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LOVEDAY HOUSE NEWSLETTER
MICHAELMAS TERM 2012
House Master Report
As term draws to a close and I ponder my newsletter
comments I always enjoy taking stock for a moment
and considering
the last fourteen
weeks. They
have been as
busy as you
would expect; in
the review of the
term at last
night’s House
Prayers and in
the contents of
this newsletter
you can witness
the remarkable
breadth of activity which your sons have been engaged
in. I often get asked what makes a successful term. Is
it the amount of cups, credits or commendations that
are won? Is it inversely proportional to the amount of
doors and windows broken? Well, for me the answer is
neither (although we have had plenty of the former
and not many of the latter), but rather it is simply a
question of whether it has been a happy term, are the
boys trying hard and have they looked after each other? The answer to this for 95% of this term has been a
resounding yes.
Two key dates for the House next term are the
Loveday House play ‘It was the Dog that Died’ by
Tom Stoppard running from Tuesday 5th February –
Thursday 7th February and the Loveday House Charity
Day on Sunday 17th March.
A huge thank you to the many of you who contributed
to our CHASE Christmas present appeal. We were
able to take over a hundred presents to their offices in
Godalming the day before term finished…amazing!
I would like to wish you a joyous Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year, from my family to yours.
Andy
ning of term. The song chosen for our entry was the
Pentatonix version of ‘Somebody that I used to know’.
After three weeks of consecutive day rehearsals after
prep, we successfully won the Part Song section of the
House Performance, and we won the competition
overall thanks to the 4th Form dancers coming second.
It was a thrilling but nervy experience being up on
stage: the audience really got behind us and that made
us feel a little more confident.
Thanks to everyone for all their contribution, especially Hebe Westcott and Rachel Hurst for arranging the
music and conducting the rehearsals.
Ian Lee
4th form Dance
Congratulations to all the 4th Form on their win in the
House Performance evening. Within their first month
at Cranleigh School they have managed to secure one
of the most prestigious house trophies and thoroughly
enjoyed themselves on performance night. Individual
top performances were displayed throughout their
dance; special mentions go to both Harry Binnion for
his incredible acrobatics and Charlie Floyd with his
acting and flair. Aided by the affiliated 4th Form from
West, they together achieved second place, losing narrowly to North. However, combined with 1st place in
Part-song we won the overall competition! So a ‘well
done’ to all the 4th form for their determination and
commitment in rehearsals; it paid off! Nice one guys!
Jonny & Brad
Helen Wareham Competition
At the Pat Dixon Woodwind subdivision of the Helen
Wareham competition, Dan Evans from the 4th Form
House Music Competition
played saxophone in the Junior category, while Justin
The Loveday boys and the Loveday-West Girls started Browning from the LVI played the clarinet in the Sento prepare for the Part Song right from the very begin- iors. The standard was incredibly high throughout the
evening, which the judges acknowledged and commended. Both Loveday performers played very well,
but unfortunately neither made it into the top three for
their category, mainly due to the consistent quality that
all the pupils upheld in their recitals. Overall, the evening was very enjoyable and it was good to hear from
some young, talented musicians.
Justin Browning
Christmas Concert
2012
This year ,there was a
great atmosphere in
the Speech Hall as all
of the major ensembles played in the
terms most prestigious
concert. Ally Smith,
Harry Moore and Ian
Lee were all in the
Symphony Orchestra
with Giorgio Bounous adding to those three for the
Strings Orchestra. The Symphonic Wind Band had
Ian and Justin Browning with them, and Ian also
played in the chapel brass (one of only five musicians).
The Concert Band then took to the stage with Eddie
Mitchell, Dan Evans and Angus Barrett taking the lead
on their clarinets along with Ben Mills, Angus Young,
Tom Standen-Jewell and Milo Livesey in the band as
well. To finish the show was the Big Band (which included Ben, Milo, Dan, Tom, Ian and myself) who
played four songs finishing with “Have yourself a very
Merry Christmas”. Altogether it was a great night with
a total of 13 Loveday musicians getting involved.
