Cranleigh Life

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Given the very high quality of all 15 performances from the 11 musicians in this year’s Helen Wareham final, it might seem a paradox to write that few, if any, of the listeners in the Speech Hall on Friday April 26th would have disagreed with the adjudicator’s first choices, but ...read more →

The past few weeks have seen a number of Cranleigh girls representing their clubs at national finals. Firstly, Georgia Lord (UVI, South) and Chloe Nicholls (UV, West) played for Teddington in the under-18 outdoor finals, where they came a creditable fourth. The weekend of April 27th-28th saw Megan Batchelor (LV, ...read more →

Economics Teacher Stuart Block has won a prestigious JustGiving award. Last year, Stuart cycled over 15,000km from Johannesburg in support of the Zambia-based charity Beyond Ourselves. Cranleigh continues to develop its links with the Kitwe community through our Beyond Cranleigh programme, which will see a further group of Cranleigh volunteers ...read more →