Loveday House Michaelmas Term Newsletter 2013 Housemaster’s Comments The sunshine of September has made way for the frost and fog of December and I have to say the start of term some fifteen weeks ago seems pretty distant. As ever this has been an immensely busy term for all the boys in Loveday, as the contents of this newsletter illustrate, and I’d like to thank them for their good humour and positive approach to life, even when they have been pretty exhausted in the final weeks of term. They are always good company and, as I often say to visiting parents, I could count the number of Loveday boys who are not doing enough here on one hand – I am much more concerned about the boys who are doing too much! We welcomed nineteen new Fourth Formers and several new tutors to the house at the start of term and I am delighted to say that they are all very much now part of the furniture. In fact I think that within a couple of days of being here the boys had become like sticks of rock with ‘Loveday’ written through the middle of them. Beyond the successes and near-misses of sporting and cerebral house competitions this term two events particularly stand out: firstly the whole school chapel that Loveday House wrote, led and performed in antibullying week. This was a funny and thought-provoking performance and whilst several boys contributed significantly a special mention must go to Nathan Thorpe, the House Captain, for his composed delivery: not easy for a 17-year-old in front of 700 people. Secondly, we were overwhelmed by the response of Loveday families to our appeal for Christmas presents to give to the Guildford YMCA and its female equivalent, Mulberry House. Thank you for your generosity and it was terrific to take over 100 presents to Guildford in the penultimate week of term. Finally, very good luck to the five members of the Loveday Upper Sixth (Justin Browning, Cameron Henderson, Nat McAleese-Park, Angus Young and Nathan Thorpe) who have interviews at Oxford or Cambridge over the holidays. All that remains is for me to wish you all a peaceful and very Happy Christmas, from my family to yours. Best wishes, Andy Logan
Loveday House Chapel This term Loveday house was challenged with conducting one of the chapel services for the whole school. The committee of UVIth comprised of: Nick Edwards, Kuziva Ndewere, Will Jay, Nathan Thorpe, Harry Jervis, Nat McAleese, Hugh Phelps and Max Hager, who together came up with the script and performance. Our theme was antibullying and how important it is in our community to recognise and combat abuse. On the day Harry Jervis’ humour
won over the crowd with his light hearted introduction. Hugh Phelps then had a truly spectacular (all be it rehearsed) fall which convinced the whole crowd. The laughter filled the chapel but Nathan Thorpe’s speech showed how this could have been interpreted as group bullying. He was ably aided by Nat McAleese, who provided some helpful definitions. Max Hager added a somewhat poetic touch by reading “A Creed to Live by” by a Red Indian
Chief. The service was then neatly concluded with two prayers read by Toby Kittow and Freddy Austin. A big well done and thanks to everyone
involved as it went down really well and delivered a very important message. Nathan Thorpe