Thursday’s publication of GCSE (and IGCSE) results brought much satisfaction and joy for pupils and staff. Well over one quarter…
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Excellent GCSE results
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Best A-Level Results Ever
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The top year of pupils at Cranleigh achieved the best ever set of A-level grades in the history of the…
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IVth Form Trip to the Sommes and Ypres
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During the penultimate weekend of the Summer term 48 IVth Form pupils and five teachers visited the First World War…
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Speech Day 2012
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The Guest of Honour for 2012 was Sir Paul Coleridge, OC, who has recently been featured in the press after…
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LVIth Economists Race to London
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On Monday July 25th, 25 LVIth formers embarked from Cranleigh School on the annual Economics trip. The key focus of…
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LVIth Visit the College of Law and City Law Firm
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Thirteen members of the LVIth – potential law students – attended an excellent Careers Experience Day in London on Tuesday…
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Cranleigh Classics Abroad
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Cranleigh Classics took its place among illustrious company over the June Bank holiday, at an international conference on Greece and…
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6th Form Duo Shine in Chemistry Olympiad
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James Thompson (UVI, Cubitt) and Henry Lamont (UVI, East) recently took part in the International Chemistry Olympiad 2012. This was…
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Dennis Silk Lecture
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The Sixth Form English students were lucky enough to hear a remarkably interesting speech made by Dennis Silk on ‘Siegfried…
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House Debating
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Friday March 16th saw the culmination of our annual inter-house debating competition, with a close final between old debating rivals…
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New Zealand: A Land of Risk and Opportunity
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On Thursday 15th March, the Geography Department held its first lecture followed by a formal dinner. Acting Headmaster Mr Andrew…
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Cranleigh Hosts Young Enterprise Final
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For the second year running Cranleigh hosted the Surrey West Area Final of National Young Enterprise on the afternoon and…
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Adventures in Numberland
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On the evening of Tuesday 13th March a group of VIth form scholars and aspiring mathematicians listened to Alex Bellos,…
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Investors of the Future?
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The IFS Student Investor Challenge is the UK’s premier investment competition for UK students aged 14-19. With over 7,000 teams…
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Social Networking and the Arab Spring
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On Tuesday February 7th, Dr Thomas Davies, of the Department of International Politics at London City University, spoke to an…
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Young Enterprise Mid-Session Report
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For the 2011-12 Young Enterprise season Cranleigh again has three LVI companies involved, involving almost forty pupils. The learning curve…
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UVth trip to ‘Science Live’
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On Friday thirty members of the UVth braved the cold to travel to London’s Dominion Theatre to listen to a…
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Loveday Win Nail-biting Schools Challenge Final
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In this term’s Junior Schools Challenge (inter-House quiz) competition the West team led by Emma Wallis stormed into a lead…
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Robert Winston Lecture
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On Wednesday 11th January, eighteen students from the LVth Purvis society and six members of staff attended ‘An Audience with…
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Woodland Design Studio Scoops Three Awards
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Following the success of being shortlisted in the International Structural Engineering Awards in 2008, The Woodland Design Studio has scooped…
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Sir Roy Anderson Leads Final Purvis Meeting of Term
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The final meeting of the Purvis Society for this term, following the all-encompassing theme of “communication”, was led by Professor…
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Cicero’s Oratory
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The lecture titled ‘Staging a Prosecution: Cicero, Against Verres’ attracted a strong number of Latinists from various schools in the…
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Inspired by Design
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On Tuesday November 14th the LVI Design set went up to London University to attend a series of dedicated seminars…
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North Win Close Quiz Final
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The North team, led by seniors Peter Thompson and George Colgan, won the House Challenge quiz final on Friday November…
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Long Leave Trip to Iceland
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If one says “Rock Festival” to the average teenager images of a vile cacophony spring to mind. However in this…
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Schools’ Challenge Set Up For Grudge Match Final
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After the first four matches (on October 7th and 14th) the way is clear for a North-Cubitt clash in the…
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Maths Prep School Day
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On Tuesday October 10th, Cranleigh School hosted an afternoon of code breaking activities, involving over 110 pupils from 15 local…
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Junior House public Speaking
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On Tuesday 4th October, teams from each House competed in the Junior House Public Speaking Competition 2011. Teams comprised of…
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Artists Visit Chichester Sculpture Park
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On Tuesday 25 September UVth artists, as part of their research work for their current art project “the Environment”, visited…
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Visit of Mrs Laura Witjens, CEO of the National Gamete Donation Trust
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome over 80 Cranleighans, of all age groups, to a talk given by Mrs…
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Big Draw Workshops
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On Wednesday, L5th artists enjoyed an afternoon of artistic endeavour focused on drawing as Cranleigh’s contribution to the National Big…
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Schools’ Challenge Final
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The final of this year’s inter-House quiz was the first of the 33 so far to go to extra time.…
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Sixth Form Purvis Society welcomes back Master of the Scholars
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A substantial number of Cranleighans last night enjoyed a challenging talk by Mr Alan Smith (a long-term servant of the…
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Cleopatra at Cranleigh
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On Wednesday night, Cranleigh hosted over eighty pupils from schools around Surrey and Sussex for a talk by Professor Chris…
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Top Art Exam Result
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Henry Taylor (Loveday, 2012) has received recognition from Cambridge International Examinations to acknowledge his outstanding performance, achieving D1 in Fine…
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Cranleigh to open campus on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
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Cranleigh School is delighted to announce the opening of Cranleigh Abu Dhabi – the largest school campus in Abu Dhabi…
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Purvis Society visit of Mrs Dawn Goodman
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“It’s not fair” On Thursday evening the Purvis Society was delighted to welcome over fifty members of the School to…
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Sins of the Leopard: Pupil, Librarian, Teacher and Poet
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I am thrilled to post here the news that James Brookes, OC (1999-2004) has had his first full volume of…
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Sixth Form Artists Visit Tate Galleries
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Sixth Form artists had a lively visit to Tate Modern and Tate Britain, using the Tate Boat service between the…
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Cranleigh Hosts ‘Youth Speaks’ Competition
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On January 30th, Cranleigh once again hosted the first round of ‘Youth Speaks’, a public speaking competition against other schools…
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Safer Internet Day
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Tuesday February 5th is the EU’s Safer Internet Day. Run by Insafe, it is designed to promote safer and more responsible…
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Classics Trip to Cambridge
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On Tuesday the LVIth Classical Civilisation group went on a trip to Cambridge. And while the trip there was an…
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Cubitt win Junior Schools’ Challenge
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The final of this year’s Junior inter-House Challenge saw a very close first half, with Loveday only ten behind (270-260)…
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Dr Nick Plant Delivers Designer Drugs Purvis Talk
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An audience, swollen by intrepid and curious members of the Lower School, welcomed Dr Nick Plant (Reader in Molecular Toxicology,…
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Oxford Lecturer Discusses “The Iliad”
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On Friday February 8th, VIth Form Classicists were given the opportunity to welcome Mr Guy Westwood, lecturer at Magdalen College,…
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Dr Richard Reid, “Global growth: back to the future”
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Dr Richard Reid, former colleague of SAAB and now visiting professor at Dundee University, came to Cranleigh on the evening…
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LVIth Artists Hit the Streets
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Texts from the book ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino have been the starting point for this year’s work with LVIth…
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Classics Trip to the British Museum
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On February 13th, just before Long Leave, LVth pupils of Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Civilisation went on a day…
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Lord Lucas Speaks on Higher Eduation & A-level Reform
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On February 28th, The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Lord Lucas, hot from a debate in the House of…
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UVth French Trip to Nice
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Over Long Leave 40 very excited and slightly nervous pupils, along with four equally excited members of staff, flew from…
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HH Judge Jeremy Richardson Addresses the Purvis Society
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On March 14th The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome His Honour Judge Jeremy Richardson, who chose as his title:…
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Greek Trip to ‘Lysistrata’
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On Tuesday March 12th the Greek students from all the years went to ‘Lysistrata’, performed at Riverside Studios, London. ‘Lysistrata’…
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History Trip to Berlin
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In the early morning (3am) of the first Saturday of the Easter holidays, when many Cranleighians were surely enjoying a…
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Augustus & ‘The Aeneid’: Dr Katherine Clarke Addresses Sixth Form Classicists
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Despite the somewhat disrupted start of Thursday April 25th‘s CC lecture by Dr Katherine Clarke of St Hilda’s College Oxford,…
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Knoller Society Talk by Adam Holloway MP
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Adam Holloway MP, OC visited the school on Friday 7th June to address the Knoller Society. His audience was made…
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Royal Academy A-Level Online Exhibition Shortlisting for William Stocks
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Many congratulation to William Stocks having his animated art work ‘The Journey‘ on display in the shortlisted category of the…
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Economists Race to London
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On Wednesday 19th June all of the LVIth Economists embarked on a trip to London in order to broaden our…
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Student Sculpture Adorns School Lawn
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L5th student Charlie Johnson, studying for her Art GCSE, stands next to her magnificent oak horse, created this year and…
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Outstanding A Level Results
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The top year of pupils at Cranleigh School achieved an outstanding set of A level grades: the best in the…
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Outstanding GCSE Results
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This summer’s GCSE results brought excitement and pleasure for pupils and staff at Cranleigh. The 16-year-old pupils at the School…
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Classicists Explore Virgil’s Creative Process
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On Tuesday 17 September Cranleigh School welcomed Professor Ken Dowden, Head of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of…
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“You and the Law”: Professor Alexis Longshaw (University of Law) Lecture
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Professor Longshaw, a distinguished legal academic, who began her presentation to the Sixth…
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A question of Leadership!
