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Academic Prizes 2006
Middle Fourth Form
Lower Sixth Form
Sophie Sachak
Jack Keep
Alex Dowle
Rebecca Kjaedegaard
Edward Farrelly
Ben Scarles
Olivia Moore
Joanna Boddy
James Dawkins
Charles Higgs
Joshua Phillips
Max Denning
Anna Hurley
Curtis Man
Laura Frazer
Xavier Dialdas
Jaspal Chana
Charlotte Mungavin
Oliver Borch
Art
Biology
Chemistry
Civics
Design Technology
Drama
English
French
German
Geography
History
Information Technology
Latin
Mathematics
Music
Physics
Religious Studies
Spanish
Dodd Speech &
Reading Prize
Max Denning
Junior John Ingram
Poetry Prize
Prosser-White French
Oral Prize
Alex Dowle
Crawfurd Commonwealth History
Project Prize
Michael Notman-Watt Dodd Speech & Reading Prize
Victoria Richardson Dodd Speech
& Reading Prize
Sarah Blake
Thomas
Upper Fourth Form
Olivia Rawes
Sandy Reid
Andrew Sinclair
Christopher Tighe
Alice Twyman
Thomas Wharram
Janice Wong
Liam Anderson
Emma Cockeram
Ashley Crane
Daniel D'Souza
Kate Stevens
Matthew Wade
Matthew Wynne
Dodd Speech &
Reading Prize
Sterry Divinity Prize
Dodd Speech & Reading Prize
Junior John Ingram
Poetry Prize
Claude Calthrop English Essay
Prize
Prosser-White French
Oral Prize
Dodd Speech &
Reading Prize
Carr Divinity Prize
Mark Chong
Alexander Cobb
Clare Duffy
Alistair Hardy
Charlie James
Abi Lee
Nicole Lim
Andrew Mason
Gareth Morgan
Stephen Munford
Gregory Nussbaum
Catrin Page
Hannah Park
James Patterson
Upper Sixth Form
Mark Abbosh
Max Abram
Richard Allan
Fifth Form
David Blackburn
Jack Frazer
Owain Mason-Johns
Hannah Patel
Terrence Tai
Charles Ushiyama
Coralie Yeo
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Junior Ely Webster
Computing Prize
Junior Art Prize
Sunderland Classics prize
Prosser-White French Oral Prize
Friends of EC 150th
Anniversary Scholarship
Aberdour Prize
David De Vile Composition Prize
Junior Design Prize
Senior John Ingram Poetry Prize
Cunning Nutrition Essay
Bottomley Prize
Ralph Gooding Chemistry Prize
Cunning Nutrition Essay Prize
Norman Colyer Memorial
German Prize
Cunning Nutrition Essay Prize
Warren Pickett Award
The Piano Accompanist Prize
Thomas Mathematics Prize
Glyn Hughes Physics Prize
First Year Sixth Biology Prize
Glyn Hughes Chemistry Prize
Brande English History
Essay Prize
Vivian History Essay Prize
Political Essay prize
Ronald Raven Religious
Studies Prize
Engledue Latin Prose Prize
Newsom Instrumental Prize
Physical Education Prize
Instrumental Music Prize
Engledue European History
Essay Prize
Politics Prize
Spanish Prize
Business Studies Prize
Ely Webster Economics Prize
Harvey Prize
Young Enterprise Award
Thomas Mathematics Prize
Margaret Aslet
Eboni
Sophie Billings
Clare Briscoe
Danielle Brunton
Philip Canby
Mandy Chan
Physical Education Prize
Barford Literature Essay Prize
Theatre Studies Prize
French Prize
Propert Prize
Rosebery History Prize
National Sporting Award
Beckford-Chambers
Politics Prize
Ralph Gooding Botany Prize
Charities Award
Crawfurd Commonwealth
Geography Prize
Smith-Pearse Natural
History Prize
Kuzi Charamba
Charlotte Chau
Felicity Chiang
Wilson Chin
David Cook
Laura Cooper
Judith Coster
Josephine Day
James Dawson
Carly Duffen
Sami El-sbahi
Fergus Flanagan
Andrew Freeman
James Furnival
Bethany Gale
Anielka Hampson
Olivia Hao
Emily Hughes
Jeremy Holiday
Holly Howson
Samuel Hurley
Charlotte Johnston
Alexander Jones
Neel Joshi
Myung-Kuk Kang
Thomas Liddell
Anthony Lim
Eric Lindberg
Radcliffe History Prize
Business Studies Prize
Waterfield Biology Prize
Gardiner Prize
Boy's All-rounder Sports Cup
Spanish Prize
Marcelle Rowe Drama Prize
Barbers' Company Biology Prize
Wakeley (Harvey) Award
Erasmus Wilson Senior Design Prize
Rowe Computing Project Prize
Ann du Bois Award
Paice Scholarship
Senior John Ingram Poetry Prize
Girl's All-rounder Sports Cup
Fielding Senior Art Prize
German Prize
Wood Mathematics Prize
Watts Science Prize
Jensen Drama Prize
Paice Scholarship
Dame Kathleen Raven Award
Mrs Major Geography Prize
Martin Classics Prize
Eric Radcliffe Award
Heath Mathematics Prize
G.A. Davies Bequest Biology Prize
Chamberlayne Prize
Wood Physics Prize
John Facer Chemistry Prize
Dr Kiernander Medical Prize
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James Lothian
Avais Malik
Emma Marchington
Stuart Mathys
Christopher Moore
Katie Moore
Katie Moss
Samantha Muktar
Gareth Needham
Rishi Patel
Jessica Rinland
Hannah Robertson
Alex Rothman
Nilesh Satguru
Arnolda Shiundu
Joey Shum
Elizabeth Szanto
Adam Terelak
Petros Tourikis
Anna Wolstenholme
Charlie Woodall
Charles Gray
Jonathon Gillespie
Josephine Day
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Newsom Choir Prize
Irish Medical Schools'
Biology Prize
Girl's All-rounder Sports Cup
Senior Ely Webster
Computing Prize
Headmaster's Choir Prize
The Shipwright's Peter Tudball
Memorial Prize
S.R. Piper Award
Smith-Pearse Natural
History Prize
Physical Education Practical Prize
Irish Medical Schools'
Biology Prize
OE Lodge Citizenship Prize
Marcelle Rowe Drama Prize
Martin Mathematics Prize
Sealey Physics Prize
Watts Science Prize
Rosebery Literature Prize
Propert Prize
Wood Mathematics Prize
Pendlebury Greek Prize
French Prize
Paice Scholarship
Brande Award
Brande Award
Brande Award
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Snippets
In September 2006 we welcomed eight
new members of staff to the College.
Miss Katie Baines joins the Maths
Department and is a familiar face to
us after spending some time with
teaching at the College last year. Mr
Bill Beatson arrived from a senior post
at Kings Macclesfield to cover Mrs
Jerrit’s maternity leave from the
Biology Department for two terms. Mrs
Sylvie Yvon-Case is another person who
we already know well and she joins
the Modern Languages Department.
Miss Katie Cloonan joins the English
Department after a spell teaching at
Chigwell School in Essex. Mrs Rosemary
Doyle arrives as Head of Learning
Suppport and Mr Rob Johnstone joins
the ICT Department. Mr Robert Young
arrives to teach economics whilst Mr
Alex Forsdike joins the History
Department and undertakes some
cover work
In the Houses, the final stage of the
Holman and Forest refurbishment has
been completed with the remodelling
of the small ground floor studies into
larger bedrooms, including a
bedroom and bathroom for a
disabled student. The remaining
rooms on the first floor have also
been decorated, bringing the internal
specification of both houses up to a
high standard. The Forest computer
room has also been enlarged with the
removal of the two small studies. In
Granville the last studies have been
repainted and re-carpeted and a new
carpet has been added on the first
floor. Externally the rear gutters have
been relined, and many windows
redecorated. Work to create a private
entrance to the Housemaster’s
accommodation has now been
finished and the Common Room
Lounge has been repainted.
more secure double glazed windows
on the ground floor. In Wilson an
external courtyard at the rear of the
building has been created with access
through the ground floor brew room.
In addition, the basement locker room
has been converted into a TV room
with bright walls and new furniture. In
Raven the brew room on the first floor
has been combined with the day room
to give a single large space sufficient to
accommodate the entire house. The
dividing wall in the changing rooms
has been removed to create a single
more flexible space.
and redecorated to accommodate staff
changes and additional staff. In the
John Piper Art School the rear
elevation has been re-painted,
windows decorated and gutters relined
and in the Sports Centre the pupil
Male and Female Changing rooms
have been decorated and new
benching installed.
The final phase of the upgrade of the
science departments has been
completed with the extensive changes
in the Chemistry department. Two
small labs on the ground floor have
been combined to create a single,
large teaching space and the prep
rooms have redesigned to allow a safer
storage and working environment. The
lab furniture has been replaced with
modern units and Iroko work surfaces.
One lab remains to be refurbished and
three fume cupboards will need
replacing over the coming years.
The large careers room in the Library
has been subdivided to create a
smaller careers Library and a separate
careers meeting room accessible from
the careers office. Offices on the
ground floor of Old Granville and
second floor have been reorganised
In Fayrer the box room and showers
have been upgraded and repainted
with new shower cubicles, flooring
and tiles.
In Carr house the replacement of the
old brick toilet cubicles off the box
room has occurred with modern
partitions and sanitary ware and in
Robinson there has been installation of
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Leaving Staff
David Ottridge
Cartesian co-ordinates to Intrinsic co-ordinates. David is a
true polymath in more senses than one. He has always been
a popular and successful classroom teacher and he definitely
has the nicest room in the Maths Block - all those plants
make you feel as though you are learning outside, all year
round. There is no doubt that David was a vital asset and he
will be sorely missed here. His efficiency and organisational
skills have not only been used in the Maths Dept – his
running of GCSE examinations has been phenomenally
smooth and he will be a difficult act to follow. Then, of
course, he has also been a dedicated house tutor of
Robinson and I know Mr Conway and all of the pupils would
only want to thank him for his efforts.
David Ottridge is a truly great guy. Laid back and aloof, but
when you get to know him, he is one of the nicest people
you could meet - intelligent, witty and abounding in downto-earth common sense. Epsom College will be a poorer
place without him, but I know that everyone would wish
David and his lovely wife Mari the best of luck in their wellearned retirement down in Wittering, on the south coast.
Mr A.J. Wilson
David Ottridge arrived at Epsom College January of 1972,
after a spell in the real world, and he quickly began to make
his mark. He was the original "IT Crowd", but, entirely on his
own, so maybe that should make him the "IT Loner". He
oversaw the rise in computing for more than 20 years building and mending computers, teaching classes and even
organising staff INSET. The technological advances were
staggering in that time, but David took them in his stride
(and believe me you can fit an awful lot into that particular
stride).
David also started up, and ran, the naval section of the CCF
in those early days. As part of this commitment, he was
always a keen member of the outward bound expeditions no mountain was too steep to climb, and no sea was too
deep to stop David getting on a ship that was safely in dock.
Actually, rambling is still one of his main hobbies, so he
obviously learned well from his experiences.
He has always been a good sportsman and he is well known
for being involved in basketball and cricket here. Slam
dunking without needing to jump and pounding down the
wicket with the new ball. However, his real passion used to
be for Bridge – he ran 3 teams in the London Schools Bridge
League at one time. It is hard to imagine getting the kids
playing anything as intellectual now. Ever at the cutting edge
of technology, he used to run a Saturday night, reel-to-reel
cinema club for the full-boarders. There was no cinema in
Epsom then, so this was a real perk for the pupils. They only
had to roll into Big School - although I don't think there was
any popcorn and fizzy drinks.
Obviously David has been first and foremost a Maths
Teacher and he is undoubtedly a master of all aspects and
all levels of the subject. From M4 set 7 to Oxbridge, and all
the branches: Pure Maths, Mechanics, Statistics and Decision
Maths. From simple addition to the vector product and from
Jean Walker
With the retirement of Jean Walker, the Common Room has
lost a colleague whose varied contribution was all the more
remarkable in the light of the short time she was actually
one of its full members. Jean's introduction to the College
was initially through the appointment of her husband,
Mick, to the Biology Department in 1990. At that time Mick
was also appointed a House Tutor in Holman, and Jean
played her full part as Mick’s spouse, supporting a whole
host of House events, meeting new parents and even
helping to choreograph the House play.
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This involvement and commitment to the College was to
extend itself considerably when Mick was appointed
Housemaster of Robinson in 1996. As the wife of the
Housemaster Jean had a great deal of contact with
parents and used her own home to offer hospitality at
the beginning and end of terms and before parents’
evenings. She was always available to support Mick, the
boys and their parents.
But by this time Jean’s own career had also resumed
and was beginning to blossom once again. Originally a
PE specialist, Jean had subsequently retrained in the
rare dual specialism of learning support and emotional
and behaviour management. After a few years working
in a part-time capacity for the Specialist Support teams
in Croydon and at Rosebery School, she was then
appointed the full-time Special Educational Needs
Coordinator at Rosebery. Jean had a very successful time
indeed there, spending seven years in her role, but it
was our very good fortune that she applied for the same
post here in 2001.
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In all of this, Jean also remained the devoted centre of
her family, with sons Ben and Sam both passing
through the College during her time here. Ultimately,
the call of the North remained a strong one, and with
the establishment of a family base close to Skipton and
the Yorkshire Dales, Jean has sought retirement in that
part of the world. But to use a phrase local to that area,
Jean is very much of the variety that would "rather wear
out than rust", and we would be surprised if soon Jean
was not launching into new initiatives. As a final note, it
must be very rare indeed for any institution to have a
"brace" of Presidents, but that has been very much
Epsom's gain in Jean and Mick, and it is to them both
that we send our warmest good wishes for a long and
happy retirement.
Mr R. Gill
Tracy Pearson
What has made Jean's contribution here so remarkable
has been its sheer diversity in that five-year period.
Firstly, under her guidance and management, the
Learning Support department extended its scope very
significantly. Jean's varied expertise, be it in dyslexia,
literacy, behavioural issues or counseling, gave her a
security and confidence that enabled her to tackle the
varied challenges her role required. Many of her pupils
recall her particular skill in promoting their confidence
and self-respect, rather than letting them feel a victim
of their learning disability. She also had the priceless gift
of getting alongside them or their parents when difficult
issues had to be faced, but in a way that kept everyone
"on side".
Always a pragmatist, Jean was also an excellent
communicator and very much a people-person, and it
therefore came as little surprise that she was nominated
as a candidate for President of Common Room, and
subsequently elected as its first woman President,
holding the post for the last three years. In that role,
Jean was able to support her colleagues in a variety of
ways, and was a popular presence at countless School
events such as concerts, plays and soirées, and also at
the more private family occasions enjoyed in the College
community: the weddings, christenings, confirmations
and so on. As "Auntie Jean" she was a respected
confidante of the younger members of Common Room,
though her counsel was sought by many in a wider agebracket too.
In her role as President, Jean was also a tireless and,
dare one say, redoubtable organiser - she had after all
been Deputy Head Girl of Burnley High School! - and
she grappled well with the challenges of bringing a
sense of tidiness and order to the Common Room which
now acts as a daily base for 100 busy Colleagues. Her
improvements to the fabric and the varied refreshment
arrangements of the Common Room will remain as part
of her legacy, as will a number of aspects of the
constitution which she brought to a conclusion on the
firm foundations of her predecessors.
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Tracy joined the College community ten years ago as a
well-qualified and enthusiastic swimming coach. Over
that time she has helped our swimmers achieve a great
deal of success not only at inter-school level but also
winning county and Division 11 relay cups and reaching
the finals of the PSR and National relays. Other schools
achieve this level of success through swimmers trained
by local clubs, but our success has been in house,
through the coaching provided by Tracy. She has put in
many hours outside her pool duty time organising the
swimming matches, the teams, transport and teas, as
well as giving up evenings to take teams to the District,
County and Division 11 events. She has run the
swimming pool, organising the lifesaving rotas for
family swims.
However this is not the full story of the past decade. In
the brave new world of portfolio jobs Tracy stands out
par excellence, wearing a wide variety of hats within the
College as well as being able to run a family, with all the
pressures that that entails, looking after Jeremy,
Hannah, James and Daniel. At the same time she has
worked hard to develop her skills and qualifications. On
top of her coaching qualifications she has gained a
Masters in Sports Science and a PGCE in record time.
Her other roles (and forgive me if I forget any)
have included:
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Mary Lane
- Sports Centre management
- Sports Department Administration
- House Tutor, Granville
- Officer i/c RAF section of the CCF
- Assistant ‘Dexa’
- Assisted with DoE expeditions ….and who can forget
her help with Superteams?
She has developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of the
College. If anyone wants to know anything about the
way we run things they usually turn first to Tracy, who
always has the answer. She also has a very extensive
web of contacts which have proved invaluable. We all
know her cheery smile, with always a friendly word for
all and a willingness to listen. Of course we can all
identify with her infectious laugh, at least 30 paces. She
is reliable, trustworthy, efficient, proactive, loyal. A team
player, never putting herself first. She freely gives of her
time beyond her contracted hours - she will do anything
for anyone. Always gets the job done to help the
children – this is a compliment – she is a genuine
‘school master’. Speaking personally it has been a
privilege to have worked with her.
Over the past year she has been teaching at Chinthurst,
while maintaining the link with College, but since the
College has been unable to find a full time role for her
she has decided to leave, to join Glyn, initially for
maternity cover but then with the prospect of head of
Environmental Science. I would like to express the
College’s sincere thanks for all she has done in so many
ways over the past 10 years. It will be very difficult to
replace your expertise and impossible to replace your
commitment, care and friendship.
Mr E.A. Huxter
Mrs Lane joined the school in September 2000 as a parttime ICT teacher and Raven House tutor. She made a
greatly valued contribution to the ICT department,
teaching students from M4 to L6. Her bubbly personality
and enthusiasm for her subject were in no small way
contributory factors in the department's success
throughout this period; in particular she assisted with
the introduction of Computing A level and introduced
the Web design club and the programming club for M4s.
She was a trusted and loyal colleague, and as part of the
ICT teaching team she helped to drive up the standards
of GCSE ICT; 90% of all students taking the subject in the
last two years achieved either A or A* grade.
Outside the classroom, she was an enthusiastic
supporter of extra-curricular activities. She enjoyed most
sports, but had a particular passion for golf and squash
- enjoying the former with colleagues, and the latter (for
a time) as instructor with the school squash teams. She
also ran the Yoga activity for a number of years. She will
also be remembered for her occasional diversion onto
the stage - appearing on more than one occasion in the
staff charity show and helping with hair design for the
Royal Albert hall show in 2004.
She leaves the College to spend more time with her
husband and grandchildren.
Mr T.C.V. Thomas
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Helen Paulett
Angela Woolley
Helen Paulett joined Epsom in 2001 from King’s School,
Rochester. A women of many facets, she was first and
foremost a fine classroom teacher with a dynamic style
which succeeded in finding the very best pupil by enthusing
and cajoling them through French, Spanish and even Italian
on Wednesday afternoons!
Angela came to Epsom three years ago and it is a
compliment to her zealous interest in all things Epsomian
that she seems to have been here forever. Angela lost no
time in involving herself in a wide range of activities: Day
House tutoring, PSE and careers advice as well as teaching
French with infectious enthusiasm and skill. An
impulsively decent member of Common Room and an
excellent classroom practitioner, she will be missed.
Souvenez-vous souvent.
A first-class linguist, Helen also took a full part in Epsom life,
coaching girls games and happily accompanying pupils on
many trips, not least of which was an exchange visit to
Germany. Helen leaves us to take up a teaching post at
Sutton Valence and our loss is their gain. She takes with her
our best wishes and we shall miss her as a valued colleague.
Mr R. Ellison
Mr R. Ellison
Patrick Wilson
Patrick will be greatly missed by the Economics and
Business Department. He came to Epsom from life in the
city, where he worked for International Creative
Management for over two years.
Patrick, who is 28, is passionate about Economics, especially
environmental and development economics – he even spent
time as an aid worker. He has passed on a real zeal for
Economics to many of his Lower Sixth groups, and has
offered numerous extra revision classes to the weaker
students who often struggle with the subject. His class pupils
were very fond of him and will no doubt miss him.
He graduated with a 2:1 in Economics from Edinburgh
University, where he played for the University Football
team and was features editor of the university newspaper.
He had completed a large percentage of his general
teaching practice at Epsom. Patrick leaves the College
having decided to return to the commercial world.
Nicola Morrow
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To follow the obituary included in last year’s
Epsomian, a pupil and a close colleague write in
remembrance of Mr Neil Laing.
For Epsom College, the 6th February
2006 was especially grim. I will never
forget the last minute Chapel in place
of Junior Assembly, the horrible foggy
weather, the half mast flag, the silence
of the school: it marked the end of
one man's life. One man who had the
respect of all the school, and had
achieved so much in his thirty years at
Epsom, at the same time helping
others achieve as much. This
wonderful man was Mr Neil Patrick
MacDonald Laing.
Those who know him will know that
the only word to describe Mr. Laing is
“legend”. Not only was he passionate
about English, his subject, he was an
awesome teacher, a very enthusiastic
hockey coach, and a great person
inside and out. He was also a very
strong man. It was toward the end of
the girls’ hockey season when we were
all told that Mr. Laing was ill. Even
though he was off teaching he always
turned up to watch the home hockey
matches - despite the weather.
Mr Laing was also very well known for
his baby pink scarf and panama hat
that he wore around school. Those
who were lucky enough might have
had the opportunity to see his bright,
electric blue long johns. Indeed, he
was a very confident man. "Laingy
baby", we called him. He was also
known, perhaps a little too much, for
being very meticulous. He had
excellent taste, and he always wore
matching ties and shoes. Who can
forget that schoolboy smile - so cheeky,
so charming - it made him always
seem approachable, which he was.
Maybe it was the fact that he
possessed so many great qualities
that has made Mr Laing so
irreplaceable. He had touched so
many lives, far beyond their time at
Epsom College. He was always so
caring, and would always put friends
and family first. I guess what I really
want to say is that Mr Laing really
made a difference to my time at
Epsom, and I am sure that I can say
the same for hundreds of other
current and old Epsomians, staff or
pupils, and that Mr Laing will never
really die; his spirit will always live
for those that remember him and
love him.
Laingy baby, your legacy lives.
Beverly Lee (Wilson 5th form)
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Stephen Oliver’s Address at Neil’s Memorial Service.
When I think of Neil, there’s one
word which springs instantly to mind:
Style. Some people never have it,
some aspire to it with effort, but he
had it, effortlessly. His style showed
itself in all areas of his life, from the
glass of brandy and champagne he’d
thrust into your hand when he was
the genial host, at Home with Angela
in the Armoury Flat; to his choice of
pin-ups: ballerina Darcy Bussell and
her ilk (his eyes would go very misty
indeed if you showed him a
photograph of a tutu or two); to his
chosen mode of transport: a Volvo
estate, in exquisite condition, built to
last and capable of carrying the kind
of loads that land-owning gentry
need about them at all times; to his
choice of holidays, either city breaks
in Paris or midge-ridden Scottish
lochs, nothing so vulgar as a beach.
But it was his taste in clothes that set
him poles apart from that shabbygenteel schoolmaster look to which we
are, as a breed, all too prone. For a
start, jackets: never the same one
worn on consecutive days, and a belief
that the top pocket was there to be
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used, so, a nonchalantly rumpled silk
handkerchief in it. Ties, often pink (a
favourite colour) but in varied subtle
shades, and he was one of those select
few who could wear a bow-tie, in the
daytime, and carry it off. More than
that, he was one of the few men able
to wear hounds-tooth check without
looking like a bookie’s runner. Shoes:
always so polished it made you wince
for your own. Suede rarely, and then
only brogues. Hush-Puppies, never. His
Scottish ancestry came out in his
choice of socks: woolly, and very long,
for added warmth. When outdoors, he
was a share-holder in Rohan and
Damart: no icy blast had a chance of
penetrating Neil’s elaborate defences
when his Long Johns, as rumour had
it, were made of silk. ‘Silk next to the
skin, nothing like it’ he’d say. And on
his head, denied to some extent
Nature’s natural protection, there’d be
a hat: woolly in winter, on the
touchline, or when coaching; Barbour
for rainy days, Australian floppy cricket
white for the summer; and a Panama
complete with MCC band when some
serious posturing was called for.
And then there was Neil the lover of
the whole animal kingdom, but above
all, dog- trainer, dog-expert, dogfanatic. He had an instant rapport with
all of them, but it was his symbiotic
relationship with Jack and Raffles (the
only two dogs of which he ever had
sole ownership) which everyone will
remember. The joint spectacle of
master and dog around the College
will be for many people the essence of
the Neil image. I can picture them
now, Jack and Raffles, chasing tennis
balls struck by Neil’s hockey stick on
the athletics track, running the
gauntlet of teenage feet on the way up
and down the English Department
staircase, occupying that dog basket
next to the white board in Room 3,
and being spoilt to death by doting
pupils. On one occasion I was
particularly struck by how deep Neil’s
devotion went. One morning, just
before break, I happened to be
crossing from the photo-copying room
to the Common Room. There was
Raffles, ahead of me, temporarily
abandoned, in the main corridor.
Raffles was always the politest of dogs,
so we exchanged the normal
courtesies, but on this occasion there
was something in his embarrassed
sideways skip and muted tail-wag that
suggested all was not well. As indeed it
wasn’t. As I rounded the corner, there
it was: for a relatively small dog quite
remarkable: first for its sheer quantity,
altogether an offering of which a Great
Dane would have been proud, and
secondly for the precision with which it
had been dumped - in exactly the
position, mid-corridor, where its
impact would be greatest when
hundreds of pupil feet thundered over
it in, what was it? Only five minutes’
time? For a brief moment our eyes
met in silent but urgent dialogue: Do
you have to? said Raffles’ eyes; Sorry
old chap, duty and all that, replied
mine – and off I went to the Common
Room to find Neil and make my
report. Now those of you who’ve ever
been taught by Neil, and those who
haven’t but have occupied any room
the English block, or been crossing the
quad within a radius of a couple of
hundred yards from it, won’t need
reminding of the sheer volume of
those outbursts that emanated from
time to time from Room 3. So when I’d
gently broken the news to him,
observed his eyebrows rising
perpendicularly the height of the
ceiling, and registered his nostrils
flaring along with that inimitable
intake of breath, I thought it’d be
tactful to keep out of the way.
However, I couldn’t resist sneaking a
look round the corner to watch
Krakatoa. How wrong I was. One brief,
but emotionally charged exchange of
looks between man and dog, a
growled What’s this? – at which Raffles
turned tail and fled, logically but
belatedly, towards the Gents - and that
was it. That eye contact had been
enough to convey such stricken
apology from Raffles, that Neil’s
response was instant forgiveness.
Devotion indeed! A moment later Neil
was heading off to the Cleaner’s Pantry
for mop, bucket and a gallon of Dettol,
and an International Incident had
been averted.
Another great love of his was horses. I
remember when the two of us went
one summer for a series of riding
lessons at a stables on far side of the
Downs. I needed to learn, from
scratch, for holiday purposes; Neil,
with memories of some childhood
lessons, but claiming [ha-ha] that he’d
forgotten all he knew, wanted to
rediscover his Lawrentian side: to feel
the breeze in his hair [he had more
then], hear the old Agincourt thunder
of hooves on earth and return home
smelling – irresistibly - of horse. As
soon as he went up to his mount, did
the horse-whispering routine into its
ear, and gave it lumps of sugar, it was
obvious he hadn’t forgotten very much
at all. He’d made another friend for
life. My view from then on, as we
practised trot, canter and gallop on
the Downs, was of two rear ends, Neil’s
and his horse’s, as they powered on
ahead leaving me ineptly trailing.
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These, we in the English Department
used to think, reflected the life Neil
clearly would have relished had he
been born in another age: close to the
soil, flirting with danger and galloping
to the rescue of damsels, preferably
with white stockings, in distress. You
could see the evidence of his
scrupulous attention to detail and high
standards in the way he marked
homework assignments: his
comments, vivid in magenta or green,
would increase in size if he was
provoked: I’ve been telling you about
the ruddy apostrophe for two years
and you’re still getting it wrong! And
his handwriting would go heaving and
spitting up the side of the page in
anguish, over onto the next side,
where it would expire in a heap of
exclamations marks and capital letters.
You could experience first-hand this
terrier-like eye for detail at the end of
Department Meetings, when it came
to AOB. Neil would say in that casual
but determined way of his: Just one
more thing, and as you heard the
ominous words you could just see your
lunch or coffee break receding over
the horizon. You could hear him
exerting his iron grip through the
classroom wall [I was next to him for a
quarter of a century], in tones of
exhortation or admonishment, and
wish you could bore a small hole and
put your eye to it. What was it really
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like to be a pupil in Room 3? You’d
certainly be granted a nickname:
either your surname might suggest
one [if you were Hempstead, then
fairly obviously you’d be Hemel, and
slightly less obviously Shanahan would
be Shenanigans, Yeo would be Yo-Yo,
Sadana would be Sultana, Kearney
would be Chile Con Carne, and so on].
A Christian name such as Serena
would be Serendipity. If you’d
distinguished yourself outside the
classroom in a favoured game like
Hockey, you might end up as Mad Dog
[that was a girl, of course]. If all else
failed you’d be, regardless of gender,
so and so Baby. If you were beginning
to try Neil’s patience it’d be Master so
and so or Mistress so and so- and just
prior to all-out war the warning light
was when he used your surname on its
own. He could be wildly politically
incorrect, in ways I can’t begin to
describe – and they absolutely loved it,
and him.
These memories – and this is just the
tip of the iceberg - are in my memory
locked, as Ophelia puts it [and he’d
have liked her]. But everyone here
today will have their own special
memories of Neil: either as valued
colleague, inspiring guide and mentor;
or in my case, as very dear friend.
Stephen Oliver (Former Head of English)
Of course, the classroom was Neil’s
personal space, his fiefdom where he
could truly be monarch – or should
one say laird - of all he surveyed. You
could see photographic evidence of his
Animal Rights concerns all over the
walls; you could see the evidence of
his literary enthusiasms stacked on his
shelves: Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy,
D H Lawrence, Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.
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Poets Corner
John Ingram Poetry Prize 2006
Seine-Saint-Denis
The dim light reflects over a thousand faces,
Focused and determined in our goal.
The thunderous sound of feet on concrete
Echoes down the empty rues and boulevardes.
A whole society abused, ignored, forgotten,
«Scum» to the politicians,
Brothers and sisters to each other.
Whispers of révolution permeate the crowd,
Giving hope to those who despair.
And then it begins.
The police charge against the swelling tide,
They are grabbed, snatched and cut,
Never to be seen again.
They may hurt us but they may never break us,
Our will is too strong.
Tonight we will take back the city,
Not in God’s name, but in our won.
«Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité».
And we will always remember those who fell
At Seine-Saint-Denis
James Furnival
In The Mirror
Children of Prometheus
Fairest of felines is the tiger king,
Yet with rank gore it stains its striped coat;
While jewels lie gleaming in the peacock’s wing
No song nor sense comes form its turquoise throat.
In waters deep, Leviathan dwells, still
And savage, brutal murder doth enact
For the first word of all the sea is ‘kill’
And in the oceans lies neither bard nor poet.
High in the heavens feathered birds will soar
Though seeing to triumph in that goalnet
For when the reach it, all they do is caw,
While on the ground man’s mind flies higher yet.
For above the weeds, brutal and wild,
Blooms man’s fair bud and sweet Earth’s fairest child.
Yet the darkened killer hunts not for skin,
And the bird’s chatter lets no malice in
But those from land, unwitting, loose a flood
To taint the waters with far worse than blood.
Yet though on angels’ wings the strangers fly
Their dreams of speed and flight still scorch the sky
But that bright flower conceals a poison heart
To lure its stock to death; we never see
The savage lion tears its sweet young apart
And smiles and calls the act ‘morality’.
Sarah Blake
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A young man stands before the mirror with life ahead
How will his aspirations affect him?
How will his choices influence him?
Which path will he follow?
Which life will he lead?
Time can only tell
His understanding of the world is limited
However it will grow as his knowledge expands
He begins to comprehend the stars
He begins to question society
His indulgence turns to apprehension
He worries about the future and for mankind’s survival
He is intrigued by love and hatred
He realises humanitarian mistakes
Also realising the impossibilities of fixing them
He becomes a genius and wise to the world problems
He knows the answers but enlightening intellectuals is difficult
He understands that trying to cure the world is a worry too
big for one man
He stares into the mirror again
Another man looks proudly back and smiles
The man he had become, although things have changed
He knows all there is to know
But he doesn’t want to change his surroundings
He is aged but happy and that is all that is important to him
Daniel D’Souza
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In The Mirror
Great Minds United In Poetry Vol II
In the mirror
I envisage an object
‘Tis what’s parallel with this reflective surface,
Although in reverse
Looking back at the being so vain,
And egotistical,
That it would stare into this void,
Where Narcissus was o so obsessed.
Moods (Be anything)
To make a promise,
To make a pact,
To make friendliness,
An actual fact.
To do a drawing,
To do a painting,
To play music,
Entertaining.
The mirror echoes our dimension,
Sending back ripples of our world.
A contradiction of reality,
Where nothing is tangible,
An ethereal space.
All that enters,
Is obliged to depart.
In the mirror,
Everything is in reverse.
To have trust,
To have knowledge,
The power of these
Is one’s edge.
Anon
To smile,
To die,
To befriend,
To lie.
People can be anything they want,
For better or for worse is choice,
To lie and deceive others, for shame
Or to protect them from the truth.
Gordon Shephard
(Published in Great Minds United In Poetry Vol II)
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National Poetry Day 7th October 2006
Theme: The Future
The Future
Everything’s going to be covered
In tin foil
And stainless steel.
We’ll walk about on slinkies
Along the turquoise pavement.
The roar of traffic,
The choke of pollution
And all the fuming snorting cars,
Puffing and wheezing,
Guzzling petrol as they eat up the earth,
Will be replaced
With the soft hum
Of hover cars,
Sipping grenadine instead of gasoline,
And ambling through the air.
Buildings will graze the sun
As they extend over the moon.
And the sky will be violet purple
Because it just will!
The Future
Lottie Mungavin
The Future Information Paradox
A dark desolate wasteland,
Carcases of skyscrapers everywhere
The earth is scorched and grass does not exist,
No sign of life, just death.
The sky is blood red, the air dense,
The streets of the city were drowned in shells of old tanks
In the distance a half-destroyed woman watches over all,
Trees try to grow but cannot.
Blast off, cool and collected
looking to gleaming stars
heat rushing down your back
perched like a mouse above a bomb
rocketed like an eagle to the stars above
kids run to their open sets
‘ooh, mama’, screaming like a swan
‘it’s dada in space’, joyful singing
around the room, behold the future
It was hell on earth
Shop windows were smashed,
However, the sign of humans living there was gone,
The sea around the city was still,
Nothing moved in the city,
Not even the wind.
Whooshing, stressing Mach 1 to 9
dark caverns of nothing, bright screens of everything
mikyways, galaxies all tasty to see
space is upon us but we are not upon it,
soon we shall be eating up the galaxies
but dreams they are until this cage is unlocked.
Ed Farrelly
Charlie Higgs
The Future
Imagine yourself in ten years’ time,
Will you be a smart business lady,
Sitting on the train on the way to work?
Or will you be a proud parent, holding your baby?
Imagine yourself in one hundred years’ time,
Either dead or old and frail,
Hobbling around on your walking stick,
Or lying in your coffin, cold and pale.
Imagine the world in one thousand years’ time.
Who knows what that might be?
Computers that talk or cars that fly,
Or perhaps Bangladesh taken over by the sea.
Imagine the world in one million years’ time.
Will there be a world to live in?
Will the sea have destroyed the earth?
Yet no one left there to swim.
Jo Boddy
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Riddles
Perennially popular, enigmatic and teasing - the riddle - a
creative challenge. It is an adaptable form: a tricksy one-liner
one minute or an extended and sophisticated metaphor the
next. The form has long prospered in both folk and literary
guises, the earliest recorded riddles being Babylonian were
nearly three thousand years old. M4 XL rose to the challenge
and made their contributions to a long-lasting tradition.
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A delicate child of God
Folding, unfurling,
Falling helpless
Yet beautiful, bold and confident.
To come from so small
And to become so breathtaking,
Given to the ones we love the most,
But like all love, it has its thorns.
Nick Thomas
Ms A. Brookfield
I am twisted into elegant shapes,
I am long yet short,
I am colourful yet dull,
Tight as a slipknot,
Yet as loose as hair,
And I can feel your pulse,
As soon as you put me on.
Rustam Karanjia
They sit together perched on lobes,
Dainty and elegant,
Like a blossoming rose.
Perfectly round or rigidly square,
They are identical twins,
Puckered to perfection,
Shiny and smooth,
The butterflies are the key
To unlock their wings.
Emily Newey
I vary in height, as well as in width,
My body is bland yet full of surprise,
I wear a coat for protection,
My spine is there for support,
If full of colour I interest the young,
I am swarming with scrawl,
I have leaves yet I am not a plant,
Worms digest me, yet I am not harmed,
I may be used by many - and fade over time.
Its hands are running a race,
A steady pace on every lap,
They give us the information we need,
As they go round their mighty great track,
The three runners put in desperate need,
They know they will never stop,
The race goes on forever and ever,
Unless their cells decide to halt.
Ben McKee
Stephanie Crouch
(Tie, book, rose, earrings, watch)
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Comment
The Legend of the Disappearing Pens
I am one of those people who truly
believe there is a Man/Monster in my
washing machine stealing odd socks.
I'm forever in need of a sock to
complete the pair and some of my
socks develop large holes in the
bottom of them- perhaps the result of
a battle between this Man/Monster.
I have noticed a similar occurrence
developing here at Epsom College, but
not with socks. This mystery involves
pens. Pens of all shapes and sizes especially those blue-pens-with-fourcolours, seem to be disappearing
before our very eyes. And no, this is
not a Hogwarts moment. There IS a
Man/Monster who gains great
amusement from walking aroundpossibly at lunch, taking a pen-or twoor three.
I first noticed this scenario on my very
first day at the school. Nervous I began
with my M4 backpack (which tends to
disappear after the first day – a result
of Man/Monster or just an attempt to
be cool?). This was filled to the brim
with pencils, sharpeners, rubbers,
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rulers and my brand new maths
set (but that can’t be blamed on
Man/Monster- that’s down to
Lindberg). All of this stationary
vanished over the following week and
by Saturday I was left with just a pen
(which of course wasn’t my own pen it was a pen I borrowed!). This scenario
repeated itself several times before I
gave up and decided that borrowing
pens was probably the best idea.
This Man/Monster also comes out a
night, while all the children are
sleeping – I'm sure I saw him once,
while peaking out my window; it’s
almost like the mystery of Santa Claus-
except
Man/Monster is
a bad guy, taking
rather than giving. On
special days (birthdays, holidays,
religious festivals etc.) he decides to
take a pencil case, a ruler or even a
glue stick destroying the hopes of a
normal pencil case here at Epsom
College. Teachers often about the lack
of equipment in lessons but look no
further – this can be blamed on the
Man/Monster who roams our school.
I’m leaving you with a warning - please
watch out for any suspicious
Men/Monsters who may be roaming
our school. He may be armed, he may
be one of you - beware!
Annie Urwin (Inspired by Katherine
“Boshki” Lammiman).
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Fruitarians
Fruitarians – are they real people? Or
are they fragments of our deep, cold
and twisted imaginations. Agents in the
field Gareth Morgan and Chris da Roza
decide to investigate this age-old
mystery. With a hefty budget of
thrupence and half a crown, we set out
on a mission purely for the benefit of
YOU, the faithful Epsomian reader…..
It’s a cold and frisky December morn
in Holman House and the early
morning sparrow is yet to crow. I pull
on my freshly ironed, crisp blazer (dry
cleaned only yesteryear) and make
the short, yet gruelling, stroll to
Chris’s well heated abode where he is
ready and raring to make journalistic
history. Together, we make the four
minute walk to the dining hall where
we encounter our first obstacle – a
cunningly laid trip wire and our
second – what can we eat as
Fruitarians? The answer is not as
obvious as one may first assume and
so Gareth quickly refers to the
Fruitarian Hand Guide (Available at
all respectable retailers – RRP £9.98).
We decide to go for the continental
option – two satsumas and an olive stuffed with almonds, of course! A
little exuberant we know but we
thought one should pull out all the
stops for our first meal as real
Fruitarians. We departed breakfast at
a quarter to eight and the journey
back to the house was an eye opener.
Both Christopher and I felt much
healthier as we strolled briskly back
to the house in icy conditions and
even found time to forage in the
undergrowth where sadly we found
little more than an elastoplast, a
dusty toadstool and two nutmegs.
Despite our extravagant, and quite
frankly filling, breakfast, by break time
we were both feeling a little worse for
wear. Therefore, we decided to
indulge into a luxury fruit and nut
assortment (Marks And Spencer £2.l2)
which quickly replenished our energy
reserves. We were now ready to tackle
our next challenge - double Politics
with Mr Cooper followed by the
absolute inhumane torture of a
double spare with nothing to eat but
raw fruit and seeds and nothing to do
but brush up on our knowledge of the
Fruitarian lifestyle. We learnt such
facts as if we wanted to order a
Fruitarian meal on a plane, the meal
code would be FPML. Nothing could
have prepared us for the pure mental
and physical suffering that our bodies
endured. By twelve twenty-three,
Gareth had hit the wall and I was not
far from breaking point myself. I
joined him at the wall a little before
twelve thirty-two and so we almost
unconsciously ambled up to early
lunch in the vague hope we would be
let in three minutes early. Jackpot!
There were no sentries on the gate
and Mr. Rice was nowhere to be seen
leaving a small window of
opportunity. In our camo gear, now
running on pure adrenaline we lunged
with the little energy we had left
towards the fruit basket and flailing
uncontrollably in the early afternoon
sun we sunk our teeth desperately
into the soft, luscious flesh of sweet
Bartlett pears to the horror of
onlookers and helpless kitchen staff.
Immediately, the energy
hit us like a new birth and
the felling of boundless
ecstasy took us into a
utopian state. We
bounded out of lunch
with an immeasurable
spring in our step. By roll
at one forty-five, we were
already feeling weary
and decided to tuck into
a sachet of Sunflower
seeds bought from
Garsons Farm, Weston
Green, Esher and
cultivated through
purely organic means.
of fire. We knocked back a granny
smith or two and gobbled down a
peach with piercing accuracy and
polished it all off with a cool glass of
freshly squeezed water from a
highland spring in the Netherlands
(Bottled at source). The day from there
on went tickety-boo and although tired
and shaken, we retired to our
respective quarters (no monkey
business here! Ho ho ho ho ho) and
we were both out like the proverbial
greased weasel.
Our day had finally come to and end
and breakfast the next morning called
for greasy bacon sandwiches and the
scrambled egg from the canteen which
has a greenish tinge to it to refuel and
return to normality. Although I was a
little stiff and had the runs that
morning, returning to everyday life, it
soon wore off. In conclusion, this was a
worthwhile exercise not only for us but
for the children. And they are the ones
that matter…. they are our future.
Chris da Roza and Gareth Morgan
The next few hours
went by in an
hallucinogenic daze.
Half a tangerine each
helped us struggle
through the afternoon
until dinner where we
dined like kings
drinking from goblets
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Choral
Competition
Carr
Part Song - This was an awe-inspiring
version of ‘ With a little help from my
friends’ with an original arrangement
provided by A. Hardy.
Soloist - ‘Wherever you will go’ was
great song choice and it was well
backed by a budding guitarist, Mr.
Hugh Crail. The solo was an all round
pleasant piece.
Unison - I must comment especially
on a great conductor, James Patterson,
leading the performance of ‘There’s
Nothing Like a Dame’ with great skill.
Unfortunately, Carr's efforts weren't to
match their conductor’s.
Crawfurd
Soloist - Elspeth Marrow had us all
enthralled with a spot of Sting when
she rendered ‘Fields of Gold’. I think
nerves may have got to her a little but
this did not take anything away from
her rousing, emotionally charged
showing.
Part Song - Crawfurd gave a solid,
strong performance of ‘All That Jazz’,
although perhaps lacking in some
much-needed panache at times. It was
mostly enjoyable and was almost
pulled off.
Unison - This was a very synchronised,
exciting rendition of ‘that’ song from
the Shrek Karaoke Dance Party, ‘Happy
Together’. The judge was blown sway
by the clever movements, which
worked effectively. At times, the moves
seemed repetitive and onedimensional but the judge felt they
deserved The Murray Young Cup,
which will be sitting in the Crawfurd
trophy cabinet for the coming year.
Smashing good show girls!
Gareth Morgan
Part Song - Crawfurd gave a solid,
strong performance of ‘All That Jazz’,
although perhaps lacking in some
much-needed panache at times. It was
mostly enjoyable and was almost
pulled off.
Fayrer
Soloist - Simon Jennings gave us a
lovely rendition of ‘Accentuate The
Positive’, where he managed to hit
some extremely high notes. His
dictionwas good and he gave a
confident performance. Jolly good
show, joint second.
Part song - I am not a music critic
(Crikey I don’t even know what an
octave is!) but this seemed to me to be
a pretty good, funky performance of
Segun Ogunsheye’s ‘Clocking’. A special
mention must go to Mr Tom Peddie,
without whom the performance would
have fallen apart.
Unison - Very…. um loud. The judge
very astutely summed this performance
of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ up when he
likened the sound to that on a Saturday
afternoon on the terraces at Millwall.
However, it was a very clear, confident
sound and was well conducted by
Fergus Flanagan.
Gareth Morgan
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Holman
Overall winners this year, Holman
came through, yet again, with a very
entertaining show.
Soloist - Robert Lever began with ‘This
nearly was mine’, gaining fifth place.
Part Song - This was an amusing
production of ‘Baby Face’, with very
interesting sound effects from Kris
Boger.
Forest
Soloist - Wilfred Ma stepped up to the
stage with an air of confidence and as
soon as he broke into the ballad ‘When
You Say Nothing At All’ by Ronan
Keating it was clear why. With just a
guitar accompanying him he sung
clearly and with energy, thoroughly
deserving his 4th place.
Granville
Soloist - Charles Rivett-Carnac was
obviously very nervous ahead of this
performance but nevertheless
provided us with a strong, brave
performance. However, he didn’t
answer the real question we had
hoped he would, ‘Who is Sylvia?’.
Part Song - This carried on where
Wilfred left off, Ola Akingbade singing
with style and a passion matched by
fellow singers including an impressive
performance from Ben Ching. Their
rendition of ‘For the longest time’ won
1st place and it was clear to see why.
Part Song - We all loved this song,
arranged especially just for us by
Roshan Gunasekera! This performance
of ‘The battle of Jericho’ was well
rehearsed and was fun to listen to and
watch, finishing in a well deserved
second place.
Unison - Finally, the whole of Forest
House, many with slicked back hair,
stepped up for a rather amusing
performance of ‘Is this the way to
Amarillo?’ culminating in a hilarious
ending where a Peter Kay
doppelganger walked down the
centre of the stage…you really had
to be there.
James Haville
Unison - This was a jolly swish
showing of Lionel Bart’s ‘Consider
Yourself’. I particularly enjoyed Ozzy
Osborne’s mental conducting where he
looked as though he was on some sort
of hallucinatory drug. All in all, a
confident, obviously well-practised
performance.
Gareth Morgan
Unison - Finishing the show off, all
the boys sung an unforgettable ‘Ain’t
no mountain high enough’ with
enthusiastic actions as usual. It
appears that all of those practices
paid off!!
Annie Urwin
Propert
Soloist - As the first performer it took
a lot of courage for James Lothian
singing ‘Bring him home’ but the
song was performed confidently, a
good choice of song, but a hard one
to sing well.
Part song - ‘The lion sleeps tonight’
included an excellent, high pitched
performance by John Faal. It was an
all-round upbeat rendition with great
stage presence.
Unison ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ was
thoroughly entertaining with extremely
enthusiastic actions from Sandy Reid.
Georgina Morris
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Part Song - Rosebery chose ‘Pastime
with good company’ as their part song
which was quite well sung although a
strange choice of song.
Unison - The first half was finished off
with a lively unison of ‘There is nothin’
like a dame’ which, although the same
choice as Carr, showed uniqueness and
enthusiasm throughout!
Annie Urwin
Robinson
Raven
Soloist - Charlotte really started the
house off with her solo, ‘Show me
heaven’. It was a great song, to
contrast with the other two lively
pieces. Her voice was soft and clear,
almost angelic.
Part-song - In my opinion, ‘Take a
chance on me’ was one of the most
enjoyable ‘sing songs’ of the event.
