The School farm
Motivated by food shortages during the war and a desire for self-sufficiency, Cranleigh School was an early adopter of the school farm […]
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Chapel service marks start of 150th celebrations
Cranleigh School marked the 150th anniversary of its opening with a service in the newly refurbished chapel. The School welcomed its first pupils on September 29, 1865 and to mark the occasion the Bishop of Guildford addressed a congregation of staff and pupils, including the great, great, great, great grandson of the very first Headmaster, Joseph Merriman […]
OCs kick off 150th concert series
The first 150th anniversary concert performance in the refurbished Chapel, featured two accomplished Old Cranleighans, Matthew Vine and Chloe Allison, and was accompanied by Organist in Residence, Phil Scriven […]
School walks out for charity
Over 580 current and former Senior and Prep School pupils and families walked 35 kilometres on Sunday, September 20, raising thousands of pounds to support our partnership community in Kawama, Zambia […]
From Senior Prefect to Flanders fields
By September 1915 , World War One had been going on for a year and the stalemate which was to be abiding image of the conflict on the Western Front had become established. But the stark reality really hit home when the School returned for the Michaelmas Term to learn that the previous year’s Senior Prefect had been killed in battle. He was 20. […]
Tonga prove a class act at Cranleigh
Tonga have spent the last fortnight at Cranleigh School before their first Rugby World Cup match against Georgia. It is a collaboration that came about when a school governor invested in a film, Pacific Warriors, recounting the story of Tongan, Samoan and Fijian rugby, complete with Sir Ranulph Fiennes dubbing rugby “a ferocious way of not killing your neighbour”. […]
The wretched month of May
May 1915 proved to be one of the worst of the war with nine OCs killed, eight in the first ten days alone, including a pair of brothers who fell on the same day […]
The man who covered the end of the war
As the Second World War ended in May 1945, millions tuned in to the BBC for the latest news and for reports from Berlin. The man they heard broadcasting from the ruined city was the corporation’s Paris correspondent, Thomas Cadett […]
OCs make hockey headlines
Several young Old Cranleighans have made hockey headlines in the last few weeks of the season […]
A middle-class revolutionary
The Old Cranleighan who stood for parliament against Tony Benn and called for a middle-class revolution against the Labour government […]