head banging on the roof in vain search for oxygen, was an unforgettable and terrifying experience, but one which the senior cadets handled with courage and determination. For most this was the highlight of a very successful, tiring and enjoyable exercise – a unique and almost otherworldly experience in the chasms beneath the earth and a reminder of the beauty and adventure England has to offer so close to home.

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AS THEIR LAGGARD PEERS RESTED, A PARTY OF 80 CADETS AND STAFF MADE FOR FOLKESTONE IN THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER HALF-TERM.

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he 50 Third Year recruits were plunged into military life for the first time, spending three days in basic military training: lessons in drill, fieldcraft, campcraft, marksmanship and navigation, all delivered by their stalwart Sixth Form NCOs. There were various special treats too: WO2 Lawson of RMA Sandhurst gave them an expert tutorial in fire and movement; all recruits tried their hand at SMP’s obstacle course in the traditional drizzle; and competitive spirits were aroused in two firing packages on the laser DCCT range and a .22 live shoot with the L98 A2 rifle. Meanwhile, twenty Fifth Year cadets were being stretched to their limits on the JNCO Cadre, honing their advanced skills, delivering orders, navigating at night and practising leading a section into a contact amid the fire and smoke of Exercise Overhill.

Most demanding of all, they led a section of maniacally excited recruits in a rough approximation of stealth during Exercise Wet Feet, negotiating a devastating enemy ambush and gathering intelligence as they strove to keep Britain safe once again. The three 17-hour days flew by, oiled by the gusto and positivity with which all the cadets entered into their activities and the skill and dedication of their NCO instructors.

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OVER 50 MEMBERS OF THE CORPS PARTICIPATED IN THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE ARMY SECTION’S TRAINING YEAR: ANNUAL SUMMER CAMP, THIS YEAR BASED AT OKEHAMPTON, DEVON.

he sections were immediately pitted against one another in a competition which rumbled on through the week, testing the cadets in skill-at-arms, drill, fitness, command tasks, air rifle shooting and the DCCT range. After a short night’s kip in their palatial accommodation, the contingent deployed to Scraesdon, a disused Palmerston fort, for a two-day battle exercise, which saw cadets clearing dingy rooms and sepulchral tunnels, abseiling from the ramparts and crawling through moats and mouse holes in one of the most demanding and unusual exercises the Corps has run. As the summer rain cleared, Day four took the hardy band off to Meadfoot Beach for a day’s adventure training, paddle-boarding and kayaking on the open sea and hurling themselves into it from rocks and cliffs as they coasteered the beautiful south Devon shoreline. After an evening of beach sports and fish and chips and a good night’s kip, it was time for a two-day sea kayaking expedition – a unique opportunity to see Cornwall from the Tamar Estuary and a stern test of the cadets’ hardiness. After a day’s paddling out into the open sea, the party camped at the picturesque Mount Edgcumbe, singing with a gusto which belied their fatigue around an open fire.

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And then it was wetsuits on and to sea again, this time without the tide’s help as the cadets paddled through the craggy Cornish rocks to the welcoming bay at Kingsand.

But still no time to rest: Day seven was spent in part on the ranges, the cadets honing full bore marksmanship at 300m in worrying proximity to the South West’s largest caravan park; and abseiling off a colon-slackening 65m cliff at Chudleigh.

Thursday evening, our last evening in camp, gave us a chance to reflect on a wonderful week, all the cadets receiving Capt Wilkinson’s warmest commendation for their efforts.

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SOME WERE SINGLED OUT FOR SPECIAL AWARDS: Best Recruit: Cdt M Sharpe Most Improved: Cdt C Tracy Best JNCO: Cpl T Carter Most Promising SNCO: Sgt A Davies And so to the last day before a late-night return to Caterham: a wonderful package of surfing and coasteering on the north Devon coast during which, despite an unremittingly high-octane eight days of military and adventurous training, the cadets showed no less enthusiasm than on day one. The OC was moved to observe that it was ‘the best overall performance I have seen in 23 years’, and throughout the week all of the cadets displayed in spades the values which are integral to the Corps: courage, commitment, self-reliance, discipline, service and friendship.

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RANGE & OBTACLE COURSE DAY 9 MARCH 2018 On Sunday 4 March, recruits, freshly through their weapon handling tests, had their first opportunity to fire the L98 A2 live on the ranges on Sunday at Lydd on the Kent coast.

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wenty Third Year cadets made up the party which undertook a 25 metre full bore-shoot in the drizzly aftermath of the Beast-from-the-East.

A familiarisation shoot allowed the recruits to gain confidence with the weapon system and show off their marksmanship. After lunch, cadets took on a demanding obstacle course which tested courage, aggression and teamwork as well as fitness.

The howling Channel winds and horizontal rain made the 20-foot-high cargo net and plank-walks particularly daunting prospects, and several cadets cried out that they just couldn’t do it. But all bouts of

queasy colon were conquered as the cadets just kept pushing themselves on, to their own massive smiles of satisfaction and achievement and the generous encouragement of their peers.

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27 APRIL 2018

The final weekend of the Easter holidays saw a platoon of the CCF’s Army Section deploy to Bramley Training Areas in Hampshire.

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heir mission: to drive an insurgent enemy from the vicinity. Having established a patrol harbour, fighting and recce patrols were dispatched to observe enemy activity and close with pockets of resistance. A helicopter landing site was located and ambushed; several deep positions

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were taken; and intelligence was gathered. On the basis of this last, a night-time ambush was planned and, as a cataclysmic thunderstorm broke overhead, an enemy vehicle convoy was decimated by the fire of the Caterham Rifles.

The deluges of rain and the exercise’s eponymous lightning strikes had cleared by early the next morning, and in the sunshine the platoon set up a FOB from which to finish off the last vestiges of a crumbling resistance. Trenches were assaulted, tunnels cleared and finally, in the baking midday heat, the exercise came to a close with a platoon attack on a fortified compound. All the cadets performed admirably in very challenging conditions, but especially congratulations go to two cadets who earned field promotions: Sgt J Palmer, (Lower Sixth) and A/LCpl B van As, (Fourth Year).

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The Autumn Term of the Fifth Year is the most demanding in careers as they undertake their Junior NCO Cadre.

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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. At the end of this first stage of their NCO training, 23 Fifth Year cadets passed out on 13 December in front of the Headmaster, cadets, officers and parents of the Unit and were promoted to the rank of LCpl.

On 9 November, 11 RAF cadets traded a Thursday at school for a fantastic day at RAF Benson for Air Experience Flying.

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fter we had adorned ourselves in flying suits and watched the safety video we all practised our safety drills, which rather alarmingly involved diving over the wing. After this, we were kitted out in our parachutes and helmets, met our pilots and headed up into the skies. When we were used to the feeling of flying in the light aircraft, our pilots performed some aerobatics.

Some cadets even flew loop-the-loops themselves. Owing to the fact the weather conditions were on our side, all the cadets were able to fly and I am sure everyone will agree it was a splendid day out. Many thanks to Sqn Ldr Armitage for organising a great day. Cdt C Barton (Fourth Year).

CERTIFICATES OF MERIT WERE AWARDED TO THOSE WHO PARTICULARLY EXCELLED IN ELEMENTS OF THE COURSE: Skill at Arms to LCpl J Warr (5N) Drill to LCpl D McGlashan (5L) Fieldcraft to LCpl M Hannah (5H) Cadre Best Cadet 2017 to LCpl F Hull (5U) Congratulations to these and to all who passed so stern a test of character and cadetship and who represent the Unit’s bright future.

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CCF CORPS DINNER 7 FEBRUARY 2018

Caterham School CCF marked its foundation as tradition demands with its annual Corps Dinner. 160 cadets were joined by Unit officers, represetatives of the School including the Headmaster, and guests from the regular and reserve Armed Forces.

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his year the Unit was honoured to welcome a very special Guest of Honour in the form of Sgt Johnson Beharry VC COG – one of only two serving Victoria Cross recipients in the British Army. After a fine three-course meal, the Commanding Officer reminded the cadets of their history before introducing the Senior NCO team to review the year. Embarrassing images of their superiors’ more youthful years and horrendous jokes aside, CSM C Chaney, FSgt H Mead and FSgt A Hill delivered a very

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amusing and polished summary of another busy twelve months. The Headmaster responded with his admiration for the commitment of the cadets and values of the movement, before the CO presented our thanks and a Caterham School CCF shield to the outgoing Regimental Secretary of the PWRR and long-time friend of the Unit, Col Wayne Harber OBE, whose unstinting help and support will be sorely missed.

After dinner, the officers and NCOs retired to an audience with Sgt Beharry. The awe the cadets and

staff felt in the presence of a Victoria Cross recipient was palpable, but his remarkable modesty, frankness and humour put all at ease. The cadets relished the chance to discuss all matters – from military life to meeting Her Majesty to football – with our esteemed guest, who could not have been warmer or more generous with his time and was the last to leave at almost 11pm. In their five-year careers with the Unit, which have seen these cadets fly aircraft or jump from them, fire live on ranges or visit far-off lands, many described this Wednesday evening as the most special and humbling moment. Few will forget the evening they met and chatted with so extraordinary and self-deprecating a soldier.

CCF FIELDCRAFT ASSESSMENT 29 MARCH 2018

A platoon of Fourth Year cadets from the Army Section, under the leadership of their Sixth Form NCOs, deployed to Pippingford Park Training Areas in East Sussex on Friday 23rd March for a demanding exercise in fieldcraft and tactics.

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he morning saw the cadets trained, practised and assessed in section battle drills: each section completed four increasingly-slick attacks on enemy positions as cadets began to appreciate their roles in their sections and fire-teams and their NCOs mastered command and control. In the afternoon, the cadets made their way over a perilous river crossing to their second phase – ambushes. Lt Tyldesley and Capt Wilkinson rehearsed the sections before the corporals led them in a

daring river-bank ambush on some hapless foes. Both phases of the day were assessed as part of the cadets’ “Army Proficiency Certificate: Special to Arm Infantry”. All cadets passed the test, but particular congratulations should go to the following who were awarded Merits: Cdt Ben Van As, Cdt Alex Auletta, Cdt Toby Wyner and Cdt Max Fogelman. In the senior years, Cpl Jack Palmer and LCpl Freddie Hull also particularly impressed staff with their leadership in the field.

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CCF ANNUAL GENERAL INSPECTION 18 MAY 2018

The Corps put on its annual showcase on Sunday 13 May in beautiful sunshine. An immaculate Guard of Honour welcomed our Inspecting Officer, Brig Oliver Stokes MBE OC, back to Home Field: Brig Stokes, Commander of 4 Brigade, is the most senior serving Old Caterhamian in the British Army.

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hereafter a very large audience of parents, staff and guests were shown around various stands, including climbing, archery, first aid and bushcraft, where the cadets showed off their training.

News of the abduction of Sqn Ldr Armitage brought the guests back to Home Field in alarm, but thankfully the Caterham Rifles were on hand once again to save the day. A slick platoon attack drove the dastardly dissidents in their rickety vehicle back until at last all resistance was crushed.

But still vulnerable, the Caterham Rifles called for airborne support, and to the delight of everyone the Flying Tigers, the parachute display of our sponsor regiment, obliged. Trailing huge flags and streams of smoke, six

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parachutists landed on the cricket square to a loud ovation and the surprise of all, cadets included.

The day finished with the whole contingent on parade. Brig Stokes commended the 130 cadets on their excellence, commitment and positivity, before awarding prizes:

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As the Union Flag and RAF Ensign were lowered, all cadets involved could reflect on another outstanding performance at a very busy time of year.

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8 JUNE 2018

Forty Third Year recruits gave up the last weekend of half-term for a rigorous assessment of their skills in navigation, camp-craft and self-reliance.

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fter revision, kit-packing and a theory test the recruits headed out onto the North Downs in groups of six, carrying all they needed (in some cases a good deal more) on their backs.

Passing through a sequence of checkpoints at which they were quizzed on their map and compass work, the groups made good progress and reached their campsite for the night before sunset. Bashas were set up, a feast of nutritious fare from their military ration packs prepared and a game of campfire-lit cricket enjoyed before they retreated for a much needed sleep. As the next morning dawned bright and warm, the recruits were up and off, ignoring burning blisters and aching backs as they sallied forth once more towards Netherne. Fatigue was beginning to show in some groups, one contriving to get

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lost before they had left the campsite, another taking an inexplicable and ‘accidental’ diversion to an ice cream shop. But all told the recruits showed no little competence with the map and compass, and plenty of fortitude in baking heat, and all groups arrived back at Caterham within an hour of one another. Exhausted, blistered, sun-baked but satisfied, the recruits can be very proud of a strong showing in this stiff test of their cadetship.

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hird Year recruits passed out of basic training and became cadets while Fourth Year cadets marked the completion of their advanced infantry and aviation cadres.

The parade was also the first product of a collaboration with the Music Department, the parade accompanied with splendid vigour and ceremony by a twenty-strong band of both cadets and pupils under the baton of Mr Brian Hill. As ever, a recent ex-cadet serving in the forces came to inspect the parade and address them. This year, Capt Chris Pollard (Gren Grds), who left Caterham as Senior Cadet

in 2010, told the parade of what life as a cadet meant to him and to his career as a soldier, before presenting the Glancy Shield to this year’s best platoon, Gibraltar. Capt Pollard, the Commanding Officer and the Headmaster commended the cadets on their commitment throughout another very busy year and, as the Union Flag and RAF Ensign were lowered, all cadets of the Corps could feel very proud of themselves for all they have achieved over the past three terms.

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The CCF’s annual static line parachute cadre took place on Saturday 25 August 2018, this year also raising money for the Royal British Legion in this most poignant of years for the charity.

