Queen's

The squash cup did return to the Grove after the team had beaten Manor, 3-2, in a close, hard-fought final.

There has also been healthy rivalry between Houses in the relatively new field of House Plays. The Grove emerged creditably from its performance of "The Press Cutting" by G. B. Shaw. It is a comedy about Suffragettes. Bleach and Smith deserve special praise for their performances while most of the Junior part of the House squeezed into an assortment of dresses and were amusing, but unlikely, suffragettes. We must not forget the production team of Scott, Brown and Stansfleld for their hard work and the latter two for their varied posters which have been a feature of the main school corridor this term.

Rising prices even seem to be hitting the House as we learned that the embellishment fund payments may have to be raised from the longstanding figure of 4s., unless the number of newspapers is reduced.

Finally the House Proms have struggled manfully to exist this term, and we hope that this long Grove tradition will continue when Mr. Harding leaves at the end of the year.

J.C.R.

THE MANOR

This term has been encouraging due to the number of varying pursuits followed, but in terms of success it has been a little disappointing. In the Cross-Country we came fifth despite the efforts of Dunn and Elsy and we came 5th again in the Junior Long Run. Athletics were very disappointing until sports day when some determined running by Stewart and Holmes P. saved us from bottom place. The Squash Team, well led by Fisher, reached the final and lost very narrowly to Grove, while the Shooting Team did one better, coming first equal with Dronfield; Creer should be congratulated for being the only person competing to gain maximum points. Our Junior Chess Team has reached the final of the inter-House competition and we wait until the summer term for this to take place.

Morris has been encouraging and organising water polo in the school, and when it came to an inter-House tournament our Team consisted solely of school team members and victory came almost inevitably our way. Fairclough wrote and produced a House play, "The Inflationary Cycle", which is worthy of merit in many ways, although it did serve to show the difficulties involved in the use of theatre work-shop methods.

The House this term, then, has disappointed in its activity as a House; it has been left for one or two individuals to carry the rest of the House away from complete disgrace. The poor average in Athletics standards shows this and we can only hope for an improvement. •

P.R.H.B.

QUEEN'S HOUSE

At the beginning of the term J. E. Dickinson and R. W. J. Dingwall were appointed additional School Monitors and P. G. Mitchell a House Monitor.

We started the term well winning the House Chess Competition and having several boys highly placed in the General Knowledge Paper. Special mention should be made of Dingwall, who won the paper for the fourth