With the steady clicking rhythm and
clean sound I certainly would have
“taken a chance” on these young ladies
winning.
Unison - ‘Say a little prayer for you’
was the most dynamic of all of the
unisons. The varying volume and clear
pronunciation, wholehearted efforts
from the L6th girls, really added the XFactor to Raven’s performance. The
added sparkle was unquestionably
provided by Charlotte’s magic wand.
Oliver Awin
Rosebery
Soloist - For a second year running
Daniel Bailey stole the show by
winning the Trott cup. He sung ‘Panis
Angelicus’ beautifully and wowed the
audience with his amazing voice; I
think we have found our soloist winner
for the next three years!
Soloist - Liam Anderson is a natural
performer whose stage presence was
clean, confident and calm. ‘Beyond the
sea’ was a real treat to all those
present.
Part song - Again, ‘Under the
boardwalk’ was a real crowd-pleasing
performance. With everyone giving it
their all, this piece made for a brilliant
afternoon’s entertainment.
Unison - The Robinson boys made a
real effort with their unison; an
enthusiastic recital of "Somebody
to Love".
Oliver Awin
White House
Soloist - White House began the
second half with a commendable
rendition of the ‘Sound of music’ sung
by Melanie Tien, achieving 2nd equal.
Part Song - White House then sung an
impressive rendition of Bill Withers’
‘Lean on me’.
Unison - This was a very “gospel choir”
style ‘Hail Holy Queen’ from Sister Act.
Altogether a very successful act and
incredibly commendable as none of
the girls had sung in a choral
competition before.
Annie Urwin
Wilson
Soloist - Charlotte Liparoto sung their
solo of ‘Your Winter’. Beautifully sung,
in a delightful tone, she put a huge
amount of passion into it.
Part Song - Wilson’s programme began
with ‘The sound of silence’ sung as a
part song. This was a difficult song to
pull off but they succeeded.
Unison - The gossip before the
competition had stated that Wilson
were planning to do a cockney song ‘dull’ I hear you say? But they turned
that around and stunned me by the
enthusiasm and energy from all the
girl’s achieving 2nd place with ‘Just you
wait (My fair lady)’.
Annie Urwin
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Drama
School Play West Side
Story
This year it was decided that the school
play would be West Side Story.
Setting the scene: - In the dark back
streets of New York, a gangster rivalry
is causing huge problems. The
modern-day Capulet’s and Montague’s
- are the Jets and the Sharks. The Jets,
led by Riff (Jeremy Holiday), are an allwhite street gang (dressed in leather
jackets) at war with Bernardo (Kuzi
Charumba) and his Puerto Rican
friends, the Sharks, over control of
territory in their mutual
neighbourhood. But the real trouble
starts when Bernardo's younger sister,
Maria (Jo Davis and Lucy
Kemp), falls in love with Riff's
best friend, Tony (Jack Moore)
- as star-cross'd as any lovers
of Verona. The two fall in love
at a dance, which causes a
great stir among the gang
leaders. Riff does not want to
see his sister get involved
with one of their enemies,
just as Bernardo does not
want to see his best friend do the
same. To complicate things, Maria
has already had her marriage
arranged for her, to a fellow Shark
named Chino (Leo Patel). What
follows is a tale of love struggling to
survive in a world full of murder and
hatred. The story even goes a step
further than Shakespeare in adding
the extra tension of the ethnic
struggles between Puerto Ricans and
Americans in 1950s New York. The
detective (Zac Frei) tries to resolve the
complications but in the end only
fate can resolve this struggle. The play
is full of singing dancing and very
professional acting from a cast who
put in a huge amount of effort. The
choice was brilliant and provided a
thoroughly enjoyable experience,
with especially commendable
performances from Jo Davis, Lucy
Kemp, Emma McLean, Jeremy Holiday
and Kuzi Charumba. The man behind
this incredible show- was none other
than Mr Henson himself. A creditable
effort to all.
Annie Urwin
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It has become increasingly rare over
recent years for a House to put on a
serious play. ‘Dumbing Down’ seems to
be the order of the day in so many
areas of life nowadays. The fact that
Granville chose to take on this play,
perhaps better known for the Henry
Fonda film version than a stage play,
was a credit to them. The fact, to that
they pulled it off in considerable style
speaks volumes and would suggest
that pandering to the lowest common
denominator should not be what
House Plays are necessarily all about.
The programme cover showing Andy
Warhol’s iconic electric chair in Sing
Sing gave us a clue as to what to
expect, along with the brief ‘Director’s
comments’ inside. Prejudice was what
we were about to be entertained with
for the next hour and three quarters.
Racial prejudice was key to the
performance, but along with it came a
superbly crafted mix of family tension,
post war attitudes to the Nazis and
‘class’, all displayed in one hot, sweaty
and highly intense jury room.
The play was performed in the round,
which allowed the audience to almost
touch what was going on in front of
them and added considerably to the
feeling of actually being there; that
and the quality of the acting. From the
start, Alan Goodyear, as the judge
sitting in judgement in a spotlight in
the gallery, to the end when Barnabas
Cooper exited the set, the acting was
outstanding. The tempo of the play
was maintained throughout and the
accents, which notoriously slip in
school productions, kept everyone
fully absorbed in the drama.
James Forster was the foreman of the
jury and played his part well. George
Freeman was the quiet ‘quirky’ guy
who gradually became emboldened
with the part he played in character.
Next to him was Barnabas Cooper.
Here is an actor for the future. His
performance was outstanding as the
family man, who had to be convinced
that the problems he was having with
his own son should not be a reason for
sending the young black boy on trial
to the chair. His movement, expression
and overall high calibre of acting
helped the play move along with a
‘buzz’. Anthony Gray played the
erudite, well read city man and he did
so brilliantly and with authority. Jurors
number five and six saw Jimmy
Phillips and Alex Jones in two fine
cameo roles, aided by Greg Newman
as the ‘Joker’. The next three jurors saw
James Furnival play the Henry Fonda
character, Adam Green the old man
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and Angus Field
the racial bigot.
Furnival was
superb and his
measured,
thoughtful
approach along
with clarity of
delivery stood
out as one of the
many highlights. Green, aka ‘Grandad’,
could have been type cast and was
excellent. Angus Field was the angriest
of the twelve angry men and gave the
performance a real edge. His diatribe
towards the end, when he vented his
hate and spleen to all on just why
anyone not white was guilty of all the
woes around, was remarkable. Jurors
eleven and twelve saw Josh Shinerock
reflect the fears of a Jewish refugee
from Europe hoping to start anew in
the promised land, performing with
assurance, and Adam Gausepohl as
the brash ‘Ad Man’, also giving a
convincing performance. The other
actor used was the final cast member
Charles Gray as the court guard.
The pace of the play, the quality of the
acting, set, sound effects and lighting
kept the audience fully focused
throughout. There was no interval, yet
the time flew by, such was the high
quality of this particular House Play.
Quite simply, it was one of the best
pieces of drama seen in Big School for
some time and was worthy of a major
school play production, not just a
House Play. Everyone involved can
take a great deal of credit for the
achievement – it was outstanding.
Mr M. C. Oliver
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Sport
Girls’ Hockey
1st XI
Pre-season
Tour of Ireland
At the end of the summer holidays
the 6th form girls took a hockey
tour to Ireland for some pre season
training and fun. It built great
team spirit and integrated the new
school members. It has created
many good memories for a great
number of us.
Our first stop was the University of
Limerick. It had lovely spacious
accommodation and great facilities
including a gym, for some
gruelling fitness, as well as a
swimming pool. The locals were
more than friendly as we
experienced in a local pub.
The matches had a mixture of
results including one win, a loss
and a draw. The opponents were
very friendly but proceeded to
make us “drip with sweat”. This
match practice undid some bad
habits such as ‘Campo Tackling’,
(Sarah Campus who seemed to
think we were on a rugby tour).
However, Stacey Higginbotham,
our Gappie, seemed to think we
were in a war zone as she tried to
decapitate a goalkeeper or two
with her vicious flick. She proved
herself to be a very solid player in
whatever position
she played.
We were so busy we still had the
energy and fitness to go bowling
in Galway as well as visiting the
beach and Bonratty Castle. The
tour ended on a good note of an
excellent meal and party where
even Mrs. Drinkall could be seen
getting to know the locals with
her red lemonade in hand. In true
Irish fashion, ‘tanks a million’ to
all the teachers for organising
such an excellent tour.
Emily Hughes, Sarah Campus,
Michelle Watkin and Lucy Billings.
P13
W6 D3 L4
After a successful Ireland tour the 1st XI
have had a superb season in many
ways, ably led by Emily Hughes (W), our
Goal Keeper; an inspirational captain,
which is no easy job when you play as
the last line of defence. The team
trained maturely and were willing to
put in the extra effort needed to
achieve results to be proud of.
Convincing wins over Ardingly, CLFS
and Cranleigh were particularly
pleasing and our statistics make
reasonable reading, but the two draws
should really have been victories.
Semi-finalists at Christ’s Hospital,
District Champions and quarter
finalists in the Counties, only going out
to last years winners Kingston
Grammar on flicks 3-4, the team
seemed to like tournament pressures.
Overall though there was lots to
celebrate for a very committed and
talented squad, and with over half of
the team remaining, we hope for even
better things next season when we
return from our Singapore, Australia
and Fiji tour.
Leavers include: Emily our Captain and
Anielka and Bethany in defence, who
have both pushed themselves to the
limit for the team on a number of
occasions. This pair has quietly gone
about their business for the team and
has caused problems to even the best
attacks. Kate, a very unassuming but
effective player, sticks to the task and
rarely lets her player have an easy ride.
Steph, who has tremendous skill at
times but often tries to beat her player
too often before moving the ball on,
reads the game well and has been a
huge asset in the midfield. Marchie,
who has a tremendous capacity to just
keep running, is pacey and always
willing to give of her best.
The blend of young and old made this
squad really challenging but
interesting to work with. I will miss
these leavers and hope they find time
at University to get their shin pads and
stick out of hibernation. A talented
group in many ways, I wish them all
well and thank them all very much for
their flexibility, good humour and
commitment over the past two years
in the senior squad.
May I also take this opportunity on
behalf of all the team to thank Mr
Head for his help and advice every
Saturday and for taking control of
the whistle, and Miss West for
organising the administrative side of
things so well.
Team from;
Emily HUGHES ©, Stephanie DOWN,
Bethany GALE, Ami HODGES,
Kate NEWMAN, Maddy MORTIMER,
Becky CARPENTER, Steph LAMEY,
Emma MARCHINGTON, April KING,
Lauren BLEASE, Anielka HAMPSON,
Nigora NORMATOVA,
County Honours went to April King (Rv)
Mrs F.C. Drinkall
(W)
Hockey Cup - Emily Hughes
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Shaw Trophy - Nigora Nor
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Nigora Normatova (W)
Down (Rv), Ami Hodges (W),
Half Colours - Stephanie
Stephanie Lamey (Cr),
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Girl’s 1st X1 Hockey
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Captain’s Report
This year’s hockey season has been
very successful all round. It has even
seen the creation of a whole new
girls’ 3rds team, due to huge demand
from more girls than ever to play
hockey. Who would ever have
thought that girls would ever choose
to play sport!
The 1st team this year was very good,
including several club players and a
large amount of effort from
everyone, most of the time. At the
start of the season the low level of
fitness was not promising but an
exhausting regime got us all into
shape pretty quickly. We went on to
win the District Tournament though
we were knocked out of the counties
in the quarter-finals on penalty flicks.
The rest of the matches were good,
but many of the results do not reflect
the closeness due to the difficulty we
had actually getting the ball over the
line despite many attempts and some
absolutely amazing play from every
member of the team. Unfortunately,
we had several injuries in the middle
of the season, though the team kept
going and still put in all their effort.
The most improved players’ awards
went to Nigora Normatova(W) and
Charlotte Harris(Wh). The season was
lots of fun and saw some fantastic
hockey played.
The 2nd’s main strength this year was
their incredible team work. As with
the 1st XI, a lot of work had to be
done on fitness, but this was soon
mended. The 2nds went on to win
several of their matches, only
dropping a few losses.
The 3rd team, though maybe not the
best players in the year, certainly
seemed to have lots of fun, and even
included line dancing in their fitness
regime. Their unexpected creation
meant there were not as many
matches as they hoped for, but they
did well in the ones that they had,
winning more matches than they
lost. However, I do think the best part
of the 3rd team was their end of
season presents to their coaches, Mr.
Thompson and Mr. Head, of some
very fetching pink and purple tiaras!
Overall it has been a thriving season
of success that hopefully next year’s
team will continue.
Emily Hughes
Staff vs 1st side Girls' Hockey
Staff team:
Ms West
Ms Thornley
Ms Hall
Stacy
(gap year student)
1st team:
April King
Lauren Blease
Maz Mortimer
Bekki Carpenter
Ali
Mr Oliver
Mr Campbell
Mr Payne
Mr Thomas
Mr Keevil
Mr McClure
Me
Steph Lamey
Emma Marchington
Anielka Hampson
Charlotte Johnstone
Holly Howson
Josie Day
Kate Newman
Jackie
(the old gappy)
Ami Hodges
Krysta Munford
(old upper 6th)
Goalie: Mr Barakzai Steph Down
Goalie: Katy Pavy
Beth Gale
Mrs Drinkall
Referees:
Mr Head
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A very exciting match hit us on a
chilly Monday afternoon in December
against the uniquely talented
members of staff, as seen during the
outstanding game.
The first whistle goes, the game
starts. We are running, fighting for
the ball as hard as we can…the
opposition looks very tough. First ten
minutes are going very well. The ball
is going from one end to the other
with the speed of sound! The
teachers are sweating, the girls are
still running. Mr Thompson is very
confidently stick tackling Kate. It
seems as if he's been playing hockey
for…ten minutes! Jokes, sir! Very
good effort shown on the pitch!
I come off at the end of the eleventh
minute and Mr McClure takes his
opportunity at the top of the D to
smack it through many defenders in
to the goal. 1-0 to the staff…the girls
still running, trying to tackle Mr
Keevil - no chance! He is was just
dribbling his way happily along. He
passes it to Jackie…2-0. We are not
playing badly at all, but every player
in the opposition is confident when
they have a ball and are making
strong passes across the pitch. Lots
very good skill on display (Mr Payne, I
think it runs in the genes- maybe you
got it from your daughter!) and an
amazing goalie…at short corners Mr
Barakzai ran out with his team and
very successfully got rid of the ball.
Very impressive! He nearly knocks out
Lauren when she tries to score. After
that the girls’ hopes are hindered.
Half time. Mrs Drinkall, as usual, is
very impressed with the girl’s play
and encourages us to pay more
attention to Mr Payne. The start of
the 2nd half is going strong. We get a
short corner and we use it very well.
Lauren tips the ball in, which shows
that after all there are gaps in Mr
Barakzai's skill!
Within the first 15 minutes of the 2nd
half I come on. It is
tough…especially when some
opponents are pushing you around so
you can’t run and defend… Miss
Thornley… or even when you have
the ball they hold on to your top…
Miss Thornley again! Somehow I
manage to cope with the disgraceful
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behaviour of the opposition, receive
the ball from the top of the D
and…2-2. Would you have expected
that?!
Cheering, shouting, ‘GO NIGI!’…as
usual.
The game finished, we drew, we
thought it was not a bad effort and
we really enjoyed ourselves. To be
honest this game wasn’t about
winning: however some players were
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very keen, mostly the staff. Everyone
was there to have fun, and they did.
Joking around, making fools out of
themselves (well, I certainly did…)
but at the same time playing very
skilful, fast hockey.
Many thanks to Mrs Drinkall for
organising the afternoon and all the
staff for sparing the time to play
against the 1st girls’ team.
Nigora Normatova
U16A
P6 W3 L3
County Championship: group stages
District Championship: winners
In a year of many cancellations, the
U16A XI managed to make great
strides forward. Proving themselves
an excellent group with which to
work, they developed an admirable
team spirit throughout the season.
They were extremely unlucky to make
an exit from the County
Championship at the group stage,
after coping admirably with the
unexpected loss of key players. The
latter part of the season saw this side
record handsome victories over
Brighton, Hurstpierpoint and Tiffin
School, the latter involving a
dramatic second half come-back
from a two goal deficit. The District
competition saw this side trounce allcomers on a very bleak and wintry
afternoon at St Theresa's School,
keeping a clean sheet as they
retained their title. The only
opposition to pose any problems, in
fact, came form the St. Theresa's
umpire. By the end of the season, the
girls were playing very effective
counter-attacking hockey with pace,
skill and cohesive teamwork.
Jenny Bryant (W) was not only topscorer for this side, she was also an
excellent captain who lead by selfeffacing example. Ruth Payne (Rv),
who also represented 1st XI, had a
superb season as sweeper,
developing great vision and passing
skills to complement her gritty
defensive qualities and alarmingly
hard hitting. Raphaelle Moore (W)
was, by a nose, the most improved
player of the year with her
consistently high work rate in
midfield providing unceasing support
for others. However, there were
many contenders for this particular
honour and, if space allowed, I could
speak highly of everyone. Indeed,
everyone made substantial progress
in terms of their technique, levels of
fitness and tactical understanding of
the game. Everyone involved should
feel quietly satisfied with what they
achieved this year.
Mr I.McClure
“The U16A XI
managed to
make great
strides
forward. ”
U16B
P3 L3
This was a very frustrating year for
the girls involved in this squad. Icy
pitches, influenza and cancelled
fixtures meant that the girls had the
chance to play regularly as a side.
Accordingly, it was very difficult to
develop real continuity and pattern
to their play. However, fighting spirit
was always in evidence thanks to
team captain Kat Law (W). Ellie Wells
and Beverly Lee (both W) also
played with some real skill in
defence and attack respectively,
whilst Charlotte Liparoto (W) was
truly terrifying in midfield. Neil
Laing, U16B coach for part of the
season, was obviously proud of their
indomitably feisty approach.
Mr I.McClure
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It was clear that the group of girls were
a good unit right from the start.
Several had fine stick skills and all had
a determination to win and play well.
In addition, with just one loss the
previous year in the semi finals of the
county cup against the eventual
national winners St George’s, there was
a lot of pride at stake to make sure
that this season would be successful as
well. After a team dinner in Bath it was
off to bed to get a good night’s sleep
before our first game. We played well
against Kingswood to record a win and
then returned there the next day to
train before playing Reading HC on the
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St Mary’s
Wells Cathedral
Cranleigh
The season started for us in August,
when all the girls who could attend
pre-season training turned up ready to
be put through their paces prior to a
small tour to the West of England.
Three days of hard work in what was
hot, sunny weather was just what we
needed to get ourselves a bit fitter
after a summer of inactivity. We left for
Bath and a combination of matches
Monday. In between, the girls enjoyed
the cinema, shopping, ten pin
bowling, shopping and a bit more
shopping. Future husbands bewarethis lot will seriously put a dent in your
credit cards!!
The game against Reading was a very
good test as they had put out a team
of girls who had recently been
attending their summer training camp.
We won it 3-2, with Shabby, our
captain, scoring a superb goal on the
way. At this point I would like to say a
big thank you to Angie Wright at
Kingswood, Reading HC and especially
Carole Rice for making the tour
possible and so successful.
Once back at school, we continued to
work hard on fitness and skills and
introduced some new ideas like aerial
passes, quicker hits, playing it around
the back, playing the way you are
facing when you receive the pass and
most important of all, getting the ball
on to our strong side, especially as we
were hoping to use Bigzi’s pace wide
right. When it all worked, and it did on
quite a few Saturdays, it was
champagne hockey, or - as Ruud Gullit
would say-sexy hockey. Indeed, this
was to become our mission statement.
Once into the regular season, Zara
Marklew, who had impressed in the B
XI, made her way into the back line
and from there on in, we had a pretty
settled team apart from glandular
fever, broken wrists and other odds
and ends. The game against Brighton
was easily won, but we were made to
work hard for the win away at
Eastbourne. In the Lord Wandsworth
game, we started what was to become
a bit of a pattern for the season,
namely a steady start, but a much
more convincing second half. The score
could have been even more convincing
if the short corners had been
converted into goals. The next three
games saw us win with some big scores
and also saw us playing some really
fine expansive hockey.
Next, it was our turn to play hosts to a
team from the west country. We all
turned up far too early on a Sunday
morning, right after the M4 U4 party,
so loads of gossip at the warm up and
some uncalled for abuse of my tropical
shirt from the evening before! We
played well and had coped with the
loss of Shabby due to glandular fever
quite well. Our next game was
probably our toughest of the season,
not helped by still not having Shabby,
but also losing Laura, Hughsie and
Bigzi through injuries and illness.
Although we scored first, the draw was
about right on the day.
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After half term we started off with the
district tournament, which we won
easily on a surface that was perhaps
not the best to develop the game as
we would have liked. However, it
served its purpose of getting us going
again after half term and we went on
to have convincing wins against
Hurstpierpoint, Sevenoaks and
Bradfield. Our final two games again
saw us missing Laura, who really had
impressed as our centre forward, and
we ended up winning the last two
matches with smaller margins than
might have otherwise here been the
case. But, after the final whistle away
at Canterbury, the champagne corks
flew and the girls were able to look
back on an unbeaten season with
tremendous satisfaction.
With 86 goals in 20 games, including
the tournament, and only letting in 10
goals all season, the statistics speak for
themselves. Better than 4 goals per
game on average and only letting in
half a goal each match is a real
measure of how good these girls are.
Of the players themselves, Charlotte
Ellison in goal was very good indeed
and really does look the part. Lucy
Phillips as sweeper was excellent and
reads the game so well, that we never
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really looked in danger with her
tidying up. The back three of Zara
Marklew, Carina Lindberg and Alex
Hughes were excellent. Zara working
her way into the team after a strong
start for the B XI and Carina and
Hughsie building on their experience
from the previous season. If the safety
of my goal depended on a single
player, I would have to say I would pick
Carina-superb, determined and a great
organiser. Across the midfield we
played Alex Biggs wide right, with
Danielle Rice covering there as well,
then Abigail Raye inside her with
Charlotte Davolls as the holding and
distributing midfielder-a task that she
worked on throughout the season so
much so that she was our very own
multi tasker. Wide left we used
Georgina Morley and Meghann
Murdock with a bit of ‘The Ricicle’ as
well. Meghann really did come on
leaps and bounds during the season
and ended up scoring some crucial
goals from this position. In fact
Meghann and Bigzi impressed so much
throughout the season that they
shared the Maidment trophy for the
most improved player of the season.
Up front we used Helena Mortimer,
Laura Butcher and Anna Dick, all of
whom played superbly. Laura was fast,
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attacking and put defences under a lot
of pressure with her presence. Helena
played from a slightly deeper position,
but is an exceptional player at her best.
Some of her goals, off the wrong foot
as well at times, were outstanding.
Helena also led the side very ably
when Shabby was laid low with
glandular fever. The captain was
Abigail ‘Shabby’ Raye and I would like
to single her out for special praise. Her
stick skills are outstanding and her
willingness to take on board new ideas
and techniques is a joy for a coach. Her
leadership by example and her
determination were quite superb. Sadly
for us, Shabby is relocating to Canada
with her family and is leaving us at the
end of this season. Her contribution to
the college’s hockey has been fantastic
and we would all like to wish her the
very best for the future. If it doesn’t
work out, we will always find you a
boarding place, so do keep in touch!!
Finally, a big thank you to all the
mums and dads, who have been great
supporters every match day, and to
HMP and NCM for their support
throughout the season. It has been
thoroughly enjoyable.
Mr M.C. Oliver
Under 14 A
P8
W6
D1 L1
A very pleasing and promising
season for this year group. The A
team were at times outstanding
with a string of impressive victories
over almost all the schools on our
circuit, from Kings Canterbury and
Eastbourne to St George’s.
It is difficult to single players out as
all made such a massive
contribution, but special mentions
should go to Stephanie Crouch(W) in
defence, Joanna Boddy(Cr) in attack
and Lottie Mungavin(W) as a superb
utility player. All augers well for the
future, if the squad are willing to
listen to advice and train as hard as
they have done this season. Despite
the squad being badly hit by illness
mid term, our statistics read well
and the whole squad should be
congratulated on a job well done.
Most Improved Players
Philippa Smith, Rachael Lenney
Most Versatile Player
Lottie Mungavin
House U14 Trophy
Crawfurd
Mrs C.Rice
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Boys’ Rugby
1ST XV
This was one of the most highly
motivated squads that we have ever
had. It included 2nd and 3rd team
players as well, who made up the
rest of 1st Side. In all, over 60
players attended training sessions
each week and could not be faulted
for their positive attitude and
commitment. The overall record
speaks for itself with 29 wins and
only 7 losses across the three teams.
The early signs were promising, with
high attendance at the preseason
training sessions. It was quickly
clear that these boys wanted to
prove something: firstly, that they
were good enough and secondly, to
maintain, and if possible improve
on the success of the previous 1st
XV. A chance to play on the new 1st
XV pitch and a new shirt also
awaited them, and this raised the
intensity level still further. The new
pitch has quickly become a very
exciting and popular place to play:
full size and flat, it is as good a
venue as you could find anywhere.
The first match at home to RGS
Guildford was a tough one, but the
team came through ,despite having
to hang on in the dying minutes as
RGS staged a comeback. This set the
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pattern for the season. Outstanding
back play led to some wonderful
tries, supported by a whole hearted
performance from the pack despite
being under pressure physically for
much of the game. Harrow proved
to be frustrating, where injuries
unhinged a great team effort and
we eventually went down. Wins over
Eastbourne, Tiffin in the Daily Mail
cup, Trinity and St John’s, all away
from home, followed. The forwards
got stronger as they adapted to the
greater physical nature of the game,
and the backs were playing some
brilliant running rugby. Two defeats
followed firstly: to Cranleigh, whose
new imports made the difference;
and then to John Fisher in the Daily
Mail cup. It was a fantastic cup
game: we dominated in the backs;
they had the edge in the pack. The
difference on the day came down to
goal kicking.
Victory over Sevenoaks and another
over Reigate got things going again,
and the season finished with two
more wins over Merchant Taylor’s,
and significantly, Eton. These
achievements, and a record of only
three defeats and ten wins, elevated
this team to equal the record of last
year’s side and to being one of the
very best of recent years. David
Cook (P) captained the side
intelligently with a mix of good
humour, passion and quiet
authority and I would like to thank
him for his efforts. Sandy Reid (P)
was a consistently outstanding
player and gained selection for the
England U18 squad, but others had
great moments as well. David Cook
(P) really sparkled and showed
exceptional pace. Andrew Ventris (P)
was an effective line breaker from
fullback. Chris Keeling (G) had a
great try scoring record and Gareth
Needham (G) gave a series of very
committed performances at scrum
half. Kuzi Charamba and Adam
Terelak got the best out of the pack
in which Tom Peddie (Fa), Anthony
Gray (G) and Alex Jones (G)
consistently stood out.
My particular thanks go to Mr.
Whiteley and to Mr. Campbell for
their support, helpful advice and
encouragement throughout the
term. The efforts of the groundsman
also deserve recognition for
producing a perfect playing surface,
particularly on the new 1st XV pitch.
Mr A.Wolstenholme
1st XV RESULTS
RGS Guildford
Harrow
Eastbourne
Farnborough Coll (DM2)
Trinity
Tiffin (DM3)
St. John ’s
Cranleigh
John Fisher (DM4)
Sevenoaks
Reigate
Merchant Taylors
Eton
27-22
0-11
26-12
50-0
36-0
31-15
36-3
7-22
15-21
14-0
38-13
10-7
20-18
W
L
W
W
W
W
W
L
L
W
W
W
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MAJOR COLOURS
David Cook (P)
Adam Terelak (P)
Kuzi Charamba (F)
Andy Ventris (P)
Sandy Reid (P)
FULL COLOURS
Chris Keeling (G)
Sam Hurley (P)
Fergus Flanagan (Fa)
Tom Peddie (Fa)
Max Abram (C)
John Ghim (H)
Alex Jones (G)
Gareth Needham (G)
Adam Green (G)
Mat Davis (P)
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HALF COLOURS
Alex Cobb (P)
Will Ma (F)
Stephen Munford (C)
Justin Hast (Rn)
Anthony Gray (G)
Landis Bagnall (C)
Jo Li (Fa)
Joe Mayhew (Fa)
PALLADINO AWARD
(most consistent player)
David Cook (P)
SANGER TROPHY (most improved)
Chris Keeling (G)/Alex Jones (G)
Captain’s Report
The season looked promising from
the first pre-season session as it was
clear two very useful rugby year
groups could come together and do
some damage to opposition sides.
This confidence was reiterated in the
first game against RGS Guildford as
three backs’ moves provided three
tries in the first 15 minutes. The
game seemed to go flat after this.
Slowly, Guildford managed to get
their big forwards into the game and
with 10 minutes to go were up by 7
points. Two great individual scores
from Sandy Reid and Andy Ventris in
the dying minutes produced a hard
fought victory to kick off the season.
Harrow was the next opponent, and
as always they were well drilled and
tough. The forwards, inspired under
Kuzi Charamba, won lots of ball but
unfortunately chances were not taken
as easily as they were created.
Dropped balls cost us the match.
What followed were weeks of basic
drills co-ordinated by Mr. Whiteley
and this paid off massively towards
the end of the season! Unfortunately
fly half Matt Davis tore some
ligaments in his ankle during the
game and was forced to watch from
the sidelines for the next four weeks.
centre and Alex Cobb replacing him
at full back, along with Chris Keeling
coming onto the wing, a position he
would make his own as the season
progressed. The forwards also
welcomed Anthony Gray and Alex
Jones into the front five and they
gave us the extra bulk and power
needed against strong forwards
based sides. The defence in this
game was particularly good and two
tries by Andy Ventris, and one apiece
for Chris Keeling and David Cook,
gave a well earned away win.
We travelled to Eastbourne the
following week, knowing a good
performance was needed to get the
season back on track. A reshuffled
back line produced the goods
throughout with Jo Li stepping into
fly half, Andy Ventris coming into the
The first round of the Daily Mail Cup
set up our next fixture against
Farnborough, a team we knew very
little about, and we went into the
game over confident. The first few
minutes, however, gave us the wake
up call we needed as they camped in
our own 22. But as we began to play
our rugby it soon became clear they
could not cope with our movement.
Adam Terelak crossed for his sole try
of the season and that opened the
flood gates as more followed. George
Lowe, playing his first game for the
1st XV as a colt, had a good all round
game and secured his place for the
remaining cup games. The block
fixtures resumed after the mid week
game and Trinity was again an
unknown prospect, having not
played them at all in our Epsom
time. A fairly average performance
gave us the result we needed but
didn’t fill us with confidence.
Despite this, two well worked tries
for the wingers, Sam Hurley and Will
Ma, showed that the backs still liked
to chuck the ball around!
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The old rivals in St. John’s followed
on, and as always it was difficult to
win away at Leatherhead, but the
team prevailed as we ran out
comfortable winners in the end. It
didn’t come without a few worries
however, as the normally very
dependable line out came under
considerable pressure. But hooker
John Ghim held his nerve well to
deliver some pin point ball when
most needed. Tom Peddie at Number
8 scored with a great solo ‘chip and
chase’ effort; such finesse for a big
lad! Steve Munford did well in his
first game at scrum half, bossing the
forwards about and making some
very good tackles. Gareth Needham
proved he was a versatile player as
he picked up his first try as a
winger; a much improved
performance from the week before.
The next Daily Mail cup match
followed with a trip to Tiffin’s, and
it soon became clear it was going to
be no more than a ‘dogfight’, a term
Mr. Wolstenholme made his own
through the season. It was scrappy
win but one needed to continue our
recent good run of results.
With half term approaching,
Cranleigh provided the last
opposition for a few weeks and it
proved to be a bruising physical
encounter. We got on the board first
with David Cook going over from a
run starting in his own half, and we
led at half time by 7pts to 3pts. The
power of the Cranleigh pack began
to take control of the game and the
majority of possession turned into
points soon after. It was fought right
to the end and a try in the final
minute of the game perhaps
flattered Cranleigh in the score line
of 22-7. No complaints however, as
they were the better team and kept
the ball very well.
The biggest game of the season
brought what seemed like the whole
school down to the 1st XV pitch as
John Fisher visited in the Daily Mail.
We played the best rugby of the season
in patches as the backs continually
carved up the John Fisher back line,
and this was reflected in scores for
Chris Keeling, David Cook and George
Lowe. Matt Davis was instrumental and
attracted the opposition defence very
well. As the game progressed, the John
Fisher pack just managed to get the
edge, and a couple of tries as well as
some very good kicking gave them a
21-15 lead with minutes to go. A
couple of missed kicks and missed
tackles may well have proved the
turning point, and it was agonising
knowing we had got knocked out
playing the better rugby.
It was extremely hard to find the
motivation to produce the goods
against Sevenoaks after that Cup loss,
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and a poor game was the
consequence. A win was notched up
though, and the team wanted to
forget about that match and finish off
the season strongly. Reigate was the
next match, and in patches some very
good rugby was played, but some
sloppy errors cost us some more
scores. Max Abram in particular stood
up to be counted as he took countless
short balls off Matt Davis to find lots
of holes in the opposition defence.
This was followed up by Justin Hast
who broke through the defence time
and again as well, another win on the
way to a successful end of the season.
Another away trip took us to
Merchant Taylors, and a few injuries
again brought a switch around in the
backs. The lack of a cutting edge was
evident, but despite this, many
chances were created and the defence
held firm to record a narrow win.
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resulted behind the scrum. Gareth
Needham produced his best game of
the season and capped it of with a
fine solo try. Eton however were
never down and out, and the defence
once again held firm to end the
season on a winning note.
A huge thank you must be made
towards all the coaches: Mr
Wolstenholme, Mr Whiteley,
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Mr Campbell and Mr Power, for their
enthusiasm and huge contribution to
the 1st and 2nd XV this season. The
basis of a successful season began on
the training field and was carried
through to the matches. The players
all gave 100% commitment and the
wins throughout the term were very
much deserved.
David Cook
The last game for Epsom for many of
us came in the shape of Eton, a team
always difficult to break down. A very
even match throughout made sure
the sides were never more than a try
adrift from each other. The forwards
really worked hard to give the backs a
lot of decent ball and four tries
“This was one of the most highly
motivated squads that we have ever had. ”
2nd XV COLOURS
Luke Trayfoot (Fa)
Joe Mayhew (Fa)
Zac Marklew (Fa)
Jonathon Gillespie (H)
John Devitt (H)
Michael Richards (G)
Aiden Robson (R)
Zac Frei (P)
Lawrence Beatt (Fa)
Sam Ratnage (Fa)
Jo Li (Fa)
Will Ma (F)
A Cobb (P)
Reawarded
Charles Gray (G)
Tom Charnock (Rn)
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Alex Rothman (C)
Marco Yang (C)
Philip Canby (C)
Andrew Freeman (Rn)
Alastair Dewar (F)
James Fletcher (R)
REPRESENTATIVE HONOURS
SMITH - BALEWA TROPHY
(most promising colt)
George Lowe (Fa)
England U16
Chris York
COLTS COLOURS
Edward Rushen (Fa)
Max Page (G)
Angus Field (G)
Chris York (P)
George Lowe (Fa)
Greg Newman (G)
Guy James (Fa)
Adam Cooper (P)
Max Polkey (C)
Patrick Iyoyin (R)
Alex Dyer (H)
Robbie Gillespie (G)
Max Eden ((F)
Luke Davies (C)
Jamie Gillespie (H)
England U18
Sandy Reid
Surrey U18
David Cook (P)
Adam Terelak (P)
Surrey U17
Landis Bagnall (C)
Stephen Munford (C)
Anthony Gray (G)
Tom Peddie (Fa)
Zac Marklew (Fa)
Surrey U16
George Lowe (Fa)
Chris York (P)
Max Eden (F)
Patrick Iyoyin (R)
Joe Trayfoot (Fa)
Surrey U15
Rhodri Needham (G)
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2ND XV
Team
Results
C.Gray (captain), A.Jones, A.Gray,
D.Evans, J.Mayhew, J.Williams,
Z.Marklew, J.Devitt, T.Charnock,
C.Hill, J.Gillespie, A.Robson, J.Fletcher,
A.Green, S.Munford, P.Kemp, J.Li,
R.Williams, L.Beatt, S.Hurley, Z.Frei,
C.Keeling, W.Ma, J.Bryant, A.Cobb,
S.Ratnage, M.Richards, A.Simpson,
L.Trayfoot, M.Yang.
Played
Won
Lost
For
Against
10
8
2
236
110
R.G.S. Guildford:
Harrow:
Eastbourne:
Trinity:
St. Johns:
Cranleigh:
Sevenoaks:
Ewell Castle:
Merchant Taylors:
Eton:
W 19 - 12
W 38 - 12
L 3 - 32
W 41 - 21
L 5 - 17
W 11 - 7
W 62 - 6
W 15 - 0
W 29 - 3
W 13 - 0
2ND XV Colours
C.Gray (captain), J.Mayhew, Z.Marklew,
T.Charnock, J.Gillespie, A.Robson,
S.Munford, J.Li, L.Beatt, Z.Frei, W.Ma,
J.Bryant, A.Cobb, S.Ratnage,
M.Richards, L.Trayfoot, M.Yang.
3RD XV
First of all, a big thank you must go to
our coaches, Mr Day and Mr Tod for
their excellent coaching and all the
work they have done for the 3rd XV.
It was indeed a tremendous season
where we won eight matches out of
ten, including the famous victories
over Reigate’s 2nd XV and Eton’s 3rd
XV. The squad put in an enormous
amount of effort and worked well as
a team throughout the season and
they all deserve words of praise.
We started the season strongly and
continued all the way through. The
forwards, led by Philip Canby and
Andrew Freeman always looked
very strong and organised and
often over-powered many of the
opposing teams. We also had a
creative and quick back line
commanded by Charlie Richardson
and our top try scorers Charlie James
and Remi Williams.
We had some walk overs, but also
some very close matches. One of the
most unforgettable matches of the
season was against Reigate’s 2nd XV.
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It was very intense and both teams
put in everything to win the match,
with many injuries forcing some of
the backs to play in the forwards
positions. At the end of the day we
came out with a great victory, beating
them 27:7.
The team kept up the high spirit and
in the last match of the season
against Eton, our top scorer Charlie
James clinched the game for us in
the dying seconds to win 18-17!
It was an enjoyable and fun season
playing with a bunch of gentlemen
with great passion to play rugby, and
I wish all the best in their future.
Colts B
The colts ‘B’ team had a
commanding season, suffering only
one defeat in the early stages of the
term. The team worked well together
in a short space of time to prepare
for our first match on the first
weekend of the season. We came
away with a convincing victory and
were in high spirits entering the
second match against Harrow. It was
here, on a frosty day, that we suffered
our only defeat of the season.
Despite clearly dominating the first
half we were unable to score and
conceded a late breakaway try.
Having the lead at half time clearly
had a positive effect on Harrow; they
scored four tries in the second half
leaving us clearly beaten. It took a
while to recover from such a defeat,
and for the next few matches we
struggled to re-create the form we
had shown against R.G.S. The
breakthrough finally came against St.
Johns. Even though the score was
close , the pack, after having
concentrated on breakdowns and set
plays, started to secure good ball on
both the floor and in the lineouts.
We dominated the play, and moves
in both the forwards and the backs
came together. After half term we
came back refreshed and
convincingly thrashed Sevenoaks. We
took the next two matches very
seriously in preparation for Eton.
The backs began to find accurate
passes and began to put away the
tries we were unable to score during
the earlier stages of the season. In
the last match of the season
emotions were running high, but,
credit to the team, they stuck to the
rugby, and after a stirring speech by
Mr. Wycherley we forced the mistakes
and dominated throughout – finally
managing to score the tries gifted to
us. I think it is fair to say that the
Colts ‘B’s played as well as they had
ever done in their last match as a
team all together.
Alex Fox (Colts ‘B’ Captain)
The ‘B’ XV this year has been a joy to
coach. They have been enormously
hard working and should be proud of
their, not inconsiderable,
achievements this year. Any season
where only one game is lost and
many games are won by a
considerable margin is one that is
cause for celebration, and I was left
in little doubt that this was exactly
what happened after the win against
Eton, away, in the last game of the
term. They bounced back from the
defeat early on with determination
and a desire to prove their ability as
a team, and they should be proud of
their efforts.
Mr R.M.Wycherley
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Colts C
2005’s Colts C XV for rugby made
Epsom College history as one of the
best Colts C sides ever. At the start of
the season Mr Matthews was
determined to get the best out of
more than 30 unfit rugby players.
Starting each session with intense
physical fitness exercises, the whole
team was soon known as the fittest
team of all 3 Colts sides. This
included continuous jogging and
sprinting as well as countless pushups, sit-ups, power-jumps and the
now infamous “Box Drill” (too difficult
to explain, ask if you want to know).
The second half of each session was
spent with various drills, improving
tackling, rucks and team work. With
the aid of experienced referee Mr
Curtis, the side quickly turned around
and even prompted “A” team players
to comment on the brutal but
effective training schedule.
I captained the side and George
Freeman was Vice Captain and top
points scorer for the season. The team
had everything it needed: the strength
and power of Lisle Chase and Henry
Charnock as well as the blinding pace
of the wingers Sam Harley and Barney
Cooper. The list could go on but we
have limited space.
The season started well and was built
on an outstanding defence. This
proved to be the vital ingredient in
one of the highlights of the season,
away at Harrow, where we won 12 –
5. Several other close encounters
included a 7 – 0 win over St John’s in
the derby game. Having beaten
every school we had played ( we lost
the second game we played against
R.G.S Guildford so we won’t count
that one), the final game was a tense
encounter at Eton. Eton took the
lead in the 1st half and Epsom
trailed at the break 5 -0. However,
this was one game that we were not
going to lose, and after a rousing half
time team talk, the commitment
from everyone was redoubled. A
stunning second half saw Epsom
fight back with tremendous spirit and
score a try in the corner with 5
minutes to go, game on! The pressure
told and just before the final whistle
Epsom were awarded a penalty
which, was kicked with the last kick
of the season by George Freeman,
saw Epsom win 5-8.
I am very proud to say that I
captained a fantastic side. The
incredible season was due to the
dedication, respect and commitment
of all the players, to Mr Curtis, and to
the discipline, knowledge and same
mutual commitment and respect of
coach Lawrence Matthews.
Amit Roy
Junior Colts A
What began on a brilliant, blue June
summer’s day in Epsom, ended on a
gloomy, overcast, grey cloudy March
day in Wolverhampton, when the
previously unbeaten U4’s ended their
21 match unbeaten run by a 10 – 5
defeat in the Daily Mail semi finals to
Bedford School, the competition’s
ultimate winners. Sadly, that is no
real compensation. We definitely
didn’t have my luck of the Irish that
day. It was reserved for my national
team at Twickenham who squeezed
home against England, courtesy of a
dodgy try.
top forwards in the centre positions. I
trusted their judgment, which proved
the right thing to do as we beat
Harrow 20-0, away. That showed the
quality of the team and their ability
to understand and read games, which
repeated itself throughout the season.
We suffered repeated injuries at
second centre. This was the primary
reason why Bedford defeated us as
On our first touch rugby session, it
was obvious that Pete Irvine and I
had a very good group of footballers
who had particularly good hands,
excellent vision and a desire to enjoy
playing the world’s greatest game.
Their previous season had seen them
come second against two sides, St
Paul’s and Harrow, and it was our
game against that North London
school which epitomised this team
and our season.
The boys remembered their defeat
from the previous season and
pleaded with me to play two of our
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My special thanks to Pete Irvine who
was everything I could hope for as my
fellow coach, looking after the “girls” .
His backs coaching was the prime
reason why we scored 600 points
during the season. We were very
grateful for the tremendous assistance
we received from the B coaches, Andy
Bustard and Deadly Earnest ??? Whose
teams were regularly devastated by
our demands for players and
replacements. We are also grateful to
Andy Wolstenholme, Jud Drinkall and
Richard Whiteley, who lent us their
skills as we moved from victory to
victory in the Mail.
this was our main channel of attack
in the backs. Great credit must be
paid to Peter Matthews who returned
initially from a broken thumb, and
then a horrific fractured tibia, to play
in this game. Quite outstanding
dedication and bravery.
It is never fair to mention a limited
number of people from a team unless
their contribution was consistently of
the highest standard. When called on,
Joe Trayfoot upped his performances
whenever we needed a big or even
bigger game from him. It is a
testament to his ability that the only
other game we didn’t win, Cranleigh 7
– 7, was when he was injured.
Josh Li and Rhodri Needham
developed as extremely good
captains, leading their men by their
intelligent decision making and their
own very good play. George Broom
beat everybody in the line out and
Tom Lothian was the best No 6 in
every game. We didn’t see a better
kicker than Jamie Billings. If he can
add a little pace, and tackle, he’ll be
an International.
fast wingers, Nat Burns and Nick
Conner, who could score tries as well
as tackle; few, if any, got past Tim
Faccini at first centre; Charlie
Mortimer developed really well as our
blitz defence coordinator; Tom Brown
was fearless throughout; Richard
Trepant improved with every game;
Scott Davis became a very dedicated
“no necker”; Henry Way consistently
ploughed through defences; and Tino
Charamba competed with Will Harrop
for that coveted No 2 spot.
But it was the team that developed as
much as each individual. We had two
It was these lads, plus many more
who played on the As due to injuries,
who made the season. Their
dedication and commitment was
unstinting. When 38 boys turn up for
pre season training, you know you
have a dedicated group. In thanking
them for their steadfastness, I hope
they got as much fun out of it as Pete
Irvine and I did.
Edwin C Doran
Junior Colts B
The 2005 rugby season saw the Junior
Colts B team go from disaster to
triumph, under the coaching of Andy
Bustard and Toby Cooper. The season
got off to an inauspicious start with
defeat at home to RGS Guilford and
then a crushing defeat away at
Harrow. The boys kept their heads
and their spirit and came back to
score a home victory over Eastbourne,
which showed the potential in the
side. Victory was short lived, as, on a
dark Saturday, we travelled to Trinity
for another defeat. Things changed
with the prospect of games against St.
John’s and Cranleigh (both away) and
the chance to defeat the local rivals.
At St. John’s, Creswell made an
electric run down the left wing to
score a great try, while Ratnage
achieved a similar feet on the right. A
Blease conversion made it 12-0. In
the second half a well worked move
by captain Pitout and the forwards
opened up the space for Sequerah to
sprint through the middle and clock
up the third try. A loss of
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concentration allowed St. John’s to
pull one back and it finished 17-5.
This would be the last time we’d
concede any points. At Cranleigh,
Pitout dove over the line in the
opening minutes and, despite some
strong pressure the score finished 5-0
to Epsom. On a roll we travelled to
Sevenoaks for a brilliant forwards
display. Payne, Morrison, Davis and
Brown all went over to score some
great tries off the back of well worked
lineouts and some brilliant rucking.
The game finished 33-0. A home
match against Reeds saw a 12-0
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victory, in what was not a brilliant
performance but was quickly followed
by a great run out at Reigate and an
emphatic victory where forwards and
back linked up beautifully to display
some Champagne rugby. Finally we
had two home matches to end the
season, the first against Merchant
Taylor’s. Taylor’s played well but tries
from Pitout, Davis, Charumba,
Norman and Creswell, with a good
number of conversions by Blease,
along with some stoic defence by Fell,
Bush and Cole, allowed Epsom to run
out the victors by 43 points to nil. The
final match came against Eton.
Captained by Sweeny the boys ran in
38 unanswered points in a display of
great running rugby.
The next fixture followed on from the
first three; a convincing win against a
big side from Trinity (49-14).
Cranleigh? Would it be the “do or
die” side that had laid waste Harrow
or the over confident side that were
destroyed by St Pauls. I am pleased
to report that it was the former. In
both fixtures, that were both
Despite the dismal start it was a
season of triumph. Eight wins in total,
the last seven in a row, and without
conceeding a single point for the final
six games. By the end of the season
the boys had grown into rugby
playing men and should be justly
proud of the performances they gave.
Mr T.S. Cooper
Under 14A
I should start by saying that it was a
joy to coach a team that had so much
enthusiasm, skill and determination.
All the way through the term all the
“gang” managed to mix the fun times
with the serious times. In practice they
instinctively knew when to put the
“game faces” on.
So what side would turn up against
our local rivals St John’s and
Within the first few days of term it
became evident that we had a
group of highly competent players
who rapidly moulded themselves
into a very good team. This was
proved in the first three fixtures
against RGS Guildford (who had
been together as a team for 3
years), Harrow (a school twice the
size of Epsom) and Eastbourne (a
good hour’s journey away).