Thomas Cooper
Helen Wareham: Dashwood Piano Competition
Cranleigh’s annual piano competition took place during the second half of the Michaelmas term. From
Loveday, Kuziva Ndewere, Ian Lee and myself competed in our respective sections. Although none of us
made it through to the main Helen Wareham competition, it was a good fun evening and thoroughly enjoyed
by all who played and watched.
Angus Barrett
Public Speaking
For this year’s public speaking we had a strong team
consisting of Kuziva , Orlando and myself. Our cho-
interested and engaged brilliantly, and I gave the vote
of thanks to conclude the proceedings. We were up
against strong competition especially Cubitt and West
who had some strong speakers. Kuziva was especially
impressive and Orlando did well to keep everything
flowing: I was able to win the best vote of thanks. It’s
fair to say that we were close to Cubitt and could claim
an unofficial second place.
Thanks to everyone for coming and supporting us and
thanks to Ali and Henry for helping organise our team
and help with the speeches.
Amyn
House Challenge
The House Challenge is an event in which Loveday
have enjoyed a significant amount of success in recent
years. This term, a very strong team was put together
with Christian Round as captain: he was very well supported by the talented Nat McAleese-Park and Henri
Martin with fourth former Henry de Villiers providing
a strong performance as the team’s final member. We
began the competition with a trouncing of West, tripling their score and went into the next round as
bookies’ favourites. After easing past reigning champions North in the semi-finals the Loveday team faced a
knife-edge all star final against Cubitt. The match lived
up to its billing and ended in a tie after 45 minutes.
Fortunately, Loveday were able to pull away dramatically in extra time and rushed to a 50 point advantage
to end the competition as champions.
Christian Round
House Cross Country Competition
The IV form House Cross Country
was a great success. The conditions
were great for running and the
course was just 2 miles long. We
only had two people in the top ten
Freddie Austin in 3rd and me in 7th.
The main reason why we were able
to achieve a win was the amount of
runners in places 20-30. The support from the other years was great and really lifted the
runners. I hope we are able to achieve such a great
result in future years.
Alex H-W
Basketball
Loveday usually puts in a strong performance in
House Basketball, and the Fourth Form this year was
no exception. Winning all three of their matches
against Cubitt, North and East comfortably it was a
sen topic was “Are bankers greedy ?“ which was excel- resounding victory. Special mention should go to Ed
lently debated by Kuziva who did the main speech:
Cooper who landed three three-pointers as well as
Orlando was the chairman and was kept the audience Freddie Austin and Ben Cordingley for general all
round performance.
Unfortunately the Fifth form basketball team lost to a
very tall Cubitt side but even so the likes of Joss Pinnington managed to put a few points on the board.
The third and fourth play offs contest saw a successful
team effort destroying the North side with help from
the great managerial and coordination skills
of manager Jack
Hart.
Not being as
strong as usual,
the Sixth Form
team knew it was
going to be a
struggle to keep
the title. Beating
North with relative ease, Loveday came up against a
determined Cubitt side in the final and despite many
near misses unfortunately lost by a mere 4 points, 1814. Well done everyone, especially Tom Farrelly who
scored the majority of our points.
Ed Roberts
Senior Squash
We went into the Senior Squash competition with a
strong team, comprising of Will Jay, Milo Maxton,
Charlie Gilbert, Jack Scriven, and myself. In the opening round we faced a strong East side, in which the
winning team would advance through to the final and
the losing team would play for third and fourth position. Much to our delight we beat East in a closely
contested encounter, winning 3 out of our five matches. This meant we progressed to the final, where our
opponents were Cubitt, containing four of the five
first team players. Unfortunately despite our best efforts we lost 5-0, and therefore finished second. Overall the Senior House Squash was a thoroughly enjoyable house event, in which we fulfilled our expectations.
Thanks to all who played and supported, and hopefully
next year we will be able to better our result.
Angus Barrett
injury to our star player Mr Kefford.
We drew our first game against Cubitt, and then lost to
the favourites East. In the last game, a use of the
Christmas tree formation helped us come away with a
3-0 victory. The surprise of the evening was seeing
Kevwe finally score, after years of waiting.