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fter an 0530 hrs start, ten Sixth Form cadets undertook an intensive day’s training at the Joint Service Parachute Wing in Netheravon, the home of Army parachuting. The cadre learnt about the rig, exit drills, canopy handling and a previously unimagined litany of malfunction drills. And then, on a beautiful August evening, they took to the sky with some dry mouths and shivers of excitement, and one by one leapt solo from the door of the aircraft 3,500ft above Salisbury

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Plain. An exhilarating few seconds of free-fall, a relieving whoosh as the parachute deployed, and a glorious few minutes of swooping above green fields as a golden English sun sunk to the distant horizon.

Commended on their canopy handling by the Army Parachute Association’s instructor, all ten cadets landed gently on their feet (sort of) with broad smiles of delight and pride at having achieved something quite special, showing in so doing the courage and endeavour at the heart of the Corps’ ethos.

OUTDOOR LEARNING

Outdoor Learning Outdoor learning is now cemented into school life with pupils in all three sections of the School benefiting from the extensive woodland and facilities that have been developed over the past few years.

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upils in the Pre-Prep love their Forest School sessions! and I have to admit that it is also my favourite time in the week: The looks of awe and wonder on their little faces never fails to impress me as they gaze at mini-beasts, make dens, learn from nature and develop their curiosity. Teambuilding sessions in wildcats and outdoor learning days in Old Park Wood continue to be successful in the Prep-School.

Enrichment day kicks off the senior school activities each September and pupils in the First and Second Year now have timetabled outdoor learning slots.

This year we have also opened our doors to pupils from schools in the local area. They have experienced teambuilding, bush craft and the challenges of the Wildcats adventure area.

I am writing this article whilst looking at the sun setting over the Brecon Beacons. The 22 Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award students that I am supervising are cooking their dinner and discussing the days adventures in the hills. This is the start of their 12 month journey into self-discovery and one that typifies the ethos of Outdoor Learning at Caterham School.

the skills needed to develop and adapt to all of the demands of today’s modern life.

The DofE model has become so successful at Caterham that it is being mirrored at school with the launch of ‘Wellbeing Awards’ for First and Fourth Year pupils; the long term aim is a series of awards for all pupils as they grow, develop, and move through the school; ultimately giving them the skills needed to develop and adapt to all of the demands of today’s modern life.

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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Adventures in South Wales

Fifty Caterham pupils descended upon South Wales over the October half term break for their Gold Qualifying and Silver Practice expeditions.

The weather was amazingly mild for the time of year and, apart from meeting the tail end of hurricane Ophelia, the conditions were excellent for hill walking. Congratulations to the 18 Gold participants who represented the School exceptionally well and passed their expedition with flying colours.

INTREPID SECOND YEARS COMPLETE CHALLENGE Eighty intrepid Second Year pupils and 12 staff set out on a long hike back to school from Betchworth (near Dorking) on Wednesday 4 July.

It was humid and hot, but the pupils coped admirably with the walk along the North Downs Way, which forms the final part of their Second Year Challenge Award this year.

Some of the comments from the pupils were: “I feel like Bear Grylls” “my feet, back, knees and legs really hurt” “I never knew it was so pretty around here” ... all made for a really worthwhile day.

Thank you to all the pupils who really entered into the spirit of the Second Year challenge this year.

Whether you gained a bronze or a platinum award, we are proud of you all!

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Pupils Ski in the DOLOMITE MOUNTAINS In the week before Christmas, 71 pupils travelled to Val di Fiemme in Italy for the annual school ski trip.

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upils from all year groups had a fabulous time in perfect conditions. After heavy snowfall in the weeks leading up to the trip, the pistes were sensational and the Dolomite Mountains made for a majestic setting for a brilliant week of skiing. A special mention must go to the large group of beginners

who all made excellent progress and were skiing red runs with aplomb by the end of the week. Evening activities included swimming, a trip to a local pizzeria and, best of all, a simply superb evening of karaoke.

Well done to all of the pupils that represented the school so well.

MEDALS AT THE ISS CHAMPIONSHIPS The annual Independent Schools’ Ski Championships took place again in Les Deux Alpes, France in the first week of the Christmas break.

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ver 300 pupils and 30 schools enjoyed champagne powder snow for two days of training before three days of competition.

In an exciting format, each student competed in a Giant Slalom, Slalom and Team Slalom event. With some familiar local schools and some specialist ski schools taking part, competition proved to be tough, but it was clear that our pupils had a great time, became better skiers and enjoyed the week of skiing.

The senior team, lead by Nick, did particularly well in the Team Slalom

going through as group stage winners. The real success came in the Junior Girls section with Coral, Ava and Sonya all winning individual bronze and silver medals. Alice also scored a high position despite racing against older girls. The Junior Girls’ Team were also awarded an overall silver medal, and the Junior Team won a bronze medal in the Team Slalom event.

This is only our second year at the competition and our success at junior level indicates that we have a bright future in the tournament.

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AMAZING TALENT SHOW Congratulations to the Charity Committee for the amazing Talent Show that took place on Saturday 3 February.

GIRLS WIN DANCE-OFF Emily led the pupil team of organisers through months of preparation, with Callum leading the technical side of this challenging show. Nathan and Morgan won the matinee event with their rendition of Black and Gold by Sam Sparro. Ashleigh won the evening show with her original song: Miss Manipulation. The much anticipated Girls v Boys Upper Sixth dance-off saw two amazing dances, with the girls taking the honours this year.

Approx £3,500 was raised to be split between our School charities: Shooting Star Chase Children’s Hospice and Lerang’ wa Lunches.

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MISCELLANEOUS

A thrilling visit to

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE On Monday 18 June, a group of enthusiastic Oxbridge candidates set out on a thrilling journey to Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

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he initial dampness in the air and the fog that rested lightly over our eyes lifted as we arrived and immediately received an informative talk about the complex university application process. After a fulfilling lunch and a tour around the college by three friendly student guides, we were taken in groups around other colleges. Their architecture ranged from the extravagant sophistication of the Victorian era to the sleek, modern simplicity as displayed in the design of Churchill College. Some groups were given the chance to tour around the lecture halls and the laboratories of the earth science department, which was a beneficial insight to the practical academic experience for those who are considering to apply for science subjects at Cambridge.

The pleasant weather complimented the central town of Cambridge beautifully and flecks of gold reflected off of River Cam onto the pearl white walls of the magnificent

King’s College as we walked around for the rest of the afternoon. It was an honour and a pleasurable experience for all of us, and I am sure that we all wish to return, someday, as students of the University of Cambridge.

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VEGETARIAN LUNCH LEADS GREEN AWARENESS INITIATIVE

Green Awareness Week in March was a Great Success

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he launch of Caterham School’s initiative to become free from disposable plastic bottles from September 2018 went down very well and is now very poignant after the government’s decision to introduce a deposit system on plastic drinks bottles and cans. Pupils were informed via assemblies of the need to become more aware of their environment. One topic was the need to reduce our meat consumption and in response to this a vegetarian lunch was delivered to all pupils across the school site last Thursday. My thanks go to the catering team for making this possible.

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RUGBY REPORT

BY ROB CLARKE

It was another outstanding year for rugby at Caterham with the sport continuing to go from strength to strength. Over three hundred and fifty boys took to the field in Caterham colours and each represented the school with distinction. The twenty sides played on an incredibly competitiive rugby circuit that included schools such as Cranleigh, KCS, Wimbledon and Eastbourne College.

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o other local day school puts out as many teams as Caterham or plays on such a tough circuit. The biggest strength of rugby at Caterham is the culture. We are inclusive yet determined to develop. This focus on long term development means that our boys, and our teams, get better and better as they move through the School. The discipline to train hard and to build resilience to setbacks are at the forefront of this and are key reasons that our boys do so well. And of course, what they learn in rugby can be applied to their academics and all other areas of school life.

The culmination of the rugby programme is of course our senior teams and all three, the 1st, 2ndand 3rd XVs, had excellent seasons. On the back of an incredibly exciting tour to Australia, the teams hit the ground running in September with excellent matches against KCS, Kings, Canterbury and Reed’s. A young 1st XV displayed tremendous potential for next year. Although most of the side were Lower Sixth, the side still recorded resounding victories over Worth (43-14), Tiffin, (57-12), Sevenoaks (35-0) and Reigate Grammar School (50-11), the latter despite the best efforts of an unpleasant visiting mob of supporters.

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The 15 a-side season ended with a senior squad taking on Belgrano Athletic from Argentina, a return leg of a match the school played whilst on tour there in 2015.

In atrocious conditions the Caterham side won 14-0 but as ever, in these games, it was the bonds of friendship made through sport that were most important.

In the Spring it was on to 7s and the boys did not disappoint. Countless early morning conditioning This focus on long sessions were rewarded with term development more stellar results that place Caterham among the finest means that our boys, schoolboy exponents of and our teams, get this version of the game. better and better as Winners of the Shiplake they move through 7s and runners up in the the School Surrey 7s (beaten 24-15 in the final by St John’s) are fantastic achievements and but for a two point loss to Brighton College in the Christ’s Hospital 7s, another piece of silverware could have been heading down the Harestone Valley Road.

Overall, it was another incredibly successful season that offers further evidence of Caterham’s emergence as one of the leading rugby schools in the country. Sincere thanks to Mr Richards who departed the school in July 2018 to take up the Head of Rugby position at Wellington College. He leaves the rugby at Caterham in a great place and the foundations are firm for further development in the future.

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UAE RUGBY and NETBALL TOUR During the half term break, 72 pupils from the First and Second Year embarked on a rugby and netball tour of the United Arab Emirates. The School have been out there numerous times before but this was the first time that rugby and netball had combined on the same trip and it made for an excellent sense of community and support throughout the tour.

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he sporting facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are superb and the outstanding courts/pitches combined with the warm weather meant that all fixtures were played with great skill and at pace.

Both girls and boys had a training session to acclimatise on the first day at Dubai English Speaking College (DESC).

Then rugby, matches were played at U12 and U13 level against Dubai College, KCS Wimbledon (who were also touring), Brighton College, Abu Dhabi and the Dubai Exiles club side. The girls had matches at U12A, U12B, U13A and U13B level against Infernos netball club, Abu Dhabi netball club and the Dubai Exiles netball club.

Both sports were played at some of the most outstanding facilities in the country including the Zayed Sports Stadium in Abu Dhabi, Dubai Sports City and the famous Dubai 7s ground.

Across all fixtures, the pupils applied themselves superbly in the heat, playing some of their best ever sport, working superbly as a unit, harnessing the team spirit that is built so strongly whilst on tour.

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Away from the sports fields the activities came thick and fast and combined fun, culture and adventure. Of course, there was time to enjoy the pool and beach (including a giant inflatable obstacle course) as well as a desert safari, Bedouin feast, camel rides and shopping at the souks (and the glitzy malls under the shadow of the Burj Khalifa). Most importantly, there was also a chance to learn about the Emerati culture at the Sheik Mohammed Cultural Centre for Understanding where the pupils enjoyed a talk on the history of the country, its customs and enjoyed a local banquet. Knowledge of the local culture was further enhanced with a trip to the awe inspiring Zayed Grand Mosque where the pupils marvelled at its majesty and learned more about Islam and its rituals. The tour guides commented that the Caterham groups were the best school groups that they have ever taken such was their impeccable behaviour and insightful questioning.

Overall this was a superb trip through which the pupils learned a great deal, both on and off the sports pitch.

HOCKEY REPORT

BY PETER FRIEND

Hockey has been going from strength to strength at Caterham School over the past 12 months and the school has been able to field an unprecedented number of hockey teams during the 2017-18 season.

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ineteen Boys’ teams competed in fixtures and more than held their own against other well-known hockey schools. The girls’ hockey programme was able to build on A huge congratulations go to all of our players who the momentum of the previous season as they were represented their counties throughout the season and again able to field teams in tournaments as well as special individual mentions must go to U15 Dominic and fixtures throughout the autumn term. We U16s Alex and Matthew who represented the 1st also implemented an indoor hockey XI with distinction throughout the season. programme with the boys’ 1st VII The hockey programme at the school Notable results during competing in the Surrey preliminary has been augmented by the hugely round of the National competition. the season included successful Caterham School Hockey Notable results during the comprehensive wins Academy which continues to provide season included comprehensive for the 1st XI at high level coaching to players from wins for the 1st XI at Seaford the school and local community Seaford College as College as well as an away win at through weekly sessions and holiday well as an away win at Ardingly College in the National hockey camps. In February half term Ardingly College in the Plate. Our U16As were superb in the Academy brought in GB and National Plate topping a group containing Kingston England hockey player and Rio 2016 Grammar, Trinity and KCS Wimbledon Olympian Michael Hoare to coach which in the preliminary round of the national allowed the players access to a current world competition and our U15As produced a fantastic class, professional athlete. display in the U15 Surrey competition, eventually losing narrowly to a very strong Alleyn’s team. During February half term a group of U14s also took part in a hockey tour to Holland to play against strong Dutch opposition Alecto HC, Noordwijk HC and HDM HC.

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Next year the 2018/19 school’s hockey programme is set to expand again as we continue to develop our indoor, girls’ and prep school boys’ and girls’ hockey programmes as well as bringing in significant changes that will see our U12s and U13s play hockey in the autumn term with our U14s, U15s, U16s and senior teams playing in the spring term. Our Hockey Academy will continue to grow, providing more sessions and more holiday camps throughout the year.

Hockey is currently in a strong place at Caterham School and this strength will only improve over the coming years. Exciting times lie ahead.

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CRICKET REPORT

BY JONATHAN BATTY

When the first round of matches were washed out at the start of the summer term, no one would have believed that the summer would have turned out to be as glorious as it did. The remarkably high temperatures and lack of rainfall led to conditions more akin to Karachi than Caterham, and had provided some excellent conditions for playing cricket, if somewhat challenging for the ground staff.