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The War Studies Society Michaelmas term lecture was delivered to a three-quarters full Academic Lecture Theatre on Friday 4th October…
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Lower Sixth Artists Enjoy a Day in London
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Lower Sixth artists enjoyed a whole day in London viewing art. The first stop was to see the extraordinary varied exhibits of…
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Big Draw for Artists
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Wednesday 9 October 2013 Lower Fifth artists joined the Big Draw month with a series of workshops through the afternoon.…
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Young Enterprise Company Programme Underway
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September and October saw a record number of 40 Lower Sixth Formers enrolling in the Young Enterprise Company Programme. After…
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Sixth Form Purvis Society: ‘Leadership: Nature or Nurture?’
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Over 60 members of the School welcomed Mr Nick Haddock MBE and Mrs Christine Swabey to the second of the…
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Junior House Public Speaking
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On Tuesday 8th October, teams from each House took part in the junior House Public Speaking competition 2013. The stage…
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Loveday Defend School Challenge Crown Convincingly
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The 2013 inter-house quiz final was a repeat of 2012, with several team-members reappearing. But whereas last year a dramatic…
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Sixth Form Purvis Society: “A Doctor’s Day in the Life of Ethical Challenges”
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Dr Sara Paterson-Brown, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, to…
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Schools Challenge Team Lose to Faster Fingers!
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This year’s Loveday quiz team so impressed Messrs Brookes (scorer) and Longshaw (quizmaster and regional organiser of the national competition)…
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Sixth Form English Lecture
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Sixth form English students who are interested in studying English Literature at university were given an insight into what this…
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Official Launch of Cranleigh Abu Dhabi
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Cranleigh Abu Dhabi was officially launched this week to an audience of over four hundred people at the St Regis…
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Philosophy Debate Challenges Sixth Formers
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On Wednesday, 20th November, nineteen lower sixth Philosophy of Religion students attended a series of lectures at Oxford’s town hall.…
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‘Young Minds’ Young Enterprise Team at the Dragons’Den
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Three pupils from Cubitt recently represented their ‘Young Minds’ Company at Guildford’s historic Guildhall in the Company Programme Dragons’ Den…
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Exploring Maritime Law: The ‘Hanjin Pennsylvania’ Disaster
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The Sixth Form Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Mr Oliver Weiss to deliver the fourth and final talk of…
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Mathematical Wizardry
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George Gloyens (L6th North) and Karthik Suresh (U6th Cubitt) both achieved outstanding Gold Certificates in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. Several other 6th…
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Two Generations of Cranleigh Poets
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On Friday November 29th the poet James Harpur visited his old school (he was in 2 North from 1970-75) to…
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Fifth Form Visit to Aachen Christmas Markets
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For one group of L5th and U5th pupils who are studying German, last term ended slightly early when they embarked…
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Lower Fifth Artists Go Natural!
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First hand research for the new Lower fifth art project theme of ‘ Natural Forms’ was the purpose of a…
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Doing Business in China
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On Friday 17th January, the Lower 6th and Upper 6th Business Studies students were treated to an interesting talk about…
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6th Form Purvis Society: ‘Tradition or Mission?’
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The Sixth Form Purvis Society was delighted to welcome The Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson, a member of the Governing Body…
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Lower Sixth Lecture Series: Freddie Knoller, ‘Desperate Journeys’
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The 2014 Lower Sixth Lecture Series began with 92 year old Holocaust survivor, Freddie Knoller, speaking to a rapt audience…
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Youth Speaks!
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On the evening of Wednesday 22nd of January Cranleigh School hosted a Public Speaking competition called Youth Speaks, organised by…
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‘Young Minds’ represent Cranleigh at Young Enterprise ‘Y Factor’
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Eleven pupils from Cubitt and South recently represented the school at the annual Young Enterprise Trade Fair hosted at RGS…
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Oxbridge Success
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Cranleigh has enjoyed pleasing success at Oxbridge entry this year, with four unconditional and four conditional offers in subjects ranging…
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Sixth Form Lecture Series: ‘THE PHYSICS OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY’
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On the January 30th the Physics Department hosted Dr Chris Warner who came to talk to Cranleigh’s budding 6th form…
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Fingers on the Buzzers!
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Cubitt Grind Out Deserved Quiz Victory The Junior Schools Challenge final looked likely to be close but in the end…
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U6 Particle Physics Masterclass at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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On Tuesday 4th March the Physics Department took their U6th students to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford for a…
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U5th French Trip to Nice
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On Sunday 16th February 17 upper fifth formers and three members of staff flew from Gatwick to Nice for a…
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Classics in Cambridge
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On Tuesday 18th of March, the L6th classics students visited Cambridge to help further their understanding of free standing sculpture in…
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When in Spain!
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Seville Exchange 2014 We took 13 Lower Fifth Spanish students to San Francisco de Paula, our partner school situated right…
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A Greek Experience
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Between 28 March and 2 April, 28 fifth form Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Civilisation pupils toured the greatest sites…
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Maths Honours for Tom
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The Senior Maths Challenge held in November involved maths students from both sixth form years and over half the students who sat…
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LVIth Economists Get a Taste of the Real World
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It was an early start on Wednesday for a group of 34 LVIth economists as we set off to London to visit many…
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New Senior Prefects Announced
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The Senior Prefects and House Captains for the Academic Year 2014/2015 have been announced as follows: Senior Prefects Chloe Nicholls (West); Charlie…
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Archaelogical Dig Offers Students New Perspective
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We embarked on the archaeological dig to Thornton Abbey on Saturday afternoon in very good spirits, and, after navigating our…
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A Stars Galore for Top A Level Students
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The wait is finally over for last year’s upper sixth formers and there were plenty of smiles as results envelopes were collected…
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Record Number of A Stars at GCSE
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As the long wait comes to an end for the UVth formers, the School is celebrating its best ever GCSE results,…
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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE REWARDED
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Following the School’s excellent GCSE results, with almost a third of all grades achieved being an A* and almost two-thirds…
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Fourth Form Descend on the Natural History Museum
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On Tuesday the whole of the new IVth form, together with the Biology Department and several other willing staff “volunteers”,…
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Cranleigh Abu Dhabi Opens Its Doors
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CRANLEIGH ABU DHABI opened its doors to the first intake of pupils this week. The brand new, state-of-the-art junior school…
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Politics Comes to Life
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A team of UVI politics students from Cranleigh are putting the finishing touches to their entry for the Political Studies Association…
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Freddie Knoller Lecture
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Ninety three year old Freddie Knoller visited on Wednesday 29 October to deliver a talk regarding his story and past…
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Spanish students celebrate el día de los muertos
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El día de los muertos (The Day of the Dead) is a Mexican festival in which people commemorate their dead…
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Flash, Bang for Fireworks Night
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With bonfire season in full swing members the Chemistry department treated the U5th to a novel way of viewing the flame colours produced…
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Breaking into Business
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On Wednesday 5th November the L6th Business Studies students were treated to the second part of a 2-part Business lecture…
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Bringing Politics to Life
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The Study of Politics must be live and meaningful, especially for Sixth Form students. Our approach has always been to…
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Quiz Double-Header
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On November 13th the Loveday House Quiz team (as last year selected intact as the School Quiz team) made the…
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Dr Julia Chisholm, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Royal Marsden and Trustee of…
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Target 2.0 Challenge
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Four UVI Economists made the journey to the Arora Hotel in Crawley to compete in the Target 2.0 Challenge. The Challenge…
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Positive Living
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Emma Cole from Positive Voice visited Cranleigh on Tuesday 25 November to speak to the Lower Sixth about living with HIV. Emma…
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Whistle-Stop Washington
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Twenty-eight keen History and Politics students and four members of staff set off for Washington DC immediately after the end…
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Students Celebrate Oxbridge Offers
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Cranleigh is delighted with its success at Oxbridge entry this year. Eight students have received offers, five from Oxford and three from Cambridge,…
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Big Bang Theories
