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LOVEDAY HOUSE CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER 2011

Loveday House awards Summer Term 2011 Academic Wilkinson cup (Senior): Alistair Young Garnsworthy trophy (Junior): Nathan Thorpe,

Cameron Henderson, Nat McAaleese-Park

Other junior school academic awards: Richard Round Will Wright Angus Barrett

House Colours Awards

Sport

Representative Socks: Thompson cup (Junior): Freddie Philips Ali Clift, Max de Young, Christian Russell Franklin cup (Senior): Felix Irwin-Brown Kola Fadahunsi, Noah Hathaway, James Bennett Foley Jnr Rackets: Will Jay Charlie Serjeant, Jamie Linford, Alasdair Douglas Rackets Cup Senior Rackets: Alistair Smith Young Harry Blevins, Henri Martin, Felix Sudderick Giorgio Bounous, Harry Moore, Ollie Pope Fellowship Matthew Coates, Kyrylo Polyvoda, Winter Cox Smith Cup (Junior): Kola Fadahunsi Senior Cup: Ollie Edwards Half Colours Re-award: Nick Edwards, Will Jay, Kuziva Music Ndewere Junior: Ben Mills Senior: Ian Lee New award: Maurice Wills, Ali Clift, Edgar Akhmedov, George Bryden, Harry Jervis, Drama Hugh Phelps, Angus Barrett, Bill Bathurst, Fey Cup: Max Hagar Ben Mills, Eddie Mitchell, Freddie Philips Catchpole cup (If) - Matron’s award: George Berry Floating Cup (progress): Felix Irwin – Brown

Full House Colours: Re-award: Charlie Humberstone, Sanjay Appan, Felix Irwin-Brown, Ed Spencer

House Captains Award: Anayi Cup: James Bennett

New award: Alistair Young, Maurice Wills, Tom Farrelly, Will Nicholls, Ed Roberts

Housemaster’s Comments As the wind whistles the leaves around Loveday Quad the sunny start of term seems a long way away. Yet in the fourteen weeks this term the boys of Loveday have been incredibly busy as the depth and breadth of the activities reviewed in this newsletter is testament to.

It has been both an exciting and challenging term for me with the arrival of baby William in October and but also my ongoing back issues (now thankfully mending), however the extended Loveday community has been as supportive as ever and Claire and I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to you all.

Lent term dates for your diary: Upper Sixth Leavers Dinner (parents and boys), 7.30 p.m. Friday 10th February Loveday House Charity Weekend, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th March I would like to wish you all a joyous Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year, from my family to yours.

Andy

great fun. The next day we did team building at the school, we were split up into groups of about 12 people, with two or three 6th formers. We went round on a circulation of activities we were judged on them and given scores then at the end the team with the most points received a prize. It was great fun and helped me gain lots of friends.

Horse Riding This year the NSEA riding championships were held at Addington. In the show jumping we managed to get one team through to the jump off in which they came eighth. Unfortunately in the open class we didn’t manage to retain our title as national champions. On the dressage it was a more successful story. With our dressage team they picked up a first to become national champions. Tom also rode a fantastic test to pick up fifth.

At the riding school, Loveday has several people starting from the foundations including Fourth form Team Building weekend Orlando and Charlie On the first weekend at Cranleigh all the Fourth Humberstone. The two form stay in to do some team building. On the people who have a conSaturday we all went to the Spectrum in Guildford tributed to the houses and went bowling, we were allowed to choose riding have been our who was in our lane and allowed to take some Chef d’equipe Ollie and the riding captain Tom. money to buy a few sweets or something. It was

had never stood up on stage before. Considering this, we was immensely pleased with the performances we gave, as we sang it better in the real performance than in any of our rehearsals. In the end we went unplaced, but this didn’t matter as everyone who had taken part enjoyed the experience to the full.

Public speaking We only got told about the public speaking two days before it started and we quickly assembled a team of Eddie Mitchell, Orlando Taylor and Georgio Bounous , with help from Charlie Humberstone and Ali Young. We decided a topic about the Health Lottery, which we all thought was relevant at the time as well as interesting. On Senior Basketball the day we didn`t place, but we thought we justi- In our first match we came up against North, a weak team and we expected an easy win. With fied ourselves and had fun. most of our points coming from Tom Farrelly Loveday House Public Speaking and the centre of court being held well by Wills After George Lee set the tone with his crushing and Stokes, there was no upset. We came up victory last year, Loveday had high expectations. against Cubitt in the final; this was a match of athThe new team consisted of Kuziva Ndewere, leticism against height, which made it a much Charlie Humberstone and Ali Clift. The title of the main speech was “The Worlds 7th Billion Citi- harder match but Loveday came through victorious by a massive 1 point lead, with every player zen; Tragedy or Triumph”. It was all about the ever increasing world population and how this on the court proving they are big game players. huge population of 7 billion will have adverse affects on our planet, potentially causing irreversible 4th Form Basketball damage if the population was not slowed. After a Our first match was against Cubitt. Jamie Linford great team performance, we managed to win the scored 2 of our best chairman and best main speaker award mak- goals which put us 4-0 up but then ing Loveday, “clear winners”. they got two back which made it levLoveday 4th form house dance.