Tom Farrelly
House Fives
House Fives was one of the first inter-house competitions this year, remaining competitive and contested as
ever . The team stood as Will Jay and Jack Scriven,
Tom Farrelly and Ed Roberts, as well as Milo and myself. In the first round we faced Cubitt, an opposition
who proved worthy winners after winning all three. In
the 3rd and 4th playoff we came up against an inexperienced North side that lacked composure, which we
soon exploited. Despite us feeling winners in our own
right, we finished in a respectable third place. Well
done to those involved and if anything the experience
will only aid our ‘five’ abilities for next year.
Cameron Henderson
Riding
This term has been a successful one for Loveday on
the riding front, with both Fred and me competing at
the National Schools Equestrian championships in a
Sixth Form Football
number of different classes. This was a successful trip
As we all know, this is the most important event of the with the school winning three national team titles, with
term, and is
Fred and I in the winning Open Show jumping team. I
always highly
also competed in the Open Jumping with style compecompetitive.
tition and dressage team competition, and Fred comLoveday went
peted in the Individual Advanced show jumping comin as underdogs
petition and Open Jumping with style competition. As
with the likes of
a school we finished in the top ten for each team comEd Roberts and
petition apart from one: this made us the most sucNick Kelly in
cessful school at the championships. It’s also encourdefence, after
aging to see a number of other members of the House
an unfortunate
learning to ride and riding recreationally these are
Richie Round and Liz.
Tom Lane
er North side. The boys played well with good trys
from Ed Cooper and Harry Blevins.
First Term At Cranleigh
I have thoroughly enjoyed my first term at Cranleigh. I
felt that having the team building exercise on the first
weekend really helped me settle in, as not only did I
get to know the boys in my year in my house a bit better, but also the older members of the school. It was a
great day and I think everybody found it fun! Without
a doubt, my favourite part of school has been house
life. Everybody has been extremely welcoming and this
Heavies
On paper Loveday’s Heavies A were one of the weaker sides but on the pitch we proved our critics wrong.
We won all of our first three matches with an exceptional performance against North who had all A team
players. There was great play from the backs with Harris and Forrest showing great variety of play in the
backs, both with good kicking games and running. In
the final we went out fighting, but in terrible conditions North overpowered us. The score-line does not
show how well some of the boys played, with Will
Wright particularly outstanding throughout. In the B
team, having lost our early matches we went to the
third/fourth playoff a bit deflated but counting some
great tries by Dan Khalupsky, Giorgio Bounous and
Charlie Clayton. We ended up third - it was some
amazing play and some exceptional performances
from Fred Philips and Ben Mills.
Seniors
In the seniors A we had strong opposition from the
likes of North and East. We played very well but had
unlucky defeats
to North and
has made the house feel like home from day one. An- East. Our last
other aspect I have really enjoyed has been the house match was
events and competitions, for instance the 4th Form
against Cubitt
cross country which Loveday won: everyone did there which was tight
bit and the support we got from the rest of the house but we were
was amazing. Another example has been the house
victorious in
squash: in my first game I was down but when you
this with some
hear people shouting and cheering it really lifts you
great play by
and it helped me to eventually end up the winner, this Tom Farrelly,
really gave me a feel of what the house was like. I have Nick Kelly and James Corbishley. We went to the
really enjoyed my sport in my first term as well, it has third/fourth playoff in high spirits having already beatbeen a highlight. I was amazed by the amount of open the Cubitt side. This time we again came out on top
portunities you get given and all the different things
with some good tries by Kay Kay. In the senior Bs we
you can try. Overall I think my first term at Cranleigh won all of our games in the group stages and played
has been a huge success and I have enjoyed every mi- North in the final. This was a game of great imnute of it!
portance to the overall standings of Loveday. In a big
Freddie Austin
encounter against North the scores ended up equal
with some tries from Nathan Thorpe.
House Rugby
Bill Bathurst
Lights
The lights were strong this year in both A and B
thanks to some strong new Fourth Form and some
good Lower Fifth. Both A and B teams won all of
their matches easily. In the finals we easily beat a competent East team with Harry Binnion scoring three
tries and Freddie Austin scoring a great up and under.
In the Bs we also had a strong side and played a weak-