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Particle Physicist, Dr Melissa Uchida, captivated pupils with her well attended lecture, entitled “Liquid Hydrogen, 50,000 tonnes of water and…
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Exploring Classics
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Recent Old Cranleighans, Angus McConnell-Wood and Tom Taylor, visited the Classics Society last week to talk about the Persian Wars.…
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Greek Tragedy Comes to Life
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On Thursday, the LV and UV Hellenists went to UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre to watch a production of Euripides’ Bacchae. This…
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Real Life History in Berlin
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Thirty four History students from LV and UV braved a cold, early start to their February half term, making their to the…
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Classical Treat
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On Tuesday 11 March, His Excellency the Hellenic Ambassador to the UK, Mr Konstantinos Bikas, came to Cranleigh school to…
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The Challenge of Maths
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The intermediate maths challenge was held in February and more than half of the students who sat it received a…
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Physicists visit CERN and Geneva
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At the end of the Easter holidays, 27 Cranleigh Sixth Form physicists flew out to Geneva for a three-day visit…
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Forging Links with Poland
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The Headmaster, Martin Reader, visited Warsaw last weekend to interview potential Scholars for the British Alumni Society, a scheme which places…
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Old Cranleighan Brings History to Life
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World renowned historian and broadcaster, Andrew Roberts, returned to his old school last week with a fascinating presentation on Napoleon.…
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Purvis Society: The Impact of Aid
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The final event of the Sixth Form Purvis Society took place in front of a large audience in the ALT.…
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“Queens of Syria”
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Last Friday the Lower Sixth gathered together for the final lecture of this year’s inspiring series. The lecture was about…
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Jaguar XJ From Start to Finish
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On Tuesday 16th June 16 L6th Business Studies students visited the Jaguar Land Rover Manufacturing site in Solihull to give them…
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Visit to a Roman Palace
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On Wednesday a band of Lower Fifth Latinists made King Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus’ journey down Stane Street to Fishbourne Roman…
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L6th UCAS DAY
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Monday saw Cranleigh’s inaugural UCAS Day. The Lower Sixth was released from lessons in order to spend time giving shape…
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Celebrating Exam Success
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Pupils are celebrating another successful year at A Level, with 79 per cent of A level grades at A*-B, and…
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GCSE Success
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Cranleigh pupils are once again celebrating consistently high GCSE results, with almost two thirds of overall grades being A to A* and…
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Purvis Presentation
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The Sixth Form Purvis Society’s new academic year took off on Thursday 17th of September by welcoming back to the…
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Cross-Curricular Adventures
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The RS and Biology departments joined forces on Wednesday this week and took all the Fourth Formers on a cross-curricular trip to London…
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A Study of ‘Places and Spaces’
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The British Sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s exploration of interior spaces was the main attraction for the Lower Fifth’s recent trip to…
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Freddie Knoller Returns to Cranleigh
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On Thursday we were once again lucky enough to be visited by 94 year old Auschwitz survivor, Freddie Knoller. After…
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‘The Billion Dollar Map’
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The second of the Sixth Form Purvis Society’s lecture series welcomed Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB to the floor. Dr Lawrence…
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Can Science prove that God does not exist?
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As a follow up to the highly successful joint Biology and RS trip earlier this term, the Fourth Form took…
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Chemistry Stars!
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Olivia Chesser (U6 South) and Eleanor McAleese-Park (U6 West) took part in the Cambridge University Chemistry Challenge at the end…
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Exploring Roman Civilisation
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Last Friday the fourth form Classical Civilisation classes went to the British Museum to explore different aspects of Roman Civilisation…
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Creative Arts Professionals Supper
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On Monday evening, the dining-hall was alive with pupils keen to find out more about a career in the Creative…
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Politics Students feature in PSA Short Video Competition Finals
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A team of five students from the UVI were guests of Speaker John Bercow last Tuesday at Parliament. They had been…
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¡No pasarán!
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On Thursday 19th November, Sixth Form students of Spanish gathered in Señora Simpson’s classroom to celebrate the annual Sixth Form…
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Challenging Young Minds
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On Friday 13th November the Sixth Form Purvis Society welcomed Mrs Laura Witjens (the CEO of the National Gamete Donation…
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Radiating Health
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Medical Physicist, Dr Liz Parvin, captivated physics and biology students with her well attended lecture, entitled “Radiating Health: an α,…
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Wildlife Conservation; Changing Hearts and Challenging Minds
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The Sixth Form Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Mr Chris Wright to deliver the first of this term’s lectures…
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“I can and I Am”
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Cranleigh was delighted to be able to welcome James Shone this week to speak to fourth form pupils and parents…
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Young Entrepreneurs
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Cranleigh’s Young Enterprise Company, One Fifty, attended the Y Factor at RGS Guildford earlier in the week. They presented their products…
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Exploring Life in the GDR
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A recent sixth form German evening involved U6th students giving a presentation to the L6th students on their research topic of…
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Celebrating Oxbridge Success
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Five students are celebrating after receiving offers from Oxford and Cambridge last month. From the current upper sixth form, Olivia…
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Debating Success
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Cranleigh’s debating team saw considerable success in their first external competitions in five years. Led, and cunningly aided by Mr…
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How to Own the World
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Mr Andrew Craig to the second meeting of the term. Mr Craig is…
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Pupils Flourishing at Cranleigh
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Our recent Inspection Report is now available and we are delighted to announce that we scored “excellent” in almost every…
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Socratic Society Explore the Doctrine of a “Just War”
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On the 26th of January, Doctor Roger Teichmann took a break from his philosophical studies at St Hilda’s College, Oxford,…
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The World at their Feet
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On Monday 8th February, Cranleigh hosted its very first Gap Fair. This was an opportunity for all the sixth formers to explore…
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Exploring Classical Civilisation
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On Tuesday, the L6 Classical Civilisation pupils visited Oxford as a complement to their AS studies. The morning started with…
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Fourth Form Chocolate Challenge
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Entrepreneurial fourth formers worked tirelessly hard on Monday afternoon to produce a new chocolate product for the ever growing confectionary…
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Classical Poetry Comes to Life
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On Thursday, the U6 Latinists went to the Cranleigh Arts Centre to watch a performance of Ovid’s Heroides. The poems…
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This House Believes…
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Last Saturday, Ali Johnston and Olivia Chesser (UVI) represented Cranleigh at the finals of the Oxford Union National Schools’ Debating…
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Upper Sixth Purvis Lecture
The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome back Canon Nigel Nicholson, after an absence of two years, to address the…
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From Culture Comes Strength
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Hundreds of School Heads and Deputies, parents, pupils and guests from the community met at Cranleigh yesterday to take part…
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Purvis Finale
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The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome Mr Roger Knight, currently President of the MCC and one-time Housemaster of Loveday…
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Discovering Roman London
Whilst the sixth form students enjoyed the Culture Summit last week, 32 lower fifth form Classicists went to discover Roman…
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Cranleigh Celebrates Exam Success
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Pupils are celebrating another successful year at A Level, with 75 per cent of A Level grades at A*-B and an…
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Record GCSE Results
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Pupils are celebrating record GCSE results, with 35% of all grades an A* and 67% of all grades being A*/A. …
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Cranleigh Launches Awesome Book Awards
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Cranleigh Schools have launched The Awesome Book Awards with a new prize that will honour the best new fiction authors…
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New Author Visits Cranleigh
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Johanna Handley, a newly published author visited the English Department last week. Her book The Burning of Juniper Slade is…
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Fourth Form London Adventure
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As part of a joint Biology and RS initiative, the Fourth Form enjoyed a day out in London this week, visiting the London…
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Purvis Society welcomes Professor A.C. Grayling
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The School was delighted to welcome the world-renowned philosopher and author, Professor A.C. Grayling, Master of the New College of…
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International Essay Prizewinner
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A Level student, Lewis Bedford, has won first prize in an essay competition run by Oxford University. His essay, entitled:…
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The Best of the Best
