Cranleigh Life

Jeeves and Wooster stand alone in the pantheon of England’s comic literary heroes. For generations of Wodehouse aficionados the amiable, long-suffering Bertie and his apparently respectful yet surreptitiously anarchic valet, Jeeves, have provided unadulterated delight, occupying, as Evelyn Waugh put it, an idyllic world which can never stale. James Copp ...read more →

Tuesday May 21st‘s concert was only the second one I have been able to attend out of Philip Scriven’s seven organ recitals in which he will play the complete organ works of Mendelssohn, Brahms and Schumann. This time only two ‘home team’ audience members (myself and Sheila Varley) were able ...read more →

Old Cranleighan Michael Burgess (2012) makes his 1st XI debut for Surrey today in their match against Oxford University at the Parks. Michael, who  was the Cranleigh 1st XI captain in 2012, is keeping wicket. No doubt he relished receiving the first over from England fast bowler Chris Tremlett! Michael ...read more →

Lt Mark Dormon, former Deputy House Captain of East House (2005) and now an officer in The Rifles, returned to Cranleigh in May to deliver the first of the “War Studies Society” talks in the Merriman Music School.  Mark gave a fascinating insight into life on the front line in ...read more →

During the Easter holidays, Charlie Piper and Sam Arnold became the first two Cranleigh School rugby players to face each other in a competitive international rugby match. Sam and Charlie (despite being U17 age) were selected for Ireland U18 and England U18 respectively, and played just outside Dublin in a ...read more →

There can be few finer shining examples of the quality of Cranleigh’s current music-making than the performance of Sibelius’s Andante Festivo by the String Orchestra under Kevin Weaver. The large Speech Hall audience on May 8th heard a reading of Finlandia-like fervency with violin tone as pure as cold water. ...read more →

James Gall (Cranleigh 1st XI Captain) has enjoyed an incredible month of hockey which has culminated in him being invited to train with the England U21 squad. Just 17 years old, James will begin training with the U21 squad in the next few weeks. He will be joining his brother ...read more →

Four of Cranleigh’s senior riders (Tom Lane, Henrietta Walker-Duncalf, Issi Rennocks and Fred Philips) represented us in an Inter-Schools’ Competition at The Royal Windsor Horse Show on Saturday May 11th and, despite the best attempts of the English weather, they finished a creditable eighth out of the 38 competing schools. ...read more →

On Thursday May 9th Cranleighans turned out in force for House Athletics. The competition was fierce in all categories. West took both the Junior and Intermediate Girls category and, although South won the Senior Girls, West were the overall winners with 208 points to South’s 186. Loveday won the Junior ...read more →

The Devizes-Westminster International kayak race this year turned out to be the most challenging in the event’s entire 65 year history, witnessing high flood-waters and bitterly cold weather which inevitably took a great toll and saw a record number of retirements at all levels from the race. Our competitor pairs ...read more →