All three fixtures were one-sided
affairs. Against RGS we came away
37-10 winners, against Harrow we
won 42-0, and at Eastbourne we won
50-5. These last two fixtures had to
be stopped early. A magnificent set
of results.
Unfortunately, the team now began
to believe its own press. For the
fixture against St Pauls, the team
thought that all they needed to do
was turn up and a victory would be
theirs. Complacency had truly set in.
The team was not nearly as ruthless
or as competent as had been the case
in the previous three weeks and the
result was a 40-17 loss. For the first
15 minutes we simply did not get our
hands on the ball. Their strong No8,
scrum half and superb fly half
controlled the pace of play and we
frankly never got a look in. The team
had come down with a bump!
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physical and tense, the team came
through victors on both occasions:
20-12 and 12-5.
After half term the team played five
more matches, winning three
(Sevenoaks 29-5, Reeds 51-0 and
Merchant Taylors 31-10) and losing
two away fixtures against Reigate
5–16 and Eton 14-26.
This was clearly a successful team
who played with a real sense vigour
and skill.
Whilst it was a good overall team
effort, I should like to mention the
captain Jamie Falkner who proved
to be a real rock, producing
numerous crunching tackles and so
often breaking the gain line. If only
his half time talk at Eton could have
been more inspirational. The team
were winning 14-0 at the break only
to go down 14-26!
There is so much talent in this
group that will produce wonderful
rugby in the years to come. I wish
them all the best.
Mr B. MacDowel
Under 14B
P12
W8
D3 L1
The Under 14B side had an extremely
successful season with only one defeat
coming in the last match against Eton.
The season kicked off with a draw
against RGS Guildford in a trial match.
There was clearly an immense
amount of ability in the squad but
some basic skills needed to be worked
on before we could start to take
opposition sides apart. A victory
against Harrow followed, in a very
competitive match, and then a big
win against Eastbourne.
The character of the side was
tremendous, as they often had to fight
to stay ahead, and many times come
from behind. This was most
evidentagainst a big, well-drilled St.
Paul’s side. Epsom were 7-17 down
with 5 minutes left, and the boys had
the composure and strength to bring
the scores level in the final minute.
In the following games we developed
space well and were able to use our
pace in Jite Avwanu and Otis Earl to
great effect, achieving big wins against
Trinity, St John’s, Cranleigh, Sevenoaks
and Reeds. Toby Jackson and Jamie
Farley were instrumental in securing
the ball and getting over the gain line.
The pack was superb all season, rarely
losing its own scrum. A great deal of
credit should go to the hooker, Tom
Burgess, and his props, Jimmy Brooks
and Rory Adam.
In the penultimate game, we faced an
undefeated Merchant Taylor’s side.
Harry Bradshaw scored a wonderful
try with a long kick and chase, and
with 2 minutes to go we were 10-5 up.
Merchants battled as hard as us and
deserved the equalising try. Both
teams were happy with the result of
10 all.
Eton was a tough and clever side.
They had more possession, but our
defence held out, as it had done all
season. We were without our captain,
Jackson, through illness, but were a
try up at half time. Eton pinpointed
our weaknesses, exploited them in
the second half and put the game
out of our reach. We still had time to
come back a little, completely
bemusing Eton with the mystery
penalty move; a devastating weapon
throughout. The score ended 24 -14,
but although disappointed, the boys
could feel extremely proud of the
way they had played.
On numerous occasions, opposition
referees and coaches remarked on
what a credit to the school the lads
were and how much they enjoyed
watching them play. I would like to
reiterate that and thank them for
their commitment and enthusiasm,
making my first rugby term at Epsom
so enjoyable.
Mr J.Stephens
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Under 14C
This was an excellent season for the
U14C team, winning 9 matches and
only conceding three. The season got
off to a strong start in the fixture
against RGS Guildford, winning 17-5.
For a team that had been together
for barely a week, it was clear from
the start that they were going to work
together as a unit and be a
formidable force. The mettle of the
team was severely tested the
following week in the match against
Harrow and, despite the final score of
7-40, the team never gave up and
battled to the end.
Other than the early loss against St.
Paul’s, the team had a very
convincing season, often outclassing
the opposition in all areas of the
field, despite the loss from the team
of a key player in Ben Everingham
mid-way through the season.
Particularly notable were Ransom
who showed determined defence as
full back; Eng-How Teo, who grew
into the game as the season
progressed and became a fearful
force by the end of the season; Ed
Mason who was particularly swift on
the wing; and continual,
inspirational play from Will Shaw.
Ollie Perkins deserves a mention for
his five tries against Reigate,
helping us gain a 59-0 victory, and
apologies to Max Allen whose try I
disallowed in the same match, even
though, on reflection, it was clearly
a try!
As coaches, we would like to thank
the squad for all the hard work they
put into the season and particularly
thank Will Shaw for captaining the
team with such good sense and fine
leadership. It has been a wonderful
season and we wish you equal
success in the coming year.
Won: 9 Lost: 3 Points for: 362
Points against: 108
Squad: Shaw(capt), Ransom, Mason,
Beadle, Hargrave, Farrelly, Dewar,
Allen, Judd, Everingham, Teo,
Billings, Al-Fekaiki, Perkins, Barker,
E. Richardson, Pearson, ScarlettSmith, Ball, Barker
Fr. Clive Case & Fr. Paul Thompson
Under 14D
Whilst the record of playing eleven,
winning six and losing five does not
reflect upon a particularly
outstanding season, I have to say that
I thoroughly enjoyed coaching this
squad which, at times, produced
some excellent rugby. Throughout
the season (barring a dreadful game
against St. Paul’s) the pack competed
very well indeed, often against
opponents who were either bigger,
stronger or quicker. Reed’s, Eton, and
especially Merchant Taylors, all
fielded quite intimidating-looking
packs, but credit to our forwards is
due for not taking a backward step.
Consistently impressive were
Notman-Watt and Higgs, always
willing to compete at the breakdown
and willing to take the ball on; but
promotions during the season from
the E team produced some very
competitive players in Clarke, De
Souza and Harper, Clarke showing
excellent pace and the latter two
putting in some excellent tackles.
Richards played most of the season
as a reliable hooker, in a front row
shored up by the imposing figure of
Mazumdar, whilst Borch proved to be
the most improved player in the
team over the season. The whole
pack, and indeed team, was ably led
by Gunn.
However, to give the backs their due,
the matches that were won later in
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the season were often the result of the
backplay and in particular the
midfield trio of Dialdas, Botha and
Risk. They enjoyed as good an
understanding of each other as I have
ever seen in a D team, and when one
or other was injured, we struggled
somewhat to find a good rhythm.
Certainly, various absences counted
against us in the final games of the
season against Merchant Taylor’s and
Eton. Whilst those three were the
pivot of the side, they were served
well by Cashman (scrum half), whilst
Wilkinson, Rayburn, Norlett and
Dawkins showed good skills in the
back three. Whilst a highpoint of the
season was undoubtedly the
performance of the backs against
Cranleigh, when they scored eight
tries and also made the difference
against Kingswood House, Reed’s and
St. John’s, all of which could have
gone either way. The two centres,
Botha and Risk, ended up the season
as top try scorers, with six and five
scores respectively, although Wilkinson
with four tries and an outstanding
kicker, was top points scorer.
If there was a weakness to the team,
it was making poor starts! I lost count
of the games which started with us a
try down after two minutes. The
success of our defence was certainly
mixed, but always seemed to
improve as games progressed. It is
this issue that individual players can
focus on if they wish to seek higher
honours next year.
It was always good to see so many
parents able to come and support the
team so regularly; I certainly wish the
players well as they progress next year.
Also played: Holdsworth, Barker,
Chana, Bodily, Billings, Freemantle,
Chalklin, Teo, Shepherd, BruntonReed, Stewart, Gordon, Bradshaw,
Dowle, Ransom, Perkins.
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Inter-House Cross-Country Championships
The weather didn’t come through for
us this year as it did last – The
championships weren’t cancelled
due to snow! I won’t deny it was
freezing and the finish line was full
of girls and boys shivering away. The
day started with the junior girls
setting off on a new course with
more runners than in any previous
year. Some have commented that
there should have been porta-loos
and drinks stops around the course!
Fayrer, surprise, surprise, outshone
all the other houses winning by huge
margins; all those late night chapel
runs paid off, Mr Williams!
Position
House
Points
Junior Boys
1st
Fayrer
2nd
Forest
3rd
Robinson
40
75
99
Intermediate Boys
1st
Fayrer
2nd
Holman
3rd
Granville
45
114
134
Senior Boys
1st
2nd
3rd =
3rd =
51
124
142
142
Fayrer
Holman
Forest
Granville
Junior Girls
1st
Raven
2nd
Wilson
3rd
Crawfurd
31
44
54
Intermediate Girls
1st
Wilson
2nd
Crawfurd
3rd
Raven
21
80
119
Senior Girls
1st
White House 51
2nd
Wilson
53
3rd
Crawfurd
113
Annie Urwin
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Big Band
Big Gig
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Trips
Prize winners trip to Auschwitz
The Day began at 3am when we flew
from London Luton to Krakow Airport,
and from there we took the coach the
rest of the way to Auschwitz. Upon
arrival the coach became very hushed:
for many of us it was the first visit and
it was certainly an experience that we
will never forget.
The initial view of Auschwitz I was
chilling, the reaction unlike any we
had ever had. The first image that you
are greeted with, if that can be said,
was that of the infamous black gates
which read, ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ - Work
makes you free. It was an unnerving
realisation of the tour ahead of us. We
stopped under the gates to hear stories
and recollections from the past: how
the orchestra played as the unwitting
victims of Nazi persecution were
herded into a fresh hell of torture,
destruction and ultimate death.
The next part of the visit was, for us,
the most difficult of the whole day. As
we turned the corner around the
guardhouse, a flood of reality
overwhelmed us as we entered the
only surviving gas chamber. The
feeling that over took us is one that
will stay with us forever. The bleak
grey walls, which will forever hold the
plight of thousands of Jews, Gypsies,
political prisoners and Polish children,
were a sombre reminder of the reason
we were there.
in particular have remained in our
memories. Firstly the ‘evidence of
crimes’ exhibition. This houses the
articles preserved by the Soviets after
the liberation of the camp in January
of 1945 - although the Nazis
attempted to destroy much of it,
they could not erase the countless
lives taken. In rooms of roughly
twenty-five metres by ten lie vast
piles of shoes behind glass windows.
In another such room lie the
immeasurable quantities of human
hair, cut off to remove identity and
the humanity of prisoners. The last
building we visited was the notorious
Block 11. This structure contained
some of the most moving and
gruesome stories of the trip. The
Prison block became the final
dwelling of many of the doomed
inmates, particularly the Polish
Resistance members who met their
untimely ends against the execution
wall. In the basement of this block
were the cells: the starvation cell, the
dark cell and the standing cells - the
names are self-explanatory.
On arriving in Auschwitz II the
limitless extent of the destruction
carried out in Auschwitz became
evident and any denial of the
Holocaust seemed irrational and
illogical. The train track that
provided a central backbone to the
camp added the shock factor. The
length of the tracks vanishes into
the horizon with the souls of
millions. To the left of the tracks lie
infinite remaining blocks, each
representing 1,000 people. Encased
inside these blocks are hundreds of
bunks, where many countless people
spent their lifetimes.
The two destroyed underground gas
chambers lie at the end of the tracks.
These two buildings symbolise the
final resting-place for millions. The
most resounding image of the day was
the pits dug by prisoners where the
ashes of victims may still be found.
The walk back along the tracks gave us
time to recollect and absorb the sites
of atrocity. The sheer length of time
that it took to travel back along the
tracks was a chilling reminder of the
vast size of the camp.
The day that we visited Auschwitz was
not only a reminder of the atrocities
which occurred, but also a reminder of
the importance of the preservation of
life. Ollie and myself have both come
to realise the great significance of
remembering this place and the
events which occurred there. It is a
testimony to the survivors and an
important place of remembrance particularly for those people who
claim that these atrocities never
happened. It must be held forever,
frozen in time, to show future
generations the real cruelty of man;
but also, through the testimonies of
survivors, the warmth that one human
being may bring to another in a time
of need.
Sarah Shephard and Oliver Awin
After visiting the crematorium, we
then entered the main camp. The
various buildings which were to be
found in the camp - originally holding
the prisoners - have been converted
into an assortment of exhibitions in
memory of the many who lost their
lives in the Death Camps. Two of these
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October Geography
Fieldcourse to South De
von
not found. Lunch in Weymouth was
followed by a walk around Peverill
Point to look at the cliffs and watch
the tidal currents fighting it out at
sea. At dusk we walked onto Ballard
Down to view the slumbering Old
Harry stacks, and stood astride
promontories wondering about
health and safety. Mr. Whiteley
looked in wonder at the bobbing
coloured navigation lights of
Studland Bay, and no doubt wished
he was aboard some Carribean
schooner bound for Montego Bay, or
Poole harbour at the very least.
Mr. Whiteley and Mr. Irvine took a bus
load of Upper Sixth pupils to South
Devon and Dorset to study coastal
landforms. The group stayed in a
beautiful cottage in the landscaped
gardens of Colehayes Park for the first
two nights. We studied the sediment
movements of Slapton Sands,
and walked the headland
around Start Bay to Start Point.
destination was Abbotsbury and
Chesil Beach, a magnificent storm
beach that guards this section of the
Dorset coast. The famous millennium
pebble, a fiery red and diamond
coloured stone, worth much gold,
was looked for and
The evening saw the end of tour
dinner in the local Mandarin
restaurant. On the final morning the
group visited the heritage centre at
Lulworth Cove, where presents were
bought, and where a guide revealed
the geological mysteries of cove
development. The famous Durdle
Door arch was visited and drawn, and
then the short drive home, with
bulging files, addled brains, and
pleasant memories. Thanks to
everyone for their excellent behaviour,
and thanks to RIW for his work.
The coastal scenery was very
rugged and dramatic, and the
pupils were able to see at first
hand an array of textbook marine
features, as well as learn how to
draw a proper field sketch.
Lannacombe Bay was dramatic, as
a force eight gale drove huge
storm waves across the beach and
onto the raised rocky platform,
where we all stood listening to an
enthusiastic Mr. Whiteley.
Halloween evening saw Robert
Nolan dress convincingly as
Dracula. The Chinese takeaway was
genuinely convinced and awed by
him, and sales went up, although
Hannah had problems sleeping that
night. On the third day the
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an Interview with the non-naked Chef
At the beginning of the term Katie
and I bravely decided to ask the
manager of the catering department
if we could interview our chef, the
much loved Alfonzo. Very kindly Mrs
Spencer allowed us to ask him
ourselves. However, when trying to
look out for him, we couldn’t find the
elusive Italian. After couple of weeks
searching, I asked one of his
colleagues where the main man was,
to which he very truthfully replied
that Alfonzo was dead, run over by a
milk van. The story absolutely
shocked me…until the next morning
when I saw him keeping the lunch
queue in order.
Ciao Alfonzo for the 2nd time!
So sorry for bothering you again, as
the last interview didn’t record. But
we finally worked out how to use the
tape recorder and it’s always a
pleasure to talk to you again.
Don’t worry…always nice to get out
of the smelly kitchen!
When I went to the kitchen to find
you for my interview, they said you
were dead…is this true?
(laughing) No…it’s not true…I’m
still alive!
Do you often do interviews?
No…just for you!
Do you like the food you cook for us?
Yes
Which is the best meal we have?
(Grins) your favourite is Chicken Kiev
and Lasagne…
What languages do you speak?
Italian is my mother language, also
English, a bit of French, a bit of
Portuguese and Spanish.
Why did you move to England?
Because I met my lovely wife. She is
English and so she dragged me up
here! It was 29 years ago, love.
When was the first time you cooked
a proper meal?
OH centuries ago…it was…(long
thoughts, scratching his head) in
1970, helping my brother in a
restaurant for a wedding. We cooked
on the basis of a special recipe.
It was a long time ago…
Wow…not a bad effort. What
university did you go to?
What do you cook at home? Does
your family enjoy it?
Never went to a university!
I cook all Italian food at home. My kids
love it. They appreciate the good food.
If you don’t mind me asking, how
old are you?
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Oh you are so young! Do you live in
College accommodation? Would you
like to live in school
accommodation or not?
No I don’t, and to be honest wouldn’t
like to live in one (very abruptly).
How long have you been in
school for?
(Counts on fingers) It will be six years
on the 10th of May.
Do you have a family?
Yes, I have a wife and two kids: a 28year-old boy, and a girl who is 18. My
wife works for Direct Line, insurance.
My son studied in York and is a
journalist. My girl is going to Bristol
University to study French and
business management.
That’s what I’m thinking of doing.
What did you want to be when you
were a kid, a pilot perhaps?
That’s a hard question…I had no
idea…a chef I suppose.
What time do you get up to cook
our breakfast or is it prepared a
day before?
The breakfast is prepared on the
premises on the day. I wake up at
5.15 and it takes me between 15-20
minutes to reach the college. From
5.45am to 7.00am the breakfast is
cooked.
Where do you live?
In Croydon.
Nice area…(Alfonzo punches me)
Ouch!
Why did you choose to come to
Epsom? Did you want to provide
delicious gourmet food for the
grateful wonderfully mannered
students?
(Shrugs) Well…it just happened…the
job was available and I applied.
Tell me about your manager.
(Winks) My manager is a wonderful
woman. She is a unique manager in
the college and is just a special lady!
Oh yeah I love both of those and
waffles on Friday afternoons!
Were you a good kid at school?
How long do you plan to stay in
Epsom for?
What is you real name?
Yes I was. I was educated back
at home.
I don’t know…I could be off
next week!
Did you start any food fights?
Oh no we will truly miss you!
NO! Never! The system is very
different there to the English one. No
one ever started a food fight, and
everyone appreciated every bit of
food they had.
What would you do with kids who
start food fights in our canteen if
you had the authority?
Alfonzo Don Antonio
What is your background?
I was born in Costa Mon Fitano,
south of Naples. I’m the eighth kid in
the family, four girls and four boys.
My father used to be a green grocer
and my mother…(taking off his
glasses) she is still alive and she is 93.
That’s it…
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Well…I would just remove them
from the canteen. However, I would
love to punish them and not feed
them for a day!
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Are most of our pupils polite?
What newspaper do you read?
Who would be your ideal date?
Most of them yeah. I would say 95%
are very mannered kids.
I read newspapers in the evenings.
My son brings it when coming back
from work, so any really…
You (this is when I got highly
embarrassed and blushed as Katie
pointed out!)
(Thinks…winks) Yes, excluding one or
two...
And now several easy questions.
Your wife, maybe…(still blushing!)
Who is your favourite teacher?
Hot.
Sum yourself up in three words.
Celine…Mrs Wimmill. She is lovely!
Rain or snow?
I hope I am a good father to my kids.
Good husband to my wife…
How long do you take grooming
your wonderful moustache?
Snow.
…And a good chef?
Lunch or dinner?
I don’t know about that! (Laughs)
Lunch.
Boiled egg or fried egg?
You definitely are as no one has
been poisoned in our school yet!
Boiled egg.
…And they never will!
Healthy or tasty?
That’s it Alfonzo! Thank you very
much. It’s very kind of you to find
free minutes for us in your very
busy cooking schedule!
Are most of our staff polite?
(Scratches his head) It doesn’t take
that long, love, I don’t groom it at all!
What did you think of RAH in
general? We were disappointed not
to see you on the stage!
Were you? (Laughs) I thought it was
brilliant. The performance by the
kids was…
…Good commitment?
Cold or hot?
Tasty.
Yeah definitely….
Nigora Normatova and Katie Pavey
Yes, it looked very professional. It was
a very active day us with providing
lunches for the students. We went
there (Royal Albert Hall) quite early in
the morning and we spent almost all
day there…very hard work.
Favourite cuisine? Apart from
Italian, obviously.
French. Sometimes I wouldn’t mind
Chinese or sushi.
Have you ever eaten in McDonalds?
Never and don’t intend to either!
Good for you! What were your
worst/best days at school?
Err…there are no particular days…I
mean sometimes you get a bad day or
good day, but I normally get a good
day; always smiling as you know!
Do you get angry when someone
asks for an extra potato?
(Laughs) No, of course I don’t!
If you were the Head for a day, what
would you do and why?
(Scratches his chin) I would give a big
party for all the kids on Wilson pitch!
Free meal, free booze, free
everything! Enjoy yourself!
I like that idea…I’ll dare to
propose that to the Head…I’m
sure he will approve it!
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Ski Trip 2006
Serre Chevalier 1350 - Chantemerle
This year’s senior ski trip was my fifth
at Epsom College, and fittingly the
resort Serre Chevalier 1350 was where
my first ski trip had been in the M4
year (and where Mr Barakzai went in
his M4 year – Ed.). We arrived at
Gatwick Airport sleepy eyed and
weary, but nevertheless excited for a
week in the snow. The flight was
uneventful as everyone was in need
of a long snooze.
Once landed at Lyon Airport we
suffered the usual crush to collect, and
in some cases find, skis, snowboards,
boots, and bags etc along with the
hundreds of tourists speaking a
strangely familiar language.
The coach journey was around 2 hours
with most of us and me included
speaking only to our ipods. The hotel
was comfortable and well positioned
in terms of both accessibility to the
town and the ski lifts.
The whole group was briefed by our
team leader and then we were off to
the slopes. The sensation of skiing at
rapid speeds with great friends is
always a pleasure and the day was
great. Snow was beautiful and the
off-piste as good as any school trip I
can remember. The difference from
the M4 trip was this time there was
actually some snow!
It was a credit to the group that the
skiing and snowboarding was at a
very high level considering the heavy
Lent term everyone had endured.
Everyone clearly wanted to improve
and put maximum effort into every
day and lesson. Kolapo in particular
who had never previously seen snow
before, never mind attempting to
snowboard, progressed outstandingly
and was soon tackling the tricky reds
and the daunting Luc Alphand black
piste right down to the resort. Others
to mention were Mrs Keevil who was
progressing impressively in the
intermediate group, perhaps helped
by her friendly chatter to the
instructor who describe her as a
“sweetie”.
Our first casualty was ex-Head of
School Charles Gray who fell badly on
a set of rollers (for those unaware of
this ski lingo “a series of deep and
large bumps”). Chaz’s shoulder was
strained very awkwardly and he was
taped up in a sling for a couple of
days. However he remained in high
spirits and helped the group in any
way he could, including carrying duty
on several occasions.
On the fifth day it snowed for the
third time in a week, which made
visibility very difficult in places and
everyone felt a severe decrease in
temperature. One of the great joys of
skiing at Easter, along with cheaper
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prices and fewer or most of the time
no queues for lifts, is the ability to ski
in a t-shirt - however on this day it
was not an option. It was absolutely
freezing, especially in the higher parts
of the resort, and several members of
the group claimed they had
“frostbite”. The rewards of this
weather weren’t felt until the
afternoon where there was some great
off-piste, especially on the tree runs.
On our last day Phil and I were, with
some persuading, racing on the steep
red run just above the main lifts in
giant slalom. This turned out to be a
really good experience for both of us
and by the end of the session we
were recording some decent times
with the help of our instructor.
In the afternoon most groups were
really pushing their limits, knowing
that it was the last day and if an
injury occurred it wouldn’t matter
too much as they would have two
weeks to recover before school. For
the first time most members of the
snowboarding group, tackled the
black run at the bottom of the resort,
and to their credit all managed to get
to the end. In the advanced skiers
group we basically did an afternoon
of only off-piste and tree runs. It was
such a laugh, especially with eleven
fired up males all trying to show how
masculine they were! As a result
there were several high speed and
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bar whilst some of the group visited
the next town where there were
several live music acts. It was a great
night with lots of banter and fun had
by all.
On behalf of everyone I would like to
thank all the teachers - Mrs Keevil,
Miss Morrow and Mr Barakzai - for
sacrificing part of their holiday, and
for being supportive and helpful the
whole time. This was my fifth ski trip
and was definitely my best. Long may
the Senior Ski Trip continue!
Justin Taylor
Some quotes
from the week…
“You guys are such amateurs, you
don’t even know the thumbmaster
rule…!”
“Madonna? I don’t listen to the 80s!”
“I am NOT one person!”
high impact crashes and Messrs
Rawlings, Green, and Canby had
more than their fair share.
“Where do Arctic foxes come from?”
The trip was brilliantly rounded off
by a night of entertainment for all as
there was a birthday party for one of
the waitresses at the nearby Extreme
Nut allergy sufferer with nut-free
pudding – “Cheers guys, I’ll try
some now you’ve all tucked in
with your spoons…”
“Aren’t you wearing your sling
today?” “No, I’ve got a strap-on.”
Epsom College New York
Drama Tour MMVI (2006)
Day I: Chapter 1: The Prelude by
Henry Montgomery Charnock MA PHD
My esteemed co-writer Dr Samuel
Hubert Harley and I met the college
staff who would accompany us and
thirty other GCSE Drama students to
New York: Father Clive ‘Captain
Charisma’ Case; Paul ‘Da Man’
Henson; Miss World 2006 Mrs Jean
Walker; and Kim ‘The Boss’ Chandley.
We duly mounted the ‘Virgin’
transatlantic transportation device
and low and behold, seven long
hours later, stepped off the plane
and onto a coach which took us
around the undeveloped (by the
superior England’s standards) hamlet
of New York and then unto base
camp: ‘The Hotel Wolcott.’ Barely
having settled in to our quarters, we
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found ourselves on the move once
more; this time, weaving and ducking
our way around the labyrinth of
doom that is the pathway up to the
top of the Empire State building and
inevitable enlightenment. The view
from atop the eighty-nine story
skyscraper was beyond description, so
I won’t bother describing it, however
I will say this, it is very high up! Later
we braved the subway to see
'Wicked', a major musical spectacle,
which kept even the most tired
amongst us awake.
Day II: Chapter 2: The Tundra by
Dr Samuel Hubert Harley
After a small unsound sea voyage we
began to near Lady Liberty- the
Statue that is. Instead of the heavens
opening they unbuttoned their
trousers and unleashed layer upon
layer of dense, white snow. Once we
returned to port it was time for Neil
Day III: Chapter 3: The Circle Of
Life by Henry Montgomery
Charnock MA PHD
The highlight of day III took place in
‘The New Dance Group Cultural Arts
Centre’ where the dance Captain of
'The Lion King' took us for a ‘Step by
Step’ dance class in which many of us
made fantastic fools of ourselves
before dividing into four groups of
nine, each representing a different
animal and integrating a different
routine into what was to become our
very own ‘Circle Of Life.’ Needless to
say our rendition of the opening
scene was certainly … different, but I
think I can fairly say that it was better
than the professional version.
Simon’s ‘Barefoot in the park’ which
was of a very high quality and even
forced laughs out of the most solemn
of us. However the highlight for me
and the other English gentlemen in
the auditorium had to be several of
us entrancing some young American
girls in the row in front, charming the
wits off them with our alluring
English accents. Following this
unmissable experience, we took a
break in the Hersheys store where
many more innocent American girls
fell victim to the ‘H.Charnock and
C.West “Hello Poppet” English accent
seducing techniques.
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After depositing our bought items at
our hotel, we slipped into something
more comfortable, this being suits
and bow ties for myself and Master
Charnock. Arriving at the New
Amsterdam Theatre we sat down in
the designated seats and crunched
our legs into the little leg room
obtainable, often fighting for
breathing space; but ‘The Lion King,’
unlike the seating arrangements, was
as per usual extravagant and
stunning.
The evening’s entertainment for day
III consisted of squeezing into Studio
54 for Brecht's ‘The Threepenny
Opera,’ and sure enough, knees cut
and pressed up against the seat in
front, we watched Alan Cumming put
on an award-worthy performance as
Mac ‘The Knife’ alongside a man
playing a transsexual version of Lucy
Brown, whom Samuel is convinced
works in Macy’s behind the Estee
Lauder makeup counter.
Day IV: Chapter 4: Lost by
Dr Samuel Hubert Harley
Day IV started with a design
workshop that aimed for us to work
with puppetry and explore the
techniques used by Julie Taymor in
'The Lion King'. We made our own
depictions of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
using puppetry and explained our
costume and set designs to the Stage
Manager of the show, before an
insightful question and answer session
with him. Several of us climbed upon
each other's shoulders to re-create the
beanstalk and giant. However, Henry’s
group performed the long forgotten
‘no, don’t take my duck’ scene in
Russian accents.
After the workshop it was time for
shopping at Macy’s and I hand over
to Mr. Charnock to account the
events forthwith....
We stared at the behemoth of a
department store. It was like some
sort of demon store, a temptress of a
seven-floor shopping extravaganza,
baiting customers and victims alike
with talk of it being 'the largest and
greatest store in the world'. Alas, for
the first hour, we believed the fairy
tale but steadily grew weary
wandering around in vain in pursuit
of manly shopping, ever more lost in
floors devoted to women's wear. We
battled through the crowds, fiends to
the left of us, more of Macy’s demons
to the right, and reached the steaming
escalators where we made our ascent
to the only part of Macy’s that showed
any sign of hope. We called that place
‘Esperanto’ but everyone else called it
the top floor. Oh, the relief of
'cushiony' goodness as we sampled
the delights of the sofas for nearly an
hour before taking the enchanted
elevator back to the world below.
The evening boasted entertainment of
‘The Colour Purple’, which some
loved, though quote of the night went
to Mr. Henson, referring to the musical
as ‘Schindler’s list on ice’. The meal
afterwards was probably the most
lively burger I have ever eaten. You
see, this diner was no ordinary diner
where you could order ‘death by
chocolate.’ Just before our meal, the
waiter serving drinks put down his
tray and to our surprise, grabbed a
mic and burst into song. Of course,
being English, when one waiter
shouted ‘we’ve got England in the
house’ the entire balcony screamed
louder than a rabble of Liverpool
fans at an Everton away match before
a rendition of ‘Easy…Easy…Easy’
rang across the restaurant, much to
the horror of many of the locals
eating nearby. The laughter was
tainted with woe for us, however, as
we knew that this was to be our last
night in the 'Big Apple'.
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Day V: Chapter 5: La Ultima Hora by
Henry Montgomery Charnock MA PHD
Overcome with emotion flowing from
this so-called 'art' we were not.
The final day was one to remember;
it was a day full of sorrow, joy and, of
course, the ancient Japanese art of
karaoke. The day started as per usual
with a spot of greed in the Deli, but
we would soon regret that final bite
of ‘Two eggs and bacon with cheese
on a roll’ as upon our return to base
camp, we saw a most fateful sight:
the hotel lift doors closing in the
distance... Barely inches from the
warm insides of the elevator, the
doors crashed closed and once again
we were forced to trudge up the ten
flights to our room where we packed
for the return flight that evening.
Moving on, the group split into lads
and ladesses, the girls drawing the
short straw and going for a two hour
makeup demo (whatever a makeup
demo is) in the infamous
Bloomingdales, while the boys
marched off in the direction of
Central Park. The walk turned out to
be a fine choice, as through the rain
we strolled across New York’s green
and pleasant land, singing in chorus
a number of patriotic classics
including ‘I Vow To Thee My Country,’
‘Rule Britannia’ and of course, a
quick blast of ‘It’s Raining Men.’
Having had some fun doing and
watching auditions at our final
workshop, it was time for a spot of
modern art. The group travelled
across the New York streets once
again through the rain and we
arrived at the infamous Guggenheim
Museum, many of our company with
long faces already. However, I for one
walked in with an open mind, that is,
until I found that they only had two
and a half men’s toilets in the whole
building whereas they seemed to
have an overwhelming and never
ending maze of ‘Little Girls’ Rooms.’
At this point though, it should be
noted that toilet facilities are not the
only reason we had come. Modern
art may not be to everyone's taste
but I now shudder at the sheer
mention of the word ‘Guggenheim'.
The reason for that shall from this
day forth be known as ‘The Pole
Room’, in which some supposed
'artiste' had erected eight or so sticks,
each with a dent in a different place.
We all returned to New Amsterdam
Theatre, where the stage manager
and selected cast members gave us a
personal backstage tour of the The
Lion King. For many this was the
highlight of the trip, as we learned
how everything worked, seeing the
masks and puppetry up close, and
every now and then breaking out
into song on the stage where our
group photo was taken. It was the
perfect way to end the trip, which
really emphasizes how annoying it is
that teleportation hasn’t been
invented yet, forcing us to officially
end the trip with a six-hour plane
journey! Nevertheless, going
backstage behind The Lion King was
the perfect way to end the real trip
and both Dr Samuel H. Harley and I
would like to thank the staff for
taking us on what will surely come to
be known as the best school trip of
all time. So it was written, so it came
to pass, quoth the raven,
‘Nevermore’…
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Our season began with six boys and
four girls enjoying a golf tour to
Devon over Easter. Space was at a
premium as the bus and Mrs Irvine’s
small Toyota were packed with the
paraphernalia that today’s seasoned
pro tour golfers require: sunblock,
towels, and shades. Suitcases and
sandwiches were squeezed in as an
after-thought. Then we realised that
Jimmy needed picking up on the A3.
And his golf bag. And his golf trolley.
Crikey! There was one moment on
the M3, as lashing rain pummelled
the windscreen, when everyone
thought the same thought. Why on
earth had they agreed to spend the
first week of a much needed holiday
on golf tour in March with the
Irvines? The forecast for the day was
horrendous; the week was hardly any
better. However, things settled down.
Jimmy seemed happy reading his golf
monthly and men’s daily. The girls
chatted idly, Gareth played pranks,
Matthew and Ollie got their
waterproofs organised, and I planned
a visit to the Nigel Mansell go-cart
racing track.
By the time Exeter service station was
reached, however, the skies had
cleared, but not before Teignmouth
golf club had called to cancel, on the
grounds of severe storms; that’s
dynamic health and safety in action
for you. Happily, Budleigh Salterton
agreed to host us at short notice
(thank you Nokia), and we had a
windy round on this jewel of a
course; a well manicured sandstone
cliff-top links to compliment Gareth’s
well honed and flawless near par
round. Alice and Simon both scored
36 points, a standard that both
players maintained throughout the
tour, despite the difficulties posed by
new courses in difficult conditions.
The hotel at Langstone Cliff, Dawlish
Warren, was splendid, complete with
health suite and sauna, swimming
pools (indoor and out), a snooker
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room, and plasma screens in Gareth’s
room. The group seemed to enjoy
disassembling their room furniture
for no apparent reason. The carvery
dinners and breakfasts were tasty
and plentiful; the staff friendly and
helpful. Alex Hughes was late for
everything, so much to do and get
ready for.
Tuesday saw lively competitions both
morning and afternoons at Dawlish
Warren, a genuine links course and
nature reserve all in one. The Warren
course is set out on a sand spit that
reaches eastwards out across the
broad estuary of the River Exe. It is
flanked by sand dunes to the south
and salt marsh to the north, the
fairways lined with gorse. The
resulting winds and course layout
demanded accurate golf. The
Mortimers were on fire, with Helena
and Madeleine recording gross scores
of 94 and 98 respectively. Alice
played very well with me to win the
afternoon foursomes, despite Jimmy’s
attentions.
Evenings always started with a hot
soak and brush up, then dinner and
prize giving, and one of Mr. Irvine’s
witty, anecdotal and (endless)
speeches that often drew applause
from the long suffering waitresses at
least. Then the players invaded
Gareth’s room and the sanctuary of
the late night movie (I think golf
channel, more likely).
On Wednesday we were back at
Budleigh for two rounds. Mr. and
Mrs. I. won the morning stapleford,
and the afternoon match was shared
between Gareth and Ollie. 50
members waited and watched us
drive off the first. Mine was long and
straight (for a change), and a
member heckled me; “y’ere you
should spend more time in the
classroom mate”. Everyone laughed
their west country laughs. “All part of
the job I think you’ll find. Don’t tell
the headmaster”, I retorted as smugly
as I could, lucky bunny!
Thursday saw us depart the
Langstone Cliff Hotel after a late and
leisurely breakfast and packing. Even
the girls had abandoned the healthy
option of fruit and croissant for the
fatty fry-up. Some things never
change. I was both astonished and
delighted that there were seemingly
no extras to pay on their room bills
(those late night nibbles and dial-amovies). However, Jimmy quietly
explained to me that hard cash had
probably been used for such late
night necessities; I’m so gullible
sometimes.
This was a key day for Peto and
Hughes, both of whom had remained
awardless in all competitions.
Burnham and Berrow, a top
championships links course on the
north Somerset coast, provided our
venue for the day en route home via
the M5. A great day, complete with a
seafront café lunch, and an
incredible deluge over the last few
holes. Alice loved it of course, and
kept everyone’s spirits lifted with her
infectious good cheer. Ollie won the
individual narrowly from Gareth and
Matt Chasey, and Alex won the girls’
stapleford with 47 points! Helena
won the longest drive and Mr I. won
the nearest the pin, both players
under pressure from Gareth.
The final prize-giving took place in
the Wimpy Bar on the M5, and the
group were clearly happy and elated
to be going home. The celebrations,
presentations, and speeches drew
astonished stares from snacking
motorists, who stopped talking to
listen and watch in wonder; if only
their school days had been like
Epsom’s. It poured all the way home
and Mr. Irvine used loud rock music
to stay awake, sorry guys. It was a
great tour; The group was fantastic;
Let’s go abroad next time?
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House Chess Report – 2006
The competition this year was again
completed within the space of the
Lent Term. All twelve houses took
part, eight of them playing in a
preliminary round, while last year’s
semi-finalists gained a bye into the
first round proper.
Individuals of varying ages took part,
in teams of four, and the participants
enjoyed a stimulating intellectual
exercise. In the semi-finals, Fayrer
defeated Holman and Raven beat
Forest. In the well-matched and closely
fought final, Fayrer were awarded the
trophy for the second successive year,
beating Raven by 2 - 1.
My congratulations go to all who took
part, especially to Raven, the first team
from a girls’ house to reach the final,
and to Fayrer, the eventual winners.
Mr.B.J.Ainge
U6th Spanish Day Trip to Barcelona
Sophie Fisher, Stef Morely, Jess
Rinland, Theo Taylor, Charlotte
Wilson and I) gathered around our
minibus under the cover of darkness,
the most difficult part of the trip
having been completed – not getting
up so early, but getting Theo
(pronounced Tay-oh, usually in an
exasperated tone) to remember to
hand in his cheque.
The EasyJet flight was pleasant
Some people may consider it
excessive to take a day trip to
Barcelona, or maybe even question
whether it is possible; those people
have obviously never met the
powerhouses of imagination and
organisation that are
Miss Creevey and Mrs
Harrop. So at 5a.m. on
Tuesday 14th March the
eight of us (Laura
Cooper, Judith Coster,
enough, as was the bus ride into the
centre of the city, though most of us
were still asleep at this point. The
first major memorable moment of
the trip was breakfast. We insisted on
finding a café that served churros
(similar to little doughnuts, served
with a sort of very thick hot
chocolate), and although we did
achieve this eventually, we were most
disappointed with the cold, wilted
doughy creations that we were
presented with. We were also
surprised that people were so
blatantly disregarding the new
smoking ban that we keep reading so
much about in our lessons.
Stereotypical Europeans.
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about an hour of abject
humiliation we were told it was
time to go to the Dali Museum.
Unfortunately, on arrival at the
Museum, Miss Creevey decided
that it was simply too expensive
to bother with, much to the
dismay of the group. So we
decided that it was necessary to
take full advantage of the
fantastic weather and headed for
the seaside. Next came some free
time. We had two hours to eat
and shop. After some utterly
sub-standard paella we
embarked on an exploratory
mission through the backstreets
of Barcelona to distribute our
Euros. At this point I felt rather
sorry for Theo, as the only boy
in the group; although I have it
on his authority that his expert
bargaining skills got him a
very good deal on some
football shirts.
An agreeable wander down ‘Las
Ramblas’ followed. If you have
never been to Barcelona before, I
will try to paint a picture for you.
This is the main thoroughfare in the
city and has a broad pedestrian area
in the centre of it. Lovely, you might
say. You would be wrong. About
every hundred yards one come
across one of those unusual
specimens who thinks dressing up
as a statue and standing around
scaring tourists is a respectable way
to earn money. Then there were the
pet stalls – dozens of them. Cute
fluffy little bunny rabbits
incarcerated in steel cages of
oppression. A number of these stalls
exhibited tanks of baby turtles –
something I thought was illegal; one
advertised ‘Baby Emus’ – not your
usual street fare.
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Our flight was at 10p.m. and we
arrived at the airport with plenty of
time to waste the last of our Euros
before collapsing on the plane. Our
minibus was waiting for us at the
airport to chauffeur us back to
school for midnight. All in all it was
a highly successful and entertaining
(if not tiring) day. ‘Muchas gracias’
to our patient teachers without
whom I would still think it extreme
to go to Spain and back in one day.
Lizzy Szanto
The afternoon mainly consisted of a
metro ride slightly out of the city to
the “Park Güell” to see some of
Gaudi’s work. This was beautiful and
well worth the walk up a hill so
steep that half way up
the road turned into an
escalator. After
recovering in a café
overlooking the city, and
having been suitably
filled with culture we
headed back to the
centre to take in a little
bit more of the retail
experiences that
Barcelona had to offer
(this was a marathon,
not a sprint).
But back to the purpose of the trip.
We were not there simply to buy
emus and enjoy the sunshine,
scenery and shopping – we had to
interview Spaniards on our Oral
topics. This was the portion of the
day that most of us had been
dreading, and with good reason.
The considerable majority of people
just ignored us or laughed at us. The
occasional old woman would take
pity on us and answer our
questions, but unfortunately once
you got them started it was very
hard to get them to stop. After
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my entire existence. I mean I’ve never
given birth, but they tell me that the
pain you have fades with memory and
I can honestly say that that’s true of
my near birth experience.
Do you have any gossip from
back stage?
Not gossip so much, but some very
funny moments.
Any last minute hiccups that remain
untold?
Did you find that you had a lot of
free time after RAH?
Yes, two, but I think that they should
stay that way!
No. Immediately after the RAH show
we came back on the Monday and we
had five GCSE drama productions to
get through. Then in the lent term we
had nine externally moderated exams,
so the pressure was definitely on.
Ordinary life went back to being
frenzied and hardworking, which it
always was before. But was it a relief
to not be rehearsing – yeah, AMAZING!
Did you enjoy the experience or did
it become a burden?
What were your favourite parts of
the production?
The rehearsals: that’s always my
favourite part of a production. I love
the building up of relationships
between the cast and the funny things
that happen that are completely
unexpected! The night was a complete
blur, I could tell my favourite bit on
the DVD, but I wasn ’t watching it from
an audience perspective on the night.
I loved the experience. I know the
words like honoured and privileged
are very clichéd but they are very
genuine for me. I think the whole
process for me was an enormous
challenge, not so much a directing
challenge as a writing challenge – I
mean I knew nothing about this
school and now I don’t want to leave it
because I feel that I know the history
of it and that’s fabulous!
I remember those first few meetings
with Mr Scadding. He would say, “What
do you want to know?” and I would
say, “What is there to know?”. I
basically had to find out about the
archives of the college. All of that
research took a year before we even
started planning the show.
I loved it, especially what it did for
people. There were some very ‘nonactors’ and some very ‘non-dancers’
who beforehand would never have
dreamed of going anywhere near a
stage. Equally, there were some very
‘non- backstage’ people and when you
look at what they managed to do as a
team, as well as individuals, it’s
unbelievable! Of course I take
enormous enjoyment from it.
Although you may not enjoy it at the
time because of the enormous burden
of wanting to get it right, it’s a daily
kind of ‘make yourself sick’ thing and I
had that for every day of the two year
process. So, yeah a burden –
absolutely, enjoyable burden.
What was the biggest disaster of the
whole show?
We didn’t have a disaster. I think the
main issues were over getting people
to rehearsals, room bookings, clashes
and management issues. The main
problem was pupils' time
management and reliability. I don’t
even think these people were new to
the college or to drama - and they
obviously haven’t changed either,
being a little political!
But disaster in terms of the show – no,
but it could have been! Especially as,
due to technical issues, we never had a
dress rehearsal in the Royal Albert hall.
The sound however found it very
difficult to do what was a very
professional show: that was a disaster
What was the least enjoyable part of
the production and the organisation?
Let me answer that in two parts. The
least enjoyable part of the
organisation was the daily two to
three hour administration that had to
be done everyday to ensure that I
had chased children who had not
turned up for dance, drama and
music rehearsals, and also to get the
right rooms.
The least enjoyable part of the
production was without doubt the
afternoon at the Royal Albert Hall
before the show. Having ‘eleven-tyseven’ different men screaming down
the radio at me, wanting to use the
very limited time to have an extended
technical run through when we should
have been having a dress rehearsal –
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but no one would think of it that way
because the students themselves were
so unbelievable, as were the staff
backstage. They turned it into what
Epsom College does best – they shone.
students that I taught, so I brought it
along as an honorary director's cap,
but didn’t wear it.
What were your thoughts on the
moustache incident?
Be true to yourself, be honest, learn
more patience than I was able to, push
yourself so that you are artistically
achieving the standards that you want
to. I think that within a school
situation where time and energy are so
spread, this can cause you individual
stress and pressure, as it did me, but if
you want to inspire other people you
have to set your standards high. To
anybody who wants to perform or
direct you have to love the people
you’re working with. I know I’m like a
luvvie and a thespian. I genuinely
adore working with teenagers, because
I’ve got a real passion for drama - so
have those qualities or don’t bother.
So glad it happened! If I had had the
creative foresight to make that happen,
I would have done. I think it’s lovely. I
so respect Ally, especially because he
was the one on whom it started and
he battled on. When you watch that
DVD I’m so glad it wasn’t edited out.
He still really keeps going and I think
the audience want him to. When Mr
Zeleski hops in and just whips it off in
the end... I think to have recovered
from that, however old you are, to
have something potentially quite
devastating like that go wrong, and
just take it off... he held the audience
in his hands. You could have heard a
pin drop! I wonder how many
professional theatre actors there are
who might have just corpsed, whereas
he delivered the performance of a
lifetime. So YAY to the moustaches.
You have a stunning array of hats.
Which is your favourite and why?
Oh no, I don’t have favourite hats!
There is a hat of the moment. It’s lilac
with fluffy edging. There is a proper
name for the pouffy fluffy stuff at the
edge, but you’d have to ask Mrs Davis
for that. I just adore that particular
hat. But I’m getting into scarves now
with fluffy pom-pommy bits. It’s all
about comfort and yumminess. I don’t
know, I’ve worn hats since a little girl
out in Africa. I’ve always loved hatwear.
I think it’s because I have flat, thin
rather uninspiring hair and if you have
a greasy hair day then what better way
than to cover up with a hat? Though
what that has to do with the Royal
Albert Hall, I don’t know!
Which hat did you wear at the Royal
Albert Hall?
I wore two hats at the Royal Albert
Hall. I had a little black cap which I
wore as a work hat in my all blacks for
the day, which gave me a feeling of
just getting down to it. That’s what
that cap does. Any drama students I
teach will recognise that cap well. And
then I had a little director's cap and I
didn’t wear it. I took it with me, I was
given it when I was at Caterham when
I was teaching there, by a group of
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What advice would you give to an
aspiring actor or director?
What was your favourite subject
at school?
English: initially music as I wanted to
be a music teacher when I was
eleven, but by the time I was a
teenager I was an avid reader. I
couldn’t get enough of English. I
pursued it as a degree, although I was
always involved in drama productions
as an actor and then latterly as a
director. I trained in English and
Drama at teacher training level but
my degree is in English and it has
been my great passion.
Did you ever want to be anything
other than a drama teacher?
Well I’m not just a drama teacher. I
know I don’t teach much English here
but I am an English and Drama
teacher. I had a real vocation – I
know that’s an old fashioned term
now but I mean I still do – I fly the
flag for teaching.
Do you have any other productions
in the pipeline?
Shrek and Shrek 2! -the house play
which I would encourage the entire
school to get ready for. There isn’t a
boy in our house who isn’t fully
involved on and off stage. And
already just doing the auditions with
these lads is hysterical, but
nevertheless a huge creative
challenge. Shrek is taking over my life
with those young Holman boys!
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What are your thoughts on the new
Drama centre?
What Drama centre?! I think its
supposed to be called a Performing
Arts centre and if we were ever do
get it then fabulous! What I am
excited about is the first phase of the
work, which is going ahead as far as I
know, which is a second drama
studio. In fact I got an email this
morning saying that the Clerk of
works and the Architects are just
checking the foundations, so it does
sound like it is going to happen. For
us as an academic drama
department, to have two fabulously
equipped drama studios will be a
real luxury! If the theatre ever
happens then that is wonderful, but I
never came here under the promise
of a theatre and it wouldn’t be the
reason why I would stay. In this
economic climate I know that it is
really difficult to find the money to
build. I know that we’ve got the
vision and I know that we have the
will power, but until I actually see it
up there I really can’t comment.