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Olivia Chesser, who left Cranleigh this year and gained two A* grades for A level Chemistry and Biology, has received…
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Art and Design tour to the Galleries and Museums of Berlin
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Perhaps in the Berggruen collection we started with too many greats! For here was Picasso, Matisse, Klee, Giacometti in plenty,…
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Historical novelist visit
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The Fifth Form were treated to a stimulating talk on the Roman army by award-winning novelist, Ben Kane, last week.…
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World Philosophy Day
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To mark UNESCO’s World Philosophy Day, pupils enjoyed spending time in each subject debating open questions and learning to think…
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Action-Packed Tour of America’s Capital
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At the end of the long Michaelmas term, 17 sixth form pupils set off to Washington DC for a whistle-stop…
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London Galleries
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Lower Fifth artists took the whole of Tuesday out this week to visit the National Portrait and Courtauld Institute Galleries…
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Lower Sixth Classical Civilisation Students Visit the Cast Gallery
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The Lower Sixth Classical Civilisation set visited the Cast Gallery within the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics on Wednesday.…
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Professor Lucie Green visits Cranleigh School
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Professor Lucie Green gave an engaging and enlightening lecture entitled ’15 million degrees: A journey towards the centre of the…
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Woodyer Art Studios Opened
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Cranleigh’s new Woodyer Art Studios, named after Henry Woodyer, the School’s original architect, were opened by award-winning Architect and Old Cranleighan…
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Further Maths Team goes Far
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Congratulations to Cranleigh’s Under15 Maths team for an excellent performance in the regional Further Maths competition at George Abbott School…
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Musicians make the grade
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Congratulations to seven Cranleigh musicians who all achieved the gold-standard of Grade 8 in the recent Associated Board Music Exams.…
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Amazing Brains
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This week the Purvis Society had the honour of an address by Professor John Rothwell of University College London on…
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Justice and Ethics
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Lord Justice Davis gave an intriguing insight into the role of the judiciary to Sixth Form students, introducing and explaining various…
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Cranleigh Thinking Week (13th – 18th March)
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To coincide with the 2017 School Philosophy Conference on March 16th, Cranleigh is holding a ‘Cranleigh Thinking’ Week. Across the…
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School Philosophy Conference 2017
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Over 100 teachers and other delegates joined together on a sunny spring day to enjoy Cranleigh School’s first-ever School Philosophy…
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Physicists go below ground at CERN
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Twenty four Cranleigh Sixth Form physicists enjoyed a trip to Geneva last week. On the schedule was not only a…
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Opening of A Level and GCSE Art Exhibitions
| Art
The Woodyer Art Studios have never looked better as 5 studios were used to display work from our 58 GCSE…
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Roman Mosaics Tour
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This week 31 Lower Fifth pupils took a tour of the Roman mosaics of Sussex. The pupils, a mixture of…
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Acclaimed Author Visits Cranleigh Classics
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GCSE and A level pupils in Cranleigh Classics were entertained and enthralled by a visit from acclaimed author Emily Hauser…
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Cranleigh Celebrates Exam Success
Cranleigh is celebrating another successful year at A Level, with 71 per cent of A Level grades at A*-B and…
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A Day in our Academic Life
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One of Cranleigh’s distinguishing features is how busy life is here. In part, that’s because of the extraordinary range of…
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Trip to the Bacchae at Oxford Playhouse
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At the end of a very busy first half term, GCSE and A Level classicists enjoyed watching a performance of…
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Actors of Dionysus
| Classics
Last night the Classics and Drama departments co-hosted a blistering new production of Sophocles’ Antigone, presented by the professional touring…
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Oxbridge Success
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Congratulations to the six students who have been accepted for Oxford and Cambridge next academic year. Five current Upper Sixth…
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Alex Staniforth: Mountains of the Mind
In a change to the usual format this term, the Tom Avery lecture was held during the day and targeted…
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Serial Entrepreneur Starts Up Students’ Thinking
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Sixth Form Business Studies students were treated to a lecture from Mr Steve Jackson – a self-confessed ‘serial entrepreneur’, who…
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Lower Fifth Artists Inspired by Tate Modern
| Art
On Tuesday this week, 45 Lower Fifth artists travelled with their teachers to Tate Modern to view the collection displays.…
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Cranleigh Historians Half Term Russian Adventure
| History
Cranleigh School Historians embarked on a Russian winter adventure over February half term. This was Cranleigh’s first trip to Russia…
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Classicists Enjoy New Setting for Medea
| Classics
Upper Fifth and Upper Sixth Classicists were treated to an intriguing and thought-provoking piece of drama when they attended King’s…
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Excellent EPQ Exhibition
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Cranleigh’s first Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) Exhibition showed an impressive range of projects and talent. The work on display was…
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Technology & Teenage Mental Health
Heads, deputies and pastoral leads from schools across the South East gathered at Cranleigh to hear experts from the fields…
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Classic and Contemporary on Lower Sixth Gallery trip
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During the last week of term, Lower Sixth artists had a fantastic day in London visiting Tate Britain’s All Too…
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Top Marks for Geographer
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Congratulations to Benjy Chesser who achieved the highest score of all students sitting the AQA Geography GCSE exam last year. The…
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Business Studies Trip to Jaguar Land Rover
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Last week 25 Business Studies students were treated to a visit to one of the Jaguar Land Rover production sites,…
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AS Performance
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On the 11th of May the Lower Sixth Form Drama students performed the first of their three Practical elements for…
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A Level and GCSE Art Exhibition Private View 2018
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The 2018 exhibitions of A Level and GCSE artwork opened on Thursday 24th May with a busy private view as…
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Lower Sixth Geology Field Trip to Arran
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“Why do we have to go all the way to Scotland to see rocks Sir?” For some reason “Because Arran…
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Excellent A Level and EPQ Results
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Students achieved an excellent set of A Level results this year, with 80 per cent of grades at A*-B and…
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GCSE Pupils Make the Grade
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Year 11 pupils maintained last year’s record GCSE results, with 26% of all grades a 9, and 55% of all…
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New Politics Blog
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Cranleigh has launched a Politics Blog focusing on both UK and Global political affairs. This initiative has been mostly driven…
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Long Leave Trip to Iceland
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In Michaelmas half-term 70 students and seven teachers managed to pull themselves out of bed at three o’clock in the…
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Researching Contemporary Artists
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Last week, Upper Sixth Form artists travelled to two London galleries in order to research and be inspired by seeing…
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Greece or Rome?
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Wednesday night saw the latest iteration of the Cranleigh-Reed’s Classics debate. 18 intrepid Classicists made their way up the A3…
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Upper Sixth Form Business Studies Trip
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On Monday 3rd December, 17 Upper Sixth Form Business Studies students were treated to a visit behind the scenes of…
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Model United Nations Conference
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Four students travelled to the London Oratory School Model United Nations conference to debate as representatives of Iran. All delegates…
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Business Studies Lecture: The Importance of Customer Innovation at Amazon
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On Friday 11th January, we were delighted to host Rob Merry (Old Cranleighan, 1 North). Speaking to the Lower Sixth…
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New Project Research Trip: Upper Fifth at the V&A
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For an exam art project, it’s always good to look widely for inspiration and the Victoria and Albert Museum, where…
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Helen Wareham Pat Dixon Woodwind Performance
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On Wednesday 23rd January Cranleigh Music held its annual Helen Wareham Pat Dixon Woodwind Performance in the recital hall. A…
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Lower Sixth Artists Projection Workshop
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On Tuesday 5th February, artist Rebecca Loweth led a workshop for our Lower Sixth artists all about projection. Using imagery…
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Lower Fifth artists visit Tate Modern
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Lower Fifth artists had a fantastic time on a trip to Tate Modern this week. The curation of Tate Modern’s…
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House Debating: Success for Cubitt/South and Loveday/Rhodes
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The annual house debating competitions at Cranleigh are regarded as one of the most prestigious academic accolades to win, leading…
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Wearable Tech Wins Top Design Award
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Congratulations to Sixth Former, Andy K., who has been awarded a prestigious award for high school students by Cornell University…
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Robotics Team Crowned National Skills Champions
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Cranleigh’s Robotics Team won the title of National Skills Champions at the VEX Robotics UK National Championships. The “Skills” element…
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Cranleigh decides to ‘remain’ in meaningful vote
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On Tuesday this week, a few hours in advance of Theresa May trying and failing again to get her EU…
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Punk Rock opening night: A wake up call for our times?