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he season got off to a bang for the 1st XI with a stunning win against Lingfield College in the first round of the national T20 cup. Ian showed his growing maturity to bowl superbly and take 6 wickets for only 16 runs, easily the best bowling figures of the season. Encouraged by the early victory the side ended on the wrong end of some tight games against Seaford College and Trinity School, which knocked the team’s confidence. There were further excellent wins against Alleyns and Judd. The stand out batting performance of the season came in the match against the Old Boys, when Max smashed a magnificent 94 from only 51 balls, allowing the 1st XI to reverse the result of last year’s fixture and cruise to an easy victory. Louis was the leading run scorer of the season, and highlighted his ability with 50’s against Reeds and Sevenoaks.

The MCC again provided the strongest opposition of the season, and it was wonderful to watch Old Cat Ross Powell score a century on his return to the school. The MCC declared The remarkably high their innings at 218 for 6 and temperatures and left the 1st XI plenty of time lack of rainfall led to try and chase the runs to conditions more down. Max starred with ball akin to Karachi than taking 4 for 44. Despite being Caterham ...

108 for 2 in reply and having the MCC worried for a while, a familiar batting collapse saw the school dismissed for 167 and fall short in their run chase.

Matthew captained the side admirably and showed unwavering commitment to the cause. The side stuck together throughout the season, and while they always gave 100% they couldn’t quite do themselves justice this year. It was exciting to watch Toby, a quick left arm seamer with the ability to swing the ball back into right handers,

following his promotion from the U15s grow in stature and he regularly looked dangerous.

We are losing 5 of the side this year, and I would like to thank Matthew, Ian, Louis, Joseph and Matthew Ireland for their remarkable contributions to Caterham sport during their time here at school, and wish them the very best for the future.

The U15s had a very positive season with plenty of excellent performances. Ben and Christian were consistent with the bat all year scoring over 700 runs between them.

With Toby selected in the 1st XI all season, Ben was the pick of the bowlers, but the moment of the season was a amazing hat-trick from Rohan which effectively won the match against Alleyns single handedly.

Fin Lock kept entertaining the crowds with swashbuckling innings and his sixes over the Mr Taylor’s gym and the pavilion will be talked about for years to come. The most successful team in the school was this year’s U15B’s who under Mr Clarke’s guidance won 6 out of 8 matches.

The U14s had a really enjoyable season and looked like a team that could come of age at any moment. They are a side with huge potential and deserved more than the couple of victories that they managed. However this was not a fair reflection on the effort and skills shown all season. Fraser produced the innings of the season with his 84, and was often well supported by Oliver. Kaylen also bagged a brilliant 5 wicket haul in the win against Christ’s Hospital. Special mention must go to Captain Tom who earned his first call up to the 1st XI. The U13A team have seen some great team and individual performances this season with excellent wins over Reeds, St Johns, Worth and Christ’ Hospital. The development of their skills and the ability to work as a team has been very pleasing to see. Their Highlights of their season being Harry scoring 338 runs and Jonny scoring 296 runs and also taking 15 wickets. The U13s also

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enjoyed success on their annual tour to Suffolk.

It has been wonderful to watch the U12s enthusiasm for the game, which culminated with us fielding A, B, C and D teams on the last Friday of term against Eltham, with many of the boys playing their first hardball match.

The future of cricket within the school appears to be very bright, and there is plenty of talent in the U12’s too.

Valuable contributions for the A’s came from James, Callum, Hamish and Tom. Edward and Will led the U12B team excellently and they showed huge development during the year thanks to a focussed and supportive atmosphere in the field, combined with an excellent work ethic at practice and there was much to admire about this group of boys.

I would like to thank the 12 members of staff who gave up their valuable time this year to take the teams, and also Mr Dodwell and his ground staff for once again producing some amazing pitches for us to play on. It was also great to see the Headmaster again umpiring on Home Field.

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PRIMARY LEAGUE SCHOOLS’ COMPETITION

It was with great pleasure that Caterham School hosted an U11 primary schools Premier League Stars mixed football tournament on the morning of the 25 January.

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he Palace for Life Foundation were fantastic in organising the event, in which the pupils involved from schools that included St. Marys Oxted and Lingfield Primary. All the pupils thoroughly enjoyed themselves and the weather was a bonus!

Caterham’s Sports and Events Coordinator Andrew Patterson, who oversaw the event, was absolutely delighted that pupils had the opportunity to participate, regardless of ability.

U16s FOOTBALL ENGLISH SCHOOLS CUP Well done to the U16 football team who travelled over to Lingfield College on Wednesday 4 October for the first round of the English Schools’ Cup. In a tenacious and disciplined display, the boys gave a tremendous account of themselves but were beaten by the better team on the day, 2 - 1.

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LACROSSE REPORT

BY JEN SIMPSON

It was another fantastic year for the Caterham Lacrosse teams. We have recorded some incredible results throughout the year. I have been particularly impressed with the dedication and resilience of all the teams despite the frustrating weather leading to many cancellations.

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egardless of these cancellations, there have been so many results and achievements worth celebrating! Performing well in tournaments, some specific highlights include our U15As finishing 3rd Place in the Surrey County Tournament, U14A & U14Bs winning the Plate and the Bowl in their respective Surrey County Tournament, and all of our Senior teams finishing at least Top 14 in the Nation. The 1st XII had a phenomenal season finishing 2nd in the Surrey County , 2nd overall in South East Schools, and Top 8 at National Schools.

There has also been some fantastic individual recognition. 14 pupils were selected to represent the Surrey County in the Super Counties Tournament, 12 pupils are actively involved in the England Regional Academy and an incredible 9 pupils are involved in an international lacrosse program. 7 of these pupils have been selected to represent their Country in the Junior Home International Lacrosse Tournament held in Edinburgh, Scotland next week. Emily and Georgia represented England, Pippa and Lottie were selected to represent Scotland and Holly, Kaitlyn and Roberta were selected to play for Wales. This is the best representa-

Lacrosse 1st XII tion of Caterham Lacrosse we have ever had in the international game.

While these results and recognitions have been extremely impressive, what I have been most impressed with this year is the commitment, leadership and dedication shown by the 10 Upper Sixth. Their willingness to do anything for Caterham lacrosse, has been inspiring but also has laid a foundation and legacy for the upcoming years. A huge thank you to them for all that they have put into Caterham Lacrosse during their time at Caterham.

Their willingness Congratulations to all to do anything for pupils who have participated Caterham lacrosse and represented Caterham has been inspiring but lacrosse this year. Looking also laid a foundation forward to another great and legacy for the season for the LaxCats starting upcoming years. in September.

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NETBALL REPORT

BY JACLYN LEACH

At the start of every one of the 236 netball matches played this season, the coaches will have given a team talk. The general theme of the talks is usually pretty simple: work hard, and enjoy yourselves.

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here might be more complicated things mentioned too - skills and tactics that we might like to see girls do their best to implement however, even at 1st team level, the key the message is very simple: work hard, and enjoy yourselves.

This year, more than ever, the girls have done just that. This year, more than ever, there seems to have been a really special team atmosphere. The girls have won together. They have lost together. They have been completely-not-okay, over-the-top, beaten-up-on-the-court-bythe-opposition together and they have had a brilliant time, together.

It comes as no surprise that this special atmosphere has led us to have one of our most successful seasons ever. Some of the team highlights include:

• The U14 and 1st VII being undefeated at the first round of Surreys.

• The U13 VII reaching the play-off stages of the Surrey Finals.

• The U16 VII beating very strong netball sides Benenden and Hurstpierpoint.

• The U15 VII beating the Ardingly 3rd VII. • The U12 VII finishing as runners up at the Burgess Hill tournament.

• On the final Saturday of fixtures, the U14B and U13B, who were each drawing at three quarter time against Reigate Grammar, push on for two fantastic wins.

Individual successes include our girls who have represented the counties of Surrey, Kent and Sussex: Lucy, Ronnie, Willow, Mina, Lucy, and Zara; as well as the girls selected to be part of Surrey Storm: Julianne in the U14 Academy and Katie in the U19 Training Academy.

The senior netball teams, our TopCats, had arguably the best season Caterham has ever had in so many different ways.

The 3rd VII ended their season as runner’s up at the Dunottar Tournament, in which they competed against many 1st and 2nd teams. Lucy was voted player of the tournament by all other schools competing, which is a very special achievement for her.

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The 2nd VII finished the season as runner’s up at the Surrey Finals, beating St Catherine’s in extra-time, and then just losing in the final to Guildford High by two. How Captain Charlotte ‘Brido’ left the court after beating St Cats declaring ‘I think we could beat Surrey Storm right now’ is one of the best things we heard all season.

The 1st VII have proven that if all that matters is the team; then that team will succeed. Led by captains Olivia and Hannah, the special atmosphere these girls created at training, matches and tournaments, made their incredible results this season almost inevitable: of course they were good enough to beat Guildford High, Hurstpierpoint, and Sevenoaks; and of course they were good enough to beat Reigate Grammar by twenty goals in their final match of the season.

To all our Upper Sixth, thank you so much for all you have done for Caterham Netball. Your biggest success is the legacy that you are leaving behind – a legacy that tells us the only reason we play sport is to have a good time with our friends, and all that matters is that we work hard, and we enjoy ourselves. It is a legacy that I am so excited to see the lower sixth already on a mission to continue.

And this means that even though you are not here on our courts with us anymore, it will definitely feel like you still are.

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ROUNDERS REPORT

BY JEN SIMPSON

It was another fantastic season for the Caterham Rounder’s teams. Nine Caterham teams were sent to the various District Rounder Tournaments which is the best participation we have had in years!

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he girls proved to be a dominant force in the Some amazing skills District across the board put on display by in all age groups. Three both parents and age groups- Seniors, U13, and pupils led to some U12s were crowned District very competitive Rounder’s Champions while the matches!

U15s finished runners up and the U14s finished semi-finalists. What a fantastic achievement and representation of Caterham Sport.

The annual Parent’s v Daughters event was once again a huge success and one of the major highlights of the season. Over one hundred First and Second Year pupils and parents attend this annual match. It was great to see so many pupils and parents out enjoying such a fabulous summer sport. Some amazing skills put on display by both the parents and pupils led to some very competitive matches! Already looking forward to all of the wonderful Rounders Senior U16A tournaments, matches and games this coming season.

Congratulations to all pupils who represented a Caterham Rounder’s team!

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NETBALL AND LACROSSE TOUR TO FLORIDA

Over the Easter break, fifty girls from Third and Fourth Years embarked on a very exciting sports tour, to the USA. The girls were lucky enough to have two Lacrosse training sessions with coaches Florida Southern University, as well as visit and play Lacrosse at the highly acclaimed IMG Academy. The girls also took part in the Netball America South East Region Junior Netball Tournament, where they came up against teams from Atlanta, New York and Texas.

Conditions were challenging, with the heat and sun, but the girls coped superbly well to come out as overall winners and runners-up of the event. Other highlights have to include a trip to Universal Studios, shopping sprees at the outlet malls, and not forgetting being guests of honour at the Orlando Magic NBA game. Caterham girls had court-side access, and stood in front of the home team whilst the national anthem was played in front of a crowd of 18,000 people. An unforgettable experience to say the least.

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TENNIS REPORT

BY NAT LOMAS

The school has had another amazing year of tennis and this time mainly in sunshine! Learning to serve into the sun has now actually become a feature in lessons! The theme this year has definitely been participation numbers and with over 50 matches and A and B teams out in every age group the tennis bug has been strong.

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very lunchtime I have been pleased to see more and more people out playing on the courts Tennis U16 despite the fact you managed to make 100 balls disappear within a week- I took that to mean you were all very keen! The remaining tennis balls are being taken out to Tanzania by Miss Simpson.

Fixtures wise we have played various formats, with Fast Four being the new addition to the league games.

We took the added pressure this brought admirably and learnt to ignore let serves and go for it on sudden death deuce.

As for results in some fixtures we’ve had so many out playing the results were high – the best being by the U14A v Lingfield College at 49-25! The seniors only lost one fixture and played with enormous fun and enthusiasm – their two court game is now a feature in lessons lower down the school!

The B teams turned out in larger numbers to practises and were driven by the increase in fixtures, making Tennis U15 the coaches selection a hard process in order to give everyone a game. In matches their was some Surrey School League finals and played well to fabulous unorthodox shots which threw our come 4th in Surrey. The rest of the year all opposition into turmoil as being games became tennis players with every girl being Every lunchtime I players we were everywhere and got able to score and rally more then we’ve everything back. The ‘go for everything have been pleased to ever had before. You were all playing attitude’ definitely paid off. see more and more thinking tennis which will make you The A teams all had a mixture of people out playing on strong players as your strokes develop. I fantastically skill full wins and some tough the courts... have no doubt many of them will now be defeats by county and national players, playing over the summer and joining lessons when this happened the players walked with Coach Flanagan in September. off in awe of the play they had just come up A big thank you must got to all the coaches that against but having learnt something to use in their help with both the boys and girls tennis, your willingness next match. This fantastic mindset is one that the team to help each other and make sure that a great lesson of the year the U12’s, have shown throughout the season. always happens is inspiring to me and our pupils.

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ATHLETICS REPORT

BY ALI TAYLOR

DISTRICT ATHLETICS Caterham School pupils were district champions in two out of four competitions and came second and third place in the other two. A fantastic results against fourteen local state and independent schools.

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he Inter and Junior Athletics teams visited Crawley’s K2 Arena full of excitement for this years’ District Championship. Outstanding performances from the two boys’ teams saw Caterham crowned as District Champions at both junior and intermediate level. The girls’ junior team finished third whilst the Intermediate team finished second overall.

There were four athletes who were crowned District Champions in their respective events: Olivia and Amelia won the hurdles with times of 13.34 and 12.93 respectively, Lauren threw 9.47m in the shot put and Amy with a jump of 4.85m in the long jump.

Top performers within the junior section were: Nick who was crowned District Champion with a leap of 4.74m in the long jump. Conor who came second in the triple jump with a distance of 9.90m. Enzo, second in the Discus with a throw of 24.71m. Oli, second in the 1500m with a time of 5:01.75s and Aaron who came third in the 200m with a time of 26.47s.