If you had a free choice – what play
would you do in school?
Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Seville,
which is a melodrama. However,
melodrama isn’t for everyone. It's
quite dark and brooding. The music
of it is so stirring and passionate. A
play that I would really like to do is
John Osbourne’s ‘Look back in Anger’,
or a Cheko- maybe the ‘Cherry
Orchard’. I’ve really not done very
much naturalistic theatre for the last
about eight years and I’d love to dip
my finger back into it.
Would you ever do the RAH again?
Wait for the next 150 years and
hopefully I won’t be around! No I
don’t think so. It was a one off, a
once in a lifetime for all of us that
were involved. I’m glad to have
done it, I don’t regret a minute of
doing it and I’m absolutely grateful
that I never have to have those
moments back. Just cherish them as
memories now...
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Tall Ships Part 1
I had absolutely no idea what to expect
from the Tall Ships experience. That
made me quite nervous, as I had no
idea what the people would be like,
what the conditions were etc. We were
also in such confined and isolated
conditions. Little did I now that this
worry was very unnecessary as I was
about to find out what the experience
was really like.
I arrived in Newcastle on a very clear
sunny day. On my plane journey up to
Newcastle I had managed to sit next to
a Royal Marine who was telling me that
some of the worst sea conditions he
had been in had taken place in the
North Sea. This did me absolutely no
favours, as that was were I was
heading. I was even more scared now
than I previously was.
As my taxi pulled up to the dock of
Newcastle upon Tyne, the “Prince
William” became very clear. It had 2
very distinctive, very high masts with
all the different national flags upon it. I
said to the taxi driver “there is no way
they are getting me up there”; he
laughed and said “If you do fall, aim
for the water”. So I got my bag and
walked across the gangway onto the
deck of Prince William, having no idea
of what was to come of the week
ahead of me out at sea.
I was met by a 6ft 6 giant glaswegian
called John. There are not many
people that make me feel small but I
was fairly intimidated as he was a big
guy. So still wondering what I had let
myself in for I found my watch leader
Ian. He was a great guy. He showed
me my hammock and quarters and
how to get around the massive boat
which at this time felt like a maze to
me. Then more people started to
filter in. The one thing I did notice
immediately was all the different
accents apparent. People had come
from all around the country and
some even the world to travel on the
tall ship. There was also, such a
different mix of personalities, such as
Jack who would tell me about his
dads new yacht were as Lee would go
on about how many different ways
you can make a vodka redbull.
However I was determined not to tell
anyone my social background and let
them take me as I was. This is the
best way I think to approach the Tall
Ships experience. You want to make
friends and get on with people from
all different types of backgrounds
and you don’t want them to judge on
were you’re from or how much
money you have. I think this led me
to becoming friends with both social
groups of the ship.
The first night we had shore leave and
we were allowed to go out into the
lively Town of Newcastle. This made us
a close unit very quickly as we got to
know each other better. We had a very
boozy night which I new I would regret
when we got out to sea the next day.
The next day we were training and this
was the day I went up the mast for the
very first time. Absolutely petrified I
went up, and then clambered across
the mast. Then we set sail out of the
docks. Hundreds of people lined the
streets to say goodbye to the Tall ship
as it is a big event in Newcastle. It was
one of the best feelings, to be gliding
across the sea in such a grand boat at
such a height with nothing in our way.
Then it finally dawned on me that I
was heading out into the open sea.
The weather was perfect. Well perfect
for the crew but not for sailing. There
was hot sun and no wind and we were
cruising nicely down the North Sea. It
was amazing at night and during the
day. There was always something going
on, but there was also time to relax
and just enjoy sailing along. Then on
the 4th night out at sea I saw a fork of
lighting on look out. Then all of a
sudden there was a massive gust of
wind and the sails boomed out
dramatically. We were heading straight
for it. We were then all of a sudden
racing along with the waves crashing
over the sides.
The next morning the sun was out and
we were coming into port for the first
time in the week. I did not get sea sick
at all when I was upon the boat but I
felt terrible as soon as I got of it.
Everyone was swaying around. So I and
the rest of the group did the best thing
to cure this problem. We headed for
the pub. We had a great night in the
little French town of “Dieppe”. It was a
great little place but the people I was
with made it better.
The next day the streets of Dieppe were
lined with hundreds of the French
waving of the magnificent ship. Then
we were back on the water carrying out
our usual tasks of climbing the masts
and pulling in the lines. We had set sail
once again. I think one of the most
amazing times on the ships was the
12pm to 4am watch. I walked out of
the hatch into the pitch black of night
with the sound of the waves crashing
against the side of the boat. You would
take turns steering the ship and
keeping a look out for small boats not
shown up on radar. However my
favourite activity at night was to lye out
on the decking of the bridge and look
at the stars. Now I know this sounds a
bit cheesy but you will never see as
many stars as you will when you’re out
at sea. There are thousands. You even
see clearly, shooting stars racing across
the black sky.
Then on the 8th day of the voyage we
came into Cherbourg. I was quite sad
to be honest. To live on a boat 24 / 7
with people creates a unique bond.
Especially on something like tall ships
as you rely on strangers to help you.
However everyone is in the same
situation and that’s what you need to
remember. I made friends with so
many people on that boat in a very
small amount of time.
The Tall ships experience from
Newcastle to the South coast of France
was defiantly one of the best weeks of
my life. It gives you such a sense of
responsibility and independence. I
think anyone who believes that they
can not do something like this, should
defiantly do it because it gives you the
most uplifting feeling of pride and
respect when you finish.
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Sport
1st XI Hockey
P8
W1
D0
L7
Epsom vs Whitgift
Epsom vs Sutton Valance
Epsom vs Trinity
Epsom vs Tonbridge
Eton vs Epsom
Reeds vs Epsom
Epsom vs Charterhouse
Cranleigh vs Epsom
Lost
Lost
Won
Lost
Lost
Lost
Lost
Lost
1-4
2-5
3-1
0-1
0-2
2-3
1-2
2-8
The first team can best be described as
“rugby players with hockey sticks” with
a vast majority of the side fresh from
representing the college rugby teams
at 1st’s or 2nd’s. The squad had
inherited a team of colts who, in the
previous hockey season, had drawn
one game and lost the rest. This
seemed ominous, but with the
“banter” flowing it would definitely be
an extremely entertaining season.
The circuit that we play on has always
been a particularly challenging one,
but we always felt that with our more
physical approach, we would be able
to “ruffle some feathers” and stop sides
playing the way they intended.
Although we only won the solitary
game against Trinity, some excellent
hockey was played throughout the
season, namely against Reeds where
we went down fighting 3-2 and
Tonbridge where we lost 1-0, although,
having the ball for the whole of the
second half. These close results
seemed to be a feature of our season
as scoring goals always seemed to be
harder than letting them in. The level
of determination and effort put in was
maintained right until the last game
when we came up against an
extremely talented Cranleigh side.
Unfortunately, it seemed that the team
without our main playmaker wilted in
the sun in that game.
Luke Trayfoot seemed to make the
“keeper” position his own, and
although we lost a fair few games, he
managed to produce the form that
saw him earn his colts colours, right
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through the season. Having Luke
storming towards you at the best of
times is nerve-wracking enough, but
covered in padding, you have to feel
for the attackers that have been on the
wrong side of him over the season.
The defensive line consisted of Steve
Munford. Stevie had a knack of
making timely tackles and
interceptions when he was often the
last line of defence. He did give the
side one “heart in the mouth”
moment by slipping over as he
prepared to clear the ball, but he was
very deserving of the Crosbie trophy
for the most improved first side player.
He may not have been the most skilful
centre-back, but he is one of the most
determined I have come across. I am
sure Steve will play an integral part in
the team next year.
At sweeper, David Marsh had
an…interesting season. Against Sutton
Valance, perhaps he took the bet that
we would lose 8-0 a little too literally
by gifting them two goals. But he is a
very solid hockey player who improved
as the season went on. His reading of
the game is second to none and
although his pace is not blistering, his
ability to tackle even the most skilful
of players more than made up for it.
Will ‘Chinese’ Ma was our left back
with much complaining that he was
better on the right. However, he has
mastered the ‘flat stick’ tackle and you
could never doubt wills desire to get
forward and help the attack in any
way possible. David Furze was our
right back, and it seemed he could
lose the plot at the flick of a switch.
But as long as he can keep his temper
in check, I’m sure he will play a large
part in next year’s first team.
James “Weasel” Bryant played the
Makalele role with me in midfield.
Using his ‘different’ stick skills, when
we were losing he would often make
the executive decision to play himself
upfront. Having played hockey since
before he joined Epsom, he was often
a voice of encouragement and advice
on and off the pitch, and no one will
forget his exuberant celebrations. At
the end of the season he was duly
awarded his major colours for his
contribution over the last two years.
Laurence Beatt often played wide
right for us through the season. His
fitness carried him through each
game and he got better as the games
went on. He definitely finds attacking
a lot easier than the concept of
defending but he allowed us to
attack at pace and with width.
Myron Wong occupied the left midfield
slot and as the most natural of hockey
players, he inevitably did the basics
very well and thus he turned out to be
a strong member of the team. It is now
clear that Myron does have a shot on
him, after he stunned the fans in
training with a thunderbolt from the
top of the ‘D’!
Andy Ventris played a mixture of
attacking midfield and striker. He
definitely brings a more aggressive
aspect to the game with his ‘come on
boys, lets get physical’ approach. He
worked hard through the season, and
ran a lot more than I think he thought
he was going to have to. However
Andy’s comment of ‘I haven’t done an
air shot for four years’ was slightly
premature as four were to follow in
quick succession! He must get credit
however for being the only striker to
score a goal!
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have had the honour of coaching at
Epsom. Without his energy, skill and
sheer determination to win we would
have been beaten by far more goals
than we were. He has been a real
pleasure to coach and a credit to
Epsom College hockey club. He was
awarded his major colours. (Mr Head)
Joe Li and Chris Keeling shared the
other strikers’ spot between them. It
was a hard season for both players as
they both rely on being able to have
clean strikes at goal with space to run.
Having said that, they both worked
tirelessly for the team, and perhaps the
Li Boy drag flick will be put to good
use next season.
Next to the vice-captain Fergus
Flanagan, his inability to defend and
desire to just run with the ball
culminated in a position being
created just for him. Fergus ‘Free
Role’ Flanagan was born. This gave
him license to run wherever and
whenever but he had to cause the
opposition problems. On numerous
occasions he produced the magic that
had seen him represent the firsts for
three consecutive years, but he did
miss one absolute sitter: when the
keeper was down injured, he
proceeded to miss the goal. We lost 10…. None the less, Fergus has
contributed a considerable amount
to the college’s hockey over the last
five years and his quality was sorely
missed in the last couple of games. At
the end of the season, he too was
fittingly awarded his major colours.
Finally, the Captain Gareth Needham. I
have never met such an admirer of the
game at schoolboy level. For two
terms, Gareth as well as the normal 1st
side training in the Lent Term, Gareth
attended every possible hockey club
activity session that existed. As captain
he always lead from the front and
inspired his team mates. He was an
athlete with a big engine and probably
one of the best defensive tacklers I
The season ended with the annual
first side dinner, where Fergus firstly
managed to spill his drink over Mr
Head’s lap at the start of the evening,
and then burn Mr Head’s hand with
hot curry at the end. This dinner was
enjoyed by all with speeches made by
captains and coaches. Luke’s ‘free
style’ will never be forgotten. The
annual OE match was a great way to
round the season off, and, surprise
surprise, JB and Ferg were late. The
game ended 5-5.
Lastly, a massive thank you must be
said to the coach Mr Head. With the
imminent new arrival to the Head
family, doubts were cast over the
possibility of pre-season, but on the
cold Thursday before term, there he
was, ready and waiting with his
infamous tracksuit bottoms. Without
his dedication and knowledge of the
game, we would have looked
completely out of place this season,
but through him, each and every
player that has come under his
guidance has left a much better player.
Every time we looked out of sorts, he
had the answers that turned each
game into a thrilling contest. Finally, I
would like to wish him, and next year’s
side, the best of luck for the 2007
season, and hopefully they will come
out with a better set of results.
Gareth Needham
2ND XI Hockey
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D1
L5
This was not, it must be said first of
all, a vintage season by any stretch of
the imagination! However, I cannot
fault the effort and enthusiasm of
the boys, but they would be the first
to admit that we were simply outgunned both physically and skill-wise
too often. The term began well with
a hard-fought draw at Whitgift (3-3) this after being 2-0 down within 15
minutes, back to 3-2 up with 5
minutes to go and then, having let in
an equaliser with minutes to go,
foiled by an outstanding save in the
last minute of the match. Following
this game, we lost our strike force
plus sweeper to the 1st XI, and rather
struggled after that! A good win over
Sutton Vallence was followed by a
scrappy defeat to Trinity in an illtempered game, before we beat
Tonbridge on the Saturday of Half
Term. Post Half Term was a disaster:
four defeats out of four matches, and
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a particularly heavy one against a
very powerful and skillful Eton side!
The other defeats were against Reeds,
Charterhouse and Cranleigh.
As noted above, it would be hard to
criticise the team too much as they all
worked hard in training, but there was
a lack of pace and athleticism that
caught us out against the stronger
teams. Luke Trayfoot and Eric Lindberg
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shared the goalkeeping duties once
again, and neither let the team down.
The defence was reasonably solid and
worked hard, while in midfield
Osborne and Canby (when fit) really
held the team together. Up front we
struggled to score enough goals, or
create enough chances to really put
pressure on the opposition.
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and worked so hard, even when the
results turned against us, and of
course to Mr Head who coached
throughout the term following the
sad loss of Mr Laing. My final thanks
to Jonathan Permanand for
undertaking the 'dobi wallah' duties
so cheerfully and efficiently!
Mr P.J.Williams
My thanks to all the boys who played
3RD XI Hockey
P7 W1 D1 L5 F8 A17
Team: Adcock; Bowman; Boyd;
Ching; Farley(1); Ghim; Gunasekera;
Jones(Capt.)(4); Lever(1); Munford(1);
Taylorson; Wills.
Also played: Canby(1); Carpenter;
Dyer; Hempstead; White; Woodall.
No. of goals scored is in brackets.
This has been a disappointing season,
with little success to report. The
teams that we regularly play against
seem to be growing in strength and,
with larger numbers to choose from
in many cases, the standard of play
at this level is improving year by year.
The 3rd XI was a good team, with
several players from last year’s
successful side, and there were few
problems caused by injuries, but the
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team found it difficult to score goals
and were always on the defensive.
All of the individuals named above
showed good individual skills and the
stability of the side led to good team
effort and spirit. The first match of
the season promised good things to
come with a 7-0 win over Whitgift,
but other opposition teams were
much stronger and quicker and
consistently put the team under
pressure. Only against Reed’s were we
able to match the opposition and
gain a draw.
The weather caused no problems
with the availability of the two astros,
but other 3rd XIs that we played all
seemed to have more time for
practice on an astro surface on a
regular basis. This inevitably gave
them an advantage of familiarity and
team cohesion.
Although the results may not have
been all we would have hoped for, I
believe that everyone on the squad
has enjoyed being part of the side,
both in practices and in matches. I
thank all those who have played and
given so much of their time and
effort, especially Alex Jones, captain
for the second season and scorer of
half of the team’s goals, and also APT
for his support and encouragement.
Mr B.J.Ainge
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Colts ‘A’ Hockey
In hockey, unlike its lesser brethren
soccer, it is considerably harder not to
concede goals and there is a greater
emphasis on the need to score highly
in order to win games. Never was this
seen better than with this past season
with the Colts A team.
I always reckon that if you can score
three goals you shouldn’t lose a game,
but anything less and you are unlikely
to win. That we only achieved 3 goals
in two matches, and they were our
only victories, reinforces this belief.
Likewise, half the matches saw us only
score one goal and three of these were
draws, meaning goals equals wins!
But enough of the statistics as they tell
only half the story.
At times this term, the team produced
quite exhilarating moments of hockey.
Breathtakingly quick up front and in
midfield, defence turned into attack in
the blink of an eye. By half term,
when the team were at their fittest,
there was not an outfield player in the
squad that could be considered a
liability pace-wise.
In goal, Jamie Allum quickly
established himself as the Number
One after his injury last year. Whilst
prone to the odd aberration, he
nonetheless offered a solidity that
gave comfort to his defenders. With
greater mobility he could become a
very good goalkeeper.
Matthew Goodyear and Jamie Gillespie
fulfilled the unglamorous manmarking roles to good effect.
Matthew’s tenacity and fitness made
life difficult for all but the very best
defenders. With the development of a
strike rather than push pass, his
distribution would and really must
improve. Jamie was perhaps the most
improved player, reading the game
exceptionally well and making very
few mistakes on the left of the
defence. Guy James deployed his pace
and fitness gamely at right back, a
position he grew into as the season
progressed.
“Up front, the ‘Max Attack’
showed enormous potential.
Both Max Page and Max Polkey
are very different players.”
At the back, Freddie Readhead
developed into a fine sweeper, more in
an attacking sense than a defensive
one. He broke up countless opposition
attacks with his astute reading of the
game, launching wave after wave of
counter-attacks. With greater
experience of positioning, knowing
when to hold off and channel his
opponent, and more consistent
distribution, he could become a great
asset next year.
In midfield the tried and tested
diamond formation worked more
often than not. This relies on fitness,
awareness of structure, and plenty of
support for both attack and defence.
To this end, with Chris York, Ollie
Lloyd, Roland Crouch and Greg
Newman, the team was served well.
Chris held the team together at the
base of the diamond, distributing
passes powerfully and breaking down
many attacks. Ollie offered an
exceptional outlet on the left, showing
great skill and attacking ambition. He
also possessed the cleanest strike in
the team, too. Roland was outstanding
at times, showing good stick skills with
raw pace, although he needs to be
prepared to go outside rather than
come inside all the time if he is to get
the better of good opponents. Greg
played a little too deep at times,
failing to support the attack as much
as he should have, but this is due to a
passionate desire to be involved in the
play more. His control and skill was
consistently good, and he nevertheless
linked effectively with the pacy strikers
when he could.
Up front, the ‘Max Attack’ showed
enormous potential. Both Max Page
and Max Polkey are very different
players – the former relying primarily
on instinct, the latter on good
movement and tenacity – but when
both were on form, they were
formidable. At times, their finishing
failed to match their build-up play,
hence the relative lack of goals, but
when it clicked, they terrorised their
opponents with their pace and
movement. They worked hard on
their game, Max Polkey especially,
and they should spearhead a very
effective attack again next year.
George Lowe was our utility player –
mostly used up front, he also played
in midfield and at the back.
Extremely quick, with a sound
sportsman’s (rather than hockey
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player’s) awareness, he showed
some nice touches. He scored some
vital goals, too, and lacks only
composure and a greater confidence
in his own ability on the ball.
On the fringes of the team were
several players who all came in and
performed well when needed.
Patrick Iyoyin showed some nice
touch and blistering pace, but the
closure of space at this level found
him out at times, forcing a need to
work on more consistent stick skills
and distribution. Wilson Wong ran
elusively up front, scoring some vital
goals, but the tendency to panic in
front of goal was a
problem that never
really disappeared.
Towards the end,
Ollie Harding-Edgar
was promoted to
cover for injury and
performed
effectively on
the left.
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Memories of the year that stand out
are numerous. Roland’s failed attempt
to dribble along his own goal-line
against Tonbridge; Jamie Allum’s fresh
air kick in the last minute at Eton
(which had nothing to do with bad
eyesight from the umpire, even if the
shot was outside the circle); the injury
time winner in the same game;
Pagey’s outrageous flick and half
volley to complete his hat-trick against
a hapless Sutton Vallance; being
played off the park by St George’s and
Kingston in the Surrey Cup
competition; competing with a more
superior hockey side on countless
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occasions, grabbing draws and
victories against the odds, particularly
against Eton and Cranleigh; dealing
superbly with the bounciest astro in
the South East at Tonbridge; Greg
Newman getting wound up every
game; Matt Goodyear swearing(!);
Wilson Wong fresh-airing twice in front
of goal; George Lowe shoulder-barging
a slower opponent to the floor en
route to goal against Trinity; everyone
(including the coach) getting
absolutely drenched by the water
cannons before the match at
Tonbridge; attending every training
session in seventeen layers to keep out
the cold; the endless support from the
parents; seeing a training ground
practice work poorly, only for the boys
to implement the idea successfully on
the Saturday; belting the B team
regularly in our practice matches;
squirming with embarrassment at
themselves on film, after a practice
match was videoed towards the end of
the season leading to a recognition
that they were not quite as good as
they thought they were!; Max Page
failing to get through a single game
without winding up his opponents,
the umpires, the supporters, his teammates and even himself!
All in all, a season of great fun and no
small development. This was a
tremendous group of players who
worked hard to improve, but played
the game with a smile on their face. I
wish them every success next year and
expect to see many 1st team players
among them.
Mr. A. J. Bustard
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Colts B Hockey report
P:8
W:3
D:1
L:4
Not unlike the England rugby team at
present, the Colts B squad had
enough talent to do well but all too
often failed to close out games when
they had opportunities. It was left to
the substitute Robbie Shaw to score
two second half goals against Whitgift
to give us a good start to the season
with a 3-2 win, but we should have
been more comfortable by that stage
of the game. Unfortunately, against
Cranleigh, Reeds and Tonbridge, we
didn’t get away with the same
profligacy in front of goal, drawing
with Tonbridge and losing to good
teams from the other two schools.
That said, the team defended at
times with fantastic determination,
which kept us competitive each week.
Ed Rushen was at times quite
outstanding in goal, especially against
Cranleigh, whilst Ollie Harding-Edgar,
Matt Chasey and Lyle Chase played as
a very effective unit in front of him.
Robbie Gillespie joined them as right
back and proved to be the most
improved player of the season. With
Janil Ramesh working exceptionally
hard in his role as defensive
midfielder, their efforts meant that
on only one occasion was there more
than one goal’s difference between
the two teams on any given Saturday.
However, in attack we didn’t always
do ourselves justice, despite having
flair and pace. George Freeman was
capable of high speed runs from the
right, whilst Wilson Wong and Alec
Laing showed natural stick skills
coming from the left wing. Jordan
Oldershaw had a good
understanding of his role as centre
forward, especially when coming
deep to pick up the ball, whilst
James Crisp, Peter Keohane and
Robbie Shaw all showed potential
when attacking from midfield.
However, despite the willingness to
run forward, there was too often a
lack of appreciation for width and
depth in attack, meaning that our
attacks could often be stopped
leaving no-one in midfield to defend
the counterattack. In part, this was
because it was hard to field the same
midfield formation in successive
weeks: George Lowe, and later on
Oliver Harding-Edgar, both won
deserved promotions to the A team,
whilst James Crisp picked up an injury
in the second half of the season. That
said, passing accurately and more
effective running off the ball will be
the teams goals next season.
An enjoyable season, but I feel sure
there is more to come from this group.
Mr M.C.Conway
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Junior Colts A Hockey
P8
W1
D1
L6
As this was my first season at Epsom, I
was unsure of what to expect from my
boys this season. I was informed that
there was a great deal of potential but
a lack of experience, compared to the
tough opposition that we were to face.
After the first training session I could
see that there was indeed a great deal
of potential but an overwhelming
desire to be coached and to improve.
It was evident that the style of hockey
that they will one day be playing will
destroy opposition sides when their
skills have caught up with their
awareness and vision.
Competing against the other schools
on our circuit is always going to be a
struggle when it is obvious that they
have at least two or three club players
who have not just started at the age of
thirteen. This was very clear against
Whitgift in our first fixture. Epsom
were fitter, played with greater width
and supported the man with the ball
much better than our rivals. However
Whitgift could finish and that was the
key difference. They also possessed
some very skilful, silky players, but
Epsom’s determination to not be
brushed aside and ability to force
mistakes kept things pretty even until
half time. A loss of 5-0 was not a fair
reflection of how competitive the
game was throughout. I took a great
deal away from that game but it was
clear that we needed to find a striker.
The following week was a bit of a blur.
On the Tuesday my wife went into
labour, and on the Wednesday night
my daughter Ella was born. I could not
help feeling guilty and frustrated that I
could not get out and train the side
this week and work on the points I
had highlighted from Saturday’s game.
These feelings were short-lived though,
with absolute elation and then
exhaustion taking over! I had
previously trained the Sutton Valence
side the boys were to face, when they
were under 13s. I knew of their
strengths and weaknesses and
certainly felt that we could win. Mr
Bustard very kindly took the side that
day and umpired the game. I
managed to get away from nappies for
the second half, by which time we
were 4-1 down. I then witnessed a
great comeback with some excellent
wide hockey. Sutton Valence crumbled
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under the pressure and Epsom kept a
great deal of possession. Nick Connor
and Stuart Briscoe scored two more
goals to make it 4-3 at the final
whistle. With another ten minutes or
so, we certainly would have levelled, if
not won, the game.
Trinity was the next opponent and we
expected a very tough game to turn
over a 3-0 deficit from last year. Matt
Costain scored early but Trinity came
back to lead 2-1. With about ten
minutes left, Pitout equalised and
Trinity could hold out for long enough
before Epsom won the game with
another goal from Costain. Tim Faccini
deserves a mention for keeping us in
many games this season with fine
reaction saves.
Tonbridge were next and with both
teams depleted with flu casualties and
in need of half term, a close match
was fought. The standard of hockey at
times was poor from both sides, as all
the boys looked exhausted. Charlie
Mortimer scored our only goal and the
final score was 1-1.
The Eton game started off very
promisingly with Epsom looking far the
better side. The captain Rod Needham
finished off a great move by roofing
the ball to put us into a 1-0 lead.
However we could not sustain the
pressure for the whole game and in the
second half Eton came back very hard.
We could not keep possession of the
ball well enough, and deservedly, Eton
scored three goals.
Reeds were another side with many
club hockey players. In fact, it was only
one very skilful player that made the
real difference. The boys did not know
how to stop his weaving into the box
and he finished very well. Cresswell
had a superb game out wide on the
right, causing big problems, and Pitout
and Needham bossed the midfield
very well. However, we could not
convert the chances we were given
and we were made to pay. Li and
Costain scored our two goals but the
final score was 6-2 to Reeds.
their coach said that they were an
undefeated side, I felt that we could
have beaten them if we were up for
the game.
I always say it is about the way you
finish a season that counts, and not
how you begin it. I wanted to finish on
a high and asked all the boys to step
up their game and do themselves
proud against Cranleigh in our final
fixture. This was played midweek
before the rugby players went to play
their semi-final in the Daily Mail Cup.
The boys played their best game to
date against a very strong and talented
Cranleigh side. Although they were a
much more skilful side they found our
refusal to let them through frustrating
and we were allowed to catch them on
the break. We went 1-0 up early on
from a great goal by Ross Malcolm.
Cranleigh took a long time to equalise,
but eventually they did and quickly
after took a 2-1 lead. They piled on the
pressure, but the Epsom defence from
Weingartshofer, Payne and Wynne just
kept coming away with the ball.
Malcolm scored again to make it 2-2
and that was the score with only two
minutes left. Cranleigh managed to get
a short corner at the death which was
converted to make it 3-2 but I was
thrilled with the boys’ performance.
I would like to thank the whole team
for their dedication and tremendous
team spirit. They were always a
pleasure to coach during every
training session and I wish them the
very best of luck for next season.
Mr J Stephens
The performance against Charterhouse
was one that I was not proud of. After
a great start, scoring a goal in the first
couple of minutes, we played some
dire hockey. The standard of passing
was terrible and we looked
uninterested. We lost 3-1 and although
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Junior Colts D Hockey
The season started encouragingly
with a very good 7-1 win over
Whitgift but thereafter, we struggled
to find the same winning form
against sides whose skill levels and
self-discipline were superior. We lost
narrowly to Reed’s School 0-1 in an
exciting match where the host’s classy
hockey was just too much for our
effort. The Charterhouse game was
much the same: although we lost 21, the stick skills and team work we
encountered was, again, the
difference between the two sides. The
final match against Cranleigh, lost 40, replayed the same scenario: for
most of the game, we competed on
effort but teamwork and discipline
deserted us in the second half.
However,one of the more
disappointing features of the season
was the cancellation, at the last
minute, of two matches when the
self-interest of a few players spoiled
the afternoon for the rest: hopefully,
lessons will have been learned for
following seasons. I would like to
thank Mr Ben McDowell for his
support during what has been a
difficult season from time to time.
Mr K. Siviter
Under 14 A XI Hockey
P10
W1
D2
Whitgift (block + cup)
Sutton Valence
Cranleigh (cup)
St John's (cup)
Trinity
Tonbridge
Eton
Reed's
Charterhouse
Cranleigh (block)
L7
L
D
L
W
L
L
L
L
D
L
F10 A36
0-7
1-1
0-4
3-0
0-2
0-10
2-3
1-4
1-1
2-4
After a short pre-season training
session very early in January, it was
clear that there were one or two
quite useful players, or at least one or
two with the potential to be useful.
However, as usual, our prep. school
intake has very little hockey
experience and with Whitgift starting
their 3rd season whilst we started our
first ever match, we learned the hard
way at the end of the first week of
term. To be fair, this Whitgift side was
one of the most complete sides I
have seen for several years. I was not
at all surprised to see them move
through the county cup into the
regional rounds of the national cup,
and for them to go on and win the
whole competition. In doing so, they
beat Bromsgrove in the final 8-0,
which puts our initial 7-0 loss into
perspective just a little bit.
After the rude awakening of the first
match, there was much to learn
about the game and, to be fair, this
squad did try quite hard on match
days to get things right. But training
mid week was not always as
productive as it might be. Our
second match saw us draw against
Sutton Valence before moving on to
play Cranleigh in the cup. Here we
lost 4-0, but played with a more
competitive edge and produced
some quite good patterns of play.
However, the opposition was better.
Our next match in the cup saw us
gain a win before the flu bug hit us
'big time' All those left standing met
in Big School at Saturday morning
break and the sides were selected for
the weekend. A mixture of As,
Bs and Cs represented the
college A team with much
enthusiasm and only went
down 2-0 to a team with
much more experience. The
first half of term saw us get
completely 'stuffed' away at
Tonbridge. They were athletic
and skilful in a couple of key
areas and they were more used
to playing on their superb
water based Astro. We on the
other hand were not athletic,
except for a determined
performance from Jamie
Falconer. We also suffered from
the inability of some of our
parents to read the term dates,
which depleted our number of
available players.
Eton, which was very even. Again I
felt that we could have done better
but for missing players. A draw here
was about right, but they just shaved
it with a couple of minutes to go. The
remaining matches were again more
even and saw us starting to develop
better patterns of play. We played
very well for a half against Reed's,
drew against Charterhouse and then
had a fine final match against
Cranleigh. I took much comfort from
the second encounter with Cranleigh
in so much as we were missing four
regulars due to county cross country
and Daily Mail commitments, yet
After half term, we had a
cracking good game against
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produced a good performance which
outstripped the previous 4-0 loss
from the cup match earlier on. To me
it showed just how much the squad
had improved from earlier on in the
season and I think augers well for
the future of this group of boys.
In goal, William Atkinson played well
and kept us in contention early on in
the season. Across the back we had
Peter Nichols sweeping, Henry
Cheetham at right back, James PeaseWatkins as central defender and Nick
Thomas as left back. Henry came up
from the Bs and worked hard, Peter
has a very natural eye for the ball
and James some nice stick skills. Nick
was tremendously competitive and a
good 'leader' of the defence. Across
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the mid-field we had James Edwards,
Harry Bradshaw, Robbie Shaw and
Joe Toomey. All showed much
commitment and some good skills.
We also used Olly Wilkinson and
Andy Brooks along with Otis Earle,
all of whom again gave of their best.
Olly could play right or left wing.
Otis reads the game very well and
with a bit more experience he will
be a fine 'silky' skilled player.
Brooksy showed much improvement.
Up front, we used Xavier Dialdas and
James Falconer. Xavier showed some
nice touches but lacks a bit of pace,
and we never really saw the best of
James due to rugby and injury, but
he really does have a great deal of
sporting talent and will dominate
defences in the future.
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The Woodward trophy went to
young Harry Bradshaw, with Robbie
Shaw also catching the selector's
eye. As ever, my thanks go to NSAP
for his superb support of both the
As and the Bs and for his invaluable
coaching tips and skills. Whilst the
squad made much progress during
the season, I would urge them to
concentrate more on improving
their skills on training days, so that
they can start to turn the losses into
wins in the future. I fully expect this
to be the case given the good start
this group of boys made.
Mr M.C.Oliver
U14D Hockey
The Under 14 D team is always
placed in an awkward situation as
each time a player shines in his
performance, he is usually
promoted, leaving the team in need
of a replacement. This season was
no different, and in addition we
were badly hit by the 'flu bug’ for
the first half of term which led to a
number of E team boys coming up
to play for us, leaving Mr Cooper
and Mr Wolstenholme struggling to
get a side out on some weeks.
Captained fearlessly by Harry Gunn
in the main, we were supported at
the backboard by Rory Adam and
James Brooks, but Max Denning
kept goal for the majority of
matches. All three keepers were
new to their position and each
excelled in different aspects of
their saves.
Brunton-Reed had some early
season goals whilst Ollie Stewart,
Nick Amin, Andrew Gordon, Jite
Avwunu and Sam Holdsworth all put
in consistent efforts both home and
away, which was appreciated by all.
This was an enjoyable season
overall which would have benefited
from some squad consistency weekto-week. My thanks to Mr McClure
and Greg Hyson for their help with
coaching, and I wish the boys well
in their future hockey endeavours.
Mr K N D Barakzai
Out in the field we were afforded
some fine performances by William
Beadle, Alex Dowle, Mark Tampin,
Marcel Van Wyk, Tom Hargrave and
Tom Shopland, who all came to us
originally from the E team.
Unfortunately Tom had a cycling
accident after one match
appearance and was left on crutches
until close to the end of the season.
Jack Keep consistently smiled, even
when the ball crept past him in
defence, and was always eager to
chase after any would-be attackers,
whilst Ed Richardson proved to be a
useful centre-back, helping to keep
opposition score lines down. Alex
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Rosslyn Park National Colts Sevens
Winners
After about ten weeks of training,
getting to know the feel of the game
and generally having a good time, it
came to crunch time. Arguably, as a
year we have sometimes been
underestimated, but we thought that
after a fantastic 15s season and with a
fast, mobile team, sevens could be
our game. Over twenty players trained
through icy cold weather and bitter
snow and we awaited our first
tournament at RGS Guildford with
huge excitement. Unfortunately, key
players were missing, including the
“he’s so amazing” George Lowe, Max
Page and Max Eden. However, we still
put in all our efforts, played some
fantastic rugby and got to the final. A
key moment was deciding whether we
should play in “the shirt” we had
designed, whether we were worthy.
After the first game against
Wimbledon College we decided we
probably were, and as the gleaming
blue and white shirts were put on, we
could feel the magic appear. The slight
problem was that the starting seven
perhaps played a bit too much and
after the semi final against RGS High
Wycombe we were exhausted.
Therefore, with hindsight, it wasn’t
really a surprise that in the final
Wellington strolled on the pitch to
beat us convincingly; Yorkie’s team
talk before consisting of “well lads, I’m
about to puke up all over the pitch”.
Despite being beaten in the final, our
day was memorable. The team
showed real promise and the “banter
bus” was created.
On arrival back at Epsom, word had
spread and the team were happy with
their achievements. It also led to even
more interest and belief from the
squad, and the next tournament, Q.E.
Barnet’s was eagerly awaited. However,
the tournament was called off,
meaning we had no more match
practice before the Nationals.
The night was crisp. Wind fluttered
through my hair as I strolled round a
corner of big school after performing
in the charity show. It was then that I
heard the jubilant cries of “We’ve got
Lowe! We’ve got Lowe!”. I later learnt
that the 1sts had been thwarted in
their attempts at the first day of
nationals, unfortunately drawing to
Bristol which led to them losing on
points difference! However unlucky
this was for the 1sts, this gave us a
different perspective. We had now
recovered a full strength team, and it
was time to give the Nationals a real
go, no excuses.
The first day arrived. We had no
further knowledge of the teams we
were playing and there was always the
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has not yet been done in previous
years, but I have faith”. Our first few
games were played very simply,
passing the ball around and trying to
relax. Although at times a little erratic,
by the end of the day we had beaten
every side by more than four tries.
Pagie in particular began to improve
as the day went on, proving a key
player and try scorer. Luke Davies’
work rate was outstanding and Lowe’s
attributes were also key, giving
excellent ball and space to Paddy, who
stormed past every helpless winger to
score a total of 11 tries on the first day.
With hindsight, my favourite part of
the day was when Lowe commented
after the first game, “Mmm, I think
National Champions in the making.”
That night we came back
congratulating ourselves, but at the
same time not getting too over
excited. We were now serious
underdogs. We gave each other the
general feeling that we had made it to
the second day with all our efforts, so
there was nothing to lose. The next
day we were to meet the tournament
favourites, Sedbergh. On the journey
there, Gus began to sing “Oh my
goodness we’re back again …, gunna
win the seven’s tournament …”,
which lightened the mood. However,
we still arrived extremely nervous, for
we knew we might only be there for
one game. Nevertheless, we arrived at
the grounds, quickly glanced at the
girls’ rugby, and settled down at “base
camp”. We then began our routine
warm up and Mr Whiteley subtly
brought in a few more defence drills
as he knew the up and coming team
would have a much stronger attack
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then anyone we had played before.
After this we quickly played our ritual
game of touch with the starting seven
then entered onto the pitch. The game
was scrappy at times, however our
press defence we had been working on
proved successful. Sedbergh’s attack
was thwarted, and we took full
advantage. With desperate last efforts,
we held Sedbergh at bay and took in a
huge sigh of relief and excitement as
the whistle blew.
What happened now was slightly odd.
Instead of tension building, we all
became relaxed and started to joke
around. Piers just sat and grinned at
us all. Luke claimed “I just can’t
believe it”, Paddy repeated
“mayyyyyyyttt” over and over again,
and Gus claimed he couldn’t see,
which was ironic as the night before
in the Charity show he acted as a
blind man. We were told we could
have about an hour and a half of
rest. However, this did not pass
without incident. Following Rushen’s
attempt at a practice back heel kick,
the ball entered a nearby pitch, the
scrum half of the attacking team
picking up the wrong ball leading to a
break away try which was thankfully
disallowed. Well played.
An hour later, we started our warm up
routine and ritual touch game. Kings
Worcester wasn’t a ‘big name’ team,
but we were apprehensive
nevertheless. The game was played
with simple basic sevens, creating
space and finishing off well-executed
team tries. We slacked off at the end a
little, however it did not matter. We
had made it to the final.
possibility of a random Welsh team
producing the goods. We strolled out
of the “banter bus” and onto the
playing grounds, a hint of tension in
the air. Mr “Legend” Whiteley (I’m sure
you won’t mind that sir) throwing on
his faded yet reliable raincoat, took us
to the best rest position. This spot was
to become famous. “BASE CAMP”. Mr
Whiteley chose this particular position
drawing on his geographical
knowledge, considering prevailing
wind direction, local climatic
conditions and accessibility. He did
warn us however of the possibility of
dog excrement entering our bags if left
open. After this came the most
important speech from Mr Whiteley of
the tournament. After pulling out his
trusty ball bag he proclaimed, “Boys,
we have three balls in this bag. We
must return three balls to this bag. It
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After this, all jokes and banter stopped.
Preparation began immediately and
everyone fell silent. For me personally,
I thought our time might have come to
an end. We knew we had made a great
effort throughout the tournament. All
we wanted now was just not another
repeat of a final at Guildford. The
ritual warm ups underway, we walked
slowly onto the pitch. Millfield in the
final. As soon as the whistle blew, we
as a team lost our cool and made
them look much better than they
were. After a series of missed tackles,
the Millfield no.10 sprinted through to
score the first try of the match. Mind
games began and things seemed to be
going in the same direction as the
Wellington final. However, a
memorable moment came when Lowe
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revenge on us. Someone had put the
remains of a tree on top of our bus.
We entered the bus and then saw
someone just chilling, holding a dead
fox - strange. We began to shout and
shout with different chants such as
“we’re on the motorway”, “we’re at the
traffic lights” and “bulbous” referring
to Page’s unusual and somewhat
strange haircut. Freeman then began
probably the best part of the trip back
with “everywhere we go”, and
everyone stopped and laughed for the
whole trip back as he said in a Gollum,
goblin like manner “we shout a little
louder”. As we then reminisced, and
went round one by one saying what
our favourite moment of the two days
were, we got to Mr Whiteley. He said,
quite simply “base camp”.
said the simplest thing, “Relax”. From
then on we went on turbo charge and
started to play effectively as a team as
well as individuals. We scored five
unanswered tries with flowing rugby
and started to play with inspired
confidence. Tries came from Eden,
Spad and Greg and two from Page. In
the last minutes Millfield fought back
well and scored two tries, but it wasn’t
enough. The whistle blew and the
only thing to do was to yell as loudly
as possible. National champions!
After the medal ceremony where Mr
Whiteley was given a new ball bag,
and Page and York were given men of
the match, the celebrations began. It
was back to the “banter bus” but what
we saw was perhaps someone’s bitter
Written by Greg Newman with help from the squad. Edited by George “we shout a little louder” Freeman
Courtesy of Digital Sports UK Ltd.
The Captain’s paragraph
As a member of the Colts National
Sevens Winner’s side, I would have
to say this was an unforgettable
experience and I’m sure most of the
lads would say so as well.
Throughout the course of our
training we experienced a mixture
of heavy rainfall, snow, hail and at
times glorious sunshine. You could
say that in some ways it was the
survival of the fittest, as the
tournament was not only enjoyable
to play and watch, it was also very
hard work at times. Captaining the
side was a great experience not only
for the rugby but especially for the
lads who supported me, and my
thanks goes to them. This
tournament I can say was not down
to the seven men on the pitch alone
but to the whole squad, both at
Guildford in preparation for the
national tournament and at Rosslyn
Park itself. A huge thank you goes to
Mr Whiteley who has not only led us
to victory but has made the
unforgettable experience an
extraordinary event.
Chris York
A brief word from the Coach
All top sevens teams require the
correct blend of pace, power and
play makers in key positions,
together with the collective ability
to maintain control and discipline
when under extreme pressure. To
succeed, however, strength in depth
is also essential and perhaps more
importantly the correct mental
attitude towards the game.
The Squad:
A.J.A.Field, G.L.Davies, C.J.York,
G.J.Newman, M.G.H.Page, G.V.Lowe,
P.Iyoyin, M.H.Eden, A.T.N.Cooper,
G.P.Freeman, J.A.Gillespie,
E.R.A.Rushen, H.J.Falconer,
G.A.James, A.Davie, P.J.De Haan,
M.D.Polkey, R.D.J.Crouch, J.M.Crisp
The squad this year possessed all of
these qualities in abundance. They
were an absolute pleasure to coach,
receptive of ideas, focused,
supportive of each other and above
all playing for all the right reasons.
Whilst it would be wrong to
mention individuals in the context
of such an outstanding overall team
performance, I would particularly
To all the squad; very well done on
an outstanding and thoroughly
deserved achievement. I think the
photographs tell much of the story!
Mr R.I. Whiteley
Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens Results.
Round 1
Lincoln Minster
0
Epsom-
58
41
Round 2
Pen-Y-Dre
14
Epsom-
Round 3
Trinity, Devon
7
Epsom-
53
Play offs
Adams
0
Epsom
62
Knock Out
Trinity
0
Epsom
32
Quarter finals
Sedbergh
17
Epsom
29
Semi final
Kings Worcester
12
Epsom
22
Millfield
19
Epsom
29
Final
like to thank Chris York for the
excellent work he did as Captain,
both on and off the pitch.
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Rugby 7s
We did not qualify as Bristol scored
more tries than us.
In summary, it has been a very good
season for the Senior 7s. On
average25 boys trained regularly,
twice a week, from early January. The
enthusiasm was excellent and the
standard very high.
The best performances came in the
first tournament of the year at Sussex
where both 1st and 2nd VIIs won their
respective tournaments.
The 2nd VII went on to win the Worth
tournament as well.
The 1st VII had a good run at the
Surrey 7s before losing to Millfield in
the Quarter Final. They were
desperately unlucky at the National 7s
not to qualify for the final rounds
despite not losing a game.
Their results overall were very good –
they demolished some of the very best
schools in the country. This was
achieved without Sandy Reid who was
injured training with England. Great
credit should also go to David Cook,
the captain, who played the last
tournament after dislocating his
shoulder against Millfield.
SUSSEX 7s
1st VII
v Brighton
v KCS
v Isleworth
v Cranleigh
24-0 w
38-0 w
43-0 w
24-0 w
QF v Framlingham
21-7 w
SF v Filton College
31-0 w
F v John Fisher
14-0 w
2nd VII
J Fisher
19-5 w
Brighton
12-5 w
Cranleigh
31-0 w
St John’s
40-5 w
WORTH 7s
1st VII
v Hurstpierpoint
v KCS
v Chichester
My thanks also go to Mr Jud Drinkall
and Mr. Donald Campbell for giving up
so much of their time to help and
support during the course of the term.
Mr.A.Wolstenholme
2nd VII
v St Johns
v Chichester
v Worth
v Brighton
v Sutton Valence
SURREY 7s
vChis & Sid
v RGS Guildford
v Maidstone GS
v Tonbridge
v Millfield
ROSSLYN PARK 7s
vRugby
v Bristol GS
v BETHS
v Radley
7-5l
24-0w
40-0w
12-5w (SF)
26-12w (F)
43 –12 w
41- 7 w
45- 0 w
36-19w (last 16)
14- 42l (QF)
42-5 w
28-28 d
59 –0 w
24-15 w
36-14w
10-14l
37-0w
Girls’ Netball
1st Team
Eboni Beckford – Chambers (Captain)
1st: Bethany Gale, Michelle Watkins,
Arnolda Shiundu, Natasha Wood,
Madeleine Mortimer, Lucy Billings,
Ellie Fisher, Amy Hodges
the circle is definitely one to be
commended. Her incredible lean and
renowned blocking skills have caused
a variety of problems for the
oppositions shooters and she has
been a real asset to the team, which
culminated in her rightfully being
awarded Player of the Season.
Michelle Watkins also worked in
partnership at GD with Bethany. As a
pair the two have worked really well
together. Her level of communication
The senior netball squad has had a
very eventful season, winning seven
matches convincingly and loosing only
one. We have been plagued by a
succession of injuries this season, but
hard work, (on and off the court), and
sheer determination have made this
season one that has been enjoyable
and one definitely to be remembered.
The team spirit, throughout the season
has been high and uplifting due to the
many delightful characters within the
team. We have had a variety of
talented individuals, who played for
the 1st team, both from the lower and
upper sixth.
In defence we had the unstoppable
Bethany Gale. Her speed, agility and
quickness to withstand the efforts and
prevent GA and GS from penetrating
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has developed and her dominance in
the circle is much more apparent.
Michelle’s excellent ability to read the
game and innumerable interceptions
defines the quality of the player that
she is and the consistent performance
that she always produces. Eboni
Beckford – Chambers (myself) was
captain of the team and played GD
and GK. With the help of the team
and especially the defensive unit, I
feel that I played these positions with
great success, although my ball
handling skills and footwork patterns
needed to be addressed at times!
Arnolda Shiundu (vice captain) played
out at WD this season, and did a
fantastic job on court and when
taking over the captain’s role in my
absence! Her flair, enthusiasm and
creativity when executing each skill is
something to be praised and lends a
new meaning to the phrase a ‘noncontact sport’. Arnolda has terrific
elevation and her ability to drive the
ball down court allowed her to prevail
against many feisty and aggressive
players when the pressure was on.
Madeleine Mortimer also adopted the
role as WD/ WA on many occasions.
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‘Maddy’ is a somewhat quiet player,
but her athletic ability, superb
peripheral vision and tactical play lent
to her precision and accuracy when
feeding the shooters and bringing the
ball down court. Amy Hodges was the
C for our team, and can often be said
to be a bit dopey but on the court she
was energetic and a fighter. Amy’s
outstanding ability to link defensive
and attacking court play, deny space
and ‘zone’ awareness were a major
factor in the teams success. Natasha
Wood also played C/WA for the team.