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At the end of the play, 17 year old Will Carlisle asks his psychologist, played by Annie Chrispin, what it…
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Lower Sixth Form Mid Year Exhibition 2019
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The 2019 Lower Sixth Form mid-year exhibition opened this week with work from the first six months of the A…
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Lower Sixth View Maverick Artists
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Last week, Lower Sixth artists travelled to Tate Modern to view exhibitions by Franz West and Dorothea Tanning. The visit…
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van Hasselt Award Launch
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To coincide with the opening of the new van Hasselt Centre, the humanities departments at Cranleigh have launched the van…
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Lower Sixth Geology Field Trip to Arran
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Due to the small numbers studying the two year AS geology course this year, we were able to save a…
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Art School Places won by A level Artists
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We are delighted that five Upper Sixth Form artists are off to art school next year, and feel this reflects…
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Maya accepted onto Yale Summer Programme
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Congratulations to Sixth Former Maya M. who passed Yale University’s rigorous selection process to win a place on its prestigious…
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Lower Sixth Form Politics students discuss Conservative leadership candidates in new podcast
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Tory leadership is the subject of this afternoon’s recording of The Other Place, a politics podcast produced by Cranleigh’s Head…
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Narnia
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Can you imagine a world without Christmas? Can you imagine a perpetual winter that never ends, a subjugated people forever…
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Excellent A Level Results
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We’re celebrating another excellent set of A Level results, with 77 per cent of grades at A*-B and an overall…
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Cranleigh Makes the Grade
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Our pupils are celebrating record GCSE results, with 20% of all grades a 9 and nearly half of all grades…
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Upper Fifth Artists Visit to Chichester Galleries
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On Tuesday 24th September, Upper Fifth artists travelled to Chichester to view artwork in two contrasting venues. Pallant House Gallery…
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Silent Pool Business Studies Trip
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On Monday 14th October over 30 Business Studies students (U6th) went to visit the ‘Silent Pool’ Gin Distillery in nearby…
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Art Workshop Afternoon
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Last week, Lower Fifth artists enjoyed an afternoon of sustained art-making as part of their year 10 GCSE course. Working…
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Young Voter Hustings at Cranleigh
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On Thursday evening Cranleigh hosted a young voter election hustings event in advance of the upcoming general election. Students from…
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Lower Sixth Trip to Tate Modern
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Lower Sixth Students enjoyed an inspirational array of contemporary and modern art on a recent visit to Tate Modern. Arriving…
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Remote Learning Roundup
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The advent of Spring this weekend brought a burst of colour, both on campus and in our wonderful remote learning…
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EPQ Results and Plans
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We’re celebrating another excellent set of Extended Project Qualification results. Our Year 11 pupils who’ll miss out on GCSEs, will…
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Top Teacher Award
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Our very own Mr Rob Verdon has won a Politics Studies Association Award for Outstanding Teaching of Politics. The well…
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Remote Learning Journey
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All seems quiet on campus but in hundreds of homes across Surrey our teachers and pupils are working harder than…
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Lockdown Poems
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Remote learning has given pupils a chance to be creative and reflect on the current global pandemic. Fourth Formers produced…
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How Will COVID-19 Change the World?
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Yesterday saw the conclusion of the first ever inter-school academic competition between pupils at Cranleigh and Cranleigh Abu Dhabi. The…
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Bright Young Things: National Portrait Gallery Competition Success
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Congratulations to Sophie Roome, who has won second prize in the schools category of the Bright Young Things Photography Competition…
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Classical Daily Essential no. 45: the gift of a Little Elephant!
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Today’s track is a brand new release; you are among the first to hear it as it was only released…
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Modern Languages essay competition success
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We congratulate Scarlett Schutte, who has come second in the prestigious Modern and Medieval Languages essay competition run by Newnham…
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North American University Success
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This year has seen an extremely successful round of North American university applications for Cranleigh students. All three of our…
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Artists Tackle the Diversity of Art
| Art
Upper Sixth artists had a busy day in London this week visiting four varied and, at times, difficult exhibitions. First visit…
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Art Trips to London
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On their return from their Mock exams UVth artists were given their exam project starting point – ‘Force’. So on…
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Rhodes Centre Art and Design Exhibitions
| Art
The Thursday before Long Leave saw staff, parents, family and friends enjoy an evening viewing of GCSE and UVIth Pre-U art and GCSE,…
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U5th Artists Brave the Rain
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Upper Fifth artists enjoyed a day viewing art at two venues. The groups were split in two with one group…
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Cranleigh Matters Explores the Art Department
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The Michaelmas Term 2013 edition of Cranleigh Matters ventured into the Art Department to take a closer look at what…
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L6th Mid-Year Art Exhibition
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A small private view was held on Monday February 3rd for a two-week exhibition of work by Lower Sixth artists. …
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Exploring The London Galleries
| Art
The art department has led three recent trips to London Galleries. The upper fifth visited Tate Britain to gain inspiration…
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Exploring Art History
| Art
It’s a Friday afternoon and our Lower Sixth artists are confronted by the bubbling enthusiasm of Alexandra Fielding, from ‘Art…
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Art and Design Students In The Limelight
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The private view of the Art and Design exhibitions took place on Thursday evening. The studios were buzzing as the…
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Art Work Shortlisted for Royal Academy Online Exhibition
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Congratulations to Ellen Farrington (LVIth South) for having her painting ‘Strangers’ short-listed for the Royal Academy A Level online exhibition 2014.…
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Artists Explore Drawing
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‘Narrative’ is this year’s starting theme for our Lower Sixth artists and to support their studies a trip to the…
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Upper Vth Artists Draw As They Walk
| Art
The afternoon sunshine made the Upper Fifth trip to Tate Modern as pleasurable as it could have been, helped by…
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Purvis Society: The Secrets of ‘Guernica’
| Art
A large audience of Cranleighans trooped into the ALT on Thursday evening, not at all sure what to expect. Many…
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Big Draw for LVth Artists
| Art
The lower fifth artists spent the afternoon of Wednesday 8 October developing work with a particular focus on drawing. The…
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Museum and Gallery Tour to Paris 2014
| Art
Four intense days of art and culture from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th October for 17 Sixth form artists along…
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U6th Artists see Turner and Kiefer
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On Tuesday November 18th, the Upper Sixth artists went on a gallery trip to London to visit the Late Turner…
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Artists Seek Inspiration
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Monday saw the UVth artists spend an enjoyable few hours drawing and taking photographs amongst the treasures of the British Museum,…
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Art Exhibition Opens Its Doors
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Our mid-year exhibition of work by Lower Sixth artists opened on Friday 30 January. The evening was well attended by…
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LVth Artists on a Headhunt
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The LVth Artists travelled to London on Tuesday to investigate artists work under their new theme of ‘Heads and Hands’.…
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Tate Modern and Saatchi
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Lower Sixth artists had a challenging day confronting contemporary artwork at Tate Modern and the Saatchi Gallery. The main show…
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Art History Abroad
| Art
A soporific Friday afternoon towards the end of a tiring tem may seems like the very worst time to spend…
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Art and Design Exhibitions
| Art
The opening of this year’s Art and Design Exhibitions were as busy as ever as staff, friends and families of UVIth, LVIth and UVth…
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Artists and Classicists Join Forces
| Art
Lower Sixth Artists and Classical Civilisation students joined forces for an exciting History of Art Workshop earlier this week. Alexandra…
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Madrid Galleries and Museums Tour
| Art
“I have had the best time in Madrid – going to another country and exploring their galleries and art instead…
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We will remember them…
| Art
Poppies adorning the Quad this week to mark the 200 Old Cranleighans who lost their lives in WW1; more will…
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Artists Explore
| Art
The extraordinary, diverse and wonderful artefacts of the British Museum made it a natural destination for our GCSE Artist to…
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20th Century Masterpieces
| Art
The Purvis Society was delighted to welcome back Professor Anthony Slinn last Friday to deliver another of his thought-provoking and…
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Outstanding Art Exhibition
| Art
The recent private view of artwork by Upper Fifth and Upper Sixth students impressed all who came. A smaller than…
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Artists Inspired
| Art
Upper Fifth (Year 11) artists travelled to Bankside and Tate Modern this week as part of their themed work on…
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Artists Enjoy Big Draw Workshop
Last Wednesday the Lower Fifth (Year 10) artists worked at a variety of activities as part of our involvement in the…
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Art and The Bigger Picture
| Art
Lavinia Harrington, Art Historian from ‘The Bigger Picture’, inspired our Lower Sixth artists and Classicists in a lively workshop this…
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Exploring Art
| Art
Upper Fifth artists visited the British Museum this week to research their GCSE exam theme ‘ Beginning and/or end’. The…
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Sky Arts Competition Success
| Art
Very many congratulations to Harry Wills ( North UVIth), who was selected to compete in a heat of the 2017…
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Between Figure and Abstraction
| Art
Lower Sixth artists travelled to see two current exhibitions in London last week: David Hockney’s retrospective, at Tate Britain, and…
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Royal Academy Online Exhibition Selection
| Art
Congratulations to Caroline Zoet whose photograph “The Physical Connection Between Backs and Mountains“ has been selected for exhibition in the…
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Prep School Art Workshop
| Art
Young artists from Aldro and Edgeborough Schools attended the first of an afternoon of workshops in the Art department last…
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Exploring British Art
| Art
Upper Fifth artists travelled to Tate Britain on Tuesday to explore the British Art Collection, looking in depth at works…
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Prep School Art Workshops
| Art
The Woodyer Art Studios hosted another successful Prep School Art Workshop this week. Pupils from Highfield School and Danes Hill…
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Big Draw Workshop 2017
| Art
The Big Draw is a national initiative held every October to encourage everyone to make art and get drawing. For…
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Artists in Amsterdam
| Art
For this year’s Gallery Tour, our lucky Sixth Form got to experience the wonders of Amsterdam and The Hague. We…
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Five – Art Department Staff Exhibition
| Art
Paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, collages, and a dress are being exhibited in the Emms Centre auditorium this week. Five members…
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Lower Sixth Mid-Year Exhibition
| Art
Parents, staff and fellow pupils all enjoyed the opening viewing of the Lower Sixth mid-year exhibition in the Woodyer Studios…
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Upper Fifth Artists Journey to Tate Britain
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This week the Upper Fifth artists visited Tate Britain to spend time looking at artwork first hand. Sketching and note…
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Prep Schools Art Workshops
| Art
The art department was delighted to welcome an enthusiastic and skilful group of Year 6 pupils from both Pennthorpe School and…
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Lower Fifth Art Workshop
| Art
Lower Fifth artists recently enjoyed an afternoon of sustained practical work in the Woodyer Studios, working in all four of…
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Exhibition Opening
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Our annual A Level and GCSE Art exhibition opening was held just before half term with 17 Upper Sixth and…
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Print and Sculpture Workshops for visiting Year 6 Artists
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This Autumn we have enjoyed two afternoons of workshops for Year 6 pupils and we were delighted to welcome Highfield…
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Sixth Form Art Tour to Paris
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Paris is close and easy to get to; it’s the most visited city in Europe and one of the most…
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GCSE Artists Visit London Museums
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Year 11 artists travelled to the British Museum to begin investigating their GCSE exam project theme of ‘Event’. The museum…
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‘137 – How We Started Our First Business’
On the evening of Wednesday October 12th the LVI Business Studies students were treated to a talk from the owners…
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Conquering the Dragon’s Den
On Wednesday 19th November 5 Young Enterprise companies from Cranleigh took to the stage at the old Guildhall, in Guildford and presented…
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Fourth Formers Rise to the Chocolate Challenge
On Tuesday afternoon the Speech Hall was bursting with newly formed confectionary companies, their Managing Directors along with Marketing and…
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Young Enterprise Gains Momentum
Following their success at the Dragon’s Den in November, Cranleigh’s Young Enterprise teams attended a Trade Fair, the Y Factor,…
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An Insight into Marketing and Creating Brands
Sixth form Business Studies students were treated to an opportunity to hear from an external speaker, James Hay, who came…
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Business Studies Lecture: How Has Amazon Changed Over 25 Years?
