House Notes

As usual we were well represented in School teams this term; J. A. S. Berm being awarded his 1st XV Colours and C. J. Pearson, J. R. Wood, Dickinson, C. A. Wood and Oglesby were awarded their 2nd XV Colours.

Senior House Colours this term were awarded to C. J. Pearson, J. R. Wood and Dickinson. Junior House Colours were awarded to M. C. Pearson.

We are losing five members of the House this term; C. J. Pearson, D. Hargrave, Coke, Dixon and Pettinger. We hope that they are all successful in their new fields and thank them for all they have done for the House.

After a great deal of discussion it was decided to produce liarliquinade', by Rattigan, as the House play for next term and preparations are now under way.

C. A. Wood is to be congratulated on winning the Northern Under 20's' Fencing Championship this term, and also coming 2nd in the Irish Championships during the summer holidays.

THE RISE

We arrived back at the beginning of this term to find A. W. Fieldhouse, R. I. Moss, A. W. Parker and M. A. Summers-Smith appointed House Monitors and D. M. Rawlings and P. M. Shepherd School Monitors. A. J. Gill was also made a House Monitor at half-term.

In the Senior House Rugger Tournament we faired rather badly, when we lost to a not very strong Manor team, 6-3. Our Junior House team also lost in the first round to a strong Dronfield team, 21-0. Our team was a weak one owing to the fact that we had only one Junior Colt in the side, but several members of the team excelled themselves in playing with much determination and spirit.

At the end of term the Senior House rugger team played a representative side of Old Risites. The match was keenly contested on a Sunday morning and ended in a 15 all draw. A fair but uncontrived result. It was a great success and enjoyed by everybody who played. We hope this fixture will be continued.

Although the Rise Society only had one meeting this term it was extremely successful. It took the form of a talk on New Zealand by Mr. Duncan, who had taught there for three years.

Finally we hope that the fact that five Riseites are leaving this term will not be too detrimental to the House.

SCHOOL HOUSE

At the beginning of term we welcomed Mr. Clark and Mr. Dixon as Assistant Housemasters. We hope they will be happy with us.

Mr. A. Groundwater was appointed Head of House and J. N. Yellowley is to be congratulated on being appointed Chapel Monitor. We started the term with only three House Monitors, C. R. Argyle, J. S. W. Cook and Wilson, but the numbers were soon made up to five, with the appointment of Ogley and Hodges.

Rugby proved to be rather weak amongst the senior part of the House and we were beaten by Temple in the first round. The Junior team was slightly more successful and beat Queen's, only to be beaten by a very determined Dronfield XV.

House Leagues were pursued with a great deal of enthusiasm and although both competitions were unfinished, the seniors only lost one match.

House Squash, Table Tennis and Chess Ladders were started, and Mr. Clark took a squash class once a week for a group of juniors.

The Ecclesia held one meeting this term When Mr. Cama, the Headmaster of a school in Fiji and Mr. Tangitau, a Headmaster from a school in Tonga, gave a talk on their respective countries. The talk was illustrated with slides and was much appreciated by all. Mr. Cama was attached to the House throughout his stay, and we thank him for all the entertainment he gave us.

The House had a large number of participants in the School Opera and Wilson, Hardy, Howat and Baby had parts as principals. We intend to put on a play of our own next term.

TEMPLE

The term began with the appointment of Ward as Head of the House and Bowie, Anderson, Russell, Reeves and Sugar as House Monitors. At the suggestion of these new appointments the experiment was made of abolishing fagging, apparently quite successfully.

As a result of the exam results and the past year's work Temple again won the Work Cup.

In Rugger we were quite well represented in the School teams with Carr and Summers in the 1st XV as well as two members of the 2nd XV, three Colts and, at one stage, as many as six Under 14 Colts. The Senior House team had two convincing wins over School House and Manor, and lost to Dronfield in the final for the second time running, this year by nine points to nil. Third time lucky, we hope. The Junior team beat Grove and lost to Manor, the eventual winners. Summers, Carr and Cantrell were awarded their House Colours and Jackson, Thompson and A. S. Bowie their Junior House Colours.

We have reached the final of the House Chess and hope to win next term, despite the departure of most of our team.

The House played an important part in the production of "The Pirates of Penzance", with Bainbridge and T. J. Young among the leading ladies and Carr as a realistic pirate and Cantrell as a silent promptor. We were also well represented in the Choir with six trebles and two others.

Finally we congratulate Skerrett on winning an Open Scholarship in English to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and say goodbye' to him and to Sugar and Russell. We wish them all success in the future.

Scenes

from

"The Pirates

of Penzance'