‘Tash’ is a very charismatic individual
whose eagerness and willingness to
learn new skills and techniques in
training sessions, showed the way in
which her style of netball has
matured and enhanced her
knowledge of the game. At the
beginning of the season one may
have labelled her a ‘loose canon’, but
as we have approached and
concluded the season, that label no
longer seems appropriate. I hope that
‘Tash’ continues on her learning curve
as she has great potential to become
an elite netballer. In the shooting
circle, we had Ellie Fisher and Lucy
Billings. Without these two the ‘show
would not be able to go on!’. Their
“The team
spirit, throughout
the season has
been high and
uplifting. ”
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unfailing commitment to the team
has not gone unnoticed and is very
much appreciated. Their dedication,
desire and keenness to practice their
shooting at every available
opportunity and rotation of the circle
has led to some of the best results
Epsom College has ever recorded.
As the senior team of 2005/06, we
recorded astonishing scores such as 37
– 16 against Charterhouse, and 18 – 5
against Kings Canterbury, two of our
strongest rivals in girls sport. We are
the District Tournament Champions,
defending the title against St John’s,
beating them 12 – 3 in the final.
I am sure I speak on behalf of
everyone when I say I have had an
enjoyable and action-packed season,
which could only be achieved through
the expert coaching of Miss West. We
are extremely grateful for her strategic
knowledge and input that has helped
us triumph this year. The way that she
inspires, motivates and supports each
member of the team, always smiling,
is everything that we could wish and
hope for in a coach. Thanks also goes
out to Liz Robertson and Marianne
Henderson for all their help
throughout the season with all the
teams. I’m sure all of us will hold on to
the skills and knowledge we have
acquired from them for university
netball. Last but not least, we would
like to say a very big thank you to all
the parents and spectators that came
to support us in the rain and sunshine!
Finally, to Miss West and the up and
coming netball stars at Epsom College,
we would like to wish you the very
best of luck for next season!
Eboni Beckford–Chambers
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2ND Netball
P10
W6
L4
This team had a successful season
and their enthusiasm towards the
game was outstanding throughout.
The girls’ played extremely well in all
games and managed to put a large
gap between their own score and the
opposition's score in most games that
we won. However, two of the games
we played stick in the memory above
all others, as they were the girl's best
performances in my eyes. In the first
against Christ's Hospital, in which the
score only came down to whose
centre it was when the whistle was
blown, time was unfortunately not on
our side and we lost 20-21. The
second nail biter was our last match
against Eastbourne and this was the
girls’ best performance of the season,
although I have to admit I did have to
turn away on many occasions as the
tension was too much for me. They
made me very proud.
The girls have been committed
throughout and have improved
dramatically as a team. Emma
'Reactions' Marchington was not only
a determined and unflagging
defensive player, but has the fastest
reactions on the team resulting in an
enormous number of interceptions.
Claire Wilkinson and Rebecca Brown
gave us our backbone as solid Goal
Keepers. We were also very fortunate
to have so many talented shooters to
play in this team. Georgie Hazell was
an unstoppable force, and with
shooters like Carly Duffen and
Charlotte Johnston to aid her in the
attack we could not go far wrong.
Katherine Lammiman really put her
heart into the game and has been our
strong link between attack and
defense, along with Jenny Wong who
is a calm and steady player and has
been a particularly good feeder for
the shooters. Then there is our
reliable 'watergirl' Sarah Campus who
will put her all into a game and has
been relentless with her
determination. Lastly, the most recent
addition to the team, Lizzie Szanto,
who proved to be a very useful player,
has bought extra bounce and speed
to the team. Although each player
had individual success’s, in many
ways it is difficult to single out any
one, as the girls played as a true
adherent force. Well done to all of
them for an excellent season.
3RD Team
P7
W3
L3
D1
The 3rd team have had a successful
season with their Captain Katie
Moore (Cr). Pleasing wins were
against King’s Canterbury and
Eastbourne.
XXX Caps Awarded to:
Danzy Brunton (Cr)
Sophie Billings (W)
Rachel Clayton (Cr)
Katie Moore
(Cr)
Sam Muktar
(Cr)
Lizzie Szanto (Cr)
Half Colours
Jenny Wong
(Wh)
Full Colours
Michelle Watkin
Beth Gale
Madeleine Mortimer
Natasha Wood
Carly Duffen
Ami Hodges
Charlotte Johnston
Ellie Fisher
Lucy Billings
(W)
(Cr)
(W)
(W)
(Wh)
(W)
(Rv)
(Cr)
(W)
Major Colours
Eboni Beckford-Chambers
Arnolda Shiundu
(Wh)
(Wh)
Most Improved Player
Beth Gale
(Cr)
Senior Cup
(Wh)
Eboni Beckford-Chambers
for her excellent role as Captain
Inter-house Winners
Wilson
U16 Netball
First of all, I would like to thank Mrs
Robertson, despite illness, and Mrs
Keevil, and of course Becks, for all
their help and brilliant coaching
throughout the season. It has been a
busy term but due to the success of
all the teams and excellent
teamwork, it has been a highly
enjoyable season for us all! The As
were already storming ahead before
the season had begun due to their
success at the preliminary round of
the Surrey Tournament. This
reputation of success remained
untainted as the girls achieved a
memorable unbeaten record!
Congratulations! The defence
remained strong (tripod) as ever,
which was beautifully followed
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through by our quick centres and
accurate shooters.
Despite a series of losses for the U16
B’s led by Hannah Patel, they
managed to pull through one welldeserved victory against Sevenoaks.
Who will ever forget the snowy
showers and Astroturf!
The U16 Cs, although only playing
one match, just lost out on winning.
It was a very close match.
All of the girls played with spirit and
vigour throughout the season and it
is a shame to see it come to an end.
Thank you again to our coaches as
we wait eagerly for the next season
to arrive!
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U15 Netball
It has been an excellent season for
this enthusiastic year group.
The A Team have won every event
this term – they are the current
District and County Champions – an
outstanding team performance from
Helena Mortimer (captain), Samantha
Burke, Laura Butcher, Anna Dick,
Georgina Morley, Ashley Crane and
Lucy Phillips.
The B Team have also done very well,
winning four, and narrowly losing
four matches.
The C Team, have played fewer
games, but also done well to win
three, draw one and lose one.
The D Team has improved as the term
has progressed. A first match defeat by
Cranleigh, 5 goals to 22, was, in a rematch after half-term, conceded by 18
goals to 23. In their final match
against Eastbourne, away, the girls
excelled, winning 22 goals to 18.
The four team Captains, Helena
Mortimer, Carina Lindberg, Susie
Blunt and Harriet Askew have been
reliable, well organised and
enthusiastic throughout the term.
Well done to them.
The results of the Inter House
competition were:
1st
2nd
3rd
Raven
Wilson
Crawfurd
U14A Netball
P8
W6
D1
L1
A very pleasing and promising
season for this year group. The A
team were at times outstanding with
a string of impressive victories over
almost all the schools on our circuit,
from Kings Canterbury and
Eastbourne to St Georges’.
It is difficult to single players out as
all made such a massive contribution
but special mentions should go to
Stephanie Crouch(W) in defence,
Joanna Boddy(Cr) in attack and to
Lottie Mungavin(W) as a superb utility
player. All augers well for the future,
if the squad are willing to listen to
advice and train as hard as they have
done this season. Despite the squad
being badly hit by illness mid term,
our statistics read well and the whole
squad should be congratulated on a
job well done.
Most Improved Players
Lenney
Philippa Smith, Rachael
Most Versatile Player
Lottie Mungavin
House U14 Trophy
Crawfurd
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U14B Netball
P8
W4
L4
The U14B team have worked
incredibly hard this season and have
made huge progress because of this.
They were finding their feet when
they lost their first two fixtures to
Cranleigh (L5-30) and Kings’
Canterbury (L4-30) and getting used
to playing as a team. In their third
fixture they played a very close
match with Lancing (L9-15) and
despite losing, their confidence was
boosted. They had their first win
against Christ's Hospital (W12-3) and
although on the same day they lost
to Ardingly (L7-10),
every match since has been a win an incredibly close 20 goals to 19
against Caterham, 23 goals to 16
against St. George’s and finally 18
goals to 11 against Eastbourne. The
team have been very versatile indeed
and have played all over the court.
Special mention though must go to
Rachel Lenney who has been a
superb player in both defence and
attack, and Philippa Smith who has
shown the same kind of versatility.
They finished off the season in style
this week winning the U14B County
Tournament. Well done!
Miss J.N.Hall
“The U14B team
have worked
incredibly hard
this season and
have made huge
progress because
of this. ”
Netball ‘06
Senior and U16 netball teams have
successfully qualified for the County
Finals, which will be held next term.
The U15 and U14 first round
competition was cancelled due to poor
weather and will be held next term.
Congratulations to Lottie Mungavin
(W), Rebecca Kjaedegaard (Cr) and
Stephanie Crouch (Rv) who have been
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selected by Surrey County Netball to
attend the England Netball Satellite
Academies. This is a great
achievement as they were selected
from a huge field.
Congratulations also to Eboni
Beckford-Chambers for once again
being selected for the England
Netball Talent Programme.
Well done to the 1st and 2nd teams
who played against Westminster
School, Adelaide. Although we were
beaten in both matches the scores
were incredibly close and both teams
are now ready to begin our netball
season next term.
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Football
An opening day victory for Epsom,
Ratnage opening the scoring in the
first half and Yang doubling the lead
in the second half. Epsom largely
dominated the match but a Peddie
own goal gave Eastbourne a lifeline
and we looked like we were happy to
go home with a 2-1 win that probably
should have been more decisive.
The 2nds made it two wins from two
games with a hard fought 1-0 victory
over a combative St Paul's side. A
well worked move from Epsom
resulted in a smart finish from
Ratnage, scoring in consecutive
games, which provided a lead for
the home team. Despite St Paul’
hitting the woodwork from range on
two occasions, Epsom could
justifiably claim to be on top.
The second half became a real
battle, with both teams unwilling to
concede anything and some strong
tackling all over the pitch from both
teams was evident. A man-of-thematch performance at the back from
David Cook ensured that no St Paul’
strikes would breach the defence
and a good result was achieved.
The first defeat of the season was
against Kings Canterbury, where we
lost 4-2 at home. After withstanding
a barrage from the opposition in the
opening ten minutes, a breakaway
goal superbly taken by Ratnage put
Epsom ahead and gave them the
confidence to compete.
Eastbourne scrambled an ugly
equaliser two minutes into the
second half but Theo Taylor restored
the lead and we missed a good
chance to seal the game and make it
3-1. Still looking good halfway
through the second half, but two
goals in 30 seconds led to some
dropped heads and Kings piled on
the misery to extend their lead in
the closing minutes. A good 50
minutes work from Epsom, but
unfortunately the game was 70
minutes long!
The 2nds succumbed to a second
consecutive defeat, going down 2-1
to Sevenoaks. Once again, Epsom
managed to take the lead, Ratnage
opening the scoring within 40
seconds, he has now scored in each
of our opening four games.
Unfortunately this seemed to lead us
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to play with a very relaxed manner
as if the game was already won, and
a very poor first half performance
followed. It was a surprise to all to
see Epsom come off at half time
with the lead still at 1-0.
The team battled much better in the
second half, but unfortunately a
Peddie own goal 40 seconds into the
second half gave Sevenoaks a lift
and a well worked goal shortly after
put us behind. A good effort
followed by the Epsom lads in trying
to pull it back but back to the
training ground for now!!!
Unfortunately, we had a 5-0 defeat to
report for the 2nd XI v Cranleigh.
Despite dominating the first half, a
defensive error cost us a goal and
Epsom were unable to capitalise on
their dominance. The wind was a
major factor and Cranleigh
dominated proceedings in the second
half. Epsom were in the game until
the second goal halfway through the
second half. Thereafter followed a
lack of confidence and more goals
followed for Cranleigh resulting in a
rather emphatic scoreline.
Against Ewell Castle we had a 1-1
draw. A war of attrition in the first
half saw the sides come in at 0-0
without a shot on target from either
team. Epsom went for the win in the
second half and camped themselves
inside the Ewell Castle half and
totally dominated the second half.
Numerous chances went begging
before a speculative effort from Alex
Gimblett gave Epsom a deserved
lead. They continued to press until
a breakaway in the last minute gave
Castle an equalizer with 30 seconds
left and their only shot on target of
the match, a victory snatched from
our grasp!
We suffered a 1-0 defeat to the
hands of RGS in a very even and well
fought match. Epsom had the better
of the first half and probably put in
their best performance of the season
but once again suffered from an
inability to convert chances; Yang
and Chapman both going very close.
In the second half, the slope proved
advantageous to RGS and they
managed to take one of the chances
they ground out. The Epsom boys
refused to lie down and worked
really hard as a team, but never
really carved out a clear opportunity
during the second half.
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We has one more fixture to get a
much needed win. Unfortunately the
Epsom lads only turned up in the
second half. A first half mauling put
Epsom 3-0 down and the season
seemed to be finishing on a weak
note. However, determined not to
end on a downer, the lads really
upped the effort levels and pulled
the score back to 3-2. The
Wellington team were in disarray
and if the game had lasted another
ten minutes, the scoreline could have
been very different. If there had
been more performances like this
second half then the results could
have painted a different picture.
Overall this was a disappointing set
of results but against some strong
teams, with great final football
seasons for Marco Yang, Ali Dewar
and Justin Taylor. Theo Taylor and
Adam Terelak have enjoyed two
seasons in the seconds. There is
some promise for the firsts next year
in the prolific Sam Ratnage and a
possible centre back flourishing in
Chris Hill.
Mr P. Gillespie
Golf
The season began with a close win
over Sevenoaks School at the
Wildernesse Club. This was the semifinal of the HMC schools competition,
and with the scores tied overall, Ollie
and Gareth managed to come from
behind to win the rubber on the first
extra hole. Ollie’s mum had made this
result possible, having spent the
weekend icing Ollie’s sprained ankle.
Lauren Blease then won the County
Handicap at Chipstead in the first
week of the holiday. A party of twelve
then went on a golf tour of Devon
(see tour account).
During the term, the boys recorded
wins at Walton Heath over Brighton,
Reigate, and Eastbourne, and they
drew against Cranleigh. A team of
boys and girls beat a strong Old
Epsomian side in a 14 aside match at
Walton Heath.
The boys then narrowly lost the
Regional Final of the HMC Foursomes
to a very strong team from St George’s
Weybridge at the first extra hole at
Tyrrell’s Wood Club. We’ll be back for
another go next year, when we should
be even stronger. My thanks to
Madeleine and Matt for their help
and expertise.
Full colours:
Matthew Davis, Madeleine Mortimer
Half Colours:
James Taylorson, Matthew Peto,
Matthew Sutherland, Madeleine
Mortimer, Lauren Blease, Alice Tyman.
Colts Colours:
Ollie Lloyd, Matthew Chasey
Squash
The Michaelmas and Lent Terms
witnessed some outstanding boys’
squash, with U19 and U15
participation in the National Schools
Championship featuring prominently.
The 1st V, captained by James Bryant,
enjoyed a superb season, retaining
the Surrey Cup and reaching the latter
stages of the National Competition. In
the Nationals, despite defeat to an
excellent Heathside (1-4), victories
over Charterhouse (4-1) and Oratory
Reading (5-0) set up a fantastic last 32
encounter against Exeter College.
Although they lost to an in-form
Exeter, who eventually finished third
overall in the competition, the 1st V
squad deserve great credit for their
efforts at the National level this year
and, indeed, praise for their ability to
wear eye-catching skin-tight tops at
the most inappropriate moments!
Moreover, the 1st V’s retention of the
Surrey Cup for the fifth year in
succession is an excellent
achievement, accomplished through
victories over KCS Wimbledon (3-2),
Trinity (4-1), Reeds (4-1), Reigate (5-0),
Whitgift (5-0) and St Pauls (4-1). The
1st V also managed to squeeze in
traditional fixtures against Harrow
and Eton, losing the former (1-4) and
drawing the latter (2-2), and
participation in the annual RAC match
(won 3-2) and the Roehampton
Tournament in March, playing
Winchester, Eton and Marlborough
before finishing a very creditable
fourth overall. In addition, this season
saw the inauguration of a new
Michaelmas tournament, the Lexus
Cup, organised by the Scottish
professional, and our coach, Neil
Frankland and held at the College in
December. We entered two squads
and our top team on the day (James
Bryant, Matthew Costain and Joseph
Li) finished second overall, beating
Cranleigh, Gordons and Charterhouse,
before succumbing to an
exceptionally strong outfit from
Tiffins. Well done to all involved in
the 1st V squad and, in particular, to
James Bryant, Matthew Costain,
Fergus Flanagan, Joseph Li, Matthew
Peto, Josh Li and Jenny Bryant.
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Similarly, the U15 boys produced
first-rate squash in both the
Michaelmas and Lent Terms, scoring
victories over Harrow (3-1), Reeds (40) and Eton (2-1). Indeed, the result
against Harrow epitomised the
nature of the team, encompassing a
classy performance by Matt, a
powerful display by Josh, an
enthralling encounter involving Rishi
(who won despite being 0-5 down in
the final game) and a really gutsy
effort by the illness-affected Charlie.
Nevertheless, it was in the Nationals
that the U15 V really displayed their
skill, defeating Kings Canterbury (5-0)
and Merchant Taylors’ (5-0) to reach,
with a walkover against Dulwich and
a subsequent bye, the second round
proper of the competition. A
magnificent win over RGS High
Wycombe in February (4-1) resulted
in a quarter-final match against
Bishop’s Luffa in which, regardless of
the 1-4 defeat, the whole team
performed admirably. In fact, with
Matt winning 3-0, Josh narrowly
losing 2-3 and all the other matches
being finely balanced affairs, it could
so easily have been a different
outcome. However, with Bishop’s
Luffa finishing third in England
overall, the U15 squad clearly have
great potential to develop and
challenge in the future.
Congratulations to all those who
played for the U15 team throughout
the year, especially Matthew Costain,
Josh Li, Rishi Naik, Tim Faccini,
Charlie Mortimer, Pete Matthews,
William Harrop and Jared Pitout.
Teams
[In All Competitions]
1st V
U15 V
2nd V
Surrey Cup
2005/6
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Lastly, although the season was
dominated by our participation in
two National competitions (with some
gruelling journeys to places like
Canterbury and Reading!), other
players gained some experience in
2nd V matches against Sevenoaks,
Cranleigh and KCS Wimbledon. Well
done to Mark Abbosh, Richard
Beinart, Akshay Dujadwala and David
Blackburn – hopefully Richard, ‘Ash’
and David will have a more significant
role to play next year.
administration, to Phil for
transporting the teams by minibus
(and putting up with well-intentioned
team banter) and to our coaches
(Neil, Mike and Jesse) for their
invaluable guidance.
Thanks, as always, to CLC and PST for
their help in organisation and
Full Colours
Fergus Flanagan (Fa)
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
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Mr M.A.L.Tod
Colours were awarded to the following:
Major Colours
James Bryant (Fa)
Half-Colours
Joseph Li (Fa)
Matthew Peto (G)
Colts Colours
Matthew Costain (Fa)
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KCS
Reeds
Reigate
St
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Trinity
Whitgift
Won
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Pts
Position
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Fencing
and Intermediate Foil and Epee
competitions, hosted at Epsom
College. Most of the players made it
through to the top 16 and a few went
on even further. Gaurav Gupta (U4)
won both the Novice and
Intermediate Foil categories; Jennifer
Wong (U6) and Terrence Tai (5)
achieved 5th place in the ladies’ and
men’s’ Novice Foil, only just losing
against the finalists; Myung Kuk Kang
(U6) reached the final eight in the
Intermediate Epee category; and
Beveley Lee got 8th place in the lady’s
Novice Foil competition.
Epsom’s relatively young team, in
terms of experience, have performed
very well and have made this year
more successful than previous years.
Fencing matches were played almost
every Saturday and we had some
notable victories in all three weapons
(foil, epee and sabre), some draws and
few defeats. This is highly
commendable given the fact that most
of the team were fencing opponents
with much more experience.
The team achieved clear victories over
Charterhouse, both home and away,
and won categorical matches against
Tonbridge, Worth and St Paul’s who
were a new opponent this year.
Several matches had absolutely nail
biting finishes, down to the last point
and last second.
We were invited to take part in a
competition between four
independent schools and, as
newcomers, put up a determined
battle to secure second place,
narrowly beaten by KCS Wimbledon.
Team members also took part in the
Surrey County Fencing Union Novice
This was all possible due to the
invaluable support and help of Dr.
Hughes. Thanks must also go to the
team captains, Anthony Lim and
Jennifer Wong, for leading and
motivating the team, and for the
interesting warm-up exercises, and to
Joe Shackell and Ian Keeble for
coaching us. It is sad that several team
members are leaving this year.
However, the remaining team show
great potential and skill, and with time
will turn out to be a very strong side.
By Alankar Lodha, Jennifer Wong.
Table Tennis
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Inter House Pancake Race
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Photo Album
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Summer Term
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Drama
The Junior Play
The Wyrd Sisters
Rosemary’s Baby meets Carry On …
via Eastenders, Macbeth, King Lear,
Hamlet and The Tempest, with
thanks to Pirandello’s Six Characters
In Search Of an Author. In fact, the
interstices of The Wyrd Sisters are
myriad - for which much thanks, say
I, because I am allergic to Terry
Pratchett; he brings me out in a rash;
my very few attempts to read him
have ended in bibliocide!
Despite the programme note about
Discworld - a note that made no
more sense to me than the two
paragraphs of this cult author that I
have been able to stomach before
violence has beset me - it was
possible to remain blissfully ignorant
of elephants and turtles and still enjoy
the Junior Play enormously.
But let’s get particular. Firstly, the
casting was superb; all were absolutely
comfortable and competent in their
roles. I do not mean that they were
“type-cast”; quite the reverse! Carina
Lindberg, Meghann Murdoch and
Olivia Moore, in real life, are as
demure a trio of R.P.-speaking
sophisticates as you could imagine.
Thus, their impression of raw-vowelled
harridans from the Peggy Mitchell
school of femininity was a genuine
accomplishment. William Harrop’s
husky voice was absolutely right for the
ghost of a once sadistic and lubricious
ruler, as were the timbres of James
Barnes’ Romantic Fool, Ben Scarles’
lemon-juice-gargling actor, and
Richard Trepant’s manic “luvvy”
director. These are genuinely
interesting voices, which are a delight
to listen to. The pairing of William
Beadle’s diminutive stature with Leah
Chowdray’s lissom willowiness created
instant comic impact; comic impact
that was then enhanced by the
contrast between Will’s unhinged
feyness and Leah’s terrifying
absolutism. And then there was the
innocent clarity of Tom Burgess’
What is the function of this annual
event? To give young people a thrilling
and enriching experience, whether
they be on stage, behind the scenes, or
in the audience. This production hit
the treble! Such was its fluency, the
warmth of its reception, and its
inventiveness that no participant
would have said, “Never again!” and
there would have been many nonparticipants who would have been left
thinking, “I wish …” Thus, “Dahlings,
you were marvellous!” is, on this
occasion, a wholly justified, accurate
and honest general response.
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controlled treble in the role of the
ingenue, Tomjon. All slicked-down
centre-parting and cherub cheeks, he
will have melted every mother’s heart!
No play can succeed on the
performances of the major characters,
alone. This play has thirteen minor
characters - just slightly more than its
ten principals - and they all
contributed to the evening’s success.
From within their ranks, I can see a
number of potential bigger-part
players: Anna Hurley’s voice and
enunciation is as sharply defined as an
icicle; Rebecca Kjaedegaard could
quite easily play the part of Elizabeth
1st, addressing her troops at Tilbury
before they set sail to
defeat the Armada; and
it would be wrong to
ignore others who could
clearly hold their own in
bigger parts in the
future: Becky Pearson,
Emily Hast, Jo Boddy,
Laura McLean and
Rachel Lenney on the
distaff side; Michael
Nottman-Watt, Jimmy
Brooks, Mark Tampin,
Ali Al-Fekaiki, Jack Ball,
Oliver Borch and
Enghow Teo in the
blokes’ division.
Dramatic productions,
however, are not just
about those who “strut
and fret their hour
upon the stage”; they
are about sets and
lights and special
effects and costumes
and organisational
choreography. In this respect, I would
again congratulate this ensemble
production. Mike Read’s simple
curtain set was a triumph; the lighting
and sound did exactly what lighting
and sound does best: it played a
quintessential part without detracting
from the actors and actresses. How
good to see a Lower Sixth Form Stage
Manager (Zoë Dudgeon) on the
programme - and to see her aided by
one U4 and three M4 assistants. This
makes for a genuine pupil production.
Well, up to a point! As we are all
aware, nothing of this sort could get
off the ground without staff in-put and
my six contributing colleagues are to
be congratulated upon enabling these
youngsters to achieve their huge
success. None less so than Gabbie
Jerrit (Producer) and Tobias Cooper
(Director).
My thanks to you all for a magical
evening.
Mr R.Worrall
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Tall Ships
On Monday 31st of August 2006 my
“Tall Ships Adventure” began. I woke
up at 4:30a.m. and drove to
Portsmouth harbour to take the ferry
to Cherbourg, where I was greeted by
my fellow crew members. There was a
buzz of excitement and anticipation as
we keenly discussed what we were
expecting the voyage to be like. As the
ferry drew into Cherbourg harbour we
got our first glimpse of the ship we
were to spend the next 8 days on.
Our ship was the Prince William, a
replica of a 19th century training
vessel, 60 meters long with two, 45
metre masts. As soon as we arrived we
were put into our “watches” (groups)
and then our training program began.
It was a long afternoon learning all of
the different jobs that we would need
to do: Climbing the rigging, setting
and stowing sails, manning the yards,
bracing and many more. We were
issued with various extra bits of kit,
including oilskins, harnesses and crew
shirts. Nobody had eaten since
breakfast on the ferry so when dinner
was called (steak and chips) there was
much relief. That evening we were
given a shore leave to go and explore
the town; this gave us a great
opportunity to get to know the rest of
the crew.
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fo’c’sle so, by the time I came out on
deck, it was a shock to see that we
were already out at sea! As we headed
out into the English Channel the sea
became rougher and rougher and with
no sails set, the ship’s motion was
quite sickening. By the evening the
leeward side of the ship was lined with
very green looking crewmembers,
including myself! At midnight my
watch was on duty again. We heaved
ourselves out of our “cots” and made
our way to the open bridge. By the
time our watch had started our
numbers had dwindled to only 5 out
of 11 on the bridge, with the rest
either ill in bed or ill over the side.
When morning came most people had
developed their sea legs, we had
rounded Ushant and it was time to set
sail. I was lucky to be picked from the
volunteers who all wanted to go aloft
to set the sails. When 30 meters up in
the air, it is quite a challenge just not
to fall off, let alone working to set the
sails! Once we were under sail we had
a chance to relax and to prepare for
our first inter watch competition: The
Boat Race. We also got our first
glimpse of marine life as two basking
sharks swam alongside the ship.
The next day it was my turn to be the
“day worker” this involves helping the
deck hands with the maintenance of
the ship. After “Happy Hour” (ship
cleaning!) I was sent to the bow sprit to
paint the standing rigging. While I was
there, a school of dolphins started
playing at the bow and a small group
of the voyage crew gathered to take
pictures. This was a good day for
wildlife as soon after, the captain
announced on the PA system that
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there was a whale just to starboard of
us. The days went quickly as we settled
into our ship’s routine and it felt like
we had known the other members of
our watch for years. The inter watch
competitions were fiercely fought for
and as we approached La Coruna “blue
watch” was just in the lead.
We sailed into a sandy bay just outside
La Coruna on Saturday morning and
once the ship had dropped the anchor
we were able to jump off the side and
swim in Spain’s warm waters. We spent
Sunday morning preparing the ship to
go into port. All of the coils of rope
needed to be coiled to the botswain’s
satisfaction and the sails needed to be
stowed neatly. The crew then “manned
the yards” (stood on the rigging for
show) and sang as the ship motored
into the port with many other tall
ships. It was good to put our feet back
on dry land again and the crew were
given shore leave all afternoon and
evening. On Monday morning there
were many sad faces as we realised
that we had to leave our new home
and our new friends.
I would like to thank the Tall Ships
Youth trust, Mr Higgs for organising my
trip and, of course, Mr Pickett for
giving me this great opportunity.
Tom Wharram
Blue watch was on “harbour watch” on
Saturday morning so I had to wake up
at four o’clock! After breakfast we
practiced bracing the yards and then
began the task of preparing the ship to
be put to sea. Lots of jobs needed
doing and a small crowd had gathered
on the side of the jetty. The pilot came
on board and we were ready to leave
the dock. My job for this manoeuvre
was stowing away mooring lines in the
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Chapel Report
During the year we also remembered
Maxwell Phair in a service of
thanksgiving for his life. A former
Master and Housemaster here, many
at the Service witnessed to a man
much loved and respected who had
recently died.
by friends and family alike) he went
to the altar for the first time in order
to preside at the Eucharist. Both
services were inspirational to all who
attended them, and I know that Fr
Clive felt wholly supported by all of
the College community.
There is so much that goes on behind
the scenes in the School Chapel in
order to make all that happens run so
smoothly. This is due in no small
part to Kay our Chapel “plant
manager”, who keeps her sharpened
eyes on broken light bulbs, topping
up of candle oils, changing altar
hangings to their seasonal colours,
hoovering, ironing, laundering and so
much more besides.
The Chapel Sacristans complement
this good work also. I would wish to
take this opportunity to thank those
who have served their time so
faithfully and now head off to
pastures new; especially, Kuzi
Charamba (F), Matthew Sutherland
(Fa), Clare Briscoe (Rv) and Olalulwa
Akingbade (F), the last two having led
the team as Head Sacristans during
the academic year. Welcome to
Philippa Smith (W) and Rustam
Karanja (F) who join as M4 Sacristans,
we wish them well in their service.
As a Sunday worshipping community
we furthered our links with St
Martin’s Parish, and as well as our
spending one Sunday in the month
with them, ‘they’, for the first time
ever, brought their Parish community
to the Chapel on a marvellous
Sunday morning in February.
In School, we often talk of the Chapel
being at the very centre of our lives
in all that we do. Following the tragic
death of our colleague Neil Laing
(may he rest in peace), many sought
spiritual ‘refuge’ in the Chapel. A
time to reflect, pray and light candles
for all who needed it. An indication
of love and respect for Neil by many
within and without our community.
Further to this the Chapel hosted a
wonderful Memorial Service and
celebration of his life and times.
Other key services that stand out are
as follows: The ‘Toy Service’ in
December, when the pupils brought
toys in every shape, size and colour,
for a children’s charity in Kingston
known as ‘Growbaby’. Who can
forget the most moving sermon from
Mr Rudi Oppenheimer one of the few
Holocaust survivors who spoke at our
annual recollection of the Holocaust
and the follow up after two of the
pupils had returned from a visit to
Auschwitz also.
The annual round of Confirmations
took place with the Bishop of Dorking
confirming twelve of our number,
including the Head of English,
Amanda Brookfield. A memorable
and moving occasion.
The Dean of Guildford fresh from
having welcomed our College Patron
HM the Queen, to the Cathedral
Church of the Holy Spirit on Maundy
Thursday, was our guest preacher at
this year’s Founder’s Day Service. He
encouraged all of us to listen and
learn from one another!!!
On that salutary note I will end this
year’s report, and will take this
opportunity to thank all those
involved with the School Chaplaincy
for some excellent work. To others
who support us in their prayers our
thanks are also due.
Fr Paul Thompson
October 2006
Fr Clive, also served out his year as a
deacon and was duly ordained to the
Priesthood on Saturday 1 July in
Guildford Cathedral. On the Sunday
evening following (and surrounded
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Sport
Girls’ Athletics
There were some great performances
this term.
In the District Athletics Personal best
performances from:
Against Christ’s Hospital and CLFS the
U16s came 1st with 99 points, with
CLFS on 60 points in 2nd place.
Ashley Crane (Rv) in the Triple Jump,
Laura Butcher (Rv) in the Long Jump.
Helena Mortimer (W) in the 80m
hurdles, Rebecca Kjaedgaard (Cr) in the
javelin, Meghann Murdock (W) in the
1500m and Holly Brook (W) in High
jump resulting in the team winning
the U17 section for the first time ever,
when they were a year young.
The U15s only lost by a margin
resulting in both teams winning
overall with 160 points compared to
Christ’s Hospital 2nd place with 139.
The U15s also had some pleasing
personal performances in the District
Athletics. Steph Crouch’s (Rv) effort in
the Long Jump, resulted in a selection
for Central Surrey. Jo Boddy (Cr) gave a
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a gutsy performance in the 800m.
Overall the team suffered illness but
they still managed to produce a team
due to willing and enthusiastic
athletes Sophie Sachak (W) and
Philippa Smith (W)
Nearly all the athletes produced
personal bests in their performances at
the Surrey Schools Championships.
Ashley Crane (Rv) jumped 10m93cm in
Triple Jump, which result in a National
Qualifying jump and now she is the
17th best triple jumper in the country
for the U17 age group. Laura Butcher
(Rv) jumped well over her personal
best in the long jump to jump
4m93cm and Meghann Murdock (W)
smashed her best time in the 1500m.
A big thank you to the staff for all they
have done this term with Girls’ Athletics.
Inter-House Athletics Results:
This year the inter-house fixture saw
lots of records being broken.
Trophies Awarded:
Crawfurd
Relay Cup
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Step
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U15 Victrix Lud
Butcher
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U16 Victrix Ludoru
Sachak
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Commitment Salver
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Wils
U16 House Cup
Crawfurd
Cup
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New Records:
U16
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C. Johnston 30 New Laura Butcher 29.9secs
400m
H. Skousbo 74 New Danni Rice 68.8
Long Jump
N. NOrmatova 4.45m New Joint Record 4.64 Butcher,
Morley Discus C. Lamey 20.28 A. Crane 28.05
U15
75m Hurdles
Ami Hodges 12.5 Steph Crouch 12.1
400m
K Lammiman New Jo Boddy 70.5seconds
Long Jump
L. Butcher 4.55m Steph Crouch 4.56m
Javelin
K. Amos 24.75m R. Kjaedegaard 24.98m
House Athletics
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Cricket
1ST XI
P14 W6 D0 L5
Abandoned – 3
The 2006 season was primarily a rebuilding phase for the College XI.
However, the results produced
exceeded all expectations. With no
fewer than eleven out of a squad of
fifteen returning next season, things
certainly look bright for the future.
Batting was the teams stronger suit
and with a line-up that boasted
accomplished batsmen all the way
down the order we were able to post
competitive scores batting first and
apply pressure from the outset. This
proved most successful as schoolboys
are far more susceptible to pressure
in limited overs matches when
chasing a total (the victory over
Brighton College being a case in
point). This tactic would not have
been as successful if it hadn’t been
for the prolific form of the captain
Alex Jones. Quite frankly he was
awesome and his aggregate of 520
runs at an average of 52(including
two centuries) has definitely been the
best in my tenure. His unique ability
to decimate opposition attacks eased
the pressure substantially on his less
experienced partners and enabled
them to play themselves in. Janil
Ramesh was outstanding in this role
and was a perfect foil for Jones as
his average of 40 indicates. Almost
all the other members chipped in
with scores of 35+ which is
indicative of the strength in depth.
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In recognition of his proficiency,
Jones was awarded the Batting salver
and Eric Radcliffe award.
Bowling-wise again the XI was spoilt
for choice. With the opening pair
comprising U4s Jamie Billings and
Jarred Pitout, and first change 5th
former Ramesh, the long term
forecast is indeed encouraging.
Billings was a revelation. His pace
and aggression epitomises quick
bowling and his return of 10 wickets
at 6,5 (best of 6 for 6 vs Lancing)
before injury struck was
outstanding. Ramesh was the
leading wicket taker (12 at 19). What
he lacked in penetration, he more
than made up for with his accuracy.
The more experienced Hast and
Lavender did most of the ‘donkey
work’ and although their efforts
went mostly un-rewarded, their
stabilising effect was commendable
and they always found the ball in
their hands in a crisis situation,
responding with aplomb.
One area where Epsom have always
flourished is in the field and it was
no different this season. The hard
work put in by the team has
definitely paid dividends. Matches
can be won by a brilliant catch or
run-out and every run saved makes
the overall task of winning that
much easier. The standard this
season was mostly outstanding and
was commented upon by numerous
opposition coaches. One of the
greatest attributes of the team was
their enviable ability to maintain
their collective focus and intensity,
especially when the odds were
stacked against them. It was
incredibly difficult to choose the
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best fielder. However, with his
superb athleticism, safe hands and
‘bullet’ arm, Jamie Billings was
outstanding.
It leaves me to thank my squad for
all their hard work both pre- and
during the season. As always it has
been a privilege.
Awards
Jones (G)
Eric Radcliff Award – Alex
(G)
es
Jon
Alex
–
er
Salv
Batting
esh (F)
Bowling Award – Janil Ram
ings (Fa)
Bill
ie
Jam
–
rd
Awa
g
din
Fiel
(G)
MAJOR COLOURS – A.Jones
),
FULL COLOURS – J.Hast (Rn
(F),
sh
me
J.Ra
),
(Rn
der
E.Laven
S.Billings (W)- Scorer
(Fa),
HALF COLOURS – J.Pitout
, S.Ratnage
J.Billings (Fa), O.Lloyd (Fa)
(G),
(Fa), C.Woodall (G), M.Page
einart (P).
J.Lenney (F), J.Faal (P), R.B
Team – A.Jones ©, R. Beinart,
M.Page, S.Ratnage, J.Ramesh,
J.Pitout, O.Lloyd, J.Hast, J.Billings,
E.Lavender, C.Woodall, J.Faal,
C.Mortimer, N.Satguru, D.Marsh,
S.Billings (Scorer).
Cricket at the College would not be
possible were it not for the incredible
amount of work that goes on behind
the scenes to make every match day
a success. So my thanks to all the
coaches, to Bev Spencer and her
catering staff who do such a superb
job of making the lunches and the
teas, and to Andy Lewis and the
grounds staff who are responsible for
the grounds looking as good as they
are. Lastly, thank you to the parents
for all the support.
Mr D.J.R Campbell
2nd XI
Although the results this year were not
outstanding, two games (Cranleigh and
St John’s) went down to the last over
and both were lost, so overall it was a
most enjoyable and reasonably
successful season.
The team worked hard all term and
tried to play attractive and positive
cricket. Our bowling certainly did not
lack fire-power, and in the shape of
Avais Malik, Joel Fredman, Jamie
Lenney, David Marsh and Max Polkey
we had five quality fast bowlers. When
“raw” pace was not required, the
“deadly” skills of Nilesh Satguru and
Simon Owen could be relied upon.
When matters were getting dull, on the
odd occasion the crowd were
entertained by the bowling “prowess”
of Eric Lindberg and David Furze. So
the issue was not bowling the
opposition out. The problem was
making the runs.
At times the batting was a little brittle
when put under pressure and certainly
on more than one occasion we were
unable to bat out the 30 overs – a
veritable crime at this level. Thank
goodness for David Marsh who, every
time he came to the crease, managed
to make 50 or more. His quality of
strike was awesome and scared most
opposition umpires and a lot
of bowlers. The problem in
the batting department
throughout the term was
that the team never quite
managed to get any
meaningful partnerships.
The quality was there for all
to see - Eric Lindberg, Nilesh
Satguru, Max Polkey and
Charles Richardson – so the
lack of runs in the big
games did let us down.
The captain to start with
was Charles Richardson but
sadly his form with the bat
dropped and he did the
honourable thing by
resigning his captaincy. He
remained behind the
stumps and his constant
“barracking” was a joy to
hear. The fielding was
good and at times
breathtaking - a lot of that was due to
Charles’ encouragement.
So the “attack at all cost” cricket that
Charles was famous for had to be
curtailed, and Simon Owen was
promoted. Both were excellent
leaders and I thoroughly appreciated
their efforts.
A phrase to sum up the season:
“Don’t cry because you
lost, smile because you
came so close.”
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Junior Colts A
P7
W4
L2
D1
The season started with a
comprehensive victory down at
Lancing. Accurate bowling from
Mortimer reduced them to 34-3 in
the first ten overs. Twyman went on
to take 3-29 and cramp slowed
down the middle order with 3-22.
Lancing managed 139 for 8. Faccini
(61) and Cramp (32) made batting
look easy, putting on 97 in 16 overs.
Matthews finished proceedings in
the 23rd over with a six.
Cranleigh were bowled out for 104
with Barrass taking 3-12 in six overs.
Faccini (41) and this time Cole (30*)
set up an easy win with a
partnership of 74 for the first
wicket, two quite easy victories on
the back of accurate bowling and
sensible batting. The fielding was
looking good as well with most
catches being taken and a fair
degree of commitment to chasing
down and saving runs. The keeping
of Malcolm was excellent.
Dulwich proved to be a different
kettle of fish. Batting first on a lively
track, technique was all important
and survival became the
watchword. 16-0 after ten overs was
converted to 76-2 in the 20th over
before rain finally ended the day.
Faccini (35) and Cole survived the
initial onslaught before
Mortimer(17*) and Lothian (21*)
started a timely acceleration. Then
came Brighton. We bowled badly,
Mortimer the only bright spark with
2-27 off seven overs. Cramp 3-46 off
7 overs and the other bowlers failed
to contain their batsmen in any way.
252 was always going to be a hard
chase especially with Faccini and
Lothian out very early. However the
middle order batted well. Bush (42),
Matthews (33) and Mortimer (28)
pushed us on but someone needed
to stay there. 207 in 35 overs would
win most games but Brighton were
very strong. Eastbourne suffered the
backlash in 30 overs. 142-9 looked a
little light. Lothian (30) and Cramp
(38) did most of the damage.
Mortimer then screamed in, taking
4-18, only to be outdone by Norman
on debut taking 5-12, four of them
bowled. Eastbourne mustered 56
runs. On to St. John's feeling pretty
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confident. Too confident, they
managed 175-6 in 30 with Mortimer
the pick, taking 3 for 17 off five, a
difficult but gettable target. At 942 in the 20th over acceleration was
needed, but wickets in hand meant
it was a slight advantage to Epsom.
Wickets fell at important times and
despite Lothian (31) and Faccini
(39), Epsom fell 16 runs short. The
last game proved an easy victory
with Cramp (52) and Mortimer (50*)
setting up a score of 195. Twyman
(3-22) and Norman (3-8) made sure
of victory in the last game.
MDH
Averages
Batting
Faccini
Cramp
Lothian
Mortimer
innings
7
6
6
6
not out
0
0
2
3
runs
209
160
124
126
Average
29.9
26.7
31.0
41.0
Overs
31
30.2
12
18
Maidens
3
4
0
0
Runs
106
140
47
97
Wickets
11
9
8
6
Bowling
Mortimer
Twyman
Norman
Cramp
Average
9.6
15.4
7.9
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Junior Colts B
Despite a decent team spirit in
practices and on match days, a
season of no victories is a
disappointing record. There were
too few occasions when the team
gelled as a unit that was likely to
win a game. In addition, we were
frequently outclassed by sides that
contained more depth. Whilst
almost everyone was keen to play,
we were handicapped by a paucity
of players in the squad and there
was little competition for places: a
handful of players had to work hard
to keep the scoreboard ticking over
and take the wickets.
Jake Norman started the season as
captain: after his promotion to the
‘A’ team, Jack Barrass took over and
displayed some real qualities of
leadership and imagination. Joshua
Memour gave his all in every
match, wanting to take a wicket
every ball and grinding out some
very effective innings. He deserved
a late call to the ‘A’ team. Simon
Briscoe also tried his very best as
first-change and often fought hard
when at the crease. Of the rest,
Jaymish Patel is a natural left-arm
bowler, medium pace and spin, and
should find the time to use his
talent to the full. Rishi Patel was
the regular ‘keeper and did his very
best, although he needs to keep
working on the basics. The
remainder did their best but they
were just short of the sort of
performances that create a winning
total in overs matches or take
wickets when they were needed.
Both Doctor Wade and myself
enjoyed ourselves, despite the
difficulties and heartbreaks and
wish to thank everyone for their
enthusiasm, even when everything
was not going according to plan!
Mr K. Siviter
U14 A
Following two extremely powerful
U14 sides in 2004 and 2005, both
SJH and I thought it was probably
our turn to have a less than
successful season! Although there
were fewer 'quality' cricketers this
year, we were pleasantly surprised
by the success they had in winning
five and losing only two games
(although it must be noted here that
the matches against Whitgift and
Dulwich were rained off!). The XI
had a strong look to the top order in
both batting and bowling, but there
was not the depth of previous years.
We were also lucky to have a very
fine wicket keeper in Peter Nichols,
who was also (on his day) a highly
destructive batsman.
followed by a good win over
Cranleigh. Having set them just over
120 to win, they looked to be going
well until an impressive spell of quick
bowling from Pease-Watkin blew
away their top and middle order.
Dulwich was rained off - fortunately
as it looked as though we would be
chasing well over 250 when the rains
came. The normally very strong
Brighton College were up next and
beaten in low-scoring match on a
poor wicket. Whitgift was rained off
and Half Term came two days after a
decent victory over CoLFS.
Eastbourne deserved to beat us,
showing more commitment and will
to win on a very hot Saturday, but
the team bounced back to beat St
John's the following Saturday. Our
heaviest defeat
came in the last
match of the season
when we were
comprehensively
thumped by King
Edward's
Southampton - on
the same day England
lost to Portugal! Not a
good day!
There is some talent there for the
future: Pease-Watkin has all the
makings of a fine all-rounder, while
Nichols should score many runs in the
future and will impress many with his
keeping. Nikhil Waugh is another who
has a great deal of talent, while
'Marvellous Marvin' Attapatto will
prove to be a useful swing bowler as
he moves up the school.
Many thanks once again to Mr Head
for all his help, and to Andy James
who provided some knowledgeable
coaching throughout the term. A final
thanks to all the boys for the
commitment and I wish them well as
they move up to the U15s next year.
Mr P.J.Williams
The season began brightly with a
comprehensive victory over Lancing,
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Girls’ Cricket
We spent the summer term 2006,
contributing greatly to the school by
participating in and upholding the
girl’s first 11-cricket team. We
managed to encourage enough
female representatives to take part
in this competitive and enticing
sport. The team was able to muster
up a considerable amount of
supporters cheering us on through
our unbeaten season.
The team consisted of Lucie Billings,
Suzie Blunt, Holly Brook, Ashley
Crane, Charlotte Davolls, Charlotte
Ellison, Ami Hodges, Katharine
Lammiman, Carina Lindberg, Helena
Mortimer, Madeleine Mortimer,
Meghann Murdock, Lucy Phillips,
Sam Phillips, Dani Rice and Tash
Wood. The team was co-captained by
Suzie Blunt and Tash Wood, the team
thanks them for a great season, and
all their “hard work”!
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The results were as followed:
Sutton Valence (away)
Win by 6 runs.
First match of the season, many of the
team were slightly nervous as they had
been dragged in and had never played
cricket before! Everyone bowled well
with wickets from Blunt, Ellison and
Phillips S. The top score was by Ellison.
Unfortunately not all the team were
able to bat due to the rain.
Sutton Valence (home)
Win by 17 runs.
This was originally meant to be a 6th
form fixture but due to a lack of
members, the U4’s were dragged
back in. Ellison opened to batting but
Lindberg and Mortimer M held the
batting for the majority of the match.
Well done to everyone!
Charterhouse (home)
Win by 1 run.
This was definitely the closest match
of the season, and one of the ones
that gained the most support! Well
done to those who got wickets: Blunt,
Davolls, Ellison, Lindberg and Wood,
a great effort.
The best batters of the season were
Carina Lindberg and Madeleine
Mortimer, better luck next time
Helena! Great season everyone,
looking forward to next summer.
By Suzie Blunt and Carina Lindberg.
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Girls’ Rounders
Senior
The Senior Rounders team was
expertly captained by Arnolda
Shiundu (Wh). Despite their
enthusiasm in training they only had
one match this term, against Kings
Canterbury, where the opposition
proved to be a little tough for them.
The match was lost 27-10.
U16
The U16 rounders team had a short
yet successful season. They were
expertly captained by Hannah Patel,
who was efficient in organising
teams as well as an effective team
motivator. She kept spirits high and
made sure games were fun as well
as trying to win. We had some big
hitters including Jennifer Bryant,
Emma Pearce, Raphaelle Moore and
many more. We had skillful spin
bowlers such as Hannah Patel and
Emma Pearce and then we had our
relentless fielders who played a
huge part in securing our winning
games, including some unexpected
yet tremendous catches from
Katherine Law and Baileigh Walsh.
They all deserve praise for making it
such an enjoyable, if brief, season.
