Michaelmas 2013
Michaelmas 2013 House Ties— Alex Jefferies, Harry Eamey, Jerrick Carne, Harvey Jack‐ son, Ollie Sexton, Tom Going & Freddie Banks
Academic Prizes— Ted Walliker, Harry Liversedge, Josh Thomas & Lawrence Fortescue
From the Housemaster
JMW
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 nev‐ er 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!
4th Form X‐Country
Cal St Johnston
As one of the first house events of the year East did a great job and managed to come 2nd despite having three of us com‐ ing in the top five; Niall came 5th Finn came 3rd and I managed to come 1st . A really fun compe on for us all to start off our East House career’s!
Public Speaking
‘Twas week 6 of the Michaelmas term 2013. Freddie Coates and I (Tom Hollidge) made our way down and sat behind the desk. People were, however, ques oning as to the whereabouts of our third person when Harry Horstead drama cally leapt out from behind the stands and, completely unchanged by the audience’s reac on, gave an hilarious two minute speech introducing the team and the topic. Then it was my turn (Tom Hollidge) to deliver the six minute speech presen ng our topic, zero tolerance policing; a er answering a tricky ques on on the topic at the end, I handed over to Freddie Coates. Freddie Coates then gave his two minute speech thanking everyone who had taken part in this year’s junior House public speaking. Unfortunately we ended up second to South House. Thanks must go to James Edwards and Mark Czajkowski East Upper 6th.
N.Richardson, E.Russell, O.Sexton
A talented group of East House Juniors stepped up to the mark as they were called upon to perform in the House Basketball. Needless to say things did not go as planned… we narrowly lost to north (we was robbed). In this game we saw some good baskets and runs from Niall, Josh and Zaid which put us in the third forth playoffs against Cubi . We destroyed them. There were some excellent baskets from George, Thomas and JJ who scored a three pointer pu ng us in the lead. Due to our overwhelming victory against the more inferior Cubi we managed to claim third place for the House. Btw Niall has a poor lid. In the Fi h form compe on, I would firstly like to begin by saying we were far from our full strength team due to injuries, most no ceably Rich Eamey and Joe Hellman who undoubtedly would have made our star ng 5. We came up against Loveday in the 1st round who were the underlining favourites going into the compe on. We then were in the 3rd 4th place playoff up against a very feeble Cubi side. With fresh legs coming from the fives courts of G‐mac and Larwood, east was now feeling strong going into the match. The depth of talent with the physical presence of G‐mac and Larwood being matched with the elegant technical capabili es of Max Subba Row who was ‘flying’ around the top court ‘D’ led East house to a comfortable victory, much to Cubi ’s despair. Overall we came third but believe passionately that had we not played Loveday in the first round we would have progressed further in the compe on. Unfortunately this year, as with most, was not our year on the basketball court for the seniors. Resources had been allocated to winning other events and a lack of hea ng or hot water certainly played against us. Nevertheless a strong and spirited team headed out onto the court to face Cubi . The match was compe ve and close in the early stages with baskets scored for east from Jerrick Carne and Harry Eamey with Jerrick’s being a “free throw”. As the game drew on Cubi ’s relentless a ack finally got the be er of our defence and they beat us. As the compe on is run on a knock out basis this was our only game. Maybe next year!
T.Hollidge, Max La Fosse
On the 6th December three decep vely ar culate young men (James Edwards, Edward Russell and Max Lafosse) took to the lecture theatre stage to argue that the “adolescent” Scotland is not ready for independence. Despite strong undertones of casual racism (“I’ve seen Braveheart. I know what one Scot can do. Are we ready to grant freedom to 5 million more?”) there were some genuinely compelling arguments that did not go unno ced by the judges. However, neither did the “casual racism” or “gentle mick taking of the art of public speaking” as the ever percep ve judge Mr Allison alluded to. Such sharp wit proved to be our downfall, as the judges opted for the compara vely well‐ researched, academic speeches of Cubi and West, leaving us to wallow in the murky back‐waters of regret as we lamented our ill‐judged speech; “Hadrian’s Wall was built for a reason.”
House Basketball
6th Form Football
J Carne
As Tom Landry accurately put it: “Football is an incredible game. Some mes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.” This was certainly true for the East sixth form, Monday Night Football team. The elite East squad stepped out onto Pickup for the first me against Loveday. A slow start led to a weak goal being conceded just before half me, but then the sky‐blues admirably fought back, scoring two late goals from Riva and Wilkinson to win the game by the skin of our teeth. Our next game was against a strong North team, who on paper were very evenly matched to us. But the East army fought hard and secured a strong 3‐0 win, proving their technical prowess with goals from Rooke, Sexton and Carne. As the only unbeaten side going into our final game against Cubi , and with a handy goal difference, a 3‐0 loss would be enough to guarantee East overall victory. But the East machine wanted a final display of the most glorious standard to end a campaign that highlighted individual genius, tac cal awareness and huge amounts of camaraderie. A final 2‐0 victory with goals from Rooke and Carne secured the flawless unbeaten season and ensured the names of all players would forever be remembered in history.