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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Expeditions News
Tom Avery Lecture: India Expedition
Last night the intrepid Cranleigh expeditioners from this summer’s trip to India told the tale of their Himalayan odyssey. After…
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Bronze D of E Expedition
We are just back from a glorious Assessed Expedition in the local Surrey Hills. Twelve separate Bronze teams were on…
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Gold Practice Expedition
This year the Gold practice was significantly earlier than other years, as was abundantly clear from the paucity of lambs…
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Silver Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition
Surrey Hills: Wednesday 21st – Friday 23rd March Despite snow and ice only 48 hours previously, the weather turned kind…
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India Expedition Training Weekend
On Friday evening, as most Cranleighans drove off for a much anticipated long weekend’s rest, the India Expedition team extracted…
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Scottish Highlands mountaineering trip
As a final flourish to the summer holidays, eight Cranleighans of mixed ages and experience headed up to the Scottish…
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Gold D of E Qualifying Expedition to Mid-Wales
Well that was a turn up for the books! Most of our training is focused on how to navigate in…
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Bronze D of E Practice Expedition
The Bronze Practice is always an interesting expedition, as for many of the candidates it is the first time that…
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Gold D of E Practice Expedition: Black Mountains
Two groups of apprehensive Gold candidates eventually arrived at the OEC ready for the drive to South Wales. Once over…
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Silver D of E practice in the Surrey Hills
The silver practice expedition was scheduled for the busiest time of a very busy term. Fortunately all the participants were…
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DofE Night Navigation
After a quick briefing and a fish and chip supper down at the OEC, the latest cohort of Gold candidates…
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India Expedition 2016
In August the school Expedition headed to Ladakh in northern India with a group of 11 students led by Mark Jenkins…
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Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition
Hooray! Some decent weather at last! Right after Speech Day seventy members of the LVth gathered on the South Lawn…
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Silver DofE Qualifying Expedition: The New Forest
Once again the weather forecast was indicating that we might not make it through our adventure with dry socks and…
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Gold D of E Assessed Expedition to Mid-Wales.
The Inuit of Greenland are falsely held to have dozens of different words for “snow” – in fact they don’t.…
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Journey to the North Pole
A select audience was treated to a wonderful lecture by Chris Cope about his journey to the North Pole to raise…
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Easter in the Black Mountains
As parents arrived to retrieve their charges for the Easter break, an intrepid bunch of venturers set off on Maundy…
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A Chilly D of E Experience!
As usual the Silver Practice Expedition took place in the Surrey Hills to the North of Cranleigh and as usual…
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Night Navigation Put to the Test
Last Saturday night saw the Gold D of E candidates putting their navigational skills to the test in preparation for the…
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Scottish Mountaineering
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Bright and early on the last Monday of the Summer Holidays, a keen group of sixth formers assembled for the…
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Hiking in the Surrey Hills
At the hectic end of a frantic term, over seventy keen expeditioners assembled at the Outdoor Education Centre ready to…
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Mid Wales Expedition
The day after the last AS exam twelve members of the L6th headed off on their Gold Duke of Edinburgh…
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Bronze D of E Practice Expedition
Twelve groups of would-be expeditioners assembled on the South Lawn on the afternoon of Sunday 26th April, nervously hefting their…
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Tom Avery Lecture
This term’s Tom Avery Lecture was a presentation on this summer’s School Expedition to China. Mr Andrew Griffiths started the…
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Mid-Wales D of E Expedition
Due to the exceptionally large number of Gold candidates this year there were two Assessed Expeditions, one to the Lakes…
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Gold D of E Practice: Black Mountains
On the Wednesday before Easter two groups set off from Cranleigh to undertake their Gold Practice in the Black Mountains…
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Silver D of E Qualifying Expedition to The New Forest
For many UVth students the period after GSCE exams have finished is a time to flop in front of a…
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India 2012
A party of twelve Cranleighans accompanied by SAHY and two other leaders from Outlook Expeditions have just spent a most…
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Gold Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying Expedition
The Qualifying expedition for the Gold Duke of Edingburgh is one of the toughest trips we do at Cranleigh; four…
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