U15
The team played very well all
season and improved considerably
as they went along. There is no-one
who stands out as being more
worthy of a special mention than
the others but well done to all.
n
Inter-House Competitio
3rd Crawfurd
2nd Raven
1st Wilson
House Cup - Wilson
U14
The teams representing the College at
Under 14 level Rounders varied
enormously in participants this term,
with some girls being asked to travel
to matches at the last minute and
doing so willingly. Fun was had by all
and the girls showed increasing skill
and resourcefulness as well as
commendable team spirit. There was
some superb play although only one
win against Eastbourne. Fielding
improved dramatically throughout the
season with some excellent catches
being taken. Our batting also
strengthened. The captaincy was
shared amongst the different players
and all captains led their teams well.
Inter-House Competitio
n
3rd Wilson
2nd Raven
1st Crawfurd
House Cup - Crawfurd
Tennis
Senior Boys
With a really good finish to last season,
and all our top players staying, this
was going to be Epsom’s year. We went
to Eton (always a tough first fixture)
expecting a good victory. We were
thumped – a thoroughly humbling
experience. Things got better after that
with comprehensive wins against
Sevenoaks, Cranleigh and Whitgift –
the game at Sevenoaks in particular
featured some excellent tennis. We
also fielded weakened teams who
acquitted themselves well against St.
John’s and Tonbridge.
The reason for our weakened sides
was our first foray into the Public
Schools League.
Our first round draw was the ‘Pool of
Death’ – We came third behind St.
Paul’s and KCS, beating Charterhouse.
The third place pool wasn’t for the
weak-hearted either, with Epsom
coming out strong winners above
Bradfield, Sevenoaks and Harrow.
In outside competitions, we were
‘Hamptoned’. We were well beaten by
Hampton (No disgrace – they were
good!) in the Rootham Shield for the
second year running and after a
couple of good rounds in the Youll
cup, lost to them again. That’s five
meetings in two years and we’ve only
won one of them. Both pairs played
well in the St. George’s pairs
competition, but not well enough to
progress to the latter stages. The
senior pairs played well at the St
George’s pairs and the Surrey Festival
of Tennis without ever putting a
consistent enough run together, but
were upstaged by Rory Cook (P) and
Josh Phillips (F) reaching the
semi-finals of the U14 doubles at the
Surrey Festival.
The seconds and thirds had a season
of ‘what might have been’. A lot of
great tennis played but not often
more than a set at a time – the boy’s
motto being, ‘We could have beaten
them’. There was a lot of
competition for the title of most
variable player, but Lawrence Archer
(H) probably just shaded it.
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Internal Competitions
There was some terrific Tennis on display, in the latter stages of all the major competitions. It is to the particular
credit of the seniors that they were able to maintain such a high standard in shocking conditions. The junior
competitions were dominated by Josh Phillips who showed a ruthlessness that the others couldn’t rival.
Senior House Doubles:
Junior House Doubles:
Senior Mixed Doubles:
Junior Mixed Doubles:
Senior Singles:
Junior Singles:
David Potter Coaching Cup:
Fayrer (Liddell and Flanagan)
Forest (Hack and Phillips)
Lauren Blease (Wh) and Patrick Walsom (P)
Sam Burke (Rv) and Josh Phillips (F)
Tom Liddell (Fa)
Josh Phillips (F)
Gwyn Page (C)
Major Colours Tom Liddell, Justin Taylor
Full Colours Phil Canby, Alan Goodyear, Vladimir Ryazantse v
Sinclair, Charlie James
Half Colours Matthew Goodyear, Stuart Mathys, Jon Permanand, Andrew
U16
The team coped well despite a short
season before study leave. The team
played well and morale and
motivation were maintained, inspite
of meeting some much stronger
opposition at the beginning of the
season. The B team were steady and
achieved a very pleasing victory
over Sevenoaks. Laing and Davies
made a strong first pairing for the A
team and good performances came
from De Vimal du Bouchet,
Antoniou, Nuthall, Chase, Gillespie,
Hatton, Shaw, Foster, Dyer and
Antuna on a regular basis.
mincemeat of anyone trying to get
past him. The Italian, Paggagwini, will
run and run, and most certainly won’t
insult the family of any of the
opposition. McNeville, an Englishman,
with rumoured family ties north of the
border – which I guess was the closest
the Scottish were going to get to a
World Cup connection. Finally, two
South Americans complete the backs:
the Argentinian, Sorwin, keen to go
forward on the overlap; and the
Brazilian, Grosverto Taylos, keen to
take all the free kicks.
dynamic duo – Dan D’Kloza and
Gavdolski. Their almost telepathic
understanding means they could play
with their eyes shut (which is how the
English took penalties). Or we could
try out the lone Italian striker,
Claytoni. Mind you, everyone will be
trying out Italian strikers soon, when
all those ex Serie A players become
available. Although he wasn’t happy at
Barcelona, our front line will welcome
Christiano Daviola (as I am sure the
front line of Arsenal also will) and,
finally, we have to take a risk on the
mild-mannered Wayne Hoonry (OK so
I lied about not taking any injured
players). That 30 seconds of genius
will more than make up for 89
minutes and 30 seconds of mediocrity
– not to mention an ability to stamp,
that would make the All Black front
row proud.
Mrs R.J.B.Harrop
U15
It is the glorious summer of 2006. As
the world seems destined to spiral
further down into chaos and anarchy;
as dog eats dog and man kills man;
what can halt this descent and bring
harmony to a fragmented planet?
Football, obviously!
From the ashes of an exciting, if
unpredictable, World Cup rises a
superteam. They will battle with the
forces of evil and restore the
equilibrium to the 21st century.
Let me introduce the squad:
The manager is that veritable “Dr Who”
– time traveller and man of many
guises – N.D.Wheelzone. Is there no
limit to the situations he can find
himself in? Well, since he writes all this
rubbish, I guess the answer is an
emphatic “No!!!”.
Two goalkeepers are considered
sufficient to ward off the attacks on
our goal of righteousness – Lloydio
Mainthez and Rosenson – Gallic
eccentricity and English solidity. Let’s
just hope we don’t give away too
many corners.
The defence can choose from five
different nations. The German,
Matthaeus Hackfleisch, will make
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In midfield there are another five
talented and creative players. We have
Baillack, the German pin-up boy and
Charladine Chapdane the French headbutt and pin-down boy. Then, of
course, we could play the Portuguese
high-dive specialists, Costainha and
Blundinha – also very adept at making
low dives. And last, but not least, we
present the twinkling Brazilian feet of
Ramaggino. Surely he will make the
difference? Apparently not!
Since N.D. is attacking minded (unlike
some ex-International managers), he
has also chosen five strikers (and none
of them is injured or underage). His
first choices are the in-form, Teutonic,
Will this elite squad of 17 players be
up to the awesome task expected of it?
Probably not! You will have to wait for
the next exciting issue to find out how
they fared. However, it is more likely
that N.D.Wheelzone will take you on a
totally different roller coaster ride.
Either way, I bet you can’t wait!
A.J.Wilson
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U14
A superb season, full of joyous sunny
days and some outstanding tennis.
With almost thirty boys representing
the College during the season, it was
great to see tennis thriving! Apart
from a very clear top four, and a
distinct next six, there was very little
to choose between the rest, and
many talented players had to be
rested to give others a chance to play.
At the top end were Josh Phillips,
Rory Cook, Ollie Wilkinson and
Jeremy Morgan. These four played
tremendous tennis throughout the
year, driving the A team to eight
wins and a draw in their ten
matches. Indeed, the only defeat
suffered – against Eton in the first
week – would undoubtedly have
been overturned had the match
been played later in the term.
In the Public Schools’ League their
performance against three strong
schools, Charterhouse, KCS
Wimbledon and St Paul’s, brought
them a 12-6 victory in the singles and
doubles matches. Unfortunately the
U4 and 5th year teams did not
manage to have equal success and as
the competition was crazily a
combined U14/U15/U16 one, the
boys were left with a relatively
pointless 18-0 whitewash of the three
bottom placed teams in the next
phase of the competition. Hopefully
next year will see a strong M4 again
and we can reach the level these boys
deserved with their tennis.
Josh Phillips led the side
exceptionally well, encouraging his
partners, and setting an immaculate
standard with his own play. He lost
just one set – against Eton – in either
singles or doubles all year, and many
sets were won to love. Truly an
outstanding talent, Josh enjoyed a
clean sweep in the internal
competitions, winning the Junior
singles title, the Junior Doubles and
the Junior Mixed Doubles.
Rory Cook developed greater
consistency over the season and his
range of shots was impressive. As he
started to get more confident in
volleying, he started dominating the
net and he and Josh developed into a
fearsome and unstoppable pairing.
Ollie Wilkinson benefited from
stepping out of Josh’s shadow when
he moved to partner Jeremy. The
need to show greater reliability in
his choice of shot developed, and
his serving became the most potent
of everyone on the team. Relaxed
almost to a point, Ollie had a
cracking season.
Jeremy was sometimes his own worst
enemy, beating himself up over every
mistake. He has a terrific flat
backhand and if he can develop
greater confidence and consistency
on his forehand and serve, he will go
on to become a very adept player.
Between them, these four dropped
just seven sets out of fifty played
this year – a remarkable statistic.
Perhaps the most surprising yet
admirable performance of the year
was the rise of the ‘Little and Large’
of the team, William Beadle and
Chris Harper. These two developed
an unconventional yet effective
partnership and their team spirit
and support for each other
epitomised all that was good and
enjoyable about this Epsom team.
Others to have a productive year
and show promise for the future
were: Rory Adam, Ollie Kemp, Mark
Tampin, Charlie Scarlett-Smith, Tom
Shopland, Jamie Farley, Daniel
Hollington, Matt Rayburn, Nico
Judd, Georeg Williams, Ali Al-Fekaiki,
Owen O’Sullivan, Nick Richards,
Harvey Steers and Ollie Borch.
“With almost thirty
boys representing the
College during the
season, it was great to
see tennis thriving!”
Behind them, the unfortunate Jack
Billings and Tom Norkett found
themselves just a little out of their
depth at A team level, but they
came good with some impressive
displays in the B team. Jack in
particular possesses some
outrageous shots, but lacked
sufficient consistency to progress
further. Towards the end of the
season, the less hard-hitting but
more effective pairing of James
Dawkins and Simon Jennings
performed heroically at Cranleigh,
Whitgift and Wellington, helping the
A team to convincing victories with
their blend of tenacity and vivacity.
Others to shine were the astute and
consistent Tom Burgess, and the
devastating yet frustrating Xavier
Dialdas. Both played exceptionally
well at various times, often having to
change partners to fit the needs of the
team, and I am sure they will go on
from strength to strength next year.
My thanks go to all the boys. Firstly
for their first-rate commitment to
their game, constantly seeking
improvement and extra practice, and
secondly for going easy on me during
the end of season Choccie Challenge!
Also, to the many parents that came
along to offer their support to the
boys, often providing a bemused
coach with an accurate in-play
scoreline for their son’s match –
thank you!
Also, a huge debt of gratitude of
course to Justin, the tennis coach,
and his team of assistants who
drove the boys on with good
humour and fun practice sessions.
And to Mr Gillespie for his help
managing and coaching the
unfortunate few that did not make
the teams. Without doubt this has
been the most enjoyable tennis
group I have had in five years here.
Good luck for next year – Mr Wilson is
a lucky man to inherit such talent!
Mr A. J. Bustard
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Girls Tennis
Senior Tennis 2006
enormously as the season
progressed, only narrowly missing
out on taking victory several times.
Rebecca Brown was in full flow on
the court, always on her toes and
striking at the ball with much drive
and precision. Anessa Rezai and
Claire Zaleski both displayed good
tactical awareness and fought
vigorously on every occasion. The
squad had wins over Charterhouse
and Cranleigh and only narrowly
missed out on a victory against CLFS
by one set.
Both girls fought hard and played
the net well, forcing pressure and
insecurity onto their opponents.
Lauren Blease contributed towards
the girls overall performance, giving
steady and strong play on the court
but was sadly hit by injury.
This year proved to be a respectable
season for the senior girls. Holly
Howson (Rv) captained the 1st VII,
where the girls had a total of four
victories over the very short season.
Successes over Lord Wandsworth
College and St John’s were
outstanding. Sarah Campus (W) and
Rebecca Carpenter (Cr) were coupled
as first pair, proving to be an
excellent team. In all cases, this
couple always gave incredible
passion and displayed immense skill.
King’s Canterbury were especially
tough opponents, but Sarah and
Rebecca still managed to win every
set. Rosie Seabrook (Wh) and Holly
Howson splendidly supported them,
being a pair who combined much
positive and proficient energy into
all of their attacking play. Another
pairing with as much hard
determination and ability were
Madeleine Mortimer (W) and Dansy
Brunton (Cr). Many fixtures were an
even contest, with most of the sets
only separated by one or two games.
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At the Independent Schools’
Championships at Eton, Rebecca and
Sarah progressed through the first
two rounds and then lost to the
eventual winners Millfield and in the
Branston Shield we managed a very
commendable victory over St
Catherine’s and eventually lost out in
a tough tussle to St George’s. The
highlight of the season away from
the regular fixtures was the win by
Rebecca and Lauren in the Surrey
Festival where all the top schools in
surrey compete for the title. They
saw off all comers to lift the trophy,
a first for the College and a
tremendous achievement.
The 2nd team had a mildly
disappointing season, not really
reflecting the girl’s hard work and
effort. Kate Moore, leading the team
with determination and persistence,
captained this squad. Kate
combined very effectively with
Samantha Polkey where they
produced strong wins and displayed
100% commitment at first pair. They
steadily had the upper hand on all
their matches and came out as
strong, talented players. Olivia Rawes
and Catrin Page improved
Both squads should be commended
on their attitudes and high level of
play throughout the season. I would
like to thank the girls for all the
commitment and passion I witnessed
and extend a big congratulations for
all your efforts and enthusiasm in a
busy term. I do hope that more of
the squad will get to the courts
before the summer term next year.
Good luck to all those leaving us we
hope they continue to enjoy their
Tennis, and lets look forward to
another promising tennis season
next summer with Rebecca leading
the way.
Sarah Tremble-Newman /FCD
Gap student 2006
Full Colours were awarded to:
Holly Howson(Rv),
Rosie Seabrook(Wh),
Rebecca Carpenter(Wh),
Sarah Campus(W), Lauren Blease(Wh),
Madeleine Mortimer(W).
Sam Polkey(Cr), Kate Moore(Cr)
and Dansy Brunton(Cr)
Half Colours were awarded to:
Olivia Rawes(Wh),
Catrin Page(Wh),
Alessa Rezai(Wh)
Senior Trophy
Holly Howson(Rv)
Senior Mixed Doubles Champions
Lauren Blease(Wh) and
Patrick Walsom(P)
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U14
As always the summer term starts
and there is an enthusiastic rush for
the tennis courts, with tennis rackets
being ‘dusted off’ ready for action!
Team places were closely contested
in this keen year group, and both A
and B teams have played well,
improving their scores as the term
has progressed, and finishing the
season with strong wins against
Christ’s Hospital, Lord Wandsworth,
Brighton, Ardingly and Lancing.
One C team match was played against
CLFS, who proved to have greater
strength in depth, although the A and
B teams won their matches, both 5-4,
5-4. Good contests!
The A team played 9 matches,
won 5 lost 4.
The B team played 5 matches,
won 4 lost 1.
The C team played 1 match, lost 1,
Teams were represented by:
A Team:
Stephanie Crouch, Anna Hurley,
Hannah, Davies, Sidony Laing, Ffion
Carey-Evans, Joanna Boddy, Lucy
Murray and Rebecca Kjaedegaard.
B Team:
Lucy Murray, Rebecca Kjaedegaard,
Issy Porter, Lottie Mungavin, Joanna
Boddy, Philippa Smith, Katie Moore
and Lauren Bowman.
C Team:
Charlotte Billings, Louise Hosking,
Ilsa Forsberg, Laura Frazer, Rachael
Lenney and Vicky Piper.
Well done to all the girls in this year
for their effort and enthusiasm.
Mrs C. Rice
Swimming
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Target Rifle
The 2005-06 year was an excellent
one, even by our own high
standards. Matthew Millar as Captain
had one clear goal – acquisition of
all 3 National Cadet Trophies in one
year – a feat only once achieved
before in 1999 by David Rose’s team,
albeit then with the GP rifle. Could
the 2006 team equal this treble?
The Michaelmas term got under way
with several important new recruits
of all ages. Harry Ball arrived into
the L6 on transfer from Hampton
and immediately settled in well with
the squad. The new M4s were a
strong year and some had .22
experience from Feltonfleet (Oliver
Stewart and Charles Wray) whilst
others were newer to the sport (Alex
Brunton-Reed, Alex Dowle and Scott
Freemantle). The first term saw many
hours of training and practice from
all the team and a clean sweep in all
our matches, culminating with a
clear win over the Old Epsomians.
The National Staniforth Trophy was
‘the big one’ though and an excellent
792 out of 800 saw a clear win and
Part 1 of the objective was achieved.
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The Lent term brought International
honours for Matt Millar and James
Lothian in the form of the Great
Britain Cadet Rifle Team (the
Athelings) to tour Canada in the
summer. William Vaz was selected as
Reserve and was unlucky not to
travel with the team. David Nuthall,
Tom Wharram, Sam Harley and Sam
Hunter created an Epsom record
making up four of the twelve to tour
the Channel Islands with the UK
Cadet Rifle Team in August. Clare
Briscoe, Harry Ball, James Lothian,
David Nuthall and Tom Wharram all
represented England at .22 this term
whilst Sam Hunter represented
Scotland. The Country Life was the
second of the National Trophies in
Matt’s sights and a brilliant group,
rapid, snap stage made up for a
good, but not outstanding landscape,
and we regained the Trophy with a
win by 7 points over Stamford. Now
just the Ashburton Shield remained
to achieve the treble.
Easter Camp saw the arrival of the
summer fullbore season and the real
business of the year. We combined
our training at Bisley with Wellington
College and our hosts of Easter 2005,
Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Over the
course of the weekend, we retained
the Malvern Cup, which included
long range distances for the first
time, although our racing drivers
were perhaps not so dominant on
the go-kart track!
The first match of the term, the
London and Middlesex saw us wobble
a little and Marlborough came from
nowhere to win the match, much to
the chagrin of our hierarchy and we
had to settle for second place. In
hindsight, this probably dispelled any
complacency and a steely
determination entered the VIII….
Our pairs and fours did well with
Peter Slater starting an awesome run
of form which saw him picking up
medals in the cadet matches each
week from now on. Michael Clayton,
Charles Rivet-Carnac and Ben
Newman also competed well in these
cadet matches and showed much
promise for the future. In subsequent
weeks, the Surrey Championships, the
Sawyer Cup, the Sussex
Championships and the Clayton
Challenge were all won convincingly
by the VIII, although competition for
places within the team were at
unprecedented levels. This problem
was to remain up until the Ashburton
itself as we had 12 people who could
all easily have commanded places in
any VIII in the country.
After a pause for exams and the end
of term, the Schools meeting arrived
in the first week of the holiday. The
weather was warm and pleasant
throughout and the team hit the
ground running from the off as we
cleaned up on the Monday winning
the practice matches. Over the
Tuesday and Wednesday we
dominated the competitions winning
numerous individual and team
prizes. For team matches we won the
Devon, the ABRO and the Victoria
College trophy. Tom Wharram won
the Tuesday Aggregate by one V bull
from Matt (from over 700 cadets),
David won the Wednesday aggregate
with Sam Harley in 3rd, Matt won
the 600 yards aggregate and was
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second in the 500 yards. William
Stewart and Matt were involved in a
thrilling tie shoot for the Iveagh
although Will just lost out to a WO2
from Wellingborough school. David
Nuthall was second in the Cadet Rifle
Aggregate ahead of Matt in 3rd and
Dan Sherville in 4th, whilst in the
Schools Hundred Epsom made up a
third of the top 30 showing just how
dominate a performance the team
had achieved.
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an excellent start and repeated Clare
Briscoe’s performance of last year
and won the Reserve with a 46
coached by Peter Dodd - a
tremendous performance by both!
The VIII made a fanstastic start
averaging over 33 each and the total
of 265 won the Kinder and was 7
ahead of Marlborough in 2nd.
Falling back to 600 we found
conditions a touch trickier and
was an
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excellent one, evrds.”
own high standa
Ashburton day was warm and calm
at 300 although a light breeze picked
up throughout the day which made
coaching far from straightforward.
William Vaz (who possesses an
Ashburton winners medal from 2004)
was one of the unlucky ones who
had not managed to gain a place in
the VIII for the day. Instead he made
allowed a pumped up Marlborough
to make up 2 points on us as they
won ‘our’ Epsom trophy with 263 to
our 261. Lunch was taken off the
range and gave us some respite from
the sun. On our return the crowds
had gathered for the final distance
and as we dodged the scoreboards
and kept our composure the tension
around us was mounting.
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The Epsom method swung into action
– no discussing scores, focus on the
next shot only, meticulous preparation
and focus – all the things we do day in
and day out to such a high level. One
spectator later commented on how
noticeable the Epsom Team’s
professionalism was in contrast to one
or two other schools near by and this
was without doubt one reason why our
nerves held as we neared the climax.
The first three firers, David (32), Tom
(31) and Clare (33) shot well although it
was still neck and neck with
Marlborough. Fourth man down Harry
Ball steadied nerves with a 33 only for
Sam Harley to get caught by the wind
and his 30 (down 4 on his 600 score)
meant we were not yet home and dry.
Sam Hunter then stepped up at this
most tense of times and put all 7 shots
into the bull for an excellent 35. Dan
Sherville, penultimate firer, followed
him and did exactly the same, also
scoring a 35. In a nice touch, MCO was
there in his last outing as HMM to
witness this and see Dan win for
Granville the Crawfurd House Cup
which was being shot concurrent with
the match. Skipper, Matt Millar, last
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Trophy and renewing rivalry from
2005. A similar battle was fought
between the Cadet Pairs with Dollar
again triumphing by a single V bull to
take the trophy, albeit somewhat
belatedly due to an incorrect score
being accepted as the winning one on
the day. All credit to the juniors who
performed very well and were unlucky
not to win, with good shooting by a
Dollar cadet called Beesley making the
difference…he sounds like a useful
shot. The inaugural Schools Four
Match took place this year with James
Lothian, William Stewart (both of
whom were also unlucky not to make
the VIII) William Vaz and Hannah Kent
winning a splendid trophy. This match
was open to adult coaches but they
eschewed this advantage and coached
themselves winning by 9 points over
Exeter school.
The Epsom squad also won the huge
Lucas Cup, the Rutland, the
Cheltenham Cup, and the Garry
beating the Candian and Australian
National cadet teams! In the Imperial
meeting the team completed it’s
sweep of all the cadet
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14 staying on shot very well indeed,
with highlights including David
finishing 59th in the Grand
Aggregate out of 1300 adult
competitors and as top cadet. He
also finished 19th in the St Georges
Final and became X class. Tom
Wharram reached the Queens Final
and finished 93rd. Tom finished
249th and Harry 261st in the Grand
Aggregate both excellent
achievements. These three were all
part of the UK cadet team in the
Inter Services Long Range match and
David and Tom combined with Matt,
Dan and James to represent the UK
Cadets in the main match against
the Canadians, the AG Bell, as
well the Inter Services Short
Range match.
As ever, thanks must go to RG and
MO who have been towers of
strength, always ready and willing to
help despite their ever increasingly
busy roles at the College – it really is
their ‘back stage’ work behind the
firing pint which is so key to
winning. Peter Dodd and Andrew
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With excellent coaching from David
and Tom, Matt finished with a 33 to
win the Green Howards Country Life
and the Ashburton Shield for Epsom
with a record score of 788.59. Epsom
were 13 ahead of Marlborough who
ended with 775.46 in second, who in
turn were 1 V bull ahead of The
Oratory in third, whilst 2005
Champions Dollar finished in a
creditable fourth. This was the 10th
victory for Epsom in the Ashburton in
the last 17 years, and our 5th victory in
the last 10 years. In the last 9 years we
have not been out of the top two
places in this match which emphasises
our consistency and dominance.
The Cadet Fours was closely fought
with Dollar putting in a strong showing
beating us by 3 points to take the
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TR matches by winning the Garry Jones
and the Anstey and collecting a haul to
rival any team of the last 50 years.
Major Colours were re-awarded to
Matthew Millar and James Lothian and
now awarded to Clare Briscoe, Dan
Sherville, David Nuthall, Tom Wharram
and William Vaz. Full Colours went to
Harry Ball, Sam Harley, Sam Hunter
and Half Colours to Hannah Kent and
William Stewart. Colts Colours went to
Peter Slater who also won the Michael
Nash Most Improved Trophy whilst
David Nuthall retained the Officers
Cup. David was appointed Captain for
2007 with Tom as Vice-Captain and
Harry as Hon. Secretary.
During the Main Meeting MO gamely
stepped into JRWP’s shoes after the
first three days to allow him to travel
straight off to Mongolia with the
World Challenge team. The group of
Lothian continue to give very freely
of their time and I know all the
team benefit from their wisdom on
the range and good company off it.
In a year when Parag Patel (H 19891994) won Gold and Silver medals at
the Commonwealth Games in
Melbourne, Epsom College pupils,
past and present, continue to set the
highest standards in the world of
rifle shooting. Without fear of
correction, I am able to state that no
other team in the country could
match the consistently excellent
performances of the Epsom team of
2006, which only leaves the 2007
squad much to live up to in the
coming months. Luckily, we have a
talented bunch coming through and
I am very much looking forward to
seeing if they can live up to the very
high standards set this year.
Mr J.R.W. Postle
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Volleyball Report
experienced Ashcombe team
proved too strong, beating
Epsom in the League and Final
competitions.
The boys’ B team had convincing
wins in all their three games,
beating St. John’s in the final.
The boys’ A team faced
stronger opposition but played
well to reach the semi-final
stage. They had a very closely
contested game with the Lycée,
who went on to beat Rikkyo in
the Final.
The Annual tournament, held by
Ashcombe Volleyball Club and hosting
over a hundred teams in Dorking, was
the venue of the second tournament.
Play is outdoors, regardless of the
weather, and they were blessed by a
wonderful summer day.
Both the girls’ and boys’ teams did well
to reach the semi-finals in their Groups
– the boys doing particularly well as
they were put in the Men’s Division
Four Group.
A good day out for all those who
took part!
The culmination of the year’s
training is reflected in the success of
the teams in the two tournaments
held this term.
Our own tournament, played in May,
hosted teams from the French Lycée,
London Oratory, Rikkyo, Salesian,
Beacon and Ashcombe. Scheduled to
be outdoor, the weather,
unfortunately, was not kind, and the
event was re-organised indoors.
The girls’ team, led and captained
by Mary Ho, played well to beat
both French teams, but the more
The Student’s Perspective
When I was in the 5th Year, walking
past the outdoor volleyball courts on
many occasions, with friends in
Fayrer, we thought volleyball was
more a sport for girls than boys.
In the L6, although finding it
awkward to play a sport I was
sceptical about, I was encouraged by
a friend to attend with him. I soon
learnt how the game was played and
started to enjoy the skill and
teamwork elements within it.
In the U6 I was pleased to be selected
as Captain for the boys’ team. The
results of our matches and
tournaments have already been
noted, but we, as a team, were
particularly disappointed to lose to
London Oratory by 2 points ( but still
qualifying for the semi-final), and
then to lose by one point to the Lycée
in the Semi-Final!
Throughout this year I have been
grateful for the support of such a
promising team. I will miss Brian’s
(Wong) and Andrew’s (Leung)
‘meathead’ serves, Calvin’s (Wong)
beastly smash, Ben’s (Ching)
brilliant dive and Wilson’s (Chin)
‘don’t know what he’s doing skill’! I
am proud of them.
Last but not least, thank you very
much for Mrs Rice’s and Mr Hibbitt’s
experienced coaching – without
them we would not have played as
well as we did.
Kevin Lee
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House Notes
Carr
Housemaster: Mr M.D. Day
Barakzai,
House Tutors: Mr K.N.D.
nkall,
Mr T.S. Cooper, Mrs F.C. Dri
Day
.
B.C
Mrs
d,
Rea
Mr M.R.
by
Head of House: PCH Can
, S. ElHouse Prefects: M. Abram
A.
an,
Nol
Sbahi, J.R.D.
C.Y.D.
Odemuyiwa, AL. Rothman,
g
Yan
.
Situ, M.W
Carr began the year with an added
sense of optimism in the capable
hands of Phil Canby and his team of
prefects. Both team spirit and
individual ambition were flourishing
through the house as we prepared to
compete keenly in all aspects of
school life.
Unfortunately, as usual, such
optimism did not breathe much
success in the house choral
competition. Despite a superb
rendition of ‘Wherever you will go’ by
Jack Moore, accompanied by Hugh
Crail on the guitar, and a titanic effort
by the whole house in the unison,
spurred on by the flamboyant James
Patterson-Puertolas, we were once
again excluded from the placings in
all categories. However, I am sure it is
only a matter of time before Carr
obtains this elusive title. Maybe next
year we should wear skirts!
Far from downhearted following this
disappointment, the M4 group led
the way with an outstanding
performance in the inter-house
junior rugby tournament. Throughout
the term they swept aside all in their
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path, only falling at the last hurdle to
an impressive Forest team. It seems
that they have quickly adapted to
Carr’s unofficial motto, ‘semper
secundum.’ Unfortunately, the U4s
weren’t so successful, finishing a
disappointing seventh. Nevertheless
all involved were an inspiration to
the senior members of the house,
who picked up the first piece of
silverware of the year, winning the
plate trophy in their respective rugby
tournament, by beating Holman 2-1
in the final. Greater things were to
come before the end of the term as
Carr picked up the infamous
volleyball trophy with a flawless
display of setting from Clement Kwan
and smashing from Tom Morley.
Quite frankly they were a joy to
watch! Congratulations must also go
to Gareth Blease who performed
remarkably as one of the unbeaten
first golf team pair. Finally, at the end
of a busy Michaelmas term, came the
inter-house cross country, with
special mention going to Jack Rapley
who finished in 6th place in the
senior race. Unfortunately many
more brave performances were not
quite strong enough to get a top
three finish, but a solid performance
all-round.
The term ended as it had begun, with
Jack Moore excelling on stage, this
time in the school play ‘West Side
Story.’ Playing the lead character
‘Tony’ appeared natural to Jack as he
delighted all in the audience,
especially the female viewers. Rob
Nolan also starred as ‘Glad Hand’ and
the production was superbly assisted
by Max Abram behind the scenes.
Carr was well represented at final roll
with Alex Dowle being rewarded for
his three distinctions and both
Gautham Shankar and Charles
Ushiyama receiving internal 6th Form
scholarships. Full colours were
awarded to Max Abram and half
colours to both Landis Bagnall and
Stephen Munford for their
contribution to a successful 1st XV
season, whilst XXX caps were
deservedly received by Alex Rothman,
Marco Yang and Phillip Canby for
their continued dedication to school
rugby. Colts Colours went to Max
Polkey and Luke Davies who played
their parts in a near perfect season
for the Colts ‘A’ team.
Lent Term started on a high note
with various strong musical
performances throughout the house.
Jaymish Patel achieved grade one on
the piano and Alistair Hardy passed
his grade six clarinet exam with
distinction. The Epsom College
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Businessmen must also be added to
the list with Alistair Hardy, Charlie
James and James Patterson-Puertolas
all obtaining a distinction in their
Young Enterprise exams.
Orchestra was also well supported by
Carr House, with Philip Canby,
Gautham Shankar, Harry Bradshaw
(all violin), Anthony Gillan (flute),
Marco Yang (guitar) and Alistair Hardy
(clarinet) excelling.
On the sporting side, once again the
pool was not our best friend and we
failed to reach our full potential,
although special mention must go to
Charlie James who put in a
memorable performance in the 50m
Butterfly, picking up our first and
only gold medal! The weekly football
competition supplied some
memorable moments, such as Max
Abram’s poetic goal against Propert,
James Dawson’s mountainous
defending and Rob Munford’s
formidable presence between the
posts. A respectable fifth place did
not tell the whole story as many
games went right down to the wire
and with a bit more luck a higher
place might have been possible.
However, being the unselfish house
that all Epsomians have come to
adore, all members of the team put
their bodies on the line to salvage an
epic draw against Fayrer, which
eventually enabled our neighbours
Propert to pick up the trophy. Not
only did many of Carr’s players put in
tremendous performances for their
house every week however, they also
went on to greater achievements in
the school sides. Special mention
goes to Adam Odemuyiwa who was
awarded major colours for his
commitment to the 1st XI. Also
rewarded were Sami El-Sbahi, Marco
Yang, Alex Rothman, James Dawson,
Steve Lydon and Max Abram.
house tournaments. Unfortunately,
the senior side narrowly lost out in
the final 3-2 to Fayrer, yet again, but
credit goes to David Furze for his six
goals and to Hugh Crail in goal. Harry
Bradshaw was awarded the
Woodward Cup for his promising start
to school hockey whilst Stephen
Munford was the most improved 1st
XI player and won the Crosbie Trophy.
Full colours were received by Myron
Wong and Stephen Munford and half
colours by David Furze. Finally, Jack
Rapley was rewarded for his neverending stamina with half colours for
cross-country.
Not only does Carr house supply the
school with some of the best
thinkers, sportsmen, musicians,
dramatists, comedians and good
lookers, it also fashions very good
soldiers. Both Harry Bradshaw and
Alex Dowle received commendations
for their CCF participation during the
term, whilst Charles Ushiyama, Luke
Davies and Gautham Shankar
successfully attained Bronze Duke of
Edinburgh’s Awards and David Furze
and Alistair Hardy attained Silver
Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards.
The sporting year finished on a high
for the house in the athletics
standards competition. Finishing 4th
place overall, the U4 age group must
be commended for their outstanding
2nd place finish, with special
mention going to Seb Weingartshofer
who amassed an impressive 34
points. Unfortunately, the seniors
were left with a depleted squad for
the Founder’s Day competition,
although Kolapo Oyogbola must be
congratulated for his pivotal role in
the ‘2 x 800’ metre relay team. Landis
Bagnall brought back the only piece
of silverware in winning the throwing
cup. Both were deservedly awarded
house colours.
The year’s hard work was well
rewarded at final roll. Carr was once
again well represented with prizes
going to Alex Dowle, Xavier Dialdas,
Matthew Wynne, Jack Frazer, Charles
Ushiyama, Alistair Hardy, Stephen
Munford, James Patterson-Puertolas,
Max Abram, Philip Canby, Sami ElSbahi, Chris Moore and Alex
Rothman.
Such a busy house cannot be
successful without the guidance of
our housemaster, tutors, head of
house and prefects. Special thanks
must go to Mr and Mrs Day, Philip
Canby and Marco Yang for their
tireless work in running the house
but also to Mr Barakzai, Mrs Drinkall,
Mr Read and Mr Cooper for all their
efforts this year. We wish them all a
relaxing holiday.
Hockey also thrived in the house with
strong performances in the interEpsomianmagazine 2006
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Crawfurd
Keevil
Housemistress: Mrs H.E.
rrall,
House Tutors: Mr R. Wo
ne,
Miss P. Thornley, Mrs E. Irvi
ies
Dav
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Mrs
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Mrs R. Sum
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Head of House: Kate Mo
Bell,
House Prefects: Sabrina
Gale,
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han
Bet
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Rachel Clayto
Muktar,
Steph Lamey, Samantha
Patel,
Katherine Parker, Meera
nto
Samatha Polkey, Lizzy Sza
After a well deserved summer holiday
Mrs. Keevil returned from the
maternity leave with a new addition
to the family, “Teddy”. By the second
week of term, the choral competition
practices in Crawfurd had already
begun in full swing, with our
rendition of ‘Happy Together’. This
provided a chance for the new
arrivals of M4s and new L6th to
surround themselves in House spirit.
Elspeth, a mere U4, excelled herself
with her solo of ‘Fields of Gold’
bringing a tear to many of the
audience’s eyes. With the help of Mr
Walsh again, this year’s part song ‘All
That Jazz’ featured a range of
complicated harmonies and
techniques, which proved that the
Crawfurd girls were willing and had
the talent to push themselves
musically. With all the effort put into
the first fun filled event of the year,
we managed to hold onto the Unison
cup for another year, for which Mrs
Keevil generously rewarded us with
35 pizzas later on that week, which
went down a treat!
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Sporting wise, Crawfurd excelled,
managing to bring home the Under
14 House Hockey Trophy, the U15
and U16 gaining second place whilst
the seniors made a valiant effort
which did not go unnoticed. The
boarders began their nightly routine
of Chapel Triangles in order to get
them fit for Cross-Country, along with
the Wednesday night sessions of
‘Bums and Tums’ run by Mrs
Keevil. Two of the new M4s,
Hannah Davies and Jo Boddy,
contributed to the house once
again by attaining the
excellent result of 1st and 2nd
in their race.
The School Play; ‘West Side Story’ was
the highlight of the Michelmas Term.
We were well represented on stage
with Jo Davis scoring the main role of
‘Maria’, Susie Blunt as ‘Anybodys’ and
many Crawfurdian dancers making
the whole play a montage of
fabulous dancing, singing and acting.
The Young Enterprise group AYM, of
which Zoë Dudgeon and Karina
Norton Amor were members,
produced an interesting and
humorous insight into the
production with their programme.
Despite the cast’s exhaustion, they
were back in action the next week
for the Christmas House Party and
the revealing of Secret Santa, which
helped bond girls of different ages.
The Crawfurd Chapel service
managed to certainly entertain the
rest of the students before the
Christmas break, with Carina
Lindberg’s Mistletoe demonstration
in particular.
The Lent Term started in high spirits
with snow and the welcoming of our
new gappies Bex and Sarah. However,
it was not all snowball fights and
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Cindy Ho and Zoë Dudgeon, bravely
volunteered for the Hendelah Waley
competition and put in a first-class
effort for the house.
cups of cocoa for the 6th Form
because the school decided to take
some AS Level modules early. The
need for early breakfasts arose as
exams were set up in the dining
room for the first time. Everyone
made a bold attempt and was
relieved to get them out of the way.
The Staff Charity show proved to be
highly entertaining with a
controversial interpretation of
“Vogue” led by Mrs. Keevil as
Madonna. It managed to raise the
roof and over a thousand pounds.
However, the following weeks took a
turn for the worst as Influenza B
struck the school, heavily reducing
house numbers. Things proceeded to
deteriorate with the news of the
much loved Mr Laing’s death and the
Crawfurd girls learnt how to support
each other in their time of need. The
whole house showed their
compassion and respect. Many girls
attended a beautiful and moving
service that was held in the chapel.
Mrs. Keevil continued to encourage
us to represent our house in the
upcoming sporting events such as the
House Swimming Gala and the
Hendelah Waley. The turn out for the
swimming gala was the best in years.
It was delightful to see so many girls
participating- especially Anne- Laure
de Vimal du Bouchet for her stamina
in the senior butterfly. The Crawfurd
girls were definitely the loudest of
the bunch and helped those
swimming to keep going! Once again
we were rewarded with 20 pizzas and
the mood in the house was euphoric.
Two members of the Lower 6th,
The final weeks of the Lent Term were
filled with many productions around
the school including GCSE, AS and ALevel Theatre Studies performances.
The Charity Show and the Lower 6th
Play were both held in Big School and
produced a great turnout. Millie
Bonnar and Zoë Dudgeon managed
to obtain the two lead female roles
of ‘Helena Charles’ and ‘Allison
Porter’ in ‘Look Back in Anger’. The
girls worked hard, with many late
night rehearsals, and managed to
pull off an outstanding piece.
AGI Day was soon upon the house
and Kat Parker, Meera Patel and
Rachel Clayton steered the house to
victory winning three sections of the
competition. The cup for Senior Drill
was won for the second year runninggood luck next year girls! Special
mention to Anne-Laure de Vimal du
Bouchet for being selected as the best
NCO. Many Crawfurd girls including
Julie Erler, Janice Wong, Beth Gale and
Dansy Brunton helped bring the
Epsom side victory by winning the
Christ Hospital Girls’ Rugby
Tournament and competing in the
Rosslyn Park Sevens. Hosting and
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6th form centre, given by Mrs. Yates.
The decks were in full use with
people using them for a range of
activities from sunbathing, water
fights, and of course revising! Many
of the younger girls earned major
parts in this year’s Junior Play “Wyrd
Sisters”, Carina Lindberg playing
Granny Weatherwax and Livvy Moore
playing Nanny Ogg. All the girls that
took part gave a memorable
performance and it was an excellent
way to say farewell to Big School
before the refurbishment over the
summer. Another theatre the house
visited this summer was the
Piccadilly Theatre to see “Guys and
“The School
Play; ‘West
Side Story’ was
the highlight of
the Michelmas
Term.”
winning netball tournaments was
starting to get embarrassing but we
finally lost in the U16 Districts by one
goal- there will be no mercy next time
round. This concluded the events of a
spectacularly packed term.
Christmas Carol service, Salisbury
Cathedral for Evensong and their
annual Chapel Choir Recital.
Selected girls from Crawfurd
continued to serve in the Chapel
Choir this year, singing on a weekly
basis in our Saturday services and
many other special events such as the
With the Summer Term came the
prospect of Shirt Sleeve Order along
with the stress of exams. During the
first week back Crawfurd held a
‘Stress and Healthy Eating’ talk in the
Dolls” which our devoted house
tutor Mr Worrall organized for us. It
was a sensational performance and
everyone thoroughly enjoyed getting
out of school for the night!
We would like to thank all of our
house tutors for their support and
confidence in us. Also Angela and
her team of ladies who keep the
house in amazing form and put up
with our mess. We would also like to
wish all the U6th good luck for their
future years ahead at University,
especially to Kate Moore who did a
fantastic job of running the house
this year. Finally, we would like to
wish Zoë Dudgeon and the rest of
the Lower Sixth good luck in
following the Leavers’ footsteps!
Jo Davis and Zoë Dudgeon
“Sporting wise,
Crawfurd excelled”
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Fayrer
liams
Housemaster: Mr P. J. Wil
Tod,
House Tutors: Mr M.A.L.
.
J.M
Mr
ll,
Mr D.J.R. Campbe
s, Ms
liam
Wil
S.E.
Mrs
ll,
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Dri
N.C . Morrow,
Dr S.A. Wade
Head of House: JD Bryant
With the temperatures in the high
70's, the House returned for the start
of the academic year with a 'JB' in
charge for the second year
running - this time James Bryant ably assisted by that well known
Irishman (and soon to be Marion's
best friend) Fergus Flanagan! 75 in
the House, with 13 M4s and 7 new
L6, giving that year group the prize
for the biggest in the House - all 21
of them - although Peddie almost
counted as two after his summer
break! Term got under way briskly,
and soon the routine of the school
life took over once again from the
long, lazy days of summer. PJW was
adamant that this year was going to
be better than ever for the House and
those in it, so he was soon cracking
the whip about Preps, efficiency,
time-keeping, etc etc - rather like
being in the army some thought!
As usual the Housemaster began
worrying far too early about the
(dreaded) Choral Competition and
practices began even earlier than
usual. Unfortunately the first choice
proved to be useless, so 'Waltzing
Matilda' it was - no chance of 'Two
Little Boys' again, that perennial
favourite. Fortunately we had picked
up an M4 with the voice of an
for Fayrer; Joe Toomey, Guy James
and the mighty Flanagan winning the
individual races, and Juniors, Inters
and Seniors all winning by a massive
margin. The Housemaster was happy!
Despite this distraction, Ollie Lloyd,
Matt Chasey and James Taylorson
were proving hard to beat on the golf
course, and the Squash 1st V was
almost a complete Fayrer team with
JB, Matt Costain, Joe Li and Flanagan
all playing.
ant that this
m
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d
a
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“PJW
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angel - Simon Jennings - who
'willingly' volunteered to sing the
Solo. He was excellent, earning a
decent placing, and Callum McAllister
spent hours on the Part Song to
produce the usual popular result with
the audience, if not the judge! Good
to see Peddie on stage 'singing'
though. From
there, thoughts
turned once again
to the Cross
Country thankfully
cancelled last
year! PJW's
training routine
was put into
practice (closely
observed by
MALT so he could
take the same to
Granville the
following year)
and the
question on
everyone's lips
was "Will the
Big T run this
year?". Answer:
no - PJW let
him off again!
All came good,
with a second
successive
'clean sweep'
College rugby teams were well
represented by those from Fayrer,
and the U15s, in particular embarked
on their Daily Mail run with the
brawn (and brains!) of Joe Trayfoot,
Josh Li, Billings et al playing a major
part in their success. In the House
Touch Rugby Competition we
retained the overall Rugby Shield (in
fact, we have never lost it!) with the
U4 and 5th form teams winning,
while the 6th form team were
knocked out in the semis by Propert.
The Housemaster could hardly
contain his emotion after the
Swimming Gala when looked to be a
narrow win turned into a rout and an
overwhelming victory. Ashley Pullen
et al in the M4s won, as did the U4s
led by Charles Weaver, Rupert James
and Josh Li, while Guy James in the
5th form also swam well. We only
found out afterwards that Brian Wong
should have been in the senior team,
but he had very cannily kept quiet
about his swimming for four years!
Disappointment came at the end of
term as we lost our Volleyball crown
to Carr in an excellent final.
As term drew to a close the U6 were
frantically waiting for Uni offers, and
before the Lent Term started, we
were all delighted to hear that Stuart
Mathys had been offered a place to
read Economics at Cambridge - very
well deserved! Andrew Leung was
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awarded a Major Sixth Form
Academic Scholarship - well done
lad! Other major happenings of the
term included Kveosh remaining the
best customer of M & S Foods, Big T
turning into even more of a Chav
with his Burberry hair band, Liddell
(allegedly) seen wearing make-up and
FF instituting his Thursday Laundry
Club and Daily Shower Club for the
M4s - all to Mrs Baxter's great delight!
The start of the Lent Term was a
nightmare for all L6 and U6 as
modules began the day we returned
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unbeaten for five years! What a man!
Other House Competitions to come
our way were the Senior and Junior
Hockey, Senior Table Tennis, Matt
Costain in the squash, second in the
senior football etc etc. Another good
term, and even better news that the
downstairs toilets were being replaced
over Easter. Excitement at that news
was barely under control, together
with a rumour that Billings had
managed to spell a word that had
more than one syllable!
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“It has
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to school. Books and files were hastily
opened, with the L6 seemingly
comforted by the comments from the
U6: "well, never mind lads, you can
always sit them again in the summer!"
Ha, ha, ha! JMD returned well tanned
and DJR "get cracking, son" Campbell
returned full of vigour from his trip
home to Zim. Life seemed as busy for
the House as ever. The Solo
Instrumental Competition was
probably not our strongest suit, but
congratulations to Owain Mason-Johns
and Andrew Leung on their success.
Target rifle shooting was also going to
be a real strength, with several 'deadeyes' in the House: David Nuthall,
Harry Ball, Peter Slater and M4 Charles
Wray all began training for the season.
However, the question on everyone's
lips was: "Would the Chess Team win
again?" under the leadership and
inspirational play of that fearless chess
wizard, Eric 'the board' Lindberg?
Once again, trials were held and the
competition was up and running. PJW
kept the House informed on a regular
basis of progress made.
So, to the summer term and work,
work, work....! The first half of term
sped by and exams began for most of
the House. Sadly the Athletics and
cricket were cancelled on Founders’
Day (rain), but the M4s and U4s won
the Standards and the cricket, while
Tom Liddell captained the Tennis with
distinction. Fergus was awarded Major
Colours for Athletics (giving him
double majors after also getting them
for Hockey), Tom Liddell for Tennis,
and JB also earned his double majors
for Squash and Hockey. The House
Badminton cup came our way (again)
and the shooters excelled themselves
in both House and all the various
competitions, culminating in the
Ashburton after the end of term.
Exams finished, Sudge made a fool of
himself in Newquay and life in the
House gradually quietened down as
thoughts turned to the summer
holidays. At Prizegiving there were a
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good number awarded to members of
Fayrer - mainly U6 - and
congratulations to them.
Two big events were mentioned by
PJW at the end of term. All members
of the House were sad to see Mr Tod
leave after four years in Fayrer as he
moves to take up his post as
Housemaster of Granville (who are
you? who are you?), and he will be
sorely missed. We wish him well. The
end of the summer term also marked
the end of Mr Drinkall's 25th year as
House tutor of Fayrer - a frightening
thought, and surely some sort of
record. Again, PJW paid tribute to all
the many contributions he has made
to the House over the years.
So, another year over and all
departed for various parts of the
world and that horrible wait for exam
results. Many thanks to JB and all the
Upper Sixth for all their work on
behalf of the House and making it a
pleasant place to be this year. Good
luck to Lawrence Beatt and the rest
next year. Thanks, too, to all the staff:
Mr and Mrs Williams, Mrs Baxter and
her staff, Mr Tod, Mr Campbell, Mr.
Drinkall, Miss Morrow and Dr Wade.