On Friday 10th January, we were delighted to host Rob Merry (Old Cranleighan,1 North/North) in the van Hasselt Centre, with…
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CC Students Explore the British Museum
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On Wednesday 26 February, the LV Classical Civilisation pupils went to explore the 100 most significant objects in the British…
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Greek Theatre Comes Alive!
| Classics
On Wednesday the 12th February, LVth and UVth Greek students got a chance to see ancient Greek in its full…
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CC Trip to Euripides’ Medea
| Classics
On Tuesday 11th March, members of Cranleigh’s U5th Classical Civilisation class went to London for a showing of Euripides’ Medea, put…
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Ancient Atheism
| Classics
This week saw the latest incarnation of Cranleigh Classics’ September Lecture. We welcomed Professor Tim Whitmarsh, the newly-appointed Professor of…
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Odysseus as an epic hero
| Classics
On Tuesday 4th November there was a plentiful crowd gathered in the ALT awaiting the arrival of Adrian Kelly, the lecturer…
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Classicists in Cambridge
| Classics
On Thursday 26 February 2015, the L6 Classical Civilisation students went to Cambridge to visit the Classics Faculty’s cast museum. After…
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Classical Italy
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During the Easter break, Classics pupils from the lower fifth through to the upper sixth went to Italy. After a…
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Ben Kane Classics Talk
| Classics
On Tuesday evening the fourth form were informed and entertained by bestselling historical author Ben Kane. Ben, wearing full Roman…
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Classicists Enjoy Imperium
| Classics
On the final day of the Michaelmas term, a small group of Classicists were treated to a spectacular performance of…
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The Roman Army visits Cranleigh
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On Monday evening Cranleigh Classicists were treated to a talk by Ben Kane, author of best-selling historical novels Spartacus and…
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Cranleigh Racing Crowned Best Newcomers
On Sunday 15th September 2019 Cranleigh Racing took part in their first Greenpower event at Dunsfold Park. The team worked…
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Design Engineering Munich Trip
On the 23rd October, a group of 25 Design Engineers set off for Munich in the early hours of the…
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Lower Fifth Theatre in Education Performance
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On Thursday June 14th the 35 Drama GCSE Students in the LVth crossed the road to the Prep School in…
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Beasts and Beauties
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Squeezed in the midst of exams, the Junior Play is annually charged with lifting everyone’s spirits and Nikki Lockwood’s exceptional…
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Student Playwriting Competition
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On Friday 11th May 2012 the Vivian Cox Theatre became the site of Will Stocks’ (LVI, North) playwriting debut. The…
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National Youth Theatre and International Student Drama Festival successes for Cranleighans
| Drama
Each year a number of Cranleigh students audition for a place with the prestigious National Youth Theatre (NYT). All auditionees…
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The Infant
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The eponymous infant looms large in the Cherry Tree’s latest production, though the child never makes it on-stage. Instead, Cranleigh…
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The Producers
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There is only one place to start this review: with Bialystock and Bloom. As with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder…
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“The Happiest Days of Your Life”: A Student’s View
| Drama
The demon headmaster has not graced the television sets of the nation for a number of years, however from the…
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The Happiest Play of Their Lives
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North House brought a light cheer to the cold evenings before Long Leave (7th-9th February) with ‘The Happiest Days of…
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Cubitt House Play: “The Shoemaker’s Wife”
| Drama
The hubbub of the audience slowly receded to reveal the soft melodies of Ben Cox and Oscar Reeve whose mellow…
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‘Lovesong’ – a show by Frantic Assembly
| Drama
On Tuesday 24th January the LVth, accompanied by JLC, NIL, IMA and LJB, travelled to the Lyric Hammersmith theatre to…
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Frantic Assembly Workshop
| Drama
The LVIth have to prepare a piece of theatre in the style of a chosen practitioner for their A-Level Coursework,…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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You might have seen it done in another theatre. You might have studied it, just read it, or seen a…
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The Rum Doodlers
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Cranleigh has some pedigree in producing playwrights, with OCs Al Smith and Patrick Marber still active. It is a new…
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East House Plays, part 1: Trammel
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The first play in the East House double-bill was ‘Trammel’ (2009) by Michael Lesslie, a hard-hitting play about the public…
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Pupil’s Own Play Produced to Amuse
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Cranleigh School can boast at least two living professional playwrights among its former pupils: Al Smith and Patrick Marber. But…
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Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts’
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There has always been room for truly serious drama at Cranleigh and it doesn’t get more serious than ‘Ghosts’. It…
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Short Plays by Samuel Beckett
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Trying to describe the effect his own unique brand of theatre had on its audience, the author of En Attendant…
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Cubitt House Play
| Drama
The Cubitt play in the VCT was a collection of comedy sketches ingeniously compiled, slightly touched-up (ooh, Matron!) and co-directed…
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West House Play
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The West Play ‘It’s Not You It’s Me’ took over the VCT for three nights, directed by Sophia Ambrose, Milly…
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Rhinoceros
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Another play of Ionesco, ‘La Cantatrice Chauve’, can still be seen in its original production in Paris today at La…
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South House Play: “Arsenic and Old Lace”
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Chelsea, World War Two, a genteel boarding house run by three charming elderly sisters. Doilies and “old lace” were much…
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Loveday House Play: “The dog it was that died”
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Tom Stoppard’s radio play “The dog it was that died” was given a fresh outing in the VCT this term,…
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John Ford’s Classic Carolean Play: “‘Tis Pity”
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Che morte piu dolche morire per amore? The audience for the first night of Martin Allison’s adaptation of Ford’s 1629…
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‘By Jeeves’
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Jeeves and Wooster stand alone in the pantheon of England’s comic literary heroes. For generations of Wodehouse aficionados the amiable,…
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Common Room Play
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The Common Room Play, Terrence Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version’, was a rare opportunity for Cranleighans to witness first-hand the skills…
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Satire Double Bill
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It was an inspired concept of director Martin Allison to couple Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ with a…
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Actors from North and East on Show
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This term’s North House plays was a series of short sketches and they unveiled some hidden acting talent within the…
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The Magic and Enchantment of Into the Woods
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“Into the Woods” genuinely transformed the Cranleigh School Speech Hall into the fairy-tale world which the over-arching slogan in the…
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Cubittians Tread the Boards!
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The History Boys Alan Bennett’s play is an ambitious and interesting choice for a house play. It asks some important…
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West Wows the Teechers!
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‘Teechers’ has now become something of a period piece: I rather suspect the actors I saw in Cranleigh’s last house…
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Spotlight on Junior Thespians
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What a difference a play makes…in refreshing an audience during examination season. From the opening song (made a hit by…
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LVth Drama Workshop & Performance
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20 LVth Drama students were involved in a physical theatre storytelling workshop this week from acclaimed theatre company ‘Les Enfants…
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House Play Reviews
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The Loveday House Play filled the VCT with raucous laughter, giving the audiences an experience to remember. The whole play…
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Noises Off!