Not to be outdone, the Inter team produced some superb results to put an end to RAA’s seven year rule at the top. Stand-out performances on the day came from Will, coming second in the hurdles: Laurie’s third place in the 200m with a time of 25.61; Tyler, third in the 400m with a time of 56.54; Gabes, third in the high jump, with a

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height of 1.60m; Jonny, second in the shot put with a distance of 9.49m. An impressive display from the discus-throwing duo of Jack and Finlay culminated in Caterham taking the top two positions on the rostrum. The latter being crowned District Champion with a distance of 27.07m.

The First Year athletes enjoyed their first highly competitive meet and performed admirably overall. The Girls finished fourth in the District with Issy having the top performance of the day in the Long Jump where she finished second overall.

Our Second Year athletes had the honour of competing in their District Meet on Home Field in front of a home crowd. The support from their school mates and the roar from the crowd motivated four athletes to become District Champions. Sophie (hurdles), Grace (800m), Aaron (long jump) and Harry (shot put) all finished first in their respective events.

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ENGLISH SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CUP Three of the schools Four ESAA Track and Field Cup teams progressed to their respective Regional finals, and it is here where the Girls teams must be celebrated.

Congratulations to the Intermediate Girls team who progressed to the Regional ‘A’ final. To put this into perspective, schools from Surrey need to accumulate, on average, over 100 points more than schools from different regions in order to progress. So to qualify as one of the top 12 schools in our region is truly outstanding.

The Junior girls had an outstanding day competing in the ESAA Track and Field Cup and through their efforts were awarded a place at the Track and Field Cup Regional B Final on Wednesday 20 June. This was largely due to the confidence and dedication shown by the U13 veterans and the bravery of the new U12 athletes who were not phased competing against older competitors.

The top performance of the day was by Genevieve who earned 22 points with her 5.19.3s 1500m. Grace had the best combined total of 36 points, securing 21 points in the 800m with a time of 2.40s and 15 points in the high jump by reaching 1.23m. Other high scoring performances were seen by Sophie who earned 33 points in the hurdles and long jump, Mina with 31 points in the 100m and high jump, Sonya who recorded 31 points in the shot put and relay and finally Lucy who earned 30 points in the 200m and javelin in her first outing with the team.

The Inter Girls ESAA team were outstanding at the Regional A final and represented themselves, and the school, to the highest level. The team was anchored by Georgie and Amy, who both produced performances of over 40 points in their events. These two athletes have been stellar all season, particularly in the triple jump which was a new event for both. Lauren once again had the highest single score in her shot putt, scoring 25 points with her distance of 9.43m. To reach the Regional A meet, each athlete must have outstanding performances and the Inter Girls had many on the day. Sharon, Olivia , Anna and Rosie produced results which were over 30 points whilst Poppy, Phoebe, Nicola, Taylor and Madeleine had personal bests in at least one of their events.

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CROSS COUNTRY REPORT

BY JOHN MANSELL

FIRST EVER MAJOR CROSS COUNTRY EVENT On Thursday 12 October, Caterham hosted its first ever major cross country event in the School woods. The English Schools’ Cup first round saw schools from all over the country come to Caterham to compete. Well done to all of the Caterham pupils that ran so well and did the School proud.

MEDALS FOR THE CROSS COUNTRY GIRLS! Well done to the girls that represented the School so well at the district cross country at Royal Alexander and Albert School in early November. All girls ran their hearts out and there were medals for Tabby (first) and Grace (third) in a dominant team performance.

GOLD MEDAL FOR BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY On Thursday 23 November, the boys competed in the district cross country races. Once again, Caterham teams showed their talents with the highlight being Ben’s gold medal in the senior race, a feat that was backed up with numerous top ten finishes across all categories.

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CROSS COUNTRY ROUND-UP In January, the senior cross country teams were over in Sevenoaks to run in the prestigious Knole Run, an event that sees competitors from all over the country attend, including international athletes.

As ever, the Caterham teams ran their hearts out recording some excellent results in a very strong field of runners.

Caterham also had some outstanding performances in the Surrey School’s cross country. In the Lower Sixth boys Hamish ran well and was competitive throughout the race, in sight of the qualifying places before they pulled away from him in the last quarter of the race. Nick was hindered by a lack of grip in very slippery conditions but put in a huge effort to stay with the field. In the older age group, Oliver set off well but wasn’t able to stick with the fast pace in challenging conditions as the hills and mud wore his legs down. Toby turned up to give the race a huge effort before playing hockey in the afternoon, but couldn’t quite stay with a very strong leading pack.

In the Junior Girls, Tabby did not have her strongest race and found the wet conditions tough going. Grace ran nicely, but without spikes was at a massive disadvantage in the conditions. Both look like excellent prospects for next year though when they will be at the top of their age category. At inter level, Maddy raced well but was off her fastest after preparations for mocks. She seemed to enjoy the race nevertheless though which was wonderful to see.

In the seniors, Amy, Pippa and Eloise all ran solid races, and still looked strong towards the end, but didn’t quite have the speed to beat the very best in Surrey.

SWIMMING

BY ROSS SMITH

ESSA SWIMMING SUCCESS On Saturday 30 September, the Caterham Swimming Team traveled to Guilford Spectrum to compete in the ‘English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA)’, Surrey qualification round. All of our swimmers swam exceptionally well, but the highlight of our evening were the Senior Girls team who have qualified for the national final held at the London Olympic Aquatic Centre, after achieving 2nd place in the 4 x 50m Freestyle, and 3rd in the 4 x 50m Medley relay. A massive thank you for all swimmers who were called upon last minute to represent the school.

ESSA NATIONAL SWIMMING FINALS After their success at the ESSA qualifying round, our senior girls’ swim team consisting of Isabella, Siobhan, Amy and Leah (all Fifth Year), competed in the national finals event held at the London Aquatic Centre. This was the first time the girls swam in the senior age category and as a team the girls thought they did not stand much of a chance, but were there for the experience of the event. This however was not the case. The girls were absolutely amazing; qualifying from the heats, and finishing 9th in the final. To think that this girls’ team came 9th in the country on their first attempt is incredible, and with two more years in this category, they could win the event.

BATH CUP On Friday 8 March, Caterham School pupils travelled down to the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Stratford to compete in the prestigious ‘Bath Cup’. To be a part of such a prestigious event is a great honour as only the fastest schools in the country get invited to compete.

After a long day of traveling and sitting around waiting to race, the team performed to the highest standard when required. The girls team consisting of Izzy, Siobhan, Nicola, Niamh & Leah, and the boys team consisting of Hanyang, Desmond, Seb, Louis, Max and Caiden performed admirably.

Well done to all swimmers for a truly fantastic day of swimming. You can find pictures and videos of the pupils swimming on our twitter page @CaterhamSwim.

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SURREY SCHOOLS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS On Saturday 24 January the Caterham Swim team travelled down to Guilford Spectrum, for one of our biggest calendar meets of the year, the Surrey Schools Individual Championship. This competition sees thirty seven schools across Surrey competing with the aim of making the Schools county team, for the inter-county competition.

The team’s hard work in the pool at training certainly paid off with some fantastic results. Below are just a few highlights: Amy:

1st Senior Girls 100m Freestyle 57.86

Ava:

2nd Junior Girls 100m Breaststroke: 1.20.80

Izzy:

2nd Senior girls 100m Breaststroke 1.15.88

Caiden: 2nd Junior Boys 100m Backstroke 1.11.83

(4 second p.b)

WATERPOLO vs DUNOTTAR Back in May, Caterham competed in our first Waterpolo match against Dunottar School, in what was a truly exciting game, finishing 5-3 to the visitors.

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SHOW JUMPING TRIALS SUCCESS

Congratulations to Faye who came fifth out of 34 in her respective section at Poplar Park International, before half term. Faye now has Hickstead show-jumping in two weeks’ time for a five-day competition and Brightling International at the end of June.

WATERPOLO NATIONAL ACADEMY

Lucy was nominated by the South East region and completed the last phase of trials for the Waterpolo National Academy in May. She has been selected onto the National Academy Programme.

This is a great achievement for Lucy as she has joined the programme for the age group above her own. She will be part of a squad of the top 30 girls in England in that age group.

Lucy has also completed trials for Sussex County Netball and was successful in gaining a place in the Sussex Academy Programme.

Well done Lucy, we are really proud of you!

COUNTY HOCKEY SUCCESS FOR SEB

Fourth Year pupil Seb has been selected to represent Surrey in hockey for the third year running.

This is a great achievement and will allow Seb to improve further and push himself to reach the next stage of selection.

Congratulations Seb!

HARLEQUINS ACADEMY RUGBY Hot on the heels of his selection for the Surrey U15s, we are delighted and proud to announce that Fin in the Fourth Year has been selected to represent Harlequins Academy at the upcoming U15 regional academies festival.

Well done Fin and good luck.

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REGIONAL ACADEMY SELECTIONS Several U14 and U13 pupils were nominated for a trial into the England Regional Lacrosse Academy during the Easter holidays. The Academy is part of the England Lacrosse Talent Pathway.

Following a very competitive trial, Ellie, Imogen, Willow, Mina, Nicola, Sonya, and Ronnie have all been selected. They will join a number of other Caterham pupils in the Academy. This is a fantastic achievement for the girls, as well as for Caterham Lacrosse. Well done, girls!

GEORGIE – BALL GIRL IN ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS During November, Georgie, Fourth Year, took part in the ATP World Tour Tennis Finals as a ball girl.

She had a fantastic week and was on court players such as Nadal and Frederer and has plenty of fantastic memories.

SPORT CATERHAM SWIMMERS QUALIFY FOR THE COMMONWEALTH

Over the summer holidays, our elite swimmers competed in the English, Welsh and British National Championships (their biggest competition of the year to date).

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ur swimmers as always, where on tremendous form: At the British Nationals, Amy competed in no less than 5 events: 200m Freestyle (4th place finish and a new personal best time), 100m Freestyle (9th place), 400m Freestyle (10th place), 50m freestyle (10th place) & 200m I.M. Not only was this an amazing experience for Amy, and where she could gain some valuable experience, but Amy has currently qualified for the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers for the 200m and 400m Freestyle events, and is currently awaiting confirmation for the 100m Freestyle event.

SAILING SUCCESS FOR THEO

Izzy competed in the ‘Swim England National Summer Meet’ in Sheffield for her favourite event 50m Breaststroke.

Although Izzy has endured injury problems this year, that didn’t stop her wining the event and gaining a new personal best time of 33.77 seconds. Izzy will now be competing in the ‘Commonwealth Games Qualifiers’ next year along with Amy. An amazing success story, and we wish Amy and Izzy all the best.

AMY – BRITISH NATIONAL TRIUMPH

Theo (Third Year) recently attended the Winter National Junior Squad qualifier in Paignton. Fifty-six 13-16 year olds competed for a chance to be trained by the RYA National Squad over the winter.

The RYA select the best eight boys and unfortunately Theo was outside this group on this occasion finishing 28th. His position when taking the broader view was not bad since these are the best 56 Laser 4.7 sailors in the UK. During October half-term, Theo competed in the European qualifiers at Hayling Island SC. The event aims to select the best UK sailors in the class to gain an invitation to attend the Laser 4.7 European Championships in Greece in April 2018. Theo did better in this event, coming 11th out of 53 sailors which earned himself an automatic invitation to the event.

Theo has his sights set on qualifying for the World Championships in Poland and also qualifying for the Summer National Junior Squad.

On Wednesday 28 February, Amy flew to Edinburgh for the 2018 Swimming British Championships.

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espite the harsh snow last week, Amy was able to compete for her first time in such an important competition. “It was a great experience and I very much enjoyed my time in Edinburgh. I was able to meet and see top British Olympians swim such as Adam Peaty, Ross Murdoch and Siobhan O’Conner. Although I had to adjust to the new surroundings and pool as well as the snow I was able to do a few good swims. I am very much looking forward to qualifying for next year’s British Championships and hopefully making a junior final”.

Our club swimmers train for hours on end, seven days a week, and it’s great to see that all that hard work and dedication pays off. Amy performed fantastically well all weekend Commiserations to Isabella who was also meant to be competing in this event but was unable to get to Edinburgh due to weather conditions (keep working hard, and you’ll be there next year).

MAX: BRITISH JUDO CHAMPIONSHIPS

Max put in a superb performance at the British Judo Championships. He finished 11th, having just moved up a weight category, defeating opponents who were significantly larger. We wish him luck in the future.

JUDO - A SILVER MEDAL FOR ZACH

Well done to Zach who won a silver medal when he competed in the under 34kg at the British Schools’ Judo Southern Area Regional Championships in Gillingham on Saturday 27 January. He will go on to compete at the British Schools Championships in Sheffield on the weekend of 17/18 March.

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LACROSSE: AMAZING SUCCESSES!

AND A BRONZE MEDAL FOR IZZY In November Isabella, Fifth Year competed at the southeast regionals swimming championships.

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espite feeling under the weather and having a rest from training, Izzy was seeded 8th going into the competition and still managed to achieve a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke.

One of our new First Years Caiden has come back to the swim team in high spirits after a successful weekend at a swimming gala. Caiden competed in the 100m freestyle, 50m breaststroke and the

200m backstroke, and automatically qualified for the Kent Championships for all of these events. This now means that he will compete in no fewer than 14 events in the Kent Championships! As if that were not enough success for one weekend, Caiden was also made aware that he had been selected for the Kent U14 waterpolo squad, with his first tournament this Sunday at Whitgift School.

SELECTION FOR SURREY AND KENT SATELLITE ACADEMIES Congratulations to Mina and Lucy, who have been respectively selected into the Surrey and Kent satellite netball academies. Mina has shown great resilience and determination and after missing the initial trial due to injury, she was then invited to a late trial; after two sessions, Mina had impressed enough to earn her place in the academy. Lucy has done magnificently well to earn selection at such a young age – it is rare feat for a First Year to have already taken their first step onto the performance pathway.

