East-Newsletter-Summer-2011

East in Pictures— House Athle cs

An East Win in the Senior House Tennis

Alex Knox

House tennis was another huge success for East as we retained the tle for, what is believed to be, the 25th year in a row.

When looking at the teams at the start of the day, it appeared like it would a ght compe on. However, contribu ons in the third and fourth pairs made up of Michael Dolman, Josh Wise, Rowan v‐s and Ma Cordwell, made sure it was another East event to remember. East managed to brush aside all three houses only losing in one match.

Well done to the team which also included Giles Pamplin, Ollie Metcalfe, and Will Dean – a great performance from everyone.

Seniors smash Loveday in House Cricket and the Juniors finish 3rd Ted Croker and Rufus Wilkinson Senior XI

In the semi‐final, we played North who we put in to bat first. Charlie Rollings and Harry Adolphus got us off to a great start. Despite losing a few up top, we con nued to score well. Ul mately, we finished with a strong 199 runs. North didn’t score quickly and the increasing pressure from Bruno Broughton and Harry Adolphus with the ball led to an East win.

In the final, we came up against a strong Loveday side. We bowled first and throughout the innings we Junior XI fielded well. When pace was taken off the ball, the wickets started to fall. Broughton’s spin got the In the first round an epic East House team played breakthrough we needed and Will Rollings’ bowling against a strong Loveday side. East captained by proved too good for the lower order batsmen. A Wilkinson and Clarke won the toss and took to the spirited effort in the field restricted Loveday to 101. field. Some top bowling from Jackson and Banks Our ba ng performance was outstanding. Adolphus ra led Loveday but they slogged to an impressive and Broughton ba ed superbly, running well and 105. Wilkinson started off the innings with pushing the fielders at every given opportunity. We impressive 35 but we fell 4 runs short in the end. won the match by eight wickets, with an over and half to spare. This truly was a fantas c team effort, In the 3rd/4th play‐off we were put up against and this victory broke the six year reign of Loveday Cubi who won the toss and ba ed. Some good bowling from Lafosse, Harvey, Thomas and Jerrick domina ng Senior House cricket. ski led the team, apart from Will Calnan who injected 60 runs quickly giving them a total of 104.

Harvey Jackson hit an excellent 42 runs from very few balls and good knocks from both George Thomas and Alex Jefferies helped to get us across the line. The winning runs were elegantly dispatched by the one and only Max Lafosse who ended up with a strike rate of 400, not bad!

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A whole House performance in the Swimming compe Louis Charlton

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This year’s House swimming was a li le disappoin ng but never the less incredibly fun. The Juniors had some good performances from James Anderson and Nick Going who both managed to scrape a 2nd place.

In the Intermediates Chris Kinally and Ollie Hill held it together each swimming an event they normally wouldn’t do but s ll placing well.

The Senior compe on was a li le be er with wins in all but three races. There were some awesome performances from Ben Durston and Paul Gallagher. Ben managed to break this season’s school record for the 100m freestyle, and Paul completely destroyed the opposi on in his events and always had a substan al lead at the finish.

Overall, we came 3rd which we were pleased with considering that only one member of the Juniors and Inters was in the School swimming team. A good performance from all who swam and I am sure that our swimming will go from strength to strength next year.

Matrons’ Corner Jenny and Sue Another really busy term . We hope that you all have a lovely summer and very good luck to those with results coming out . See you in September! xxx

Stay over request When dayboys stay over can you please make sure that you send your son in with bedding and that you let Mr Lane know at least 24 hours in advance.

Contacts

Welcome to the new look East House Newsle er. Most of the ar cles below are wri en by the boys and hopefully will give you, as parents, a brief insight into some of the things that we get up to as a House.

It’s been another busy term (and year in fact!) within East. As always, we have had highs and lows, but crucially the boys have tackled them as House and supported each other throughout.

Rob Lane

House Leadership 2011/2012

Housemaster: Mr Richard Humes Congratula ons to Henry Lamont for being selected as House Captain from September.

01483 542042 rach@cranleigh.org

Ben Durston and Ted Croker will be Deputy Deputy Housemaster: Mr Stuart Welch House Captains making up a strong team of

01483 542073 sdw@cranleigh.org three for next year.

Day Warden: Mr Rob Lane

A huge thanks from the House staff and matrons

01483 542037 rgl@cranleigh.org must be given to the en re current LVI who have

been excellent in the House and on duty over the Matrons: Jenny / Sue past term—long may it con nue!

01483 542045 eastmatron@cranleigh.org Emergency mobile held by Matron : 07596 121105

Seniors clinch victory in Golf….

Ma Cordwell We were pitched against Cubi in the first round and with two sets of clubs between a team of 5, a place in the final was not looking likely. However, me was running out for Cubi to even arrive at the course and we were not going to take any late arrivals lightly. With one no show, the score was 1‐ …. and the House raises money 0 before we even started. With wins in three of the for charity Ben Foster remaining four matches due to excellent play by On the first of May Cranleigh School and East house Wise, Broughton and Cordwell, East sailed took part in a 20 mile walk to raise money for the comfortably through into the final against North.

‘Beyond Cranleigh’ project which is aiming to build In the final, the North team appeared strong with a school in Zambia over the Summer. handicaps of 2 and 4 among their top players.

However we fended off some fierce compe on to The walk followed many different terrains from grab the tle, winning the coveted House Golf roads to forests to fields. Nearly everyone from Trophy with a 3/5 victory by Croker, Ghinn and East took part. However it was an early bath for Alex Knox who fell over a gate and injured his arm.

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Some others such as James Wright, Laurence Fortescue and James Bown ended up walking more than the 20 miles a er ge ng lost and arriving back nearly 12 hours a er they le ! Overall, it was a successful day with the school raising nearly £25,000 for the project.

Tom Gudgeon, Jamie Harrison and Archie Clarke all from East shaved their heads for Tildys’ Trust, a charity setup in memory of Cranleighian Tilda Curran, to help with the fight against leukaemia in young people. The boys were three of her close friends at school and they managed to raise over £2,500. Well done!