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This year’s senior school production of Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” epitomised farcical comedy, providing its audience with an evening filled…
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Les Enfants Terribles
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This week the LVIth Drama students enjoyed a puppetry and physicality workshop from theatre company Les Enfants Terribles who last summer…
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The Spotlight for Arthur
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Arthur Handscomb (North 4th form) has won a place in the National Youth Music Theatre’s 2015 Company. Rehearsals for this…
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Lent term School play, Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, runs for two more nights in the Speech Hall this week.…
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Junior Play: After Juliet
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The Junior Play from 19th- 20th May (the first of two this summer) was the second Cranleigh production of Sharman MacDonald’s…
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The Canterbury Tales
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One of the many good things about Cranleigh is the way that the community manages to maintain a sense of…
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Physical Theatre
| Drama
LVIth Drama students visited the National Theatre Studio this week to take part in a workshop introducing them to Commedia dell’arte. Commedia…
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Creating wonderland!
| Design
This term’s production of Alice has been keeping students and staff very busy behind the scenes. It is an immersive…
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Alice in our own Wonderland
| Drama
Cranleigh’s Speech Hall has been splendidly transformed into a world of fantasy and dreams for this week’s ground-breaking immersive-theatre production…
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One Girl, Two Nightmares.
| Drama
Not for over five years has a student-written production graced the stage of the VCT, but it made an impressive return.…
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Loveday Delight With A Collection of One-Act Plays
| Drama
The Loveday House play, as the name suggests, was a compilation of sketch shows from famous television sketches such as…
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“What a gem! What a pearl!”
To borrow a phrase from the musical’s smarmy and avaricious Innkeeper: “What a gem! What a pearl!” Under the loyal and affectionate…
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‘Treasure Island’ Treat
| Drama
The first of two Junior Plays to be staged in the VCT this term – ‘Treasure Island’ – was not only…
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“Every centimetre alpha-plus”
| Drama
Miss Seville and Miss Leach (with the able assistance of Adam Forrester) embarked on a brave and audacious effort in…
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Treading the Boards
| Drama
During last summer term IVth form Drama students worked towards their Bronze Level Arts Award, a new initiative delivered by the…
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‘The Arsonists’
| Drama
This year’s North House play – with members of West – was a well-produced and brilliantly acted staging of Max…
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East House Entertain
| Drama
The East House Play – with members of South – filled the VCT with raucous laughter, giving the audience an…
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Riotous and Heart-Warming
| Drama
‘A Flea in Her Ear’ follows Raymonde Chandebise, deftly portrayed with verve and energy by PJ Cunningham, who begins to…
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Audience Wowed by ‘Anna Karenina’
| Drama
Anna Karenina’ is perhaps an unusual choice for a school play. Transferring the many layers of emotional complexity with the…
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Fourth Form drama students achieve Bronze Level Arts Award
| Drama
During the summer term Fourth Form drama students worked towards their Bronze level Arts Award, a nationally recognised qualification which…
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‘Girls Like That’
| Drama
The South House Play, “Girls Like That”, tackled a hugely prominent and contemporary topic, which is highly relevant to teenagers…
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Enron – ‘bursting the bubble’
| Drama
A theatrical epic which sought to expose the shadowy mechanisms of the financial world, this term’s production of Lucy Prebble’s…
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The Jungle Theatre Trip
| Drama
The Redgrave Theatre Society enjoyed a weekend trip to see The Jungle, a powerful dramatic portrayal of life in the…
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Verbatim Workshop
| Drama
On Wednesday 26th October our Sixth Form Drama students took part in a verbatim workshop run by The Paper Birds…
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High School Musical Junior Production
| Drama
Cranleigh School’s Junior Production merrily sprinkles some much-needed musical sweetness over school life at the perfect time of term, when…
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King Charles III: Review
| Drama
Over the course of last week, Speech Hall was abuzz with the senior play; the culmination of months of hard…
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Cranleigh Hosts Young Enterprise Regional Final
| Careers
Cranleigh were pleased to recently act as hosts for the Area Final of the SW Surrey Competition. Out of twenty…
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Neobanks…alive but not kicking
On Friday 7th February our Sixth Form Economists were treated to highly stimulating and interactive lecture from Tom Merry —…
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Language, Words and Communication
| English
On Wednesday September 28th, Tony Thorne, former Head of the Language Centre at King’s College, London, delivered a fascinating lecture…
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English Trip to Open-Air “Mockingbird”
| English
Members of the LVth were treated to a performance of “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre…
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A Level English Students Engage with Mohsin Hamid
| English
On Thursday 2nd March, English students from the LVIth and UVIth had the privilege of attending Mohsin Hamid’s talk for…
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History Trip to Berlin
| History
In the early morning of the first Saturday of the Christmas holidays, when many Cranleighans were surely enjoying a well-earned…
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History & Politics Trip to Washington DC
| History
Over the Christmas break a group of VIth Form History and Politics students embarked on a five day trip to…
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Visit of Lt Mark Dormon OC
| History
Lt Mark Dormon, former Deputy House Captain of East House (2005) and now an officer in The Rifles, returned to…
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Resurgent Russia
| History
Cranleigh History and Politics students were treated to an audience with Air Commodore Andrew Verdon on Tuesday night to discuss…
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March 10th 1915
| History
March 10 marks the centenary of the first large-scale British offensive of World War One, the first day of the…
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Reflections and Perspective: a young officer growing up (1944-45)
| History
March 1944; I joined the Essex Yeomanry as a newly commissioned nineteen year old. The Regiment was in Suffolk, in…
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The Korean War by OC Lt John Bowler
| History
Cranleigh students were treated to a first-hand account of military action in the Korean War by OC Lt John Bowler…
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American Dreams
| Music
In the month of the American presidential election, it was fitting to devote some time within the Concert Series to…
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Chamber Music Concert
| Music
Independence Day at Cranleigh saw a celebration of just the opposite: collaboration in music-making of high quality, in the Merriman…
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Music Scholars Concert
| Concert
The first concert of the new academic year was a true spring awakening, showing that the talented music scholars at…
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Christmas Concert
| Music
The annual Christmas Concert always showcases a range of ensembles, large and small, and the Symphony Orchestra is now very…
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Bach Project Opening Concert
| Music
Philip Scriven’s project to play the complete organ works of J S Bach in 26 recitals (ending in June) began…
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Junior Music Scholars’ Concert
| Music
The second in a trilogy of weekly concerts showcasing the music scholars of the Senior and Preparatory Schools delighted a…
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Young and Old in Harmony at Charity Concert
| Music
The concert held in Speech Hall on Friday 12th October in aid of Rowleys 50+ centre was supported by Cranleigh…
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New Organ Concert Cycle Underway
| Music
I was unable to attend the first of Philip Scriven’s seven 2012-3 organ recitals in which he will play the…
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Scott Brothers Concert
| Music
On the evening of October 17th, a few days before half term, an expectant audience gathered in Chapel for the…
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Dashwood Piano Performance
| Music
Cranleigh’s annual piano competition is named after the late Cyril Dashwood (OC) and the junior winner was Olivia Chesser for…
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Old Cranleighan’s Quartet Perform the Beatles Cuban-style
| Music
The Cranleigh School Concert Series welcomed Jonathan Hennessy-Brown’s Santiago Quartet to the Emms Centre for a warmly received concert on…
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Pat Dixon Woodwind Performance
| Music
If the great Pat Dixon were still with us it would have been drinks all round (as it was most…
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New Mander Organ CD released
| Music
The first professional CD on the new Mander organ in Chapel has been released. Recorded by Philip Scriven, Cranleigh’s Organist…
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Christmas Concert 2012
| Music
As this year’s Christmas Concert was held on the last day of November it was perhaps best that the Xmas-themed…
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‘The Snowman’ Project
| Music
On Tuesday 4th December, as part of Cranleigh Music’s community outreach programme, an orchestra of 20 pupils, staff and musicians…
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World-Renowned Organist Comes Back to School
| Music
Christopher Herrick was a pupil at Cranleigh in the 1950s, where his talent as an organist blossomed. He went on…
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Helen Wareham Competition: Brass Performance
| Music
In the Senior Performance section on February 1st in the MMS, all five players gave listeners great pleasure, with Angus…
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“Strike Up the Band”
| Music
Strike up the band was certainly the order of the day on Saturday 9th February, when the Big Band performed…
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Cranleigh Voices at Salisbury Cathedral
| Music
On Tuesday 12th February Cranleigh Voices, the School’s premier vocal ensemble, took up the prestigious invitation to sing Evensong at…
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Concert Series: Andrew Fuller and Richard Saxel
| Music
It is written that ‘a prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin,…
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Jack Cook Strings Performance
| Music
The annual competition for strings players was recently named after the late Jack Cook, a long-standing supporter of Cranleigh School…
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Helen Wareham Vocal Performance
| Music
The final performance round of the competition featured 23 singers in the Recital Hall on Friday 8th March. An especial…
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Cranleigh Choirs Combine At G-Live
| Concert
The Cranleigh Village Choral Society annually join the Cranleigh School Chapel Choir to perform big choral works with orchestra but…
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Harry Plays Local Composer’s Concerto
| Concert
Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams spent a large part of his life near Dorking and made the Leith Hill Festival world…
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Oliver Coates Cello Masterclass and Purvis Society Lecture-Recital
| Lectures
On Thursday 25th April, the final Purvis Society lecture of the academic year was presented by cellist Oliver Coates, winner…
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Helen Wareham Competition Final
| Music
Given the very high quality of all 15 performances from the 11 musicians in this year’s Helen Wareham final, it…
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Summer Concert
| Concert
There can be few finer shining examples of the quality of Cranleigh’s current music-making than the performance of Sibelius’s Andante…
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Organ Cycle Continues
| Concert
Tuesday May 21st‘s concert was only the second one I have been able to attend out of Philip Scriven’s seven…
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Organ Cycle Marches to an End
| Concert
Philip Scriven’s second year-long organ cycle ended triumphantly on Tuesday June 4th with a splendid Mendelssohn encore ‘The War March…
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Jeremy Filsell Organ Recital
| Concert
Organist Jeremy Filsell kindly told the audience in Chapel on June 21st that it was good to see some familiar…
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Chamber Music Evening
| Concert
Few schools, one imagines, would be able to put on a concert by thirteen different chamber ensembles in the last…
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Imperious Start to New Organ Concert Series
| Music
Philip Scriven began his third monthly Tuesday lunchtime organ series on 10th September with a programme entitled ‘Rule, Britannia!’. This…
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Senior Music Scholars Concert
| Music
The first concert of the academic year was introduced by Head of Performance, Richard Saxel, who also accompanied five of…
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Waters in Full Flow
| Music
On Saturday the 14th of September a small group of Cranleighans were granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Roger Waters,…
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Junior Music Scholars Concert
| Music
The 2013 concert by the Junior Music Scholars was, I am sure, the most consistently and sustainedly excellent in living…
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A Touch of Bavaria Comes to Cranleigh
| Music
This year’s Concert Series began in unusual and imaginative style with Cranleigh’s first ever Bavarian-style “Oktoberfest”, beating the start of…
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East/South Victorious in House Performance!