Very well done to both girls and good luck for the season ahead.

Miss J Simpson, Head of Lacrosse, is pleased to announce that seven Caterham pupils have been selected to represent their respective Country in the Junior Home International Lacrosse Tournament in April in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The tournament will take place over three days where England, Scotland and Wales will play head to head for the Home Nations title. Emily will captain the England B Team and Georgia will play defence for the England C Team.

Pippa and Lottie have been selected to represent Scotland on their A Team.

Finally, Holly, Kaitlyn and Roberta have been selected for Wales. Holly will play for the A team and Kaitlyn and Roberta will play for the B team. In past years, Caterham have had pupils selected to play in this tournament however this is by far the best representation of Caterham Lacrosse we have had in the international game. We are looking forward to seeing these girls battle on the on the pitch!

Best of Luck, girls!

PUPILS’ CRICKET SUCCESS

Caterham School pupils, Jonny (Second Year) and Tom (First Year) are enjoying recognition by Surrey Cricket with their continued inclusion in the Surrey Cricket Performance Programme.

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fter a good season in 2017, Surrey invited Jonny to play some games last August, and was then selected to be one of the 80 boys in the development squad chosen to represent Surrey for the under 13’s. Following an intensive programme of winter training at The Oval he has been selected for games starting in May. Tom has been part of the Surrey CCC performance squad for the last three years.

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to join the weekly County specialist wicket keeping training sessions in Guildford.

He has been selected to play in three matches during May in their first phase of match play and will hopefully be selected for further matches over the summer.

Both players have enjoyed a wonderful start to the season while representing the School.

SPORT LACROSSE SUCCESS FOR HOLLY AND KAITLIN

WORLD SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS Theo qualified in March to represent Great Britain in the sailing Laser 4.7 World Championships in Poland in July 2018.

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o do so, he had to compete against the best in the country on two occasions to earn his place. He will be travelling to Gdynia as part of a 15 strong team of sailors together with parents, boats, support motor boats and coaches to compete with 250 entrants from all over the world. This is his first international event in this class and looking forward to competing, meeting other competitors and being part of the GBR family.

In the lead up to the World Championships, Theo is getting as much practice as possible by competing in the UK ladder events which gives him his UK national ranking. He competed at Draycote in Warwickshire, in this two-day event with a fleet of 29, Theo managed to hold on to second position in some shifty conditions by the first day but was unfortunately beaten into seventh on the second which after some reflection he was pleased with considering the strength of the field.

The next event takes place in Rutland where he will be once again competing in a UK ladder event but also to qualify being coached by the UK sailing team over the summer. A very busy time ahead.

We wish Theo every success in the event and for the future!

CADET CHAMPIONSHIP WIN FOR ELLIE

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ell done to Ellie (Lower Sixth Form) on her fencing success over the summer. On 1 July Ellie took part in the British Cadet Championships which she won!

Over the summer holidays Ellie continued to train hard, and has been invited to join both Cadet and Senior GB training camps held at the Leon Paul Fencing Centre in Hendon. Ellie also took part in

Holly and Kaitlin have recently had some brilliant success after a trial for the U19 Wales program. Kaitlin has been accepted into the Junior Wales Lacrosse Dragons Academy and will join Caterham pupil Izzy who is also a member of the Academy. As a member of the Dragon Academy, Kaitlin will have the opportunity to compete for a spot on a U19 Wales team which will compete in the Home Internationals Tournament held in Scotland in April.

After the trial, Holly was named as a U19 National Squad member. She has already been named as a reserve for the European Championships held in Poland in August. Holly will also be competing for a position on a U19 Wales team which will compete in the Home Internationals Tournament. This is an incredible achievement for Kaitlin and Holly to further develop their skills and lacrosse knowledge. Congratulations for this well-deserved recognition at the international level!

LACROSSE EUROS SELECTION

Following her performance and success at the Junior Home Internationals Lacrosse Tournament this past April, Holly has been selected to represent the U19 Wales Squad in the European Championships held in Poland this August. Having been named a reserve for this team back in January, Holly has worked extremely hard to gain a position on the roster. This is an incredible achievement for Holly to further develop her skills and lacrosse knowledge.

Congratulations for this well-deserved recognition at the international level, Holly! We are very proud of you!

a training camp in Boston, US, in August and subsequently received an invitation from British Fencing to join the Talent Programme which is part of the GB Performance Pathway.

This is a very exciting development and will mean further training and the opportunity to train with world class performance coaches. We wish Ellie all the best in her continued excellent progress.

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Edward (Third Year) has been riding horses since he was very young and now competes for The Old Surrey and Burstow Pony Club and Three Counties Riding Club (Sussex, Surrey and Kent) in all disciplines.

This year Ed has been training hard, and has been successfully competing on his beautiful home bred mare (Leading Lady II). Ed and Lily have been campaigning in the Area qualifiers for Dressage, Show Jumping and Eventing. We are thrilled to report that he won a place at this year’s Pony Club National Championships for Dressage, and British Riding Club National Championships for both Eventing and Show Jumping, was held in the summer. A great achievement as only the top two Qualify from each area, so looking forward to the next chapter.

Well done Ed!

Oliver, Second Year was the mascot for Chelsea on Saturday at the match against Everton. He was so chuffed to finally make it onto the pitch after being on the waiting list for seven years.

FIVE GOLD MEDALS IN LONDON REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Over the May Day bank holiday weekend Amy, Fifth Year competed at the London Regional Championships and came away with five gold medals in the U16 year age group 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 400 free & 800 free – she achieved personal best times in three of the events!

50m free – 27.06 PB, 100m free – 58.13 PB, 200m free – 2:05.37 PB. Well done Amy! We are really proud of you.

BUMPER NUMBERS GAIN COUNTY HONOURS IN SPORT We are delighted and proud that so many of our pupils have gained county honours in sport this year. Congratulations to all pupils who have worked so hard in gaining these fantastic achievements. We wish them every success with their continued sporting endeavours Emily (Upper Sixth) – England National Academy Georgia (Upper Sixth) – England National Academy Izzy (Third Year) – Junior Wales Dragon Academy Poppy (Third Year) – England Regional Academy Madeleine (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Georgie (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Hattie (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Niamh (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Rebecca (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Phoebe (Fourth Year) – England Regional Academy Lottie (Fifth Year) – England Regional Academy Zara (Fifth Year) – England Regional Academy Cat (Fifth Year) – England Regional Academy Pippa (Lower Sixth) – England Regional Academy Roberta (Lower Sixth) – England Regional Academy

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Surrey County Selection to play in Super Counties: Kaitlyn (Upper Sixth) Anna (Upper Sixth) Holly (Upper Sixth) Lottie (Fifth Year) Kitty (Fifth Year) Zara (Fifth Year) Becca (Fourth Year)

Amy (Fourth Year) Hattie (Fourth Year) Niamh (Fourth Year) Madeleine (Fourth Year) Nell (Fourth Year) Suzie Fourth Year) Georgie (Fourth Year)

CATERHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL Mrs. Whittle, other Trustees, Mr. Gabriele, Reverend Thomas, Honoured guests, parents, and pupils. Good morning and welcome to our Prep Speech Day 2018.

MR HOWARD TUCKETT

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am delighted that this morning after many years of Chairing this annual celebration, Mrs. Whittle has graciously agreed to distribute our awards for us this year.

Mrs. Whittle has been a Trustee of Caterham School for many years and in all that time she has proved to be a loyal and supportive guide and sounding board for me. I am always grateful for her kindly support and advice and her insightful questions and comments that have caused me to reflect on many matters over the years.

Having studied languages at university, Suzi changed direction and trained as a Chartered Accountant.

She worked in the profession for ten years before joining the private sector and has for a number of years worked for The Cadogan Estate in Chelsea.

The other part of her life has been spent in and around the theatre. As an actress, she has had many leading roles at a number of theatres in the South East including The Ashcroft, Croydon Warehouse and Polesden Lacey Open Air Theatre. The roles ranging from Shakespeare to modern comedy. In parallel to this she has directed many plays – in recent years at the Miller Centre in Caterham where she was until last autumn the Artistic Director.

Mrs. Whittle, I am delighted that

you can be with us this morning, together with Mr. Whittle who has no role of responsibility at the School but faithfully attends many concerts, services and dramatic performances through each year. Suzi and Peter, it is an honour and a delight to have you both with us this morning.

A special word of welcome too to our Principal Deputy Head, Mr. Gabriele. We are delighted that you can be with us this morning. Mr. Gabriele too is a great supporter of the Prep School and an enthusiastic advocate of our 3-18 teaching model at Caterham.

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September 2015. He read English and History at Oxford and, before coming to Caterham, he taught at Latymer Upper, Eton and Brighton College. Mr Gabriele teaches English at GCSE and A Level.

Mr. Gabriele we look forward to you speaking to us a little later on.

Welcome also to the Reverend Thomas who has so faithfully supported us through the school year.

It is very fitting that you join us here this morning.

I am also very aware that so many of our parents attending this morning have had to make all kinds of arrangements and changes to their usual Friday schedule in order to be with us. You are all very welcome and we thank you most sincerely for making all those arrangements in order to be with us this morning as we celebrate another completed year at our school.

The main purpose of this address is to report back on the year. Those of you familiar with this event know that I take outrageous liberties with this remit and that I tend to use this annual opportunity as a chance for discussing all kinds of other topics and to tell stories. Probably more importantly I comment on my observations. The things I have noticed about you, our pupils.

Because that is my job. I watch you.

I notice things. I weigh-up how each one of you are doing. I talk about you with your teachers and your parents all the time, probably more than you know.

You all know me well enough by now to know that I am interested in all kinds of things in this wonderful world of ours but the thing that keeps drawing my attention, the thing that keeps running through my mind, is how each one of you, our

We have all worked incredibly hard, we have all had many successes....

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pupils is doing. Your academics are very important and my colleagues on the teaching team keep me very well informed about your class-work progress. However, life is more complicated and more varied than just your core academic work. I take a great interest and receive lots of input about each of your school lives as well. Your friendships, your likes, your dislikes, the things you excel at and the things that challenge you.

Your triumphs and very occasionally, your failures. Failure is a fact of life - it is going to happen. It is how you deal with it that interests me.

So here we are, the 6th of July 2018. The year is done. Where did it

go? It seems only five minutes ago that I was having all kinds of meetings to set this year up, and now it is done.

We have all worked incredibly hard, we have all had many successes and it must be said, one or two less successful moments but our school life is meant to be a training ground for real life so I guess we should expect the odd-set back from time to time.

My sincere thanks to all our members of the Prep staff who have worked so hard to ensure the success of this academic year for everyone. I have said before that no-one except me will know how long and how hard our members of staff work, and no-one, except you, our pupils will benefit from all their efforts on your behalf. I am just as likely to run into a colleague at the Prep School in our corridors at any point of a weekend or during a holiday week as I am during school hours. The only way I can acknowledge your dedication and efforts is at functions such as this one and I am delighted to be able to invite everyone here to congratulate and thank all of our members of staff for all that they do for us.

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Caterham School or another school somewhere else. Thank you to all departing pupils for having been such an important part of Caterham Prep School. Remember that wherever you go, you will always be Caterhamians.

You will always be Alumni and you will always be welcome back to visit at any time.

At this point I must ask you all to join me in thanking the team of parents who have labored so long and hard to create the Leavers’ Books that we will be presenting to our departing Year Sixes a little later on. Also, my thanks to the Caterham Alumni Associations and the PA for their generous financial support of this project.

I should comment on some staff changes that will be in place for next year.

Mr. Groves after many years of service, initially as a mathematics teacher and more recently as our Director of Studies has retired. In his absence this morning I would like to thank and congratulate Mr. Groves for all that he has done and achieved for our pupils and the wider school community in the time he has been with us. We wish him well for all that the future holds for him.

Our Art teacher, Mrs. Smith leaves us at the end of this term. My sincere thanks and congratulations to Mrs. Smith for all she has done for us during her time as a teacher

at the school, most recently as our Art Teacher. Mrs. Smith’s quiet good humor and unflappable demeanor will be much missed. We thank you Mrs. Smith for all you have done for us and wish you well for the future.

We congratulate Miss Raffield on the birth of her baby a few weeks ago. Next year in Mottrams, Mrs. Maskatiya will be taking on Year One, whilst Miss Raffield, on her return, will be moving to Year Two. During Miss Raffield’s maternity leave, her class will be taken by Mrs. Egglesfield.

We are very grateful to Mrs. Burdett for having covered Miss Raffield’s teaching for the last few weeks this

year, following Miss Raffield’s earlier than expected delivery.

We congratulate Mrs. Hudson on her appointment to the post of Head of English at the Prep School. Mrs. Hudson’s remit extends from Early Years, through the Prep Curriculum, up to the Year Five and Six section coordinated by Mrs. Howden and on into links with the senior school.

We wish Mrs. Hudson well in her new role.

I am indebted to Mrs O’Donnell, Mr. Crombie, Mrs. Wildsmith and Mrs. Howden for all they have done for the teaching of English in Years Five and Six this year. It has been

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wonderful to have had so many other colleagues join the Prep staff over the year. We wish Mrs O’Donnell every success as she leaves Caterham and moves with her family back to the East Midlands. We congratulate Mr. Crombie on his appointment as Head of English in light of Mrs O’Donnell’s departure. Next year from this team of four, Mrs. Howden will remain with us as our dedicated Year Five and Six English teacher. Mrs. Howden will not only do the teaching in these very important years but as a member of the whole-school English team, with considerable experience now in both the Senior School and the Prep, will provide valuable co-ordination in English in our pupils’ transition between the schools.

We thank other senior school colleagues too for all their enthusiastic input into the various Prep Departments. Mr. Clarke and all of his many colleagues who have so kindly and ably supported our teaching of Games and PE. Mrs. Drummond, Miss Unwin and Mrs. Roberts for all their sterling work in Prep MFL, Mr. Assen and his colleagues in the music department for all of their very generous support and assistance to Miss Taylor and Prep Music. We also thank Mr. Ware for his assistance in Prep mathematics.