Before the dance we were all very anxious, we did el. Jamie Linford scored one more not know what to expect. It was so nerveto make it 6-4 and wracking during the performance. After it had we kept the lead ended all we wanted to do was to get back onto the stage and do the whole thing over again. The from then on. So we were through to the final. In the final we had competition was very strong but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and still thought that we should to play East. They scored first. We got one back of won. Many thanks to Ed Stokes, Henry Taylor, and then they scored we couldn’t get one back. In the final 2 minutes Christian Russell had the ball Felix Irwin-Brown and the girls from West for outside of the D shot and scored and we managed their time and support towards the dance. to hold onto the lead in the last couple of minutes, just.

Part Song Having chosen the song “Another Day in ParaSenior Squash dise” by Phil Collins over the summer, practice began in earnest right at the start of term. Whilst We had chosen the team of Ali Young, Felix Irwin- Brown, Charlie Humberstone, Sanjay Appan not having the strength in depth that Loveday have had in previous years, progress was relatively and Will Jay. Our first round was against East and swift thanks to some accomplished pianists from we knew we had been given the harder semi final the West girls we were singing with. When it came but came through with a convincing 4-1 victory.

We then, as expected, came up against Cubitt in to the performance, everyone involved enjoyed the final. Even with the team’s best efforts and a themselves enormously, as many of our number

couple of matches that could have gone either way a 4-1 loss meant we were runners up.

yards of destiny awaited the 5 chosen ones. The first four of: Tom Farrelly, Jack Scriven, Ed Music Loveday isn’t a particularly strong musical house Stokes and Sanjay Apbut we still go into all competitions and concerts pan all struck low penwith heart. This term there was the Helen Ware- alties into the corners, leaving the North with ham Competition for both Brass and Woodwind. no chance. North also In the woodwind section, Justin Browning gave a put away their first 4. promising performance. Ian Lee, Ben Mills and Kevwe, the wannabe Angus Young were all in the Brass section, but first team striker, then sadly Angus Young had to pull out due to illness. stepped up. We were confident he would never let They both gave good performances, despite some us down, and were all expecting the same style of penalty as the first four but it was not to be. He illness floating about. We also had many people decided to opt for a new tactic of aiming between performing Lunch time concerts including; Ian the keeper and the cross bar. Dismay hit the faces Lee, Angus Young, Angus Barrett, Justin Brown- of the Loveday players and boos rung from the ing, Tom Standen- Jewel, Milo Livsey, Ben Mills, sideline. Then Will Jeans scored, leaving us in the Tom Cooper.

3rd place.

SWA and MAS 6th form Football In the first round we played Cubitt, we won 2-1. Rugby House In the second we played East, we got destroyed 3- Matches 0. In the final round, the fight for second place This year’s rugby between us and North, it was a highly anticipated house matches match with rumours circulating all week about were a tactics and teams. The night had arrived, it was combination of like David and Goliath, but they were both the nearlys, almosts and same size. Loveday drew first blood with an epic not quites. strike into the bottom corner, by Sanjay, after In the Lights divisome great link-up play from Stokes and Farrelly. sion the As experiThen north scored, they were pretty standard enced narrow degoals. Then on the verge feats in the first of half time, north round matches but surged forward in an at- rallied to beat Cubitt in the 3/4th playoff. The Bs tempt to stretch there won two of their first round games to go through lead but it was soon to final but lost out to North. Kola Fadahunsi foiled by the expert ref- starred, scoring all their tries! ereeing of the impartial In the Heavies both A and B squads battled hard ref, APF. This caused but again just lost out to end up in 3rd and 4th great controversy in an place respectively. The As were particularly unalready heated match. lucky in a squad where Kuziva Ndewere was outAfter half time we came standing. out all guns blazing and The Seniors A, shorn of one or two our better struck 2 goals in a row to players, enjoyed themselves to beat Cubitt in the put us 3-2 ahead. The first goal was by Jack 3rd/4th play off, whilst the Bs won all their first Scriven and the second by James Corbishley. round matches to carry the hopes of the house Even after some great goal line saves from Matt into the final. Unfortunately a resurgent East Smith and Charlie Humberstone, North managed defeated them despite a valiant effort in a hard to scrape a scrappy equaliser. PENALTIES. 12 fought game..Loveday was placed 3rd overall.