It has been a good year, a great place
to be and still the best House in the
school! Beat that next year!
Salvete: HC Ball, SLK Cheung, EK Ng,
MJD Park, JCP Simons, WGD Tan, NAJ
Amin, JW Ball, AJ Billings, JAP
Dawkins, JW Gospage, TA Jackson, SG
Jennings, JEH Pease-Watkin, AF
Pullen, CG Scarlett-Smith, EH Teo, JA
Toomey, CA Wray
Valete: JD Bryant, CM Edwards, FPA
Flanagan, M Kvesoshvili, KK-Y Lee, TE
Liddell, TE Lindberg, SJ Mathys, TE So,
JHE Suh, MA Sutherland, LA Trayfoot,
CHB Wong
Lindberg was cool, calm and collected
(Kvesosh employed some fairly
dubious gamesmanship), sweeping
the House to victory once again,
demanding House Colours and a
ticker-tape parade down the main
corridor of the House. He got fairly
short shrift on that one! Well done
though to him (and the team) and, as
he proudly announced, he was
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Forest
tard
Housemaster: Mr A.J. Bus
e,
House Tutors: Fr C. A. Cas
son,
Hen
A.
P.
Mr
Mr P. J. Irvine,
Mr S. Hibbitt
ramba
Head of House: Kuzi Cha
Ma,
House Prefects: Wilfred
ngbade,
Aki
wa
olu
Ola
ng,
Chi
Ben
ng
Wo
vin
Cal
Justin Taylor,
Forest House got off to a great start
as the boys were welcomed in by the
second phase of the House’s
renovation. Much work had been
done to improve the house both
internally and externally which we
were ready to enjoy. New rooms
replaced the live-in tutor’s former
flat, and also along the corridor to
Mr Bustard’s study. Mr Pincus,
Chairman of the Board of Governors
and Old Forestian was keen to be a
part of the developments and
generously donated a large sum of
money to the garden’s development,
as did the Friends of Epsom College,
for which we are extremely grateful.
The boys were ready to get their
hands dirty, particularly some of the
L6, who were anxious to impress
(they included next year’s Head of
House; good move)!
Having settled in, the Inter-House
Choral Competition soon dawned upon
us and the House embarked on
strenuous preparation, which paid off.
Not only were the M4s able to become
a part of an age long Forest tradition
of gelling your hair back and yelling
‘Who Let The Dogs Out’, but they were
able to enjoy belting out the timeless
classic of ‘Amarillo’, our unison song,
and Bindy’s rendition of Peter Kay.
Notable performances came from
Wilfred Ma in the solo competition,
who came 4th, and particularly the
Part song ‘crew’ that came 1st,
comprising of Ola Akingbade, Ben
Ching, Kuzi Charamba, Leo Patel and
Richard Trépant, with their rendition
of ‘For The Longest Time’ by Billy Joel.
Harry Falconer. Despite a fantastic
all round effort, special mentions go
to their captain, Jamie Falconer,
and Nick Thomas, who both
represented the U14 ‘A’ team. One
year up, the U4s were not doing
too badly for themselves either,
with seven of the boys
representing the highly successful
U15 Daily Mail squad which fell
one step away from the final at
Twickenham. This included Nat
Burns, Nick Connor, Richard
Trépant, Tim Faccini, Tom
Morrison, Jake Norman, and
Jamie Falconer. Higher up, Max
Eden was awarded Colts colours
for his efforts. In the senior
squads, Kuzi Charamba and Wilfred
Ma represented the 1st XV, with Powys
Kemp in the 2nd XV, and Calvin Wong
captaining the 4th XV. Congratulations
go to Kuzi for obtaining Major colours,
and Wilfred for full colours. Cross
country was also a bit of a focal point,
as it is every year….for some.
Particularly so for Mr. Irvine, who
secretly takes pleasure from watching
us trudge up to the Chapel every other
evening and do gruesome numbers of
Chapel Triangles to try and compete
with arch rivals Fayrer. Nevertheless,
we did produce some admirable
results, such as Nick Thomas who
came second in this race, but went on
to win the districts. Also, several senior
boys performed exceptionally well.
Our sporting prowess carried on into
the Lent term. Wilfred Ma represented
the 1st XI, whilst Jamie Lenney
represented the 2nd XI.
Congratulations to Will for his full
colours. Nick Connor and Tim Faccini
also represented the U15 A team well.
A highlight of the house competition
saw the seniors holding Fayrer – all 1st
XI players to a draw, and only losing
out on penalty flicks! Remi Williams,
Justin Taylor and Kuzi also put in
strong performances for the 1st XI
football team. It must be mentioned
though, whilst some of us were out
doing our thing for the college and the
good name of the house, others
decided to represent the house in
On the sporting front in the
Michaelmas Term, Forest was yet again
at the forefront. The M4’s, full of young
budding talent, went on to win the
U14 Inter-House Rugby Cup, ably
managed by Marc Hempstead and
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other ways, particularly in the gym:
such as Ola Akingbade, who could
frequently be seen in the presence of
White House girls. Whilst no names are
mentioned, you’ve made the house
proud Ola!
The Lent Term is also well
remembered because it was Forest’s
primary occasion to showcase its
talent, not only amongst the boys but
the tutors, who came together to put
together a brilliant performance,
worthy of its standing ovation. The
Forest Soirée, hosted competently by
Joe Carroll and Ali Dewar, saw a night
full of laughs and musical
entertainment. These ranged from the
M4s daring performance of the ‘FFactor’, to the L6s ‘Remi Steady Cook’.
Mr. Irvine, yet again, took up quite a
bit of the show with his selfcomposed ballad. He wasn’t the only
one to exhibit his musical talent,
however, as we were graced with
performances by Leo Patel, Joel
Fredman, James Wilson, and the
legendary Michael George. Despite his
questionable and eye-brow raising
choice of song ‘I Don’t Wanna Work in
Forest House No More’, Mr Hibbitt’s
performance deserved the laughs and
applause it received. All in all, a good
night which received rave reviews
from parents and those not associated
with the house in any way, but just in
search of a good performance.
On the note of talent, the Soirée was
amply timed to showcase the long list
of instrumental solo music winners
from the house, who swept up many
prizes on offer from all sections of the
competition. These included Otis Earle,
Jonathan Blackburn, Richard Trépant
and the phenomenal Ian Yang. The
famous Forest ‘Freestyle’ underwent
exciting expansion under the direction
of Wilfred Ma and production of FTV.
The Summer term brought more joy as
the sunshine livened the house up and
made the boys feel like gracing the
college with its talent yet again.
Commendable performances were
witnessed in an array of sports. In
tennis, Josh Phillips won the Junior
Singles, the Junior Doubles (with Matt
Hack), and the Junior Mixed Doubles,
whilst Matt Hack and Guy Blunden
constituted the College’s U15 1st team
pair before Guy’s untimely injury.
Stunning performances were given by
both Justin Taylor and Vladimir
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Ryazantsev, who
represented the
College’s 1st team.
Congratulations to
Justin for his Major
colours, and to Vlad for
his full colours. A
spectacular
performance was also
put in by 5th former
Janil Ramesh, but this
time on the cricket
pitch. Janil represented
the 1st XI and was one
of the few to score a half
century. The excellence,
however, doesn’t end
here. Esmond Lau
captained the College
swimming team, and Ola
represented the Senior
athletics team at both
Long and Triple jump.
Looks like Ola did do
some work in the gym!
Whilst the house did well
in a wide spectrum of events, we were
unfortunate on too many occasions to
come a very close second – eight
competitions! This led to the idea from
some that perhaps Forest ought to
change their house colours from black
and gold to black and silver. With luck,
and the team, we have backing the
boys (including Yvette and her staff,
and the rest of the house tutors) and
we hope for more successes next year.
Final congratulations go out to Lisle
Chase who obtained 9A*s and 1A, and
Marc Hempstead who obtained 4A*s
and 6As at GCSE. Congratulations are
also extended to Esmond Lau who
obtained AAAAB, Kuzi Charamba who
obtained AAAA, Wilfred Ma who
obtained AAA, and Ali Dewar with AAB
at A Level. Well played to the U6 who
got into their preferred university
choices, and good luck to you guys!
You are thanked deeply for the
memories we have embedded in the
great establishment we like to call
Forest House.
express
my thanks as always to the tutors, Fr
Clive Case, Mr Irvine, Mr Henson and
Mr Hibbitt for their unswerving loyalty
and effort that they all put in for the
house.
Also, to Yvette and her team for their
Christmas party, endless patience with
Nick Thomas’ mess, and boundless
enthusiasm for the boys.
Finally, heartfelt thanks to the prefects,
Will Ma, Ola Akingbade, Ben Ching,
Calvin Wong and Justin Taylor, and of
course to the ebullient Kuzi
Caharamba as Head of House for their
enormous contributions to a
tremendous year for the house. Their
dedication, sense of loyalty and selfsacrifice were key factors and
extremely impressive.
Indeed, the U6 as a whole will be
much missed, and it was great to be
able to send them off in style (or
Justin’s horsebox(!)) with a celebration
at the Leavers’ Ball.
Mr A.J.Bustard (Housemaster)
Kuzi Charamba (Head of House)
I would just like to add a note to
e
“On the sporting front in th
Michaelmas Term, Forest was
yet again at the forefront.”
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Granville
ver
Housemaster: Mr M.C .Oli
ley,
House Tutors: Mr R.White
,
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atth
L.M
Mr
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son
Wil
Mr A.J.
Mrs T. Pearson
en
Head of House: Adam Gre
Gray
House Prefects: Charles
en
(Head of School), Adam Gre
al,
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Fur
es
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se),
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of
(Head
le,
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She
iel
James Forster, Dan
Jones,
Alan Goodyear, Alexander
eth
Gar
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Christopher Kee
in
Needham, Wilson Chin, Rob
.
Lim
y
hon
Ant
Howatson,
It was going to be a strange year this
year, knowing that Mato was going
to stand down from the house after
15 years in charge. However, we did
want to do our best for him in his
final year, so the new term started
off with plenty of enthusiasm and
willingness to do well.
With no RAH to stop us this year, the
first whole house event of the season
was, as ever, the Choral competition.
The results here were to set the tone
for the term, namely runners up! We
were second in the part song and
second overall, but ‘we woz robbed’
in the unison despite Ozzy’s best
efforts conducting us. Elsewhere, we
had Charles Rivett-Carnac starring in
the music scholars’ concert and
Limmy, Japeto, Ozzy, Goodfella, Rosh,
Myung and Charles again in the
orchestra/ensemble concert. Rosh,
Ozzy, Charles and Chuckles were also
in the choir, which featured regularly
throughout the term. Rosh and Big
Dave also picked up prizes for their
GCSE results. Although they had the
best results, eight of their year group
scored only As and A*s, which
showed that we could do some work
as well. On a similar theme, Limmy
was given a conditional place at
Queen’s Cambridge to read Natural
Sciences. Matthew Goodfella also
gained the top sixth form scholarship,
keeping it in house as Big Dave had
won it the year before.
In the term’s sport, we were 3rd in
the cross country and runners up in
the U4, 5th and senior rugby.
Anthony Gray, Gaz, Chris, Gwen and
Jonesy all played for the 1st XV and
Jonesy was awarded the Sanger
trophy for the best 1st side player at
the end of term.
Without doubt though, the highlight
of the term for the house was the
house play. Reginald Rose’s ‘Twelve
Angry Men’ was played to packed
houses in Big School and was by all
accounts one of the best house plays
ever seen. Whilst everyone acted
superbly, there were a couple of very
special performances from Barney
Cooper, Anthony Gray, Furny and Gus
Field. Anthony was then head
hunted to star in the lower sixth
form play in the Lent term, where he
was again brilliant.
initiative test. Our U4s and 5th form
also did well by reaching the
national semi finals of the Daily
Mail U15 cup and by winning the
National Rosslyn Park sevens
competition. The latter coached by
our very own Mr Whiteley. Also,
right near to the end of term
Matthew Goodfella was confirmed.
The Summer term came around all
too quickly, but started off as ever
with the Big Band and Downs Singers
concert, which had Rosh and Charles
performing. In the house
competitions we reached the final of
the junior cricket and had Jonesy as
captain of Cricket in the 1st XI along
Angry
“Reginald Rose’s ‘Twelve
Men’ was played to packed
s by
houses in Big School and wa
all accounts one of the best
house plays ever seen.”
The Lent term started with loads of
mock exams for the 5th form and
real things for the sixth form, which
meant quite a few disruptions to
the start of the term overall.
However, once things were sorted,
the usual busy programme of house
competitions started off. In the solo
instrumental competition we were
3rd overall but the top boys’ house,
Japeto, Chaz, Eduardo and Goodfella
winning their classes. We were also
3rd in the junior and senior hockey
and reached the semi-finals of the
chess. Gaz captained the 1st XI and
was awarded his major colours.
Chris also played in the 1sts. We
retained the senior swimming
trophy, but had to be content with
being overall runners up although
Alan Goodyear did us proud by not
only organising the whole
competition for us, but he also
winning every single senior trophy
competed for on the day. Now that
we had at last broken our duck for
wins instead of being runners up,
we went on to come first equal in
the AGI day competitions, winning
the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
section B, the assault course and
with Max. Jonesy was in great scoring
form this term and had 152 against
Freemen’s and 121 against KCS
Wimbledon to his name. Needless to
say he gained his major colours and
the batting award along with the Eric
Radcliffe award for the second year
running. On the track, our team
dominance had rather come to an
end, but there were several pleasing
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individual winners. Will Freeman in
the M4s won the hurdles and triple
jump, whilst Gaz won the 800m in
the seniors and Gwen won the
hurdles and 400m. The latter was the
best race of the day between Gwen
and Gaz. Both gained major colours.
Towards the end of term we had
more concerts, which featured the
Granville ‘Renaissance’ Men. The Big
Gig saw Brooksy (Andy), Mark Tampin,
Chaz, Alankar, Vincent and Ozzy
perform with a special guest
appearance from Harry Parfitt who
left us last year. Charles, Chuckles
and Curtis played in the junior
concert and Will Harrop, Chuckles,
Jimbo and Mark all starred in the
junior play. Barney starred again in
Guildford on the stage as well.
Just to round things off, Ozzy was
made Head of House, El Tel captain
of Fencing, Japeto captain of Squash,
and Max captain of Cricket, to leave
us well represented on the front of
the new calendar (Mato’s first
calendar in his new job). On Speech
Day, Curtis, Eduardo, Russell, El Tel,
Wilson, Furny, Myung, Limmy, Chaz
and Gaz were all awarded prizes to
complete the term.
On the last weekend in June, Mrs P,
who is also sadly leaving us this year
for a new post at Glyn School, had
organised a farewell to Mato
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afternoon. Typical for a girlie, she
had arranged it on the day England
were playing in the World Cup, but
that apart, it was a special day.
Literally hundreds of past and
present Granvillians and even their
parents turned up to say goodbye,
and more especially thanks to MCO.
The fact that so many of his first ever
set of M4s turned up along with
many others from subsequent years
spoke volumes for what he meant to
so many people over the years. Mr
Whiteley spoke first along with Gwen
and Chaz about Mato and although
different in style and delivery, it was
very clear that all present owed
something to him over the years:
help, support, advice and a level of
constancy that everyone could rely
on seemed to be the theme. This was
later reiterated by the Headmaster at
the end of term. The warmth of
feeling evident on the day certainly
seemed to make Mato a very happy
man indeed.
So, those of us who have also come
to the end of our time at Epsom,
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and more especially Granville, would
like to thank Jeano and her ladies
and all the tutors, in particular
wishing Mrs P all the best as she
moves on. But most of all Mato.
You’re a Legend and we all owe you
so much. We hope that you will
always remember Granville and us
and that your exeats and evenings in
the future will prove to be both
enjoyable and successful. There is no
excuse now for not getting out with
the ‘chick’s car’ and helicopter.
Salvete: Adam Gausepohl, Norris Lo,
James Wu, Rory Adam, Dominic Behar,
Andy Brooks, James Brooks, Tom
Burgess, Nikolai Dowsett, Will
Freeman, Curtis Man, Owen O’Sullivan,
Daniel Pearson, Mark Tampin
Valete: Wilson Chin, James Forster,
James Furnival, Alan Goodyear,
Charles Gray, Adam Green, Robin
Howatson, Alex Jones, Myung-Kuk
kang, Chris Keeling, Jae Woo Lau,
Anthony Lim, Alankar Lodha, Gareth
Needham, Daniel Sherville, Joshua
Shinerock, Barney Cooper
“Without doubt though,
the highlight of the term
for the house was the
house play.”
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Holman
iday
Housemaster Mr C.I.Hol
dley,
House Tutors Miss K.Chan
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Mr S.J.Head
Mr P.M.Shephard, Mr
R.M.Wycherley
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Head of House Jon Gillesp
Kris Boger
ttie,
House Prefects Alex Bea
David
David Hudson, Rob Kelly,
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Marsh, Nile
Lying at the end of the long and
lonely path, Holman is the house
which often avoids the hustle and
bustle of Epsom life. However, this
year the house threw itself into the
limelight on several occasions,
resulting in a very exciting year.
Tremendous team efforts provided
victory in the house AGI day and
Choral competitions as well as the
two-night extravaganza that was
Holmania. We decided to welcome
the 14 new recruits with a day’s
paintballing with Fayrer. This was
thoroughly enjoyed by all and
provided an opportunity for the new
members of the house to feel at
home. One of the best memories of
the day were the daring runs of Mr
Head which so often turned the tide
of war as well as the sniping abilities
of Mr Holiday which impressed
everyone. The newcomers settled in
quickly, most notably Rhys Thomas
with his unrivalled ability to disturb
prep whatever the circumstance!
The next major event in the term was
the House Choral Competition. A
traditionally solid performance in the
unison (“Ain’t No Mountain High
Enough”) together with a technically
brilliant part song, “Baby Face” and
Rob Lever doing the house proud
with a strong solo performance led to
the House winning the overall cup.
On the sporting side, the house was
well represented in the U15 Daily
Mail side with Tom Brown and Tino
Charamba proving themselves worthy
members of the team. John Ghim
excelled in the 1st XV along with Chris
Hill, whose stay in the side was only
halted by injury. The M4s would have
been a force to be reckoned with in
the cross-country, were it not for
them getting lost en route to the
Downs under the direction of their
team manager (who should know the
way after five years!). The creditable
performance of Max Denning
finishing 3rd and both Jite Avwunu
and Ben Scarles placing highly
demonstrates their ability to run a
good race despite their late start. Iceskating at Hampton Court was our
Christmas outing followed by fish and
chips. Sixty hungry holmaniacs in a
Superfish is a sight to be seen. At the
end of the term, the house saw a
new Head of House announced, with
Kris Boger taking over from Jon
Gillespie who was promoted to Head
of School.
The beginning of the Lent Term saw a
new challenge for the House - the
House Play. For weeks we toiled, with
tremendous effort from all: the
Director, Ms Chandley, who ensured
that we never lost our focus, the Codirectors kept rehearsals on schedule,
the House Tutors who managed their
“On the 6th March we
finally unveiled
“Holmania” to the rest of
the school to a simply
outrageous reception.”
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for all members of the hous
respective production teams; and
every single member of the house,
many of whom had to juggle
multiple roles. On the 6th March we
finally unveiled “Holmania” to the
rest of the school to a simply
outrageous reception. Of course there
were many fantastic performances,
but special mention must go to David
Marsh as Shrek, to Nilesh Satguru as
Donkey who successfully learnt an
unimaginable number of lines, to
Alex Fox for wearing Princess Fiona’s
dress with such confidence, whilst
Leigh Cresswell’s Pinocchio will never
be forgotten! The unanimous
congratulations afterwards made all
the hardship seem far away whilst
the unity that ‘Holmania’ achieved
shone through a week later during
the AGI day competition where
excellent leadership, from lower sixth
NCOs Rob Lever and George Adcock,
helped guide the house to victory.
Kris Boger played a key role in
ensuring the cadets were on top
form. Throughout the term David
Marsh was ever present in the 1st XI
Hockey and the 2nd XV was filled
with a further four Holman boys.
With exams looming for many
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members of the house, the
increasingly famous Holman House
Theatre Trip provided an opportunity
to relax ahead of the upcoming trials.
“Chicago” was enjoyed by everyone in
the House, including the domestic
Staff and Tutors. The focus did then
inevitably turn towards the academic
side of Epsom, with the house
notably quieter during the evenings.
However, true to Holman spirit, there
was always time for football on the
fields at prep break or a quick
sunbathe in the courtyard (inbetween revision, of course!). Despite
the cancellation of Founders Day
Athletics, the house showed its
potential with the M4s and U4s
achieving high Standards averages.
Max Denning and Jite Avwunu firmly
established themselves as athletes to
watch in upcoming years. The 1st XI
Cricket was briefly visited by David
Marsh and Nilesh Satguru, the former
being hampered by injury and the
latter by the small issue of his form!
2006 will see 12 great guys leave the
house. Theo will forever be
remembered for his quick wit and
biting takedowns, a potential
politician no doubt. Razza’s laid back
attitude was only ever disturbed by
the temptation of the Playstation
(thanks Larry!) - expect to find him
working in a beach bar in Newquay
some time soon. Nilesh, a.k.a “the
doctor”, became world renowned for
his weaseling attempts, which on one
occasion extended down to the U4s.
“The Marsh” can leave Epsom safe in
the knowledge that no human will
ever enter the gates better at ball
games than him. His future remains
an enigma. Daniel Lee was rather
hobbit-like during his time, excelling
in virtually every computer game
known to man in the process. He will
surely create a groundbreaking
technological innovation soon. No
one will ever forget the sound of Rob
Kelly’s Citroen Saxo racing around the
streets of Epsom. As long as his career
involves cars, he’ll be happy. David
Hudson made his mark at Epsom
with his inventive fashion sense and
passion for DT - a well dressed
architect in the making. Ankit ‘aPod’
Poddar definitely used the boarding
facilities to the max and his
Counterstrike skills showed his
potential to be a counter terrorist
agent in later life. Jon ‘Gingers’
Gillespie’s room turned out to be a
place for everyone to hang out in
whatever the activity. He can look
back at his days at Epsom knowing he
contributed vast amounts to the CCF,
sport, the House and also to the
College during his Lent Term tenure
as Head of School. John Ghim was
somewhat of a gentle giant. We were
never able to fully reconcile the
ferocious hooker of the 1st XV to the
passive guy about the House. No
doubt he will achieve his goal of
being a doctor. Finally, Alex Beattie
became famous for his high affinity
to aftershave and hair products, and
in his earlier days for his lack of
organisation (to the extent that the
previous Housemaster, Mr Gill,
contemplated the ‘Alex Beattie Prize
for Disorganisation’). Kris Boger will
always be remembered for his
countless Meathead Moments, such
as the infamous flying kick in
Mackinder. Perhaps more importantly
though, he rose expertly to the
challenging appointment of Head of
House. He led from the front to
ensure that Holman stayed on track
right till the very end. Farewell also
to Alex Dyer who leaves after three
years to take his many skills to the
great temple of weasels, Godalming
College. We wish him every success.
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The year provided many great
memories for all members of the
house, ranging from the so-called
“Banter Bus” with Mr Head on his
Friday duty night to the successes of
the house when competing with all
the other, lesser, houses. We wish the
new Head of House, John
Devitt, and his team of
Prefects all the best for the
forthcoming year. Thanks
must also go to our
Housemaster, Mr Holiday,
without whom most if not all
of our successes this year
simply would not have
happened.
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Valete: Alex Beattie, Kris Boger, John
Ghim, Jon Gillespie, David Hudson,
Rob Kelly, Daniel Lee, David Marsh,
Ankit Poddar, Nilesh Satguru, Razza
Shah, Theo Taylor (Upper Sixth) and
Alex Dyer (Fifth).
Thank you and Goodnight
from Kristoff Boger and
Jonathon Gillespie. And
remember, you stay classy
Epsom College.
Salvete: Jite Avwunu,
Alistair Bodily, Aidan
Chalklin, Max Denning,
Sam Holdsworth, Jeremy
Morgan, Michael NottmanWatt, Ben Scarles, Yuho
Saito, Ashwin Singh,
William Shaw, Rhys
Thomas (Middle Fourth),
Hitoshi Saito, Akshay
Poddar (Lower Sixth).
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Propert
Housemaster: Mr A.
Wolstenholme
hens,
House Tutors: Mr J.F. Step
mpson,
Tho
A.P.
Mr
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son
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R.
Mr
Mr A.W. Hughes
d
Head of House: Sandy Rei
tomley,
House Prefects: Tom Bot
Zac Frei, Richard Beinart,
b
Patrick Walsom, Alex Cob
The academic year started in typical
frantic fashion with the new boys
getting used to the long hours and the
‘veterans’ of the fifth and sixth forms
settling into a year with the pressure of
upcoming exams.
The first competition of the year
involved the whole of the house in the
form of the House Unison, and
although we didn’t place as high as
expected, the tones of
‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’
seemed to bring enjoyment to the
audience! A special acknowledgment
should be made to James Lothian who
conducted our performance with
enthusiasm and charisma, and gave a
stirring rendition of Les Miserables’
‘Bring Him Home.’ The role played by
Mr Thompson and Mr Stephens should
not be underestimated as they turned
the house from real outsiders to
genuine hopes for some success.
This was quickly followed by the Cross
Country, with Sam Hurley representing
the house in fine form by coming 2nd
in the Senior age group, and then
going on to become runner up in the
District competition. Adam Cooper was
the first Intermediate to cross the line
in 11th place and Ed Farrelly finished a
very respectable 7th place in the
Juniors. All the commitment and effort
of the boys towards the house was
clear to see and Propert ended up 5th
in the overall standings.
Propert has always had a good
reputation in the house rugby
competition in the final weeks of the
Michaelmas term and an overall 3rd
place confirmed this fact. The Sixth
Form won the trophy in fine style
meaning the Upper Sixth boys were
unbeaten in every single match played
for Propert over the five years; quite an
achievement. The Fifth form were very
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unlucky to go out on sudden death
drop goals, especially considering the
talent in the side. The Upper Fourth
finished in 3rd place and showed they
had great potential in the team. The
Middle Fourth showed a lot of hard
work and effort but sadly could not get
the results on the pitch.
A lot of the boys represented the
school throughout the age levels,
especially in the 1st XV. David Cook,
Andy Ventris, Adam Terelak and Sandy
Reid all received Major Colours for
their role in the team. Mat Davis and
Sam Hurley received Full Colours and
Alex Cobb received Half Colours,
meaning at one point seven of the
fifteen players on the pitch were from
Propert. David Cook and Adam Terelak
represented Surrey at U18 level, and
Sandy Reid was selected for the
England U18 squad. Unfortunately an
untimely knee injury meant he
couldn’t participate in the
International events. Chris York also
went to the top of the rugby honours
for his age group as he represented
England for the U16s.
Further congratulations should be
made to members of the house that
represented the 1st and
Colts VIIs. The Seniors
won the Sussex Sevens,
beating many quality
teams and only
conceding one try
throughout the
tournament. The Colts
VII went one better by
winning the National
Sevens at Rosslyn Park.
Chris York and Adam
Cooper proved very
valuable members of
that side.
produced some very good results that
put them in an excellent position
going into the Summer period.
Despite the academic side playing a
large role in the term, there was still
time for sport and games, some of
which provided a welcome relief from
the increased workload! The Senior
Football was one of those
competitions and success followed as
the team remained unbeaten
throughout the matches. The team
consisted mainly of Upper Sixth and
Lower Sixth boys and they gelled
magnificently to end up comfortable
winners. David Cook received Major
Colours in Football and Zac Frei will go
on to captain the school team next
year. Sam Hurley and Mat Davis were
also invaluable members of the 1st XI
that had a very successful season.
Unfortunately this house success could
not be repeated in the hockey but the
team was led extremely well
nevertheless by Andy Ventris, who was
an integral part of the Hockey 1st XI
through the Lent Term.
The House Swimming was not greatly
participated in the Seniors but this
‘A short but busy
term’ as Mr.
Wolstenholme
described the Lent
term was about
right, especially for
the Sixth Form as
they got stuck into
January AS and A2
level exams, exams
that were extremely
important for the
future of the boys.
Many of the boys
wasn’t the case in the Inters and some
very good swimming from Roland
Crouch, Andrew Keep, Ayremic du
Bouchet and Jamie Allum made sure
the house ended victorious in the
U16s. Roland Crouch and Andrew Keep
went on to represent Epsom in the the
National Finals and claimed a deserved
5th place in the Bath Cup. The Table
Tennis and House Chess seemed to be
overlooked, mainly because of the
early exits from the competitions! The
effort and enthusiasm by the boys
should not go unnoticed however and
the taking part is what counts anyway!
James Lothian took part and blew
away the rest of the field in the House
Shooting competition as he won the
Seniors age group. His quality in
shooting was spotted by international
coaches and he made his way to
Canada to represent Great Britain
against many other countries. Huge
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Alastair Mazumdar and Chris Harper
all had work noticed, but two
Propert students took the plaudits
with Jack Keep gaining two
distinctions in a term and David
Gazet gaining three. A well done
should be given to all those whose
work was of the highest standard.
The prizes at the end of the year went
to a lot of Propert students. Jack Keep
(Biology), Ed Farrelly (DT), Tom
Bottomley & Alex Cobb (Nutrition
Essay), Greg Nussbaum (Newsom
Instrumental), Sandy Reid (Ely
Economics), David Cook (All Rounder
Sports Cup), Sam Hurley (Wakeley
Award), James Lothian (Newsom Choir),
Avais Malik (Irish Medical Schools’s
Biology), Adam Terelak (Wood
Mathematical) and Petros Tourikis
(Pendlebury Greek) all received prizes
to show their work and achievement
throughout the year had been
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captain the College team next year.
Chris York picked up another trophy in
the U17 by winning the Victor
Ludorum, his performance in the
400m in particular being of the highest
class. David Cook and Sam Hurley
received Major Colours for their
performances for the college in the
term. Patrick Walsom ended up a
winner in the Senior Mixed Doubles
Tennis and will undoubtedly become a
vital member of the College in the
upcoming year. Elliot Grosvenor Taylor
and Rory Cook were beaten finalists in
the Junior House Tennis.
The House Prefects were vital in the
smooth running of the house
throughout the three terms and jobs
that perhaps go unnoticed should be
much appreciated. Petros Tourikis was
an excellent Charity Rep and threw
himself into the task, as well as being a
Food Rep of the highest quality. All the
“Propert has also always ha
d a strong
musical background and the
results
from the Solo Instrumental
supported this.”
credit should be given to James for
this, especially considering he ended
up with a Gold Medal ahead of 300
other competitors.
Propert has also always had a strong
musical background and the results
from the Solo Instrumental
competition supported this with
three boys placing 1st in their fields;
Greg Stidolph in Beginner Drum Kit,
James Lothian in Bass Guitar and
Shun Ito in Beginner Electric Guitar.
John Faal was placed 2nd in
Intermediate Singing and Greg
Nussbaum came 2nd in both the
Advanced Singing and Advanced
Woodwind. The Charity Show is
always considered to be a highlight
of the term and this year was no
exception, with Andy Ventris, Zac
Frei, James Lothian and Adam
Terelak proving excellent performers
in front of an expectant audience.
The final term came round after a
stressful Lent term but it didn’t
seem to deter a lot of the boys, as
the various distinctions showed. Ben
Everingham, Peter Matthews,
appreciated. It is also worth noting that
Tom Bottomley achieved his Duke of
Edinburgh Silver Award, an award that
is not achieved by many.
The final House competitions were in
Cricket, Athletics and Tennis with
success coming in all forms. Tom
Lothian led the cricket admirably and
inspired the team to a fine win over
Carr, but unfortunately an unlucky
defeat to Fayrer in the semi finals
prevented any more progress. The
Athletics in the senior age group was
once again exceptionally strong with
both relays being won by the Sixth
Form. Like the House Rugby, this
meant the Upper Sixth year had not
lost any relay throughout the five years
of the school. David Cook won the
Senior Victor Ludorum and Long Jump
cup with victories in the 100m, 200m,
Long Jump and Triple Jump. David
went on to win the County
Championships in the Long Jump with
a school record of 7.02 metres. Alex
Cobb won the Javelin at the County
Championships as well for the second
successive year and he goes on to
Upper Sixth year in fact were integral
parts of the House and created a
unique atmosphere.
All the tutors, Mr Thompson, Mrs
Pavey, Mr Stephens and Mr Hughes,
should be given a huge thank you for
the part they played in the year. Finally
Mr Wolstenholme has ensured the
house remains one of the most
respected in the school and his calm
reactions to situations have been
reflected in all the students.
Good luck to all involved with the
House next year, especially all those
taking exams to decide their futures.
I’m sure the House under Sandy Reid
will continue to shine in all situations
and go from strength to strength.
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Raven
Hall
Housemistress: Miss J.N.
ns,
House Tutors: Caroline Eva
ler,
But
n
hry
Kat
,
ock
erst
Bav
Chris
Sylvie Yvon-Case
a Morris
Head of House: Georgin
ey,
House Prefects: Katie Pav
elman,
Sarah Shephard, Jackie Kop
g,
Kin
il
Apr
ta,
Meh
Sabrina
Halinka Holeshowski,
Stephanie Down
The new school year started off with
the arrival of a number of new M4s
and two new U4s: Laura McLean and
whole house, the unison song was a
success. Charlotte Johnston sung the
house solo beautifully and the part
song got an impressive second place
in the competition. So well done to
everyone who participated!
Raven had much better luck in the
house cross-country where the
juniors did exceptionally well,
winning their section. Despite the
freezing cold weather, everyone
looked remarkably cheerful.
The Michaelmas Term sped past and
before we knew it the house hockey
matches for the M4 and U4 years
began. Whilst not managing to win,
the house team spirits were high
and they certainly looked fantastic
with all the war paint on. Hopefully
we will be luckier with the hockey
next year.
Finally the much anticipated house
trip to go and see ‘Fame’ came upon
us, which was a thoroughly fun
evening and a nice break from the
normal school routine. Many thanks
to Mrs Wooley for managing to get us
such great seats.
Eleven weeks into the term and the
Christmas house spirit was at an all
time high as secret Santa got well
underway and the house became
littered with secret Santa presents.
The Lent term brought yet more
excitement for the house in the
Raven House Soiree. However before
the excitement started, the fifth form,
lower sixth and upper sixth had to
start the dreaded exams after a not
so relaxing Christmas holiday. The
upper fourth drama students also
had to undergo their drama exams.
Ashley Crane, Laura McLean and
Charlotte Ellison all performed
excellently in ‘Billy Liar’ with Sam
Burke and Emma Cockerham on
backstage work.
A few weeks into term and at last we
could begin preparations for the
Soiree. Every day leading up to the
Flo Kirby. They were all warmly
welcomed and settled into Epsom
College life quickly and with ease.
Only three weeks into the
Michaelmas Term and Raven had
already started practising for the
annual Choral Competition. The
unison decided on by Charlotte
Johnston was ‘I say a little prayer for
you’ and could be heard all over the
house in the weeks coming up to the
competition. Stepping up a gear
from the previous year, we found
ourselves practising all over the
school, and even incorporated
actions into the performance. A
week later and the much-awaited
Choral Competition finally arrived.
Despite considerable nerves from the
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“Charlotte Johnston sung th
e house
solo beautifully and the part
song got
an impressive second place
in
night the house was alive with girls
the competition.”
frantically practising their numerous
songs and sketches for the evening.
This made it almost impossible to
concentrate in a house full of so
much excitement. Thankfully the
night ran smoothly and was a
complete success. Hidden talents
were revealed when we watched
Emma Sulman sing a solo with great
confidence and Laura Frazer sing her
memorable solo finale to the soiree.
The summer term came and the
stress felt by the fifth and sixth
formers intensified as the exams
loomed closer. There was a mixture
of excitement that the summer
holidays were getting closer and
nerves at the exams to be faced by
all of the years.
Six weeks into the summer term
and the house suddenly went from
52 to 24 as the upper sixth, lower
sixth and fifth form went on study
leave for the exams. Despite the
emptiness in the house there was
still plenty going on. There were
two plays that the Raven middle
fourths were involved in: ‘Twisted’
and ‘Gregory’s Girl’. Both were
fantastic and again uncovered some
hidden talent within the Raven
middle fourths.
When the exams were finally over,
the athletics evening began. For
some of the girls this was an exciting
prospect but for others one to be
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avoided if at all possible. Despite
many injuries during the evening and
lots of people having to fill in for
others, everyone tried their best and
we did extremely well coming second
overall. A few days later, we did
equally well in the house rounders
where we also came second overall.
Many thanks must go to Miss Hall, a
supportive asset to the house in her
first year. Also big thanks to all of
the Raven house tutors for all of the
help that they gave us last year. And
a big thank you to Holly Howson, the
head of Raven house last year, and
all the prefects. We wish Mrs Wooley
and all of the upper sixth form all
ofthe best for the future.
Robinson
nway
Housemaster: Mr.M.C .Co
ridge,
House Tutors: David Ott
ndaal,
Ode
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Paul Gre
Nick Payne
lar
Head of House: Matt Mil
Woodall,
House Prefects: Charlie
Rishi Patel, Tom Charnock,
ille,
Richard Allan, James Hav
Andrew Freeman
After a summer vacation that was
heartily enjoyed by all, the Sun once
again rose upon Epsom College and
Robinson House at the start of the
Michaelmas Term. With things having
worked so well last year it seemed as
if the new U6 had never left, as they
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entered the unchanged (but of course
fantastically clean and homely) house
to begin their own reign of terror,
sorry, responsible final year. With
most of the leavers off to their first
choice universities, including Chris
Christou winning a place to study
medicine on his gap year, the U6 had
high hopes, albeit with much work to
do, to replicate this fine feat. Prizes
were being handed out in abundance
to Robinson, probably due to its
brilliance, with Tom Wharram and
Vinothan Ganeseratnam awarded
GCSE prizes for excellent results,
Young-Han Kim winning a sixth form
scholarship and Hyung-Wu Chiang
winning the top prize in the School
Mathematics Challenge. But the main
question at the start of the term was,
could our new bright-eyed M4s rise to
the challenge that the older years laid
before them?
The term well underway by now and
the school routine set in stone, the
first task for the new lads, and indeed
the entire house, was the “loved”
House Choral Competition. After
careful deliberation, “Somebody to
love” was chosen as our unison piece,
although Oliver Boyd looked almost
heartbroken at the selection, with his
choice coming in at, lets say, a close
second. (But we shan’t mention his
choice here.)Many doubted Robinson
could maintain its high standard of
tuneful singing, but 3rd in the
Unison, along with fantastic
performances from the part song
team (singing “Under the Boardwalk”)
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skill simply
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and Liam Anderson in another
glorious solo (singing “Beyond the
Seas”) secured Robinson 2nd place
overall, or as it is often referred to,
the Second Winner’s spot.
The house eager for more challenges
to overcome (it was almost a struggle
for the U6 to contain James Haville’s
excitement), the school cross-country
was a welcome arrival…honest. While
some members of the house had to
“fall on their swords” to allow other
members to race (becoming time
keepers and such), Alex Gimblett led
the house onto the fabled Epsom
Downs. Heroes are made on the hilly
verges of that land, and it was no
exception this year. For Liam Anderson
the Choral Competition solo was not
enough, and seemingly flew in as the
fastest U4 in the cross country, landing
him 2nd place in the inters
competition. James Edwards also
produced a fantastic effort for the
juniors coming 3rd, and also helping
the Robinson M4s to come 3rd overall.
It was a while before the competition
could conclude though, as Mark Smets
and Wai-Kin Shing decided to take a
more…scenic route to the end. We
hear the scenery was lovely.
The final chapter of the Michaelmas
term unfolded with the start of the
inter house rugby tournament.
Speed, strength and skill simply
flowed out of the house as they took
to the field, but on that day the
opposition may have been more
prepared, or they may just have been
lucky, we don’t know. However the
M4s managed to come 4th overall,
and Jeremy Evans did extraordinary
work to captain a U4 side that was so
worried about coursework deadlines,
house rugby was almost a second
priority (as it should be).
he wished for, another term of
school! And so the Lent term began.
Out with the rugby, in with the
hockey and football, as they say.
Unfortunately the younger years still
needed a bit of time to grasp the
concept of hockey, so when the
house hockey tournament came in
they hadn’t really had the time to
fully develop their undoubted hockey
talent. But one Jack Cole, known as
the “Wall in Goal” was just that, a
wall in the goal, saving shots that
shouldn’t be able to be saved, and
giving the juniors the edge they
needed to have a shout in the
competition. The senior hockey
competition met with more success.
James Haville (that’s right girls, THE
James Haville) led the team with
admiration to the plate final, which
we SHOULD have won (is that right
MCC? I wasn’t there). The senior
football had, well, slightly less
success, but Alex Gimblett captained
the side stupendously through injury,
heavy workloads and bad luck. But
victory was just around the corner for
Robinson, winning the first ever
Epsom College pancake race, and I
assure you it took a long time for the
other houses to live that down.
Gleaming from our success, the
faculty thought it a brilliant idea for
Robinson to host its first ever soiree,
and a good idea it was! With acts
such as the M4 blind date, U4/5th
Monty Python and video sketch, L6
restaurant sketch, U6th chav act,
violin duets and the band, as well as
duets from Liam and Gordon, there
was a lot of talent on show and
everyone had a very enjoyable time.
The Brave few that dared enter the
Epsom College swimming pool were
rewarded with some respectable
results. Tom Wharram led the seniors
to 3rd place single handed, with the
M4s and 5th coming in the top four.
Two down and one to go, so bring on
the Summer!
And so it came, the Summer Term,
seen in two lights as first: the final
term of the year, sunshine and
holidays to come, and of course,
exam time. But this didn’t put
anyone off, especially as it was
Standards season. There were some
fantastic performances, notably from
Jeremy Evans, James Edwards and
Max Nicholson. These three were
Tom Charnock and Justin Hast
obtained 1stXV places, a great
achievement indeed, and Matt Millar
won Major Colours for his success on
the shooting pitch…field…range.
The Christmas holidays came and
went and I’m sure everyone got what
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mnearly heartbroken when founders
day was cancelled, but it was
rescheduled for another day, and
how good was it that it was! Jeremy
Evans emerged as Victor Ludorum,
the M4s and U4s managed to win all
their relays, and all involved were
awarded house colours for their
success. Then the 5th form and
above managed to do enough to
ensure Robinson won the relay
trophy by three points; an
outstanding achievement! On the
cricket field Justin Hast, Ewan
Lavender and Charlie Woodall
managed to get into the 1stXI Cricket
side, and musically much of the
house participated in numerous
concerts, including the Big Gig.
And so the Summer Term drew to a
close, but not without a host of prizes
for many Robinson pupils. Andrew
Freeman and Charlie Woodall
obtained Paice Scholarships, which
allowed Charlie to go and teach in
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India, and Andrew to help build a
school in Thailand. Rishi Patel and
Richard Allan together collected a
vast amount of academic prizes, with
Rishi winning the Irish Medical
Schools prize (although MDH claims
Rishi only won the Irish Medical
Schools prize because it is an
anagram of his name!), and Richard
collecting the Economics, French and
Propert Prizes. Tom Wharram is
following in Charlie Woodall’s
footsteps and going on a Tall Ship
race after winning the Warren Pickett
prize. Liam Anderson, Daniel D’Souza,
Charlie Higgs, Jaspal Chana and new
boy, Matthew Wade won top
acedemic prizes in many subjects
also. Also during the start of the
holidays Matt Millar, Tom Wharram,
Ben Newman and Michael Clayton
managed to win back the Ashburton
shield and Justin Hast and Sam
Wilkinson went off to the South
Pacific on a rugby tour.
Endless praise and thanks must go to
the staff of the house, who constantly
put the time and effort into
Robinson. Thanks must also go to my
prefect team and the whole U6 for
dedicating their time to helping the
house and myself out. Also special
thanks must go to Mr Ottridge who,
against our wishes, retired at the end
of this year. On behalf of Robinson,
we wish him farewell and a happy
retirement. We know that he’ll miss
the hustle and bustle of school life,
but must thank him for the huge
amount of work and effort he has
done for the house and whole school.
I know Richard will miss his maths
lessons dearly. Finally, I must pass on
the reins of Head of House to Tom
Wharram and wish him, the prefects,
the new U6 and indeed the entire
house the best of luck in the future.
It all goes so fast…
role with four other members of our
sixth form on stage. Lent Term saw
our involvement in football where we
had a good deal of success to gain a
place in the final and become
runnners-up. In the senior hockey it
looked like we could not field a team,
but in Rosebery style we pulled
together a number of players. To
everyone's surprise we won various
matches to gain a place in the plate
final which we won! The juniors were
not as successful but they played
some creditable matches. However,
for them, there was better success in
table tennis where they were runners
up. There was a good turnout for CCF
AGI where Rosebery set a high
standard of discipline. We did well in
the house competitions, winning the
shooting, and were the top boys’
house in drill.
With so much acting and musical
talent, Rosebery made an impressive
contribution to the school charity
show as well as many entries in the
Instrumental Competition. In the
Summer we were involved in tennis
cricket and athletics. Although not
gaining any silver we were forces to
be reckoned with in various
competitions. Well done to Patrick
Iyoyin for winning the 100m and
200m. Apart from all the
competitions, the house gained a
huge number of distinctions and
prizes throughout the year.
Rosebery
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Housemaster: Mr M. Ham
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House Tutors: Mr P.J. Gill
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Head of House: M A Abb
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House Prefects: N Joshi,
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Once again Roseberians have been
involved in all aspects of College life.
In rugby our seniors had more
success than the juniors with the 6th
and 5th teams both being runners up
in the plate competitions. There was
a spirited performance in crosscountry with a mention of George
Broom finishing 5th in the
Intermediate competition and the
juniors ending 4th overall. As ever we
made a big contribution in the Choral
Competition. Dan Bailey, our soloist
singing "Panis Angelicus", won the
Jeremy Trott solo cup. There was a
good part song followed by an
enthusiastic rendition of "There is
Nothing Like a Dame" which was
judged by many to be a fine
performance. For the school
performance of West Side Story it was
good to see Jeremy Holiday in a lead
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Our thanks to Mr Hampshire and
the team of tutors for their support
and guidance.
Mark Abbosh
Head of House
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White
second place and was only narrowly
beaten by Rosebery’s (supposed)
superior contestant. The part-song,
“Lean On Me”, sung admirably by the
White House Sextet, unfortunately
didn’t feature too highly, although
this was due to some stiff
competition rather than a lack of
talent on their part.
inmill
Housemistress: Mrs C.W
ield, Mrs
House Tutors: Ms Brookf
ter
Creevey, Mrs Jerrit , Mr Sivi
Shiundu
Head of House: Arnolda
kfordHouse Prefects: Eboni Bec
u, Olivia
Chambers, Charlotte Cha
r
Hao, Rosie Seabrook, Jennife
Winter,
Walton-Gould, Alexandra
Jennifer Wong
The year began with the arrival of 28
new Lower Sixth girls into the house
and the return for the Upper Sixth to
another year of eagerly anticipated
exams. After the long, languorous
summer the return to lessons was
admittedly a shock to the system, but
within a week or so everyone had
adapted well and the early mornings
were marginally less painful. We lost
no time in acquainting ourselves
with all the new faces and within
only a matter of days the obligatory
cliques had been formed. The
prefects had begun to exercise their
new-found authority and everyone
felt quite at home.
Also during the Michaelmas term was
the inter-house swimming
competition in which the girls, in true
White House style, performed
spectacularly, demonstrating not only
a spirit for competition, but also an
inclination to win. We were proud to
lay claim to the majority of ‘first’
places but narrowly missed out on
the two races which carried the most
points. Overall, however, the House
gained the impressive position of
fourth (out of four), although there
were many individual victories to be
celebrated, notably Alice Twyman and
her string of successes.
celebrated in true style with a baby
shower held in the common room
where all the girls lavished Mrs
Winmill with copious, but
nonetheless much-appreciated, gifts.
It was in the Lent Term, however, that
the house got the opportunity to
participate in the mother of all races:
the pancake race. This consisted of a
relay-race around chapel triangle
with three members in each team,
each having to toss a pancake at each
corner of the triangle. A significant
portion of the house annual budget
was put to good use purchasing stateof-the-art pancake equipment,
including non-stick pans with
moulded grips for each team
member. After weeks of gruelling
training involving countless bags of
flour and eggs and nightly drills in
pancake-tossing, the team finally felt
Just before the November half-term,
Mrs Winmill surprised the house with
the news that the White House
community would shortly be
expanding: with the arrival of
Noémie, Mrs Winmill’s second
bundle of joy. Shortly afterwards,
Miss Allnutt revealed that she was
engaged to be married on the 25
March but it wasn’t until the Lent
term that the newly named Mrs
Jerrit announced that she too was
expecting a baby – this time a boy then going by the (hopefully
temporary) name of Jellybean.