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IN SPORT THIS YEAR WE HAVE HAD OUR FAIR SHARE OF SUCCESSES: In February 2018 our U11 A Netball girls came runner’s up in the Surrey School’s tournament at GHS – 25 schools were involved.

In March 2018 our U9 A Netball girls lifted the Caterham U9 Netball tournament, winning all 7 games in the round-robin format.

We congratulate Jessica on her 3rd place finish in the National IAPS Swimming Finals in the 100m Freestyle. This event was held in the National Aquatics Centre in early June.

After a solid football season, the Prep School Rugby sides had their most successful season in the history of the Prep School. The under 11A’s lost just the one game and both the U9 and U8A teams won every game they played, with our U9 team winning the Aberdour Rugby Tournament. Our fourteen Prep rugby teams, across four age groups that we put into the field won 75% of their matches.

The cross-country team had a successful outing at the Warlingham Cross Country event with the team winning each of the four categories (U9 boys and U9 girls and U11 girls and U11 boys).

Each year we get a little more streamlined and efficient at providing the very best model of a through education. To all of my colleagues across the entire range of the Prep and the Senior School who have worked so well together and looked for intelligent, workable links, for the benefit of our pupils, you have my very grateful thanks and my sincere appreciation for a job well done.

Whilst on the topic of thanks, a special word of thanks and congratulations on a job well-done to our Deputy Head, Mrs. Ingrassia, who quietly carries so much of the load of the day-to-day running of the Prep School. Mrs. Ingrassia is at Birmingham University today where her son Luca, an Alumni of Caterham, is graduating. We offer Mrs. Ingrassia and Luca our best wishes and sincere congratulations on this special day. To Mrs. Browett-Clements, our Head of Pre-Prep, my grateful thanks too for all of your hard work and support in running all that happens in Mottrams in EYFS and Key Stage One. To the Headmaster, Mr. Jones, our Bursar, Mrs. Higgs and my other colleagues on the School’s Senior Leadership team, my grateful thanks for all that you do, most of it unseen on the surface of Prep School life but all of it vital, my grateful thanks.

Our Board of Trustees have had a very busy year. A year ago we were a member of the greater UL group of schools and academies. Thanks to the energies and expertise of so many of our Trustees who together with the Headmaster and the Bursar made such heroic efforts we now delight in the fact that Caterham School is once again a truly independent school. My thanks to all of our Trustees for all the hard work you take on for the School in general. All of your efforts being especially significant as they are all entirely voluntary.

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school. Thank you for backing us.

Thank you for your engagement and thank you especially for the many kind and encouraging comments we receive throughout the year.

This year, like many others has brought its fair share of exciting and different experiences. I would like to take a few moments to reflect on a few.

In Science this year we have

robot you could talk to. Following our success we look forward to steering the next wave of pupils to this competition in future.

The last year has also seen the development of the school’s Debating Activities. Our Inter-House Debating competition was a fascinating event. The final was held between two Viewpoint teams.

Eventually won by Charlotte and

It is this very kind of creativity and the increasing need for such thinking that will challenge our pupils as they enter the workplace... celebrated all things ‘Science’ during British Science week. which was celebrated back in March. This included a very loud and colorful assembly in the Humphrey’s Theatre, led by some of our inspirational Sixth Form students. Our pupils also enjoyed some lessons in the senior school science lab and a Science poster competition. The theme for the posters this year ‘Exploration and Discovery’ and five posters were selected to be sent to the British Science Association in London.

This year we also took part in the United Learning Ideas Competition, This was the first time we had competed. Pupils are required to generate an idea that would change the World. It could literally be anything, as long as the idea had a positive impact on the World. Our pupils came up with some great ideas and our winning design was a

Narayan in the face of some very stiff competition from House mates Jason and Charlie. All debaters throughout the competition were absolutely fantastic and the quality of debating was wonderful from so many participants. We look forward to next year’s competition already.

We were delighted to learn earlier this year that from well over 1600 entries across 250 UK schools, Charlotte’s poster was picked as the winning entry for the Young Geographer of the Year Award, in the 9-11 Year Old category. Charlotte was invited to attend an awards ceremony at The Royal Geographic Society in November last year where she was awarded her very handsome trophy

by Alistair Humphreys, a modern day explorer. Well done Charlotte, this is a very impressive achievement. I hope Charlotte’s success will encourage more of our young Caterham

academics to enter similar national competitions in the future.

As this is such a special award, it gives me great pleasure to be able to re-award this trophy from The Royal Geographic Society to Charlotte this morning.

A particularly visual development at the Prep School has been the installation of our new decking facility in the Prep playground. We are indebted to our colleagues in the Bursary and the maintenance team, in particular Mr. Dave Perkins who built the decking single-handedly, for this provision. The deck makes a very handsome addition to our grounds.

To our Parents Association, an additional word of thanks as they provided the four very solid bench and table combinations that furnish the decking surface. This now means we can use this area as an out-door classroom facility or just as a quiet area to sit and chat at during play times. I am particularly pleased that the benches and tables we have purchased are made of recycled plastic. Given the amount of time in Prep School assemblies and other forums we have spent this year discussing the World’s challenges in facing the impact of unwanted plastic, particularly in the oceans, I am delighted that we have such an outstanding example of what the possibilities are for recycled plastic. It is this very kind of creativity and the increasing need for such thinking that will challenge our pupils as they enter the workplace as young adults in a few short years’ time.

A school is a constantly

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Mrs. Driscoll has some very exciting plans in mind, many of which will become apparent when we start the new school year again in September.

In addition to the current annual drama schedule, we will be adding further learning opportunities and extra-curricular activities within this subject area. I look forward to sharing and experiencing all of these new projects with you all next year.

Although I have done the same

job at this school and others for a very long time now, I find that each year brings a new or different focus to the one before. Additionally, whilst there is a certain annual repetition to school life. Any repetition on our annual cycle tends to be mostly on paper. The events we hold are regular annual events but the application of them each year is very different, simply because the cohort of students we work with on each event each year is always so different to the group of students we worked with the year before.

I think of our most recent Year 5&6 musical theatre production ‘Yee-Ha’.

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everyone who had been involved, we had actually performed ‘Yee Ha’ once before, about ten years ago.

The same script, the same characters, the same songs and the same awful jokes! Those of us who remember that earlier production all agree though that the two productions were very different, just as good as each other but very different in delivery and interpretation by the pupils who took on all of the different roles.

I guess that in that specific example of our Year Five and Six annual production lies the fascination in what my role is in the school. It is my job to ensure continuity of excellence across the entire range of the Prep School. No child at the

school should ever be denied the opportunity to try. Each pupil should be able to access and experience every aspect of our provision.

Naturally this does not mean that every pupil is going to succeed at everything and there are going to be successes and disappointments in trying everything out, but it is in trying such a range of opportunities and experiences that we learn more about ourselves in our developmental years and start very gradually to define the person we are going to become.

I speak as a Caterham parent myself, I have had two children go through the school. Many of you know my daughter in the Sixth Form, not so many of you will know my son who is now in his mid-twenties and fully engaged in his working life.

To speak to my two children about their experience of Caterham, would seem as though you were hearing about the provision of two different schools, such was the difference of the range of activities and interests that they each followed during their respective Caterham careers. The only similarity they report is that they both agree that their two experiences of Caterham were excellent and that they are both very well set up for all that life has to offer them and challenge them with in future.

So much of my role is in ensuring this divergence of opportunity for learning, both in the academic sense and the ‘experience of life’ sense.

Planning and running school trips, both day trips and residential trips is a very heavy load for teachers, in this age of such awareness of Health and Safety, all of which we fully subscribe to, the administrative load for each trip is significant. Nonetheless, we send out many such trips each year.

I am indebted to my colleagues for all the extra work they take on in planning and running our regime of school trips. I know that if I were ever to question this provision, the teachers would be the first to object, such is the value of each of these

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experiences to our pupils.

It is by balancing our ‘in-school’ provision with our ‘out-of-school’ provision, that we are able to offer each of our pupils such a broad primary experience, in preparation for senior school and all that lies beyond.

Well – until thirty-six hours ago that was the end of my speech. All I had left to add was some vague reference to fishing, which is the annual, very welcome signal that my speech is finally coming to an end.

However, a letter from the Headmaster sent out to the school on Wednesday evening will have informed you that this is my final Speech day at Caterham.

I love my job, I love the great fun I have and I relish its challenges.

I wouldn’t want to be anything other than a Prep school Head. I am indebted to all of you, pupils, parents and all of my colleagues on the staff. You are the school. You are the children and grown-ups that make this remarkable organisation so wonderful.

This is certainly not a goodbye, we still have two terms together but I thought I would share a very short poem I came across recently that neatly sums up what I aspire to be as a Prep Head teacher.

The poem is by Christopher Logue. It is entitled ‘Come to The Edge’.

COME TO THE EDGE Come to the edge.

We might fall.

Come to the edge.

It’s too high!

Come to the edge.

And they came, And we pushed, And they flew.

Christopher Logue.

And now – I congratulate you all on everything you have achieved over the year and I wish you all a very happy and restful summer break. As for me, I really am going fishing now. I wonder what bait they are using in the South China Sea. Thank you.

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Nativity Nursery

In December, pupils in Pre-Prep gave enthusiastic performances of their annual Nativity Plays. 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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Reception Nativity

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Years 1 and 2 Nativity

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NURSERY SPRING CONCERT On Friday 16 March the Nursery parents enjoyed an excellent Spring Concert! The Nursery pupils impressed their mummies and daddies with their fantastic singing and performance skills.

Well done to all the pupils who worked so hard to make the Spring Concert so special and memorable!

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YEAR 2 BAY POND TRIP In June Year 2 went to Bay Pond. It was the longest day of the year and the pupils spent it exploring outside in the sunshine.

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hey had a wonderful time learning about the food chain, hunting and classifying minibeasts and pond dipping.

Highlights included finding creatures in their natural habitats, such as the rare stag beetle, pretending to be a woodlouse and looking for the minibeasts in the pond. An enjoyable day for all! Well done Year 2!

RECEPTION’S DAY AT THE FARM On Monday 2 July the Reception pupils set off on their annual visit to Ladyland Farm!

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hen the pupils arrived they were asked if they would be Ladyland Farmers for the day and help look after the different animals.

Farmer Anne-Marie was their guide and the pupils helped her feed many animals such as sheep and some very young calves. The pupils met all sorts of other farm animals, including some chicks, baby rabbits and goats. 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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ANIMAL MAGIC

Year 1 had an amazing animal experience when a travelling zoo visited their classes!

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s an introduction to their Science topic about Animals the children got ‘hands on’ with a variety

of different species of animals, learning facts about them as well as getting cuddles. Can you believe they met an armadillo, meerkat, bearded dragon, owl, rabbits, ducklings, an albino hedgehog, millipedes, a tortoise, cockroaches and even a wallaby! The children weren’t the only ones excited about this experience, I don’t think the Year 1 classes have ever been visited by so many teachers wanting to have a sneaky peep too!

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PEOPLE 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!

The policemen showed lots of different equipment and uniform which the children were able to try. The children got to go inside a police van and hear the siren!

Nurse Lesley, 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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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!

Also, 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 and rabbits with her for the children to meet!

Mr Woodward visited the children to talk about his role as a doctor and let the children try lots of different equipment.

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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Fire Station Visit ...

In May Year 2 had a very exciting visit from Red Watch at Godstone Fire Station.

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s part of our history topic on the Great Fire of London, Commander Whale and his team came to set fire to some fantastic model Tudor houses that the pupils had made at home from boxes to help us recreate how the fire started.

The pupils were also lucky enough to have a safety talk from the firemen and have designed some super fire safety posters during their PSHCE lesson.

SOME OF THE COMMENTS FROM THE PUPILS INCLUDED:

The flames were so much bigger than I thought they would be!

I was surprised how quickly the fire spread and burnt all our houses.

It felt really hot and the houses collapsed really quickly The ash came down like rain

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The Plague and The Great Fire of London

ON 24 APRIL YEAR 2 HAD AN EXCITING START TO THEIR NEW HISTORY TOPIC ON THE PLAGUE AND THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.

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istory was really brought to life when we were visited by Alfie the Waterman and his pet rat Robert, a very scary plague doctor and Samuel Pepys – all in one day! The children learned all about life in London at the time of the plague and fire and this year we all really entered into the spirit of things by dressing up in 17th century costumes. Thanks to Mr Nott as we even had a ‘dead cart’ to add to our procession around Mottram’s field! A fun day with lots of learning – well done Year 2!

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History trip to TONBRIDGE CASTLE On Tuesday 22 May Year 1 embarked on an exciting adventure, being the first class ever in Caterham Pre-Prep History to visit Tonbridge Castle!

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he children got the opportunity to fire a catapult, dress up in an array of costumes as well as completing brass rubbings and many more fun, hands on activities. They then explored the castle, spotting murder holes and arrow slits and learning interesting facts such as what a Gong Farmers job was. The weather was on our side and we all got to have a sunny picnic in the Bailey before our hike up the Motte to see where the Keep would have been. The children were amazingly behaved and made Caterham School very very proud!

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What an EXCITING and MUSICAL year!

2017-2018 HAS BEEN FULL OF EVENTS THAT HAVE SHOWCASED OUR PUPILS AND HAD SO MANY PREP CHILDREN PERFORMING, LEARNING AND ENJOYING MUSIC. KAREN TAYLOR DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Instrumental Scheme IN THE AUTUMN TERM, ALL PUPILS IN YEAR 3 HAD A GREAT START TO THEIR YEAR

BY PARTICIPATING IN THE INSTRUMENTAL SCHEME.