| Music
A win for East/South in both the Part Song and the 4th Form Dance meant they sealed victory in this…
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Cranleigh Musicians at Holy Trinity
| Music
This year’s Autumn Concert (Friday 11th October) was held not, as usual, in a Cranleigh church, but in Holy Trinity,…
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Senior Brass Competition and Senior Pat Dixon Woodwind Competition
| Music
This year’s senior section of the Brass Competition was held in the MMS on 6th November as a double bill…
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Concert Series: Kantlin-Weaver Duo
| Music
Cranleigh’s Head of Strings, Kevin Weaver and his wife Leena-Maaria Weaver continued this year’s Cranleigh Music Concert Series in a…
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Jack Cook Senior Strings and Senior Dashwood Piano Competitions
| Music
The senior section of the competition, named after the late Jack Cook, was held on 20th November in the Clive…
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Christmas Concert
| Music
As often the Cranleigh School Christmas concert took place in November (29th), albeit only three days before Advent Sunday. Thus,…
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Opera for the Masses
| Concert
For this annual collaboration between Cranleigh’s Chapel Choir and Cranleigh Village Choral Society (on Sunday December 8th), the major work…
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Helen Wareham Vocal Performance
| Music
On Wednesday 22nd January listeners in the packed Clive Stevens Recital Hall heard 21 singers showcasing what a wealth of…
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Symphonic Organ Sounds
| Chapel
Philip Scriven’s concert on the Mander Organ in Chapel on 29th January ended with the last movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth…
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Strike up the Band
| Concert
The School Big Band held its annual Supper Dance on Friday 31st January in the Emm’s Centre atrium. A good…
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Helen Wareham Junior Woodwind and Brass Performance
| Music
Twenty Lower School musicians entertained the audience in the Clive Stevens Recital Hall on the last day of February in…
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Phantom of the Opera
| Music
On Wednesday March 5, a 150-strong audience was treated to an evening which they are unlikely to forget in a…
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Junior Dashwood Piano and Jack Cook Strings Performance Evening
| Music
Many played (13) but few (6) could be chosen, in this evening of Junior performances. But the last was most…
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Helen Wareham Final
| Music
In the senior Helen Wareham final adjudicator Gill Johnston awarded the string prize to double-bassist Harrison White for his dextrous…
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Gala Orchestral and Choral Concert at G Live
| Music
At the start of his final term at Cranleigh, Guy Waller was keen to let the G Live audience know…
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Summer Concert
| Music
The Summer Concert remains a Summer Term concert, even if examination schedules led to a date of May 2nd. There…
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The Royal Festival Hall Welcomes Phil Scriven
| Music
As part of the Bach Choir’s concert in the Royal Festival Hall on 10 June, I have the enormous privilege…
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The Trumpet Shall Sound
| Music
Last Friday, 13th June, saw the return of Crispian Steele-Perkins to Cranleigh School for his concert, ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound.’ …
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Chamber Musicians Delight MMS Audience
| Concert
On June 24th, the final concert of the year (apart from Rocsoc, of course) saw around two dozen instrumentalists perform…
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Simply Blue
| Concert
Cranleigh jazz ensemble, played to a packed audience on Friday 20th June in the Merriman Music School. The band, under…
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Organ Masterworks Series Launched in Style
| Music
Cranleigh School’s organist Phillip Scriven launched another year-long organ series on September 9th including two of Vierne’s ‘Pièces en Style…
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Senior Music Scholars Concert
| Music
For the first pupils’ concert of the academic year the Senior Music Scholars treated the audience in the Clive Stevens…
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Celestial Sounds Fill The Chapel
| Music
After this first concert in this years ‘Concert Series’, a colleague on the bursarial staff told me that, having attended…
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Junior Music Scholars in Concert
| Music
After just a few days at school this term, it was astonishing that the 18 Junior Music Scholars could give…
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Ghosts and Shadows
| Music
Perhaps a title does help make a chamber music concert sound more intriguing than do opus numbers and Richard Saxel’s…
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Musicians Shine
| Music
The beautiful church of St. Nicholas, Alfold provided the setting for the autumn Charity Concert given by musicians from both…
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ORGAN FIREWORKS
| Music
We will remember this 5th of November for a well-plotted programme of music beginning with the overture from Handel’s ‘Music…
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Strike up the Band
On a fresh, sunny November morning the Cranleigh School Symphonic Wind Band, under the baton of Bandmaster Bob Wilson, played…
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Senior Musicians Shine
| Music
The Jack Cook Senior Strings performance on November 7th contained one of the most perfect performances I have heard in…
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Senior Pat Dixon Woodwind and Brass Performance
| Music
On Wednesday 19th November the Merriman Music School resounded to the tones of a dozen wind and brass players accompanied…
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Flamenco fun!
| Music
Aaron Monteverde, a young Gibraltan pianist, took the MMS by storm this week. He played works by Serrat, Campuzano and…
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Christmas Concert Starts the Festive Season
| Music
The annual Christmas Concert (Speech Hall, December 5th) showcased a wide range of the School’s ensembles. The Symphony Orchestra under…
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Singers in Great Voice
| Music
The vocal performance section of the Helen Wareham competition was held on Wednesday 21st January in the Merriman Music School…
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Music Makers
| Music
Well done to Cranleigh musicians, James Thornton-Wood (IVth Form) and Fayruz Megdiche (LVIth), who have both won places to join prestigious national orchestras. James…
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Top-class Chorus Crown Choral Concert
| Music
The combined forces of Cranleigh School’s Chapel Choir and the village’s Cranleigh Choral Society joined in the Devonport Speech Hall…
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Helen Wareham Competition: Junior Strings and Keyboard
| Music
The joint Performance evening on February 27th in the Merriman Music School, with 21 performances from 15 musicians, tested the…
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‘La Scala’ comes to Cranleigh!
| Music
On Wednesday evening, Cranleigh feasted on a new experience. La Scala came to the stage of the Emms Centre. Students…
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Helen Wareham Junior Brass and Woodwind
| Music
The brass competition was moved this year to the lunchtime slot to prevent the scheduled evening double performance from going on…
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Pangbourne Piano Festival
| Music
On Saturday February 28th, Ben Wili and Millie Mazzone (both 4th Form) participated in the Pangbourne Piano Festival at Pangbourne College…
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