Cranleigh School

Coordinates: 51°09′00″N 0°29′38″W / 51.150°N 0.494°W / 51.150; -0.494

Cranleigh School

Motto	Ex Cultu Robur (Latin for From Culture comes Strength)
Established	1865
Type	Independent School
Head	Mr Guy de W. Waller, MA MSc FRSA (Chemistry)
Chairman of the Governors	J.A.V. Townsend Esq., MA
Location	Cranleigh Surrey United Kingdom
Students	600 (approx.)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	13–18
Houses	6
Colours	Yellow, Navy, and White
Former pupils	Old Cranleighans
Website	www.cranleigh.org

Cranleigh School is an independent English boarding school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. It was founded in 1865 as a boys' school and started to admit girls in the early 1970s. It is now co-educational. The current headmaster is Guy de W. Waller, with former Cubitt Housemaster, Andrew Griffiths, as the Deputy Head.

The Good Schools Guide described the school as a "Hugely popular school with loads on offer, improving academia and mega street cred. Ideal for the sporty, energetic, sociable, and independent child."^[1]

The school's Trevor Abbott Sports Centre was opened by Sir Richard Branson and the West House was opened by Baroness Greenfield. New building projects include the recently completed extension onto Cubitt House as well as an environmentally friendly Woodland Workshop and a new £10 million Academic Centre named the Emms Center. This was opened by Lord Patten of Barnes. The building includes new high-tech facilities for Science and Modern Languages as well as a lecture theatre. A £2 million renovation of the chapel in 2009 included the installation of a £500,000 Maunder organ.

Cranleigh has outstanding facilities for music (including two Steinway Grands and a small recording studio), sport, drama and academic enhancement.

The school accommodates approximately 600 pupils. The boys are divided into four houses - Cubitt, East, Loveday and North. The girls are divided into two houses - South and West.

There is an Old Cranleighans (OC) society host many functions including sports matches against current students and staff.

Notable Old Cranleighans

• Stacy Aumonier (writer)
• Tad Baker (archaeologist and author)
• Derek Bourgeois (composer)
• Luke Braid (Rugby Player, Junior All Black and IRB Young Player of the Year 2008)^{[citation needed]}
• Sir Gordon Brunton (industrialist)
• Sir David Calcutt (lawyer)
• Harry Calder (cricketer)
• Will Collier (Rugby player) England U16/U18 AER, NEC Harlequins
• Dudley Couper (lawyer and President of the Old Cranleighan Society)
• Peter Henry Emerson (photographer)
• Eric Fellner (film producer)
• Paul Goodman (politician)
• Peter Gordon (radio presenter)
• Bernard Gutteridge (poet)
• G.H. Hardy (mathematician)
• Christopher Herrick (musician)
• Colonel Alan Key (England rugby player and soldier)
• Tanerau Dylan Latimer - Rugby Player (Bay of Plenty, Chiefs, New Zealand Sevens)
• Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge (soldier)
• Patrick Marber (actor, director, screenwriter)
• George May, 1st Baron May (civil servant)
• Stuart Meaker (Cricketer)
• Georgina Moffat (actress)
• Squadron Leader Timothy Nelson (former Red Arrows leader)
• Julia Ormond (actress)
• Andrew Roberts (historian, broadcaster)
• Alan Rusbridger (Guardian Editor)
• Flight Lieutenant Zane Sennett (Red Arrows pilot)^[2]
• Sam Smith (rugby union) (professional rugby union footballer, Harlequins and England U20)^[3]
• Seb Stegmann (Rugby Player, NEC Harlequins and England U20)^{[citation needed]}
• Sewell Stokes (novelist and playwright)
• E W Swanton (cricket and rugby correspondent, commentator and author)
• David Westcott (GB hockey captain)

Notable masters

• Mike Worsley (England Rugby player)
• Steve Batchelor (Great Britain Hockey player and Olympic Gold medalist)
• Neil Bennett (England Rugby player)
• Revd. William Booth (clergyman)
• Andrew Corran (cricketer)
• David Emms (rugby player, headmaster)
• Roger Knight (cricketer)
• Thomas Layng (chaplain)
• Gerry Redmond (England rugby player)
• Sir Michael Redgrave (actor)
• Luis Cernuda (Spanish poet)

Old Cranleighans

Former pupils of the school may join the Old Cranleighans which is served by the Old Cranleighan Society. About 6500 past pupils are currently members. The Old Cranleighan Sports Club in Thames Ditton in Surrey is owned by the Society. The Society also provides support for a wide range of sporting activities including golf, cricket, rifle shooting and golf.

External links

• Cranleigh School website
• OC Society website
• OC Cricket Club website
• OC Hockey Club website
• OC Rugby Football Club website

Southern Railway Schools Class

The thirty seventh steam locomotive (Engine 936) in the Southern Railway's Class V, built in 1934 was named "Cranleigh" after the school. This class of locomotive was known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools^[4]

References

1. ^ http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/cranleigh-school.html
2. ^ "Red 2 – Flight Lieutenant Zane Sennett". Ministry of Defence. http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/behindthescenes/red2.cfm. "Zane lived in Hong Kong for 20 years but went to boarding school in the UK at Cranleigh School, near Guildford in Surrey. A member of the school’s Combined Cadet Force, his passion for flying from all his overseas travel plus visits to airshows encouraged Zane to think about a career with the Royal Air Force." 
3. ^ "Sam Smith". RFU. http://www.rfu.com/SquadsAndPlayers/EnglandUnder20s/SamSmith.aspx. Retrieved 2010-04-19. 
4. ^ "Schools Class Engine No. 936 - Cranleigh An engine named after the village's famous Public School". http://www.cranleighrailway.info/stock3_schools_class.htm. "Cranleigh was the 36th Schools Class engine, out of a total of 39 that were built at Eastleigh Locomotive Works. It went into service in June 1935 and was withdrawn in December 1962, 2½ years before its home village's station closed." 

External links

• Cranleigh School website
• Profile at the Good Schools Guide
• OC Society website
• OC Cricket Club website
• OC Hockey Club website
• OC Rugby Football Club website
• Independent Schools Inspectorate - Inspection Report on Cranleigh School, March 2006