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ome wonderful sounds were filling the school on a Tuesday and Thursday from everyone trying the Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet, Tenor Horn, Flute and Oboe! After small group lessons for six weeks, demonstrations were given to parents at the end of the term. We even had parents trying to play instruments and participating in long note competitions!!

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MUSIC WEEK What a great week celebrating the work of our music ensembles!

Every choir, orchestra and band got an item together in only five rehearsals and entertained the whole Prep School every morning that week.

Year 5 were also treated to an Opera Workshop. Lots of singing, learning about the stories and characters of Opera and the skills involved. They gave a well-rehearsed performance at the end of the workshop and really enjoyed participating.

HOUSE MUSIC COMPETITION Congratulations to the 120 individual entries in this year’s House Music Competition.

We welcomed our adjudicator Ashleigh Fleming (West End Performer from Phantom of the Opera and the Sound of Music) for the day and she made some tough decisions in trying to award a first place in each class.

Congratulations to the winners listed here who also gave a wonderful concert for parents and pupils showcasing their hard work!

Year 3 Beginner

Brass/Woodwind

Lily, 3T

Year 3 Beginner

Piano

Alexander, 3T

Year 3 Beginner

Strings

Hugo, 3D

Advanced

Piano

Caitlin 8B

Intermediate

Piano

Tilly, 5W

Advanced

Singing

Zoe, 6B

Intermediate

Singing

Zachary, 6B

Beginner

Singing

Ruby, 5D

Beginner

Strings

Abirami, 4T

Intermediate

Strings

Alexander, 3T

Advanced

Strings

Sayano, 6D

Beginner

Guitar

Rhys, 4H

Intermediate

Guitar

Ben, 6B

Intermediate

Drums

Ethan, 6B

Advanced

Brass

Caitlin 6B

Beginner

Brass/Woodwind

Skye, 4H

Intermediate

Brass

Francesca, 4H

Intermediate

Woodwind

Lucy, 5D

Beginner

Piano

Annabelle, 4H

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PREP SCHOOL MUSIC CONCERTS All of our Ensembles have had some wonderful performance opportunities throughout the year.

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he Carol Service, Spring Concert and Easter Services are big highlights of the Prep School year. Every pupil was involved singing, playing and enjoying Music. The Spring Concert featured the first ever performance by our new Prep School Orchestra and also 40 kazoo playing Year 3’s! What an event! All of our classes also gave some brilliant performances in the ‘Rock on Caterham’ event.

THANK YOU to all of the Prep pupils for giving their time and enthusiasm to all of the Music Department ensembles and events! We are looking forward to another great year with some new music groups and new opportunities for all.

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Ye-Ha!

I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE OUR YEAR 5 AND 6 PUPILS FOR THEIR WONDERFUL PRODUCTION OF YE-HA! I KNOW HOW TIRED YOU ALL WERE AT THE END OF IT, BUT WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU ALL DID! I AM VERY PROUD OF EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF THIS WONDERFUL PRODUCTION.

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by Caterham Preparatory School at The Leatherhead Theatre, 9/11/2017 appraised by Melanie Grossenbacher I would like to offer sincere thanks and congratulations to Caterham Preparatory School for your wonderful production of Macbeth as part of the 2017 Shakespeare Schools Festival. Students and teachers alike have put hard work, imagination, determination and passion into this production, and were a credit to the school. I'd like to take this opportunity to highlight just a few fantastic moments that you should be especially proud of.

 This was an atmospheric and inventive production. You held your audience on the edge of their seats and there were moments where we would have heard a pin drop in the auditorium, such was your command of the space.  Your delivery was clear and purposeful and you had made really interesting and intelligent choices for your staging. I loved your dramatic battle to open the show, moving swiftly into the spooky witches. There were lots of clever details, like that gorgeous transition from a dark, bloody murder scene into a room of Lords and Ladies at a banquet! You used your ensemble to great effect adding drama and intensity and demonstrating skilful stagecraft.  Those voices! Wow - I think this cast could deliver a masterclass in projection! Your delivery was not only loud and clear but full of meaning so each line packed a punch.  I loved how brave you all were on stage. You each committed 100% to your characters and the effects were outstanding.

Congratulations and well done to everyone involved in this dark, dramatic, punchy and powerful Macbeth!

Congratulations to everyone involved in this superb production. I hope to see Caterham Preparatory School in the Festival again next year.

Melanie Grossenbacher

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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.... Out, damned spot! out, I say! ... Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Something wicked 197 this way comes.... This is a sorry sight. When shall we three meet again.

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DEFENDER OF THE REALM: AUTHORS’ VISIT On Thursday 28 September Prep children were able to attend a very entertaining and informative workshop with Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler, award-winning TV scriptwriters and authors of the Defender of the Realm books.

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hey learned about how writers develop their ideas, the importance of redrafting and editing your work and how to cope with failures. The pupils enjoyed seeing how an original idea about a toilet was gradually transformed into an episode of Danger Mouse! Finally they were able to have their books signed. We are very grateful to Mark and Nick for such a wonderful workshop which we know will have inspired pupils to develop and improve their own writing skills.

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Bebras National Competition The results from the 2017 Bebras National Computing Challenge Competition are in. Each pupil 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 Tanya who managed to get 113/152 in the Castors category for 8-10 year olds, a super result and she is awarded a well deserved Best in School certificate for this category.

Certificates of Distinction for being in the top 25% in this category also go to Anya, Ava, Orin, Sam, Rhys, Alexander, Livvy, Lucy, Thomas, Bradley, Felicity, Rhian, Abigail, Harry, Grace, Roisin, Brooke, Stanley and Ava. In the Year 6 category (10-12 years) the questions become harder with penalties for getting them wrong.

Jason earned the top mark of 104/200 and received a Best in School for Juniors category certificate. These pupils

received certificates of Distinction for being in the top 25% – Cosmas (just 1 point behind Jason), Casey, Sayano, Jake, Sara, Will, Isabelle, Caitlin, Elle and Benjamin.

In the lower age group, the Year 3 pupils 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 Lucas and Alexander with a score of 86/120, and they receive the Best in School certificates for this category.

Certificates of Distinction in the Kits category go to Taliah, Shaily, Harry, Liam, Drew, Hugo, Llewelyn and Henry.

CHARLOTTE WINS

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY YOUNG GEOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION From well over 1600 entries across 250 UK schools, Charlotte’s poster was picked as the winning entry for the Young Geographer of the Year Award in the 9-11 year old category.

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o say we are proud of Charlotte is an understatement. She was very deserving of her lovely awards, as well as her goodie bag full of personalised geographical items. A wonderful award ceremony took place at The Royal Geographic Society on Friday 24 November, with a presentation by Alistair Humphreys, a modern day explorer.

Charlotte’s poster responded to the competition question, ‘What is the geography of your favourite place?’

Young Geographer of the Year is a national competition run by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to encourage pupils to engage with geographical issues. Steve Brace, the Society’s Head of Education and Outdoor Learning, said, “Our winners chose locations near and far – from the Isles of Scilly to Mount Fuji and from Braithwaite to the Galapagos Islands. In all of their entries they demonstrated high levels of geographical knowledge and understanding in order to reveal the diverse geographies of their favourite places.”

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Primary Maths Challenge

SUCCESS

Four pupils from Y6 have been presented with awards by The Mathematical Association in this year’s Primary Maths Challenge (PMC). This prestigious honour demonstrates their achievements as some of the best young mathematicians in the UK.

Our Year 6 pupils competed alongside 68,000 children across the country, successfully answering a variety of multiple choice mathematics problems.

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he first stage of the challenge took place in November 2017, when our Year 6 pupils competed alongside 68,000 children across the country. Successfully answering a variety of multiple choice mathematics problems, Jason, Caitlin, Isabelle and Cosmas joined approximately 3,500 of the highest scorers who were invited to take part in the PMC Bonus Round in February 2018.

We received the results last week and are delighted to have someone achieve our first ever Gold Medal, very neatly supported by two Silvers!

Jason was awarded a Gold Award (only 167 awarded) and Caitlin and Isabelle were awarded Silver (657 awarded) VERY WELL DONE TO ALL WHO TOOK PART AND A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD WINNERS.

PRODUCE SHOW Once again the annual Produce Show showcased the amazing talents that our pupils have been nurturing out of School.

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he hall was filled with vegetables, fruit, sweet and savoury goods, handiwork and models. The judges had a very difficult task and commented on the high standard of entries throughout the show. We have some budding chefs and artists in our midst.

I am happy to report that, for the third year running, Brooke’s amazing produce resulted in her being awarded best in show. Special mention, and runners up certificates were awarded to Charlotte and Francesca who produced an amazing variety of top quality produce and are definitely hot on Brooke’s heels. The standard is constantly improving every year. All money raised will be donated to one of our School’s charities.

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Thanks to Mrs Thompson for organising such a popular event and to Knight’s Nursery for sponsoring and judging the categories. Pictured here is Brooke, who won best in class, and Charlotte and Francesca who were runners up. Thank you also to Knights Nursery for their generous support.

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ROMAN DAY Year 3 had great fun joining in with the many activities on offer on Roman Day.

They were in good voice with plenty of fierce war cries in battle and lots of chanting at the Gladiator Show. They became Celts and Romans for the day handling real ancient artefacts and eating food based on Roman recipes.

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Here’s what the pupils had to say: “I don’t really have a favourite thing but I do know it was SERIOUSLY FUN!” Abigail

“We had Latin lessons and we wrote on beeswax tablets.”

Tara

“We also made a lunula which is a necklace that kept girls safe until they were grown up.”

Lily

“One of my favourite things was playing with the coins and guessing if they were real or fake.”

Reya

“I loved Roman Day.” Adam

“I had such an amazing time with the Roman experts.”

Jossie

“My favourite part of Roman Day was being Empress because I got to make speeches and clap before anyone was allowed to eat.”

Ava

“At the banquet I enjoyed tasting the smoked mackerel and the mussels because even though they looked disgusting, they were quite nice.”

Sophia

“My favourite part of Roman Day was being a Roman Soldier fighting the Celts because we made a real Roman protection with shields to protect us from the Celts who threw stones at us.”

Henry

“My favourite part of Roman Day was the feast because we got to try all different food that the Romans would have eaten.”

Hannah

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Sutton Life Centre is a unique, state of the art educational and community facility promoting good citizenship, personal safety and the environment. The award winning Life Skill Tour helps equip pupils with the skills and knowledge they need to make safer, healthier and more informed life choices.

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n the summer term Y6 visited the centre and as well as experiencing the amazing 360 degree white room theatre which delivered immersive videos about the environment, we took tours around the Street, Transport and Home Experiences, covering a wide range of topics from fire safety and nutrition, through to peer pressure and internet safety.

We talked about drugs and social media.

It was creepy when they showed us the fake account.

SAMMY

The staff were superb and really knew their stuff.

CASEY

To be honest I thought it was going to be boring– but it wasn’t!

JACK

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Year 2 and 4

PLANETARIUM In February the Learning Dome visited the Prep school!

IT 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 Six 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.

Year 4 visit

PRESTON MANOR & HOVE MUSEUM

In June, Year 4 visited Preston Manor and the Hove Museum, where they consolidated their learning about ‘The Victorians’ in a very hands on way!

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reviously, as part of their History lessons, the children had all written job application letters either for a Footman, Oddman, Housemaid or Kitchen maid. All children dressed up in character and, armed with their letters, they spent their time learning how to be an exemplary servant. The staff at Preston Manor were completely in character from start to finish and so the children all took their jobs extremely seriously. We had a thoroughly enjoyable day.

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Year 6 Day Trip to

FRANCE “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

THIS WAS CLEARLY EVIDENT AS THE DAY IN FRANCE PROGRESSED.

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espite a very early start our day could not have run more smoothly, from perfect weather to fantastic teamwork and excellent planning all round. We had friendly yet responsible coach drivers who took great care in delivering us to our destinations on time. First stop was a packed breakfast of croissants whilst waiting to board the Eurotunnel. Just 35 minutes’ later we were in France on our way to a French market. Each group worked together to decide which products to purchase for lunch and then took turns buying a range of delicious fresh food to eat for lunch.

It was quite difficult to persuade the pupils not to eat any of their food products before arriving at Nausicaa, an aquarium that is designed to make people more aware of the need to manage the Oceans in a sustainable way. Shrieks of delight were heard as the pupils devoured their lunch and stretched their legs

in the park outside Nausicaa. Many was baked in an oven that was commented that they ’had never fuelled by dry and aromatic wood tasted such delicious fresh food to enhance the flavour of the bread. before!’ With full stomachs and They learnt about the differences happy hearts the pupils bounded between a local artisan bakery and into the aquarium and spent a very a larger bakery that produces bread enjoyable two hours learning about in electric ovens. Learning how to and seeing many different types make croissants was the final part of sea animals and fish. One of the of the day but a part that the pupils best moments was watching a short will remember for a very long time 4D movie to come.

ONCE INSIDE THE BAKERY THE PUPILS en Français Every pupil WERE SHOWN HOW TRADITIONAL (with English who went FRENCH BREAD WAS BAKED IN AN subtitles) whilst on the trip OVEN THAT WAS FUELLED BY DRY AND being rained is now able AROMATIC WOOD TO ENHANCE THE upon and to recite the FLAVOUR OF THE BREAD. having the wind ingredients blowing in our faces, all the while required for croissants en Français wearing 3D glasses. Many pupils and has practised rolling the pastry were able to recognise the names of into the correct shape. A coach load the animals from the French labels. of tired pupils wound its way back A quick trip to the shop to Caterham Preparatory School to purchase a gift to take safely and soundly after an extremely home enabled the pupils enjoyable day. Many thanks to all to practise their French the pupils who behaved beautifully, speaking even further all the staff who accompanied the before jumping back onto pupils and to the many organisers of the coach to go to a bakery. the trip behind the scenes. I think it Once inside the bakery the would be fair to say that the pupils pupils were shown how perceived the world from a different traditional French bread perspective that day.