Noémie’s arrival on April 15th was
The Michaelmas term brought the
annual inter-house choral
competition and with it, many hastily
scheduled rehearsals. The chosen
unison song was Sister Act’s “Hail
Holy Queen” and after a little effort
every member of the house was able
to reach the piercingly high notes and
managed to band together to sing
reasonably well in tune. Our efforts
did not go unrewarded as our spirited
performance earned us second place
in the unison. Melanie Tien, our
chosen soloist, warbled her way into
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unwind and as the new Lower Sixth
girls due to join in the next academic
year also attended. The opportunities
to mingle and expand social circles
were abundant.
ready to take on the competition.
However, despite our rigorous
training schedule, our commitment
and our passion to win, our dream
was sadly not to become reality. We
were eventually decimated by the
superior athletic talents of the
opposition who, despite
demonstrating a somewhat flippant
attitude towards the proceedings,
proved that it was sheer speed that
counted and that actual pancaketossing style counted for very little.
The soiree was most definitely the
highlight of the summer term as we
dazzled our audience with a display
of impressive dancing, music and
acting. The evening began with an
illustration of the many different
languages and cultures that are
represented within the house,
ranging from Irish to Malay to Italian.
This was followed by “A Typical
Prefect Meeting”, in which Mrs
Winmill and her prefects revealed the
innermost secrets of the house to a
shocked but nonetheless highly
amused audience. Rebecca and
Charlotte expertly demonstrated the
natural musical flair that is inherent
in all true White House girls while
Jenny and Catrin displayed innate
grace and elegance in their exquisite
ballet. Not forgetting, of course, the
White House anthem, where the true
essence of the house was expressed
most accurately through lines such as
“we are the brightest girls / genuine
cultured pearls”. The evening was, it
has to be said, a huge success and
served not only to display the many
talented individuals in the house, but
also did huge amounts to improve
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morale during the build-up to the
examination period. The way in
which the entire house pulled
together – both backstage crew and
performers – to accomplish such a
spectacular event, really was
inspirational.
Once the many trials and tribulations
of study leave and A Level exams
were over, the house enjoyed a most
welcome summer barbeque. The
White House lawn proved an
exceptionally appealing venue in
which to savour the delicious culinary
skills of the College chefs and the
evening was completed with the
quintessentially English dessert of
strawberries and cream. Everyone
finally had the chance to relax and
It truly was a great end to a great
year and huge thanks must of course
go to Mrs Winmill and the house
tutors for their limitless patience in
dealing with the day to day problems
of the house, the many occurrences
of teenage angst, and generally
keeping us in order. Their help and
encouragement during the exam
period was also greatly appreciated as
they offered guidance and support to
keep general stress levels at a low.
Thanks are also due to the house
prefects and Arnolda as our head of
house for demonstrating exemplary
leadership skills and for really uniting
and motivating great house spirit in
all activities. As the Upper Sixth
depart for pastures new, we wish
them all the best of luck in their
various University courses and while
it is, of course, sad to say goodbye,
the house will begin afresh with a
new intake of Lower Sixth girls in
September. We wish the best of luck
to Catrin Page, who will take over as
Head of House, and her team of
prefects, and hope that the year to
follow is as successful and enjoyable
as the one that has passed.
Sophie Fisher
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Wilson
Parsons
Housemistress: Mrs D. A.
Adams,
House Tutors: Miss K. R.
tle
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Mr B. J. Cur
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Head of House: Katie Mo
Head of School: Josie Day
Judith
Prefects: Sophie Billings,
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Coster, Ginny
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Hughes, Kate Newman, Han
ana
Sad
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Em
Robertson,
For the ladies of Wilson House
we’ve shared some classic times this
past year and we continue to delight
and surprise Mrs Parsons with our
many talents.
The year had an epic start with our
very memorable rendition of the
fabulous piece, ‘Just you wait ‘enry
‘iggins’, which was picked and
directed by Jessica Rinland, who did
the house proud. Katie Moss (Flossy)
directed and arranged the legendary
‘Sound of Silence’, which although
challenging was performed superbly
by all the girls involved. Charlotte
Liparoto very bravely took to the
stage to perform her debut solo
performance of Sister Hazel’s ‘Your
Winter,’ accompanied by Jessica on
acoustic guitar.
Wilson continue to raise the bar of
excellence in hockey (one of the many
sports we excel at as a House). Emily
Hughes who captained the 1st X1 won
the Hockey cup and was awarded
major colours. From the Upper Sixth,
Kate Newman and Josie Day were
awarded full colours. Nigora
Normatova won the Shaw trophy for
most improved player (we thought
she was brilliant to begin with).
Hockey was also well represented by
Wilson in the U16s and below. Jenny
Bryant (Lanky Larry) was awarded
Colts colours and Raphaelle Moore
(Smackdown) was given the colts
trophy for the most promising player.
Meghann Murdock won the
Maidment trophy for the most
improved player and Abigail Raye
was an outstanding captain of the
U15 A X1 and a very promising
player. Her decision to join her family
in Canada was Canada`s gain and our
loss. We miss her greatly.
In cross country, Wilson were ‘miles’
ahead in the positions: Helena
Mortimer, Meghann Murdock, Jess
Eden-Juster, Natasha Wood,
Madeleine Mortimer, Claire
Wilkinson, Sidony Laing, Ffion CareyEvans and Lottie Mungavin all came
within the top 5. The intense
training, and chapel triangles came
into effect and everybody put in an
outstanding performance.
The ‘swish swish’ sound of success
echoed through the College whenever
the Wilson girls were on centre court
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during the netball season. Good
performances came from Sophie
Billings, Michelle Watkin, Madeleine
Mortimer, Natasha Wood and Ami
Hodges who were all awarded full
colours. Jenny Bryant won Colts
colours and the junior cup went to
Helena Mortimer. Our little M4s also
played well with a special mention to
Rachael Lenney and Pippa Smith who
got most improved players.
Kat Law strutted her stuff in a black
high cut swimsuit and hat to match.
Not only did she look the part, she
also swam like a salmon upstream,
setting a new record in the U16 50m
swimming record and was awarded
the girls’ individual trophy.
‘The ball was on the line’…
appropriate considering Wilson’s
passionate participation in this
year’s Table Tennis competition,
which we convincingly won. In
volleyball we came second. Special
mention to the ‘smackdown’ tag
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Apparently not just pretty faces, the
Wilson girls also achieved some very
good Academic results at A level, AS
and GCSE. Notable performances
came from Sophie Billings, Judith
Coster, Katie Moss, Emily Hughes,
Kate Newman, Ginny Handley, Jess
Rinland and Emily Sadana.
Lucy Billings, Claire Wilkinson,
Madeleine Mortimer, Michelle Watkin,
Natasha Wood, Sarah Campus,
Katherine Lammiman (Chops) and
Emma-Jane Price all achieved
outstanding results.
Beverly Lee headed the house at GCSE
attaining nine A*s and 1A, closely
followed by Framn Kearney and the
rest of our girls also attained some
very impressive results, 60% were A or
A* and 90% was A*,A or B.
At Final Roll many of our girls’
triumphed: Lucy Phillips (English),
Georgie Morley (Art), Sophie Sachak
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(Art), Lottie Mungavin (Spanish),
Sophie Billings (Politics), Judith Coster
(Marcelle Rowe Drama prize), Josie
Day (Barbers’ Company Biology Prize
and Brande Award), Emily Hughes
(Jensen Drama Prize), Katie Moss
(Headmaster’s choir prize & the S.R.
Piper award), Jessica Rinland (O.E
Lodge Citizenship prize), Hannah
Robertson (Marcelle Rowe Drama
prize), Sophie Billings was awarded
the Peter Gardner trophy in
recognition of her many and varied
contributions to the house and
school over the past five years. Pippa
Smith was also commended by the
headmaster for the number of
distinctions that she received.
As Mrs Parsons’ tenth year as
Housemistress draws to a close (who
still remains eternally youthful!) we
quote her in saying ‘it is heartening
to see members of Wilson taking full
team namely Raphaelle Moore and
Jennifer Bryant, who proceeded to
mark the occasion with permanent
marker on their faces - to say the
least, a very memorable
participation on Wilson’s behalf.
Our very own Jazzy Jeff, Helen Price,
wowed audiences coming second in
the finals of the intermediate and
advanced jazz piano. Katie Moss
went down a treat coming first in the
finals of the intermediate flute and
oboe section and the advanced
singing section.
Attention! Stand at ease… A.G.I day
was represented at the highest level
by members of Wilson House. Josie
Day was joint head of the CCF (army)
and Katie Moss was head of the RAF
section. Natasha Wood asserted her
authority, leading the Honour Guard.
Wilson won the overall CCF trophy
and the CCF shield. Many thanks also,
to Sophie Billings for all her effort.
The fine sport of bat, ball and cunning
skill, requiring the finest of athletes
with the strongest of nerves to
compete for each all important post,
namely rounders, is where the U16’s
found their niche. In athletics Sophie
Sachak, Holly Brook, Danielle Rice,
Lucy Phillips and Helena Mortimer all
gave strong performances and Sophie
Sachak was awarded the Vickie
Guthrie Salver for commitment.
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up with us…although it was pretty
easy. Good luck to you all…hopefully
you will all visit us!
We wish Madeleine Mortimer and
Michelle Watkin the best of luck as
they take on the roles of Head of
School and Head of House. We say
farewell, and thank you to Miss
Levillain, the lovely French assistante,
who leaves Epsom to continue her
studies in France. Finally our thanks
go to Mr & Mrs Parsons, Miss Adams,
Mr Curtis, Mr Postle, Miss West, Sarah
Newman-Tremble, Mrs K, Sharon, Pat
and Babs who all contribute in
various ways to the success and
of Wilson House we’ve
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“
this past year
shared some classic times
and surprise
and we continue to delight
talents. ”
Mrs Parsons with our many
advantage of every sphere of college
life’. Cheerfulness, creativity,
compassion, competitiveness and
care for one another continue to be
at the core of Wilson`s values, like
‘the fruit salad’.
We say thank you and farewell to all
the leavers and give our very special
thanks to Josie Day (Head of school)
and Katie Moss (Head of House) and
all of the Wilson U6th, who will
always be greatly missed: Especially
Kate Newman (Snewms) since the
cross word now remains empty each
day; to Jessica Rinland and her clutter
on ‘her’ purple sofa; Ginny’s insightful
and well structured thoughts; the
house will be quiet in Sophie
Billings’s absence. The house height
average has rocketed since Hannah
Robertson and Judith Coster have
departed. There is now also a lack of
“Emilies” in the house. Well done to
the two important ladies for putting
happy environment in Wilson House.
We wish good luck to Miss Adams,
who will be the resident tutor in
September along with her two cats!
We congratulate Pat on her
promotion to matron of White House;
all her hard work has not gone
unnoticed! Congratulations are also
due to Miss West who got married
over the summer holidays and is now
very aptly named Mrs Wilson – very
appropriate we thought!
We all look forward to the very
exciting and eventful year silently
approaching and I know Mrs Parsons
is intrigued as to what new talents
and achievements we can conjure up
next year…till then.
By Raphaelle Moore and Nellie Eden
Salvete: Charlotte Billings, Ffion
Carey-Evans, Katie Ho, Sidony Laing,
Rachael Lenney, Jennifer Leung,
Lottie Mungavin, Issy Porter, Helen
Price, Sophie Sachak, Pippa Smith.
Valete: Sophie Billings, Judith Coster,
Josie Day, Ginny Handley, Emily
Hughes, Katie Moss, Kate Newman,
Jessica Rinland, Hannah Robertson,
Emily Sadana, Francesca Kearney,
Charlotte Liparoto, Abigail Raye and
Katie Ho.
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Tours
Girls Tour Down Under – A personal
account…
Following tiring training sessions in
the sweltering summer heat and a
year of build up, the moment was
finally here. The senior girls gathered
underneath the Granville tower
anxiously awaiting what lay before
them in the next three weeks and
saying final goodbyes to tearful
parents…where were mine? Already
out of the country. Thanks.
Accompanied by Mrs Drinkall, Miss
Thornley and Passport Control (Mrs
Irvine), we arrived at Heathrow. The
cameras were out. True tourists. The
confirmation of a twelve hour flight
to Singapore, our first destination,
forced a synchronised groan, but with
the mention of a boys tour travelling
on the same flight, everyone
suddenly perked up… Unfortunately
it was a false alarm. Girls tour.
Slightly different Mrs D. However this
news did not deter certain tourists
who put their skills to practice at the
first opportunity. Poor Mark. Did he
ever email you Clara?
If I carried on in such detail, you
would probably still be reading this
tomorrow. So I apologize for leaving
out parts of the tour, either for
editing reasons or suitability
(cough…dark horse) for the
unknowing reader.
Singapore can be summed up in
three words(ish): Crazy…sorry I mean
Casey, sun-burn and jet-lag. Intense
netball and hole-ridden hockey
pitches were experienced on the
sporting front amongst various visits
that translated into ‘activities to stop
you from falling asleep’, although
some may have hindered the aim,
ahem, botanical gardens (sorry).
Something I liked most about the
tour was getting the opportunity to
get to know the year below. Early on I
learnt about Wallis’ love of shopping.
As malls were pointed out from the
tour bus, her eyes widened and a big
grin could be noticed spreading
across her face even as it was pressed
up against the window in awe. We
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travel 7000 miles and it is the thing
that girls still get most excited about.
Some things never change.
Our arrival in Western Australia
meant our first billets, a scary
prospect. Many thoughts were
running through my mind, ‘What if
they don’t like me?’ ‘What if I get put
with the girl I ‘accidentally’ tripped
up for shoving JB in the netball
match?’ ‘What if I am with a family
that gets up at 4.30am to greet the
sea?’ (Yes, that actually happened on
a tour a few years ago). It was a
harrowing experience and I felt like I
was back in prep school, standing in
the playground waiting to be picked
for a team. Luckily I was saved and
hosted extremely well. One down,
two to go. Being billeted, if you got a
good one, was thought by everyone
to be a much more real and
worthwhile experience than staying
in a hotel. You get a better feel for
what life is like there, whether that
is by drinking rainwater or braving
the winter with no central heating.
Contrastingly, my next host in Perth
was not as successful. They insisted
upon taking me to another host’s
house within two hours of
meeting them. I clearly made a
great first impression.
Having said that, the Lakes resort in
Cairns was incredible. The Great
Barrier Reef was breath taking, but a
little birdie told me that a certain
person enjoyed the return boat ride a
little more…need I mention whom?
By this time I was getting into the
Australian way of things. Feeling
adventurous, I decided to try
kangaroo, emu, and crocodile.
Surprisingly, the crocodile tasted
exactly like chicken. I recommend
them all. I even got into the annoying
habit of raising the end of my
sentences as if I was constantly
asking questions.
Sydney, tourist central. And an
uncanny reflection of London. I had to
think where we were as I saw signs for
Oxford St, Liverpool St, Covent
Gardens, Hyde Park and Kings Cross.
And no, Hannah, they copied us.
England founded Australia remember?
On the plane journey to Sydney, the
girls knew that we would be seeing
the “lads on tour” soon and the wags
(wives and girlfriends) were all
dutifully excited at the prospect of
being reunited with their other
halves while the rest of us sat around
sticking two fingers down our
throats. I’m sorry; it’s just hard to
feign excitement for someone else at
all, let alone for hours on end, whilst
rubbing in the fact that we don’t
have someone to greet us at the
other end. How long until we land
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Wallis? 37 minutes and 53 seconds.
Sums it up.
Inevitably when we arrived, most of
the mixing between the two tours
was done by the couples as singletons
stood separately, school disco style. I
exaggerate, it was just the initial
reaction. Soon everyone was mingling
and retelling stories; things that had
already gone down on tour, and did
not stay on tour (unfortunately for
some, staff included), and banter was
rife mate.
Some would argue that staying in the
same hotel was a recipe for disaster.
Personally I thought we all behaved
pretty well considering…could have
been worse. Could have been caught
in the boy’s rooms after bedtime, but
no need to dwell on the past.
We were soon to separate as the girls
stayed in billets for three nights of the
five in Sydney, whilst the boys stayed
in the hotel. Tactical move Mrs D.
After five days of wind and rain, no
we weren’t at home yet, we
welcomed Fiji with open arms and I
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hoped to make use of that bikini I
had bought back in Perth. Apparently
even that was a tall order. After a day
of gruelling heat the weather took an
unforeseen turn. Following our last
netball match on grass, the teams
gave their trainers to their barefooted opponents. It was an
unexpected but extremely touching
scene. The last two days of R&R were
slightly disrupted by a full-on storm,
palm trees bent double and torrential
rain. Typical. But it did not stop us
hardened tourists as we braved the
hot tub, determined to make the
most of our final hours.
Despite the minor setback, it was a
very enjoyable last couple of days as
the two groups shared the dying
moments of an extraordinary three
weeks. Sounds romantic right? Well
we were in Fiji… Even I, the one
making puking noises on the plane to
Sydney, could not resist the Fijian
effect. It was the perfect end to an
unparalleled tour and one that I will
not be forgetting in a hurry.
Madeleine Mortimer
liked most
“Something I
about the tour was getting
the opportunity to get to
know the year below. ”
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Girls' Hockey and Netball Tour to Singapore,
Australia and Fiji July /August 2006
On Sunday 23rd July on a clear,
bright day the party assembled
outside Granville. Girls arrived
promptly and looked very smart in
their travelling tour kit. After a team
photograph and a thank you to the
parents from FCD and of course fond
farewells we left just before 7.30am.
We were at Heathrow by 0800 and as
check in and security took an hour
we had time to check out duty free
and have breakfast before boarding
the QF 32 to Singapore.
In the 20 days that followed the
touring party, 20 great girls and 3 staff,
flew on 8 flights and travelled to
Singapore, Perth, Cairns, Sydney, Fiji
and back to London via Los Angeles.
12 netball matches were played and 6
hockey matches were played.
Eleanor (Ellie) Fisher captained the
Netball A's and Sarah Campus
captained the Netball B's. Both grew
in stature as the tour progressed and
demonstrated clear leadership skills.
They motivated the teams through
encouragement and by displaying a
determination that the teams should
play their very best. They played 12
games and won 7.
April King captained the Hockey with
Becci Carpenter as her vice. They
made an excellent pairing. April led by
example clearly demonstrating that
she was the best hockey player and
Becci Carpenter was a perfect foil to
April. The hockey team played 6
matches and won 4.
Matches were played on a variety of
surfaces and in a range of locations. In
Singapore netball was played in the
Singapore Sport School and hockey
was played on the Padang in the
centre of Singapore. In Australia
matches were played on conventional
surfaces, but in Fiji netball was played
in the open air under a blazing sun on
a grass surface that was far from flat.
All girls played most matches and for a
considerable length of time of play.
Their determination to win matches
was clear and they played well
together and were effective in both
attack and defence. In both netball
and hockey matches they showed skill,
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spirit and team work. Over the course
of the tour their general level of
fitness increased and their
cohesiveness strengthened. Each game
was memorable for different reasons.
The match against Singapore Sports
School will be remembered as the first
of the netball matches. Epsom put up
a spirited defence against a faster
team in really difficult playing
conditions. Ami, Maddy and Corinne
played effectively in matches that
were both won by the Singapore
Sports School.
The setting of the hockey match on
the Padang was amazing. On one side
were the skyscrapers of Singapore and
on the other side of the ground were
enormous, very old trees. The girls
played against a team of ladies and
won 2 nil. Becci and Jenny were the
goal scorers in that match. It was an
excellent result.
The next matches were played on a
different continent and Epsom lost
both of the netball matches to
Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School.
Bunbury had a really strong defence
and exploited Epsom's weaknesses,
but Epsom did not give up and fought
hard. Revenge was gained when
Epsom beat the school at hockey the
following day 2:1. Baileigh scored both
goals from two great crosses by Eloise.
The hockey match in Perth the
following day was again a victory for
Epsom. Played on grass April scored
both goals and Jenny and Corinne had
a great game.
In Cairns the netball matches against
Trinity Bay High School were won by
Epsom. The opposition was younger
but they had played against 5
touring sides from England. Epsom
responded well and had good
positions, movements and brought
subs on and off showing good team
work. The hockey match played later
on that day against Cairns High
School was a convincing win for
Epsom 3: 1 with April scoring all
three goals. It was a good match for
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Individually the girls will be
remembered in different ways. Katie
Pavey will be remembered for saving
so many goals and having a bag she
could get into.
Ami and Katie. Sarah, Maddy, Becci,
Alice, Ellie, Jess and Clara also had a
good game. It had been a day of
injuries but the girls were undaunted
and the tour carried on.
In Sydney, Barker College won the
first hockey match against Epsom 6:4.
Becci scored two of the goals, one
with a reverse stick. It was a blow not
to win this match and the girls were
disappointed to have their unbeaten
record broken, but it made them
determined to do well in the netball
matches to be played the next day.
Netball matches were played against
Bromsgrove and Barker. The A’s won
their matches against Bromsgrove
and Barker. The B’s won their match
against Bromsgrove and narrowly lost
to Barker. Clara and Wallis played
well and Georgie’s shooting was
showing maturity.
Overall Results
Netball
P12 W7 L5
The final hockey match in Sydney was
played against Barker and a fiercely
contested match took place with a
final score of Barker 2 Epsom 1.
Epsom had been tired but to quote
Nigi the 'team had done their best'.
One cannot ask for any more. The girls
will be better players and will be
stronger for this experience.
The final match of the tour was a
netball match in Sigatoka, Fiji. On a
very uneven playing surface Epsom A’s
and B’s won both of their matches in
unbearably hot playing conditions. In
Fiji the girls competed against a team
who were playing barefoot. It
prompted many of the girls from
Epsom at the end of the match to give
their trainers to the opposition. It was
a touching moment to see the
compassion shown by the girls to their
fellow players. Much of the netball kit
used on tour was also presented to the
school. It meant that they could play
in the netball league.
Ami Hodges was the best netball
player in the A’s and Madeleine
Mortimer was such a good all-rounder.
Hannah Kent showed versatility and
Georgie Hazell was acknowledged to
be the best tourist. Georgie had
throughout the tour shown
consideration for her fellow tourists.
Eloise Alexander was acknowledged to
be one of the best netballers in the
B's. Jenny Bryant and Clara Liddell
were recognised as being good as a
defensive unit and coping with the
cold in Bunbury. Corinne Hammond
was voted Supersub. Nigora
Normatova was recognised as being
one of the best netballers in the B’s.
Coralie Yeo was recognized for her
contribution to the co-educational
system. Jessica Eden-Juster will be
remembered for surviving a sinus
attack and having an awesome tan
line. Baileigh Walsh was acknowledged
as being one of the best netballers in
the B’s and for hockey goals. Wallis
Swanston-Murphy was noted for being
a good netballer and being a 1st class
shopper. Alice Twyman was credited
with helping Anglo Australian
relations. Jenny Hedges scored a goal
on home soil in Singapore and that
was very memorable.
Spectators ranged in numbers. The
tourists throughout supported each
other on the various fields of play.
They cheered, encouraged and gave
advice. In addition we were glad of
the support of Mr Hammond in
Perth and Mr and Mrs Cox (Bekki the
gappie's parents) in Sydney.
Hockey
P6 W4 L2
1
Goal Scorers 14 King 7, Carpenter 3, Walsh 2, Hedges 1, Alexander
Tourists
5. G. Hazell (Wh),
1. K. Pavey (Rv), 2. A. Hodges (W), 3. M. Mortimer (W), 4. H. Kent (Rv),
A. King (Rv),
10.
(Cr),
Fisher
E.
9.
(W),
Bryant
J.
8.
(Cr),
r
Alexande
E.
7.
6. S. Campus (W),
(W), 15. R. Carpenter (Wh),
ter
Eden-Jus
J.
14.
(Cr),
Yeo
C.
13.
11. C. Hammond (Cr), 12. N. Normatova (W),
Liddell (Cr),
C.
19.
(Wh),
Twyman
A.
18.
(Cr),
Murphy
Swanston
W.
17.
(Cr),
16. B. Walsh
P S Thornley.
22. J. Hedges (Cr), 20. Mrs. F C Drinkall, 21. Mrs. E G Irvine, 23. Miss
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The girls were billeted in Bunbury,
Perth and Sydney. Their hosts held
them in high regard and on more
that one occasion they were
congratulated on being excellent
ambassadors for the school and a
credit to their families. We were
grateful to the hosts billeting the
girls, which kept down the cost of
the tour. In Sydney, Barker College is
approached by 60 schools a year to
billet their touring sides so it is a
testament of the relationship FCD
has with Barker College that they
billeted Epsom. Billeting gave the
girls an opportunity to 'live' in the
host country rather than visit and
that was a really rewarding
experience for the girls.
Everyday was an adventure and we
saw and experienced so much but
some highlights included the
night safari at the zoo in
Singapore. The day on the Barrier
Reef was truly awesome. Watching
Ayers Rock appear on the horizon
and grow in size as we came into
land was a sight to behold. The
Oz jet boat ride in Sydney was an
experience. Fiji was a tropical
paradise for a day and then was a
very wet tropical paradise for the
remainder of our stay. The many
coach journeys were hilarious and
the 'grown ups' in the front were
entertained by the many stories
recounted by the girls. The dinner
on the last night when the tour was
reviewed was a particular highlight.
It was also interesting to meet up
with the boys’ tour in both Sydney
and in Fiji. There were also many
opportunities to indulge in retail
therapy and the girls attacked
shopping opportunities with zest
and vigour.
I know I speak for all the coaches
when I say that the tour was just the
best. There was never a dull
Summary of Match Results
Tuesday 25 July 2006, Singapore
1600
Singapore Sports School
A’s
32
B’s
32
Netball Captain:
1800
v
Netball
Epsom College
18
15
A’s Ellie Fisher Vice Captain: Ami Hodges
B’s Sarah Campus
Hockey
Singapore Cricket Club
v Epsom College
2
0
Hockey Captain: April King
Vice Captain: Becky Carpenter
Player of the Match: April King Goal Scorers: B Carpenter, J Hedge
Thursday 27 July 2006, Bunbury, WA
Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School v
A’s
32
B’s
32
Netball
Epsom College
24
30
Friday 28 July 2006, Bunbury, WA
Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School v
1
Scorer: Baileigh Walsh x 2
Saturday 29 July 2006, Perth WA
Perth College
1
Scorers: April King x 2
Tuesday 1 August 2006, Cairns
1300
Trinity Bay High School
A’s
22
B’s
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moment. The girls showed their
mettle in how they dealt with
situations and touring gave them a
greater understanding of themselves
and of others. When we were
checking in at Fiji we heard about
the foiled terrorist attack at
Heathrow. This resulted in delays at a
time when the girls wanted to get
home. The girls displayed fortitude
at this time as they did on many of
the long journeys. Friendships were
forged and memories of the tour will
stay with us for a long time.
There are many people to thank. The
coaches would like to thank Air Asia
for sponsoring tour kit and Edwin
Doran Travel for the travel
arrangements made for us. All the
coaches would like to thank the
parents who were so supportive of
the tour and who helped so tirelessly
in the fund raising.
I would like to thank FCD for her
excellent organization and care, and
thank you to PST for being such a
great tourist.
Mrs. E G Irvine
Hockey
1445
Cairns High School
3
Scorers: Hat-trick April King
Epsom College
3
Thursday 3 August 2006, Sydney, NSW
Hockey
1600
Barker
v Epsom College
6
4
Scorers: 1 April King
2 Eloise Alexander
3 Becci Carpenter
4 Becci Carpenter
Players of the Match – Becci Carpenter and April King
Cap given to Becci Carpenter
Friday 4 August 2006, Sydney NSW
1500
Bromsgrove
A’s
B’s
14
12
Hockey
Epsom College
2
1600
A’s
B’s
Barker
9
25
Hockey
Epsom College
2
Saturday 5 August 2006, Sydney NSW
Barker
2
Scorers 1 King
Netball
Epsom College
26
25
v
v
Netball
Epsom College
26
19
v
Epsom College
14
21
v
Hockey
Epsom College
1
Tuesday 8 August, Fiji
Sigatoka Methodist School v
A’s
14
B’s
14
Netball
Epsom College
19
16
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Silver D of E
At Breacon Beacons
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South Seas Tour
A Tourist’s Perspective
Kia orana!, kia ora!, g’day mate! and
bula vinaka! Well, where to begin?
This tour has been the opportunity of
a lifetime and there are so many
stories I could tell – but because of
the ‘What Goes on Tour Stays on Tour’
rule I cannot relate most of them! So
what can I say? We went out to the
South Seas to have a great time and
play some great rugby – and that is
precisely what we did. The Cook
Islands exceeded all our expectations
– in both beauty and climate (it was
around 30oC every day!), despite the
dangers of swimming in the sea, as
Joe Li found out. The islanders also
exceeded our expectations in their
friendliness and in the rugby that
they played: they were strong and
played a very tight game, resulting in
two narrow wins for us in their
national stadium – an honour for us
all. We then moved on to New
Zealand, where it was about 20o
colder. During the flight, the crossing
of the International Date Line created
quite a lot of confusion for some of
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the lads, for whom the concept of
losing 24 hours made no sense! Here
we were billeted – a new experience
for most of us and an enjoyable one
for all. Our first billets were in
Hawke’s Bay (a great wine-growing
area), where most of us got to try
things we would never be allowed to
do at home, such as driving cars (you
can get a licence at 15 out there) and
shooting things (cans, birds, possums
etc). In the games against
Lindisfarne College, the 2nds won
well, although the 1sts were
outmatched in the forwards and lost
quite heavily. We were also billeted
in Morrinsville; the games there were
both won convincingly. Joe Li’s injury
woes continued as he was concussed
at the end of the game. On to
Sydney next – O the tales I could tell
about our time in Sydney! Everyone
hugely enjoyed all that Sydney had to
offer. Darling Harbour was fantastic,
especially our jet boat ride around
the harbour. The restaurants and
nightlife in Sydney were second to
none! Anyway, I digress – the
matches were played in rather wet
conditions and a lack of coherence
meant that the 2nds lost this game,
although the 1sts won well. So, on to
Fiji, where we met up with the girls’
hockey tour for the final three nights.
The game was played in scorching
conditions on a rock-hard pitch
against a side who made up in
enthusiasm what they lacked in
training, and although both sides
won by wide margins, the game was
well fought. Having now beaten
every school we played, we prepared
to celebrate. Sadly the final day was
a wash out, as a tropical storm
drenched the resort for the whole
day. However, after the end-of-tour
dinner, at which we had an awards
ceremony (some of which were less
serious than others), we all made the
most of the resort’s beverage facilities
(and I don’t mean tea and coffee)!
After three weeks hard touring, and
after clocking up an estimated 80
hours in planes, buses and airports,
we arrived home extremely tired,
having timed our return to coincide
with a terrorist alert at Heathrow!
This has been one of the most
adventurous and successful tours the
school has ever undertaken and the
experience has been absolutely
wonderful for all involved. On behalf
of the tourists I would like to thank
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all the staff and parents who made it
possible, especially the Fundraising
Committee and, of course, Messrs
Drinkall, Hobbs, Wycherley,
MacDowell, Campbell and Irvine
(whose 4-mile runs we loved) for
making this such a memorable tour,
and for ensuring that we did not get
into too much trouble!
Andrew Mason
en the
“This tour has be
opportunity of a lifetime.”
The Staff Perspective
After months of patient build-up,
after embarrassed hugs and anxious
farewells, and after a thorough
passport check, we had arrived at the
airport awaiting our first flight on
tour. These were the moments that
could set the tone of the tour, that
could demonstrate the maturity and
discipline of this elite squad of rugby
players. Instead, however, we were
given a demonstration of Darwinism,
an accurate demonstration of
evolution and how man had
obviously descended from apes. In
short, we were given a lesson in the
art of Peddie. It takes a special breed
of person to be a rugby player, and a
very ‘special’ person to be a forward.
Subtlety, panache, intelligence,
dexterity: none of these words apply.
A very good example is Thomas ‘the
anarchist’ Peddie Esq., who, within
minutes of being in the queue at the
airport, had made such
Neanderthalian, guttural noises that
Mr Drinkall was already
contemplating a discreet murder. By
the time the first flight had taken off
Tom was lucky to still be on the
plane. By the time we had arrived in
Papeete he was lucky he wasn’t
swimming home.
New Zealand represented a different
and altogether more difficult
challenge – and not merely on the
rugby pitch; we could actually hear
Wilkinson’s brain whirring as he tried
to work out why the sheep we saw
standing on the sides of the
mountains (during the drive from
Auckland to Hastings) did not just fall
off. Mr Hobbs finally convinced him
that it was because mountain sheep
are unique and are born with two
legs longer than the others. This
explanation was believed without
question, and it was not long before
we could overhear Wilko ‘ educating’
others about this miracle of
evolution.
Lindisfarne College presented stern
opposition, and although the ‘B’
team managed a hard fought win,
the ‘A’ team were out muscled by a
very large and aggressive pack. They
managed to rally in the second half
and showed resilience in avoiding a
disaster and many lessons were
learnt form the game as a whole. The
‘A’ team match also gave us our
second pre-match war dance, a little
like the All Blacks haka, following one
in Rarotonga.
Our next matches were in a town
called Morrinsville, close to Waikato.
Although no less determined or
aggressive than the Lindisfarne side,
Morrinsville High School did not
present quite the same challenges
and both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ sides
managed comfortable victories. It was
in the closing moments that Li had
an unfortunate collision with an
opponent’s knee, which left him
concussed and sadly out of the
playing squad for the remainder of
the tour.
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The next destination was Sydney,
which offered quite different
opportunities for entertainment. After
ten days staying in rural surroundings
it was a refreshing change to arrive in
a busy city. One spectacular day
allowed for the boys to experience a
variety of attractions including the
excitement of jet boating and the
quite wonderful, shark-filled,
aquarium. It was at the aquarium that
we were entertained by another
example of rugby player intelligence;
Jamie Allum this time, the poor
unfortunate, overheard posing the
question ‘Are penguins fish?’. Priceless.
We knew that St. Joseph’s College was
going to be tough opposition and
they proved to be. The ‘B’ team
struggled to maintain consistency
and although they showed on
occasions that they had the skill and
strength to beat ‘Joey’s’, they never
managed to take the lead and lost
narrowly. The ‘A’ team, perhaps with
the lessons learnt in New Zealand
still fresh in their minds, played their
best game of the tour until that point
and won relatively comfortably with
some wonderfully fluent backs moves
allied to a disciplined and powerful
display from the forwards.
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And so we travelled to our final
destination with a good record of six
wins out of eight, hopeful of two
more wins and a relaxing and sunny
finale in Fiji. Fate can play cruel tricks
on weary travellers however. In Fiji
we played on the only hot day we
were there. The day of rugby proved
to be quite an eye-opening
experience, both on the field and off
it. Both the ‘A’ and the ‘B’ teams won,
both saving perhaps their best games
for last and the ‘A’ team rounding off
the tour with a big win. It was
impressive to see when an opposition
cannot even afford a full set of squad
shirts, let alone expensive training
equipment-such a high level of skill
and strength. Rugby is a second
religion in Fiji; everywhere we drove
we could see people of all ages, both
male and female, playing some form
of rugby. We can only hope that the
money we gave to the schools in Fiji
can go some small way to developing
the talent in the area.
Alas, from the evening of the
matches until the flight home, we
experienced unexpectedly shocking
weather: gales, storms and flooding.
However, who cares if it’s raining
when you are in a swimming pool?
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This attitude was demonstrated once
again, later at L.A. airport, where the
boys remained calm and cheerful
while the chaos of the Heathrow
unwound around them. It is perhaps
this character that made the tour
such a success. From the leadership
of Sandy Reid, the ‘excitement’ of
Tom Peddie, the unbreakable smile
from every one of the players, their
character, determination and
friendship for one another meant
that the tour was an enormous
success and a tremendously
enjoyable experience both on and off
the pitch.
R.Wycherley
Results
A
Vs Tereora
B
W24-23 vs Nukutere W13-6
Vs Lindisfarne L0-29
W20-10
Vs Morrinsville W34-8
W39-0
Vs St. Joseph’s W17-8
L12-21
Vs Sigatoka
W22-7
W52-10
enormous
“The tour was an
success and a tremendously
enjoyable experience.”
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RAF Camp
We arrived in front of Granville at
10:30am (as opposed to 4:30am like
in previous years) ready to leave.
Most people wanted to go…
especially Lucy Sadana (!). We had an
easy coach journey up to Oxford and
arrived by lunchtime. The daunting
appearance of a real RAF base took
many by surprise… the tall wire
fences that surrounded the entire
base, along with the large buildings
and security guards carrying guns
reminded us of, to sum it up in one
word, “prison” (Kate Stevens). And
when we saw our accommodation…
tents, with the adjacent cricket
pavilion providing our wash facilities,
there was even more despair! To be
fair, the tents weren’t that bad… they
were spacious (they could easily have
taken two more people), they were
well lit at night and there were some
lockers inside.
Sunday
… at 7:00am! Shock, extreme
tiredness and a surprise for what
most people had hoped would be a
lazy Sunday morning lie-in. The hot
showers (for those who used them)
helped wake us up a bit… as did the
full English breakfast that followed.
The food was excellent all week, in
fact. There was a short Chapel
service, followed by a teamwork
enhancing board game which kept us
occupied throughout the morning
and afternoon and evening (it was a
long game). Later on in the evening,
after supper, we had weapons
training and were also given the
opportunity to watch the World Cup
Final, Italy vs France! People weren’t
really interested until the penalty
shoot-outs at the end. Still, at least
France didn’t win.
Monday – Friday
On Monday we endured navigational
exercises, more weapons training and
drill practice. Tuesday was a good
day as we were able to enjoy Air
Experience Flying… this means
youget to fly a small Tutor aeroplane
which seats two people (you and the
pilot). For some people it was their
first flight, others their second or
Merchant Taylors’ soon arrived and,
despite there being 6 of them and
about 20 of us, we all got to know
each other very well within minutes.
By Saturday evening it was like we’d
known them for years!
So, after spending the rest of the day
discussing how we planned to survive
the next week, we went to bed
around 10.30, to sleep around
midnight, and woke up the next
morning…
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third. Those who had done it before
experienced the thrill of aerobatics
3,000 ft in the air. I did two loop-theloops and a barrel roll! It was a clear
day with only a few clouds, so we got
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centre at 7:00am! (“Who would want
to play hockey at 7 in the morning?”
we were all asking each other.)
Anyway, it turned out to be good fun
and an excellent warm-up for the day
ahead. We travelled down to
Bramley training grounds, an area
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ropes. There was just enough room
for Greg Stidolph and me to stand on
an A3-sized platform on the top of an
[unstable] 30ft pole. Well done to
Ashley and Kate for getting much
further on it than they thought they
would! Then, at last, it was Friday!
y teamwork
“There were man speed and
exercises that required
quick thinking.”
a clear view of Oxford and the
surrounding area from up in the sky
and some people were able to fly in a
Merlin helicopter too! On Wednesday
(Anthony McGhee’s 16th Birthday) we
had to be in our best DPMs for a visit
by the Station Commander Group
Captain Duncan Welham along with
Air Vice-Marshall D Walker CBE AFC
RAF, the Air Officer Commanding No
1 Group whilst we were on the low
ropes exercise. Mrs Pearson was very
nervous but she managed to salute in
the correct manner! We were then
given a tour of a hangar, which
included a look inside a Puma. Later
in the week, all those that wanted,
were able to fly in it. A Q&A session
with a pilot was very interesting and
we were also able to try on some
night-vision goggles, which cost about
£32,000 each! Thursday was a long
day. The station commanders had
challenged us cadets to an indoor
uni-hoc tournament in the sports
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with mixed amounts of dense trees
and open space. There were many
teamwork exercises that required
speed and quick thinking, plus
camouflage exercises, and the high
Mixed emotions by now… some
looking forward to the summer
holidays, others (like Debbie) were
enjoying themselves too much to care
about having a break. Friday was a
good day… hot sunny weather, with
everyone passing their weapons
handling test and being able to get
some shooting practice on the
outdoor range. In the afternoon,
eight lucky people (including me)
were able to control a flight
simulator. They are used for training
pilots, and simulate Chinooks, Merlin
and Puma helicopters in a variety of
different climates, terrain and
weather, both at day and night. They
are so powerful and built to such
precision that we were told they cost
£20 million each! In the evening we
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had a drill competition, won by team
A (it didn’t matter though because
team B, the team I was in, won
overall!). There was also a mini disco
later on, and presentations following
the week we had just enjoyed.
Saturday 15th July
Packed up, picked up litter, picked up
litter we’d missed the first time, and
got ready to leave. It was, overall a
sad day, saying goodbye to all the
friends we’d made, but I’m sure
others will agree that it was great to
experience first-hand a real RAF base,
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complemented by the great people
from Merchant Taylor’s and the
“Kebab Man” in the car park who
made sure we were never hungry
after dinner with his tasty burgers,
kebabs and chips, fresh from the
deep-fat fryer.
Thank you very much also to Flt Lt
Pearson for running the whole week
and organising all the activities we
were able to enjoy!
Matthew Wade
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CCF Summer Camp
so delightful, vegetable lattice
certainly being one of the downers of
the trip! In contrary the exercises the
following day were extremely fun. The
river exercise was a highlight of the
trip. It didn’t however go down too
well with Holly whose scream could
be heard back at home! The rats were
a slight fabrication of the truth
although some claimed to have
“seen” them. A shower was well
overdue once all the exercises were
over, yet the green tinge of camo
paint remained for much of the week.
We arrived at school, well rested after
what-ten hours at home? Everyone
seem rather eager to set sail on this
“magical” adventure, full of anxiety
about whether it might be a bit like
brat camp or just a walk in the park.
A few had started counting down the
hours until our return. It was
interesting seeing the keen beans
among us, carrying suitcase far bigger
then themselves. (Holly Brook, Anna
Dick, etc.)
After a rather long wait, sat outside
Makinder our journey started down
to the bus stops, all in double file,
but fortunately not marching – it
wasn’t going to be quite that serious.
Filing onto the coaches we all lasted
a two hour journey, but butterflies
raged inside, not quite expecting the
worst but knowing not to be too
hopeful and all of us questioning
what this “naafi” talk was all about,
little did we know quite what the
naafi would mean to some of us.
(Guy Blunden)
menu selection wasn’t great. And we
all discovered by the second day that
our own cutlery was essential, they
always ran out and eating with
fingers was rather disconcerting.
That evening, sleep was impossible
on mattresses of creaking plastic,
with no give. The sleep talkers, and
snorers, were highlighted and
destroyed the next day.
By Wednesday the visitors had
arrived and everyone was please to
get rid of their dirty washing and
receive some “normal” food. The
stretcher run was hard, and with a
sprained ankle and some rather unfit
people around, ahem, my group
managed to finish last.
On Thursday the whole group made a
trip to the Rifle Range where we all
Sunday and Monday the two
groups rotated between the
delightful Dover Castle and
activities in the fields next to the
camp. The Castle trip was a very
long day, lightened drastically by
Mr Shepard’s tour of the castle
and our constant coffee breaks.
Pack lunches however were not
Arriving through the guarded gates of
St Martin’s Plain we were already
looking for escape routes along the
railway. Approaching the camp it was
like nothing I’ve ever seen before,
except maybe in chicken run. About
40 odd huts all similar in size, shape
and colour, barely recognisable from
another except for the military
number placed on their sides.
That evening we were bombarded
with times and rules, which slipped
over most of our heads. And then
there was dinner. I'm sure the camp
goes through oil like water, and the
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few people didn’t miss the chance
to catch some rays, getting rather
burnt in the process. The room
inspection that evening gave us a
chance to be creative, some of
us, a bit too much. But everyone
loved the Jamie and Guy
costumes it has to be said!
waited for rather a long time, and
shot for rather a little time. The day
was filled with snoring people, trying
to kill time as we awaited the bus.
The sun was high in the sky and a
And then there was Friday…
Our day trip to Calais went a
bit haywire after the coach
missed the ferry. Fortunately I
was in the leading party and
made it on to the ferry, but
without everyone else..? So
the day began with a little bit
of shopping. And I say little. All the
shops were shut because of Bastille
Day and unfortunately so were the
banks which made changing money
impossible. The day was fun, with the
Bounty and Coconut playing
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important roles in this “fun”. The
ferry journey back was just as
interesting. But poor Mr Cooper was
left to take care of all the “seasick”
kids. On arrival back at camp we only
had a few hours to prepare, or not,
for the “superhero” theme in our
Epsom College “Disco”. Mr Henson
had kindly joined the party, along
with Parfitt to produce quite an
entertaining night of “tunes”.
On Saturday I can’t say we were
tearful to be leaving such a
wonderful place, but it was a good
week, filled with some “interesting”
moments, including Jamie’s rather
patriot haircut. A few romances
blossomed, I wont mention any
names, and of course, plenty of
banter. All I can say is it was better
than Navy and RAF camp!
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Mongolia Team One
This summer a group of ten keenwitted and able bodied students
formed group one of two teams
embarking on a month long
expedition to Mongolia. After having
arrived in its capital , Ulaanbaatar
(UB), a team explored the city and
sorted out the ‘admin jobs’ such as
meeting the ‘in country’ agent, our
translator, and generally preparing
ourselves for the ten days of almost
complete isolation that were to
follow. Once the equipment and all
the supplies for our trekking phase
were gathered, we set off for our 12
hour overnight train journey followed
by the gruelling 27 hour 48 minutes
‘Furgone journey’ (see picture of the
bus in the crater!). We quickly made
a special friendship with one of our
drivers who swiftly became know as
‘Turbo Tom’.
With the leader system in place,
changing every two to three days
amongst the pupils in the group,
everyone had the responsibility of
leading the group of eight other
pupils, Mr Hampshire, Matt Bailey
(WCE leader), Shinee (our reclusive
translator) and Treps. During the
whole trip we also had the three
different tents cooking each night on
a rota system. The trekking phase
consisted of four days on horseback
and a further six days on foot, lead
by local Wranglers who demonstrated
unconditional kindness throughout,
going far and beyond the boundaries
of what was expected of them. The
horses proved a testing time for some
of us (Gillespie…whose horse bolted
at the slightest hint of competition or
click of the fingers). The worst was
being caught in a thunderstorm and
feeling that the horses were far from
happy. Tom’s persistent desire to
gallop across the steppes made him a
fond favourite amongst the
wranglers; one in particular called
Nyama who Tom now wants to
spend his gap year with! It was with
our sore rear ends bouncing around
the responsibility
“Everyone had
of leading the group of eight
other pupils.”
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on the horses that we first really
saw the awesome beauty of
Mongolia. It was a breathtaking
experience, and very humbling to
look across the rolling steppes and
know that you could walk for weeks
and never find anyone else, let
alone a small village. Not that the
horse trek wasn’t exciting but,
personally, I was more than happy
to give my bum a rest and set out
on the six day foot trek.
On the foot trek we walked to the
peaks of some of the tallest ‘hills’
we could find to admire the view
from the top. Again and again it
was breathtaking to see the vastness
of this untouched country, which is
surely solving global warming on its
own! The end of our trekking phase
was marked by a dip in the second
largest lake in Asia. It wasn’t till
after we had eagerly jumped in that
we saw the source of the heat was
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the snow peaked mountains
surrounding it!
As expected our diet on the
expedition was pretty bland. We
brought along 25 kilograms of rice
and would probably have been
suicidal had it not been for the
invaluable Tabasco sauce!!
The way back to UB was another long
Furgone journey and many
thousands of hands of our new
found card game, ‘Hearts’, later we
arrived for the project phase. In
slightly more comfort (a wooden
classroom floor), we set up camp and
began the renovation of a classroom
in school #63 under the watchful eye
of the crooked social worker / lawyer
/ car dealer / underworld MAFIA BOSS
– Tengis. After he had told us to
“Take your money and go back to
your own country” before storming
off as we hadn’t payed him all of our
budget for two sets of doors, he
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quickly became branded ‘Tengis the
T***’. The project phase was
disappointing as we never really got
to see any children but we were
proud of our efforts as we left for the
return leg – via Beijing.
Being the ‘fake stuff capital of the
world’ many of us wasted little time in
blowing whatever personal money we
had left on fake clothes and the rest of
the group budget on a mammoth
night out for the ‘Last Supper’!
The whole Mongolia experience
taught us all different things, but in
equally large amounts, and is
something that none of us will ever
forget. On behalf of the team we
would like to thank Mike Hampshire
for putting up with us for so long and
being such a ‘lad’!!!!!
Alex Fox and Jamie Gillespie
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