East-Newsletter-Michaelmas-2011

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House Basketball Tom White With a very passionate Senior team, and some willing Junior teams, East turned up to the basketball raring to go.

The seniors unfortunately lost the semi‐final, but we composed ourselves and came out 3rd overall with some great performances form Milward, Lim and Croker.

The 5th form basketball drew both the semi‐final and 3rd/4th place play‐ off, but in both matches we lost on penalty hoops. It could have been a very different result if we had had a bit more luck. The 4th form did incredibly well, winning their first match, they progressed to the final, only to lose narrowly, leaving them in second place. Carne and MacDonald played especially well.

Maybe basketball isn’t our thing but well played boys!

Matrons’ Corner Jen and Sue It’s been a brilliant term. The 4th formers have se led in really well and are turning into a posi ve group. The U6th have been a fantas cally suppor ve year and we are all so proud that the 1st XV rugby team who beat Wellington. A well deserved victory.

We wish all students and their families a res ul and happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year.

Best wishes from Jen and Sue xx

Reminders Can we remind all lower school students that they must hand in all medica on to the Matrons. We will store, record and administer them. All medica on must come in to school in the original chemist’s box with typed instruc ons for dosage, frequency and the students name.

When dayboys stay over can they please bring in bedding and let Mr Lane know at least 24 hours in advance.

Please also try not to send in too much tuck and remember that popcorn is banned because of the mess it creates around the place!

Contacts Housemaster: 01483 542042

Day Warden:

01483 542037

Mr Richard Humes rach@cranleigh.org

Mr Rob Lane

rgl@cranleigh.org

Deputy Housemaster: 01483 542073

Matrons:

01483 542045

Emergency mobile held by Matron : 07596 121105

Mr Stuart Welch sdw@cranleigh.org Jen / Sue eastmatron@cranleigh.org

This term is the longest, most ring and falls in the darkest part of the year.

However, it is also the term in which the House welcomes an en re new 4th form, establishes a new 6th form leadership team, competes in lots of spor ng events and completes a large part of the years’ academic work.

As always, most of the ar cles below are wri en by the boys and hopefully will give you an overview of some of the things that the House has been up to over the past term. Unfortunately, we can never cover everything that goes in a busy House like ours so instead we have tried to highlight some of the best events of the term.

I hope that you all have a great Christmas!

Rob Lane

East‐South win House Performance Compe

on 2011

Michael Dolman 365 days had passed. Tradi on therefore states that it was me for yet another House Performance compe on.

This year was always going to be slightly different from the last as there were new rules in order to make the event for cultured and civilised. It did however, keep the same format: it included a 4th form dance, and a ‘part‐song’, and an a cappella piece of roughly two minutes.

This year the dance had to be choreographed in just 5 hours by members of the U6th—no mean feat with a bunch of fresh faced 4th formers. This year there were so many highlights from all of the dances, but only East managed to successfully incorporate a back flip!

The 4th form were excellent and performed the rou ne with flare and precision: East was pronounced the winner!

Members of every year group from both East and South performed in the part song and they did so magnificently, singing the well known song ‘Halo’ by Beyonce. There were par cularly impressive performances from Rosie Singleton, Phoebe Bagge, and Sophie Marr. The other Houses sang a variety of tracks, all beau fully performed, and overall it was a very tough field but in the end East came in a very close second which was enough to win the en re compe on!

There was a brilliant atmosphere in the House room a erwards with all of East and the South girls who performed with us.

Amazing.

Thanks must go to Mr Jenkins and his team of technicians as well as all of the 6th form who planned and organised both the dance and part‐song. It was an extraordinary event and the quality of performance was high.

Let’s have another win next year!

East in Pictures

House Fives Will Jenkins & Harvey Jackson Juniors We played Loveday in the first round and comprehensively thumped them with a 15‐0 win with help from Richard Eamey and Joel Carne.

We then moved on to face a formidable looking Cubi side in the driving rain. It was a hard fought fight and we ba led to the very end, with Eamey and Carne winning easily again. Monty Clarke and George MacDonald won the deciding game leading the team to a well deserved victory. East looked elite on paper and was elite on the court. It was a great compe on.

Seniors In the Seniors, we faced North in the semi‐finals and the result was never in doubt. The experienced pairs of Lamont and Croker, Jackson and Eamey won their matches. We beat North and were into the final round.

We came up against a tough Cubi side in the final, The third pair of Lamont and Croker were edged out of a victory in a narrow loss to a jammy Cubi pairing. However, it ma ered not as Jackson and Eamey won their game again with ease. A solid performance by all meant yet another trophy was brought home for the East boys.

Seniors smash North & Loveday in House Rugby Tom White Seniors I think it is fair to say East were by far the favourites to win this compe on; we have strength and depth in every part of the rugby pitch.

Our seniors (with 7 out of 10 players represen ng the 1st XV) were outstanding, winning all 3 of their games, placing them in a final against North. Once again, we were favourites for this game, and proved our strength by playing some quick rugby, eventually bea ng North 36 to nil. There were excellent performances from Lamont, Sinderberry, Broughton and Elrington.

The Senior ‘B’ team also played well which was to be expected with the squad being comprised of some very useful 2nd XV players. Winning 2 of their 3 pool matches put them in the final against Loveday. The result was never in doubt, East won 3 tries to nill having played with grit and determina on. The Senior trophy was ours!

Juniors The juniors had some good quality teams with a lot of ‘A’ team players. However, not everything went to plan. In the heavies, we came 1st and 3rd, and in the lights we came 3rd and 4th. Nearly all of the matches were played against some very tough opposi on but everyone played with true East spirit.

Well done to everyone involved and once again the support from the House was phenomenal. East has always been renowned for having the best supporters and it is great to see that this doesn't look like it will change any me soon.