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Wisley

Year 3 had a wonderful trip to Wisley Gardens on what was probably the hottest day of the year so far.

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e spent the morning session studying seeds and learning that a seed is a living thing that has the potential to become a plant. We spent some time studying a number of different types of seeds and learning the different methods of seed dispersal. Once we had established the essential needs of a seed, we took a guided walk around Wisley Gardens, making a tally of the different types of seed dispersal that we could find. The pupils were fascinated with the seed pods from different parts of the world and noted how some of them could be made into musical instruments and even into water containers (without a drop of plastic).

The exploding pods seemed to be immensely popular with the pupils and they were extremely amused to find out that some seeds are eaten by animals and birds and then dropped elsewhere in their waste product.

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After a relaxing packed lunch, we took the pupils on a self-guided tour, with particular emphasis on the fruit orchards, where they could see the fruits and how these are connected to the seed cycle. From there we looked at the fruit gardens and the herb gardens. In the herb garden the pupils were able to smell many

different scents, including chocolate mint. We had a brief glimpse of the rose garden before we explored the different vegetables growing in the vegetable patch. The pupils had to decide if the roots of the vegetables were edible or not. A quick walk down bonsai alley took us to the incredible glasshouse, where many different tropical plants were spotted.

Each pupil should have brought home a pot with a few zinnia seeds in them. They should be able to watch these germinate and grow over the summer holiday and we would love to see some photographs. Finally, a group of tired, hot and bothered pupils were herded back to the coach for our return to school.

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BUSHCRAFT 2018 Just after half term in June the Y6 pupils set off to get back to nature in deepest darkest Oxfordshire.

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ornbury Park, formerly a hunting lodge and boasting the largest privately owned woodland in the country, the deer parks, beautiful lakes and thousands of acres of woodland offered the perfect backdrop to head back to the wild.

The 3 day residential adventure acts as a fantastic step towards

the development of leadership skills; demanding resourcefulness, decision making and practical thinking from the students. It offered them the chance to interact away from the distractions of everyday life, taking them out of their comfort zones and encouraged both independence and teamwork … and they loved it!

Bushcraft was one of the best trips I ever went on…. the best bit was the freezing but fun lake. CASEY Bushcraft was unforgettable!

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It rained one night but I didn’t hear it - I was sooooooo tired I was fast asleep. LUKE I liked it at Bushcraft because it was a chance to learn how to survive in the wild and not to always be on your iphone! BETH I really, really enjoyed my time in Bushcraft and I will remember it for years and years to come! IZZIE I loved everything!

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PREP SCHOOL SPORT Football The boys had a very satisfactory football season and competed well all term.

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he Colts A team started brightly winning their first 5 games. The boys played some wonderful football with Joel solid at the back with Ethan. Sammy and Jack worked tirelessly in midfield with Phoenix and Jacob prolific up front. The boys ended the season with a goal difference of plus 18 which demonstrated their attacking style of play.

They finished the season with 5 wins, 2 draws and a solitary loss. There was heartbreak at own Caterham tournament where the boys lost to Hawthorns in the final on penalties.

The B team played the same attacking style of football for the season and finished with exactly the same record as the A team in winning 5 and losing just once. The heartbeat of the team was Harry, William and Joshua who never THE ‘B’ TEAM PLAYED THE SAME stopped battling ATTACKING STYLE OF FOOTBALL AND all season. The C FINISHED WITH EXACTLY THE SAME Team also played RECORD AS THE ‘A’ TEAM IN some very attractive WINNING 5 AND LOSING JUST ONCE. football and finished the season with a balanced record of 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. The D team won half of their matches but ‘team of the season’ goes to the E team who went unbeaten all season.

The Under 9 team failed to live up to their exceptionally high standards they set themselves in Year 3 and missed the killer touch in front of goal. The A team won over half their games but the B and C team struggled against tough opposition.

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The Under 8A team also struggled on the football field but they did finish the season on a high with a fine win over Hawthorns. The B team were very strong and played well as a team and won all their games. The team was inspired by Liam, Henry and Hugo. The C team also battled well all season and played some great football winning half their matches.

Rugby It was a record breaking rugby season with the boys across the board having their most successful rugby season in Prep School history.

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he decision to have an extended build up to the rugby season was fully justified and the style of play the boys delivered was fantastic to watch.

The U11A team had a fantastic season winning 6 of their 7 games and played a beautiful expansive style of rugby. Ethan was destructive with the ball in hand and his defence was even more ferocious. The boys played as a team with Sammy, Joshua, Jack, Fraser and Branden all contributing throughout the season. The team were well lead from the front by William. The B team also put in some fine performance with just the solitary loss. The Under 10A team lead my Max also had an outstanding season winning 5 of their 6 games. There was hard running

by Phoenix and Jacob and it was most pleasing to see the boys had firmed up their defence from last year.

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PREP SCHOOL - SPORT Arguably the team of the season was the Under 9A team who won every game they played. The team were well served by the defensive work of Luke and the electrifying pace of Zac. The team did worked so hard together with Jamie, Leo, Rehan, Oliver and Rory never taking a backwards step and showing real creativity with the ball in hand. Highlights of the season were victories over a very good Hawthorns team away and a very physical Homefield. The boys ended the season as top seeds at the Aberdour festival.

A team to rival the U9A team for team of the season could be the U8A team who put the disappointment of the football season behind them to win every game in style scoring an impressive 68 tries in the process. The handling and movement of the boys was so impressive and all the boys deserve a huge congratulations. Well done to Harry, Monty, Drew, Llewelyn, William and Kristian.

Overall this was our most successful season ever and we look forward to building on this success next year,

Cricket

Netball

The Prep School cricket season saw some thrilling games played across all year groups with improvements made by all players.

The girls participated in over 70 fixtures throughout the Netball season, winning many closely contested matches against our local rivals.

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he Prep School cricket season saw some thrilling games played across all year groups with improvements made by all players. The Colt’s A team enjoyed two wins in their season including a stunning finish to their final Prep School game, needing 5 runs to win from the last ball with Ethan hitting a brilliant six to clinch victory against The Hawthorns. Ethan, along with Jack, Sammy and Casey were strong performers for the A team throughout.

The B and C teams enjoyed 6 wins from a possible 10 as they improved their batting and bowling, with many strong individual performances being rewarded with places in the A team. The U9’s also enjoyed a successful season, with the two teams picking up 6 wins from their collective 10 games. Key basic skills were built upon and game awareness introduced as the boys enjoyed some superb games. The U8’s were introduced to cricket and worked on the consistency of their bowling as well as their striking of the ball. There were two brilliant games against Banstead with the B team participating in a rare tied match.

Cricket colours awarded to: Jack, Sammy, Casey and Ethan.

he high success rate is a huge testament to the skill, commitment and enthusiasm of all Caterham Prep girls.

The U8’s, although still learning the rules and tactics of the game, fully immersed themselves in all their fixtures and developed a much greater understanding of the rules and tactics of the game as the season progressed. More than half of the matches played ended positively in terms of results and the team spirit and willingness to learn bodes well for next season.

Player of the Season: Sophie Most Improved Player: Aylena/Reya Unsung Hero: Shaily The U9’s had a very successful season showing flair, skill and teamwork to secure some excellent results. The A’s only lost 3 games throughout the winter, whilst the B’s were unbeaten, securing 5 victories and 2 draws – a great achievement. The icing on the cake for this year group was winning their own Caterham Tournament, beating all 8 opposing teams to secure victory. Well done!

Player of the Season: Emma/Lucy Most Improved Player: Grace Unsung Hero: Francesca

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PREP SCHOOL - SPORT The U10 girls had a mixed season but are definitely beginning to show greater commitment, determination and tactical awareness and there is no doubt that with a full fixture list ahead of them in Year 6 they will fulfil their obvious potential and secure many victories. Stand out performances by a number of the girls will also inspire and motivate the teams moving forward.

Player of the Season: Olivia Most Improved Player: Coral Unsung Hero: Lucy The U11 age group continued to make exceptional progress in Netball with the A squad winning the majority of their matches. The highlight of the season was securing ‘Runner’s up’ position in the prestigious Surrey Schools’ tournament. It was end to end Netball throughout the afternoon with all teams demonstrating some fast flowing and skilful match play. Throughout the competition Caterham displayed fantastic defensive skills, working hard to break down the opposition’s attacking options. The semi-final was an extremely exciting affair as Caterham were matched against St Hilary’s, a highly competent team who had already beaten us in the group stages. Undaunted the girls continued to play with great commitment and effort and secured a magnificent 5-2 victory to secure a place in the Surrey School’s U11 Netball final. Huge congratulations must go to all the girls who took part, as their team effort and support for each other at crucial moments was fantastic. Finishing in second place out of 25 highly competitive Surrey schools is an outstanding result and bodes well for our young players’ future netball careers. Well done Caterham!!

Player of the Season: Jessica/Isabelle S Most Improved Player: Sayano Unsung Hero: Alice/Emily

Rounders The Rounders season is always thoroughly enjoyed by the Caterham Prep girls.

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espite a short summer term 37 matches were played, with victories in 2/3rds of all fixtures. The U11A’s won all their matches, whilst the U9A and B and U8B squads lost only one game each. All year groups adopted a competitive, enthusiastic and committed approach to practices and matches and must be congratulated on a highly successful and fun filled season.

Players of the Season: Sophie, Lucy L, Lucy B, Jessica, and Beth.

Most improved Players: Tara, Francesca, Felicity, Sayano, and Mathilda.

Unsung Heroes: Aylena, Grace, Daisy, Jasintha and Caitlin.

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Lacrosse Lacrosse continues to go from strength to strength at the Prep School with opportunities to experience the game in co-curricular clubs and matches against the U12’s from the Senior School.

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ear 6 girls continue to sign up for the exciting and action packed after school practices led by the Senior School coaches and have enjoyed their experiences so much that many have joined the local Lax clubs to extend their experience and skill base in this fantastic sport.

Player of the Season: Isabelle S Most Improved Player: Beth Unsung Hero: Isabelle G

Hockey The introduction of girls’ Hockey in to the curriculum has proved very popular.

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he pupils have benefitted hugely from the fortnightly input from the Senior School Hockey Academy Head Coach – Peter Friend.

A restricted number of fixtures were contested during the Autumn Term and although results may not have gone our way, team spirit, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn were highly evident in all matches played. Skill levels and tactical appreciation are continuing to improve across the age groups and many of our Year 5 and 6 pupils are developing their abilities through the local club pathway.

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Cross Country

Athletics

Outstanding Performance at Warlingham Cross Country as Caterham Clean up!

Year 5 and 6 Athletics meet v Lingfield College and Reigate St Mary’s.

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he Prep School Cross Country Team put in their best ever performance on Monday at The Warlingham Cross Country Meet. In a freezing blizzard our runners showed great resilience and determination in tackling the course in unforgiving conditions.

The Under 9 mixed team were the first to race and performed incredibly well with Zac winning the race, Jamie coming in third, Rehan was fifth, Sam twenty first and Annabelle forty forth. With the first four home counting Caterham won the team event.

The Under 11 Girls team performed equally well with Isabelle G coming in 3rd, Caitlin 4th, Isabelle S 10th, Brooke 16th and Beth 20th. These results again proved impossible to beat and Caterham won the team event.

The U11 Boys had two tough acts to follow as the weather deteriorated. The boys rose to the occasion with Ethan winning the race, Sammy 6th, Ben 7th, Jack 12th and Jake 25th. These fine results meant Caterham won the team event again completing a fine clean sweep of all the races.

The children are to be congratulated on not just some fine results but the way they conducted themselves in such trying conditions.

U9 Mixed – 11 schools, 70 runners: Team 1st Place and won by Zac U11 Girls – 12 schools, 72 runners: Team – 1st Place U11 Boys – 12 schools, 76 runners: Team 1st Place and won by Ethan

nder the beautiful sunshine the Prep School athletics team enjoyed a fantastic match against Lingfield College and Reigate St Mary’s. There were some fantastic performances all round which rewarded all the hard work our pupils had put in during this summer term. The competition was very close with Caterham winning the year 5 match 149 to Reigate’s 138. In the Year 6 match which also involved Lingfield College, the Prep School girls and boys ran out winners with 128 points compared to Reigate’s 93 and Lingfield’s 91. Congratulation to all the pupils who took part in both the track and field events.

Swimming The Prep School swimming has continued to go from strength to strength.

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fter starting the year with a convincing win over Royal Russell by 390 to 210 we endured a narrow loss to Hazelwood.

In our last gala of the term the Prep School swim squad delivered their most comprehensive performance of the year. From the very first race Caterham dominated the pool with the year 3 swimmers leading the way. At the end of the individual races Caterham led 299 to 185 and by the end of the relays the lead had stretched and Caterham won the gala 374 to 230. Congratulations to all the swimmers who took part.

Congratulation must also go Jessica who came 3rd in National Finals at the London Aquatic Centre in the 50m Freestyle.

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Sports Crew Training On the morning of 1st February, six primary schools including Caterham Prep School were in attendance at Caterham School sports centre for a Sports Crew training event led by Active Surrey.

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he Sports Crew training was a great opportunity for all pupils involved to develop their leadership skills, educating them in planning intra-school competitions and equipping them to become sports ambassadors at their respective schools. The three hours training received covered theory around the STEP principle (Space; Time; Equipment; People) and practical activities putting their learning into motion. There was also plenty of practical examples to embrace a growth

mind-set allowing them to reflect on their learning.

The session was really enjoyable for all involved and led both expertly and professionally by Abigail Price at Active Surrey.

Prep School Sports’ Day On 29 June all the pupils in Pre-Prep took part in their Sports’ Day. It was a beautiful day and the pupils enjoyed a variety of races, such as egg and spoon, sack race, grab a brick and, of course, the very competitive relay race. Yellow House won by just 3 points in the afternoon, so congratulations to all who took part. Thanks goes as well to the wonderful Year 6 helpers who gave up their time on the day.

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