For the third year in a row former Cranleigh School teacher Mike Tomlinson, who now teaches at the Lebanese Evangelical School in Tyre, brought over a group of eleven pupils and a colleague for a three-week stay at the Horseshoe Lane boarding school. Most of the students were given accommodation in Cranleigh by congregation members of Cranleigh Baptist Church. The Lebanese students have participated fully in the school’s activities, attending lessons with the Year 12 classes and getting involved in a wide range of activities. They have also given presentations about their country and the political situation in the Middle-East.

 

 

 

On 25th June two of the Pupils from the Tyre school, Alina Baher and Madina El Mostafa participated in Cranleigh School’s final lunchtime concert of the year. These weekly concerts held in the School’s Clive Stevens Recital Hall and open to the public, will next year move to Fridays. In this final Wednesday concert Cranleigh pupils, such as local girl Carole Date Chong (who played a movement from a Bach violin concerto) were delighted to share the platform with their guests from the Lebanon. Carole commented, “As a violinist myself, I was especially interested in Alina’s flexible wrist technique with the bow hand. I really enjoyed her performance of ‘Non-Stop Motion’.” Madina played a piano Sonatine by Beethoven.