House Reports
CLIFTON Before embarking upon this year’s report, special mention must go to Mr Grant who has made such a sustained and tangible contribution to the life of Clifton House and the students within it over the last six years. The successes enjoyed this year are as a direct result of the hard work that Mr Grant has put in and the belief that he has shown in the students that make up the house. It is a difficult task keeping track of all of the events that have taken place and so I give only a wide-angled snapshot of performances both individual and collective. Clifton House has had an exciting year, seeing many successes and performances of note both as a house and by individuals within it. We have had several senior individual honours: Deputy Head Girl (Emily Gray), and Captains of girls’ hockey (Josie Proctor), swimming (Alice Rhodes) and boats (Emily Gray) as well as Captain (Charlie Elliot) and Vice-Captain (Felix Adams) of cricket, President of debating (Ben Turvill) and Head of Band (Georgie Harrison). These individuals have made a sustained contribution to the school and the house and my thanks go out to them all.
The year began at breakneck speed as usual, with students across the year-groups needing quickly to find their collective feet academically and on the co-curricular front. Indeed, one of the first formal occasions required that one of the new Third Form had the daunting task of reading in Chapel. I was delighted that Jack Amsden not only volunteered, but also managed to read with such clarity and confidence in what must have been a wholly
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new environment. Later in September, Clifton’s House Chapel discussed the themes of writer’s block and perseverance, and was both entertaining and thought-provoking. The highly-anticipated inter-house cross-country was run with determination and commitment (in almost all cases!) and there was both a collection of superb individual runs and also very pleasing overall results, with the junior girls becoming overall winners of their category. The junior and senior boys both finished a highly-respectable second, with the senior girls putting in a gutsy performance to ultimately finish seventh. Special mention
should go to Emilia Proctor, Eva Carlyle, Becky Green, Maddie Hunter, Olivia Anderson, Matthew Jones, Ed Contreras and Freddie Heijbroek for finishing in the top tens of their events.
