T H E N E W S L E T T E R Spring 2010 C H A R T E R H O U S E

T H E N E W S L E T T E R Spring 2010 C H A R T E R H O U S E

At the Prep Schools String Day, pupils from Milbourne Lodge, Horris Hill, Hoe Bridge, Windlesham House and Aldro rehearsed chamber music in groups, giving a short performance to their parents at the end of the afternoon. Henry Mallin (above) from Aldro has just won a music scholarship to Charterhouse, joining his elder brother William in Weekites. Actor and director Richard Wilson best known as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave gave a talk to an audience of Carthusians on his career in theatre and television. This was followed by a workshop and a trip to London to see him perform in Twelfth Night, with the chance to meet and talk with the cast. Brooke Hall Profile NS Pelling Nick Pelling came to teach history at Charterhouse in 1989 after winning the Earl of Derby prize for the best first class degree at the University in London. He is married with four children and his wife is head of art at Barrow Hills. He teaches modern history and has run the 2nd XI football team for the last ten years. He is the author of the books Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1922 and The Hapsburg Empire 1815-1918, and has written several articles for A Level history magazines. Nick was involved with the creation of the Pre-U history syllabus for the Cambridge International Board. His interests include football (supporting Southampton), American and Irish history, and current affairs. He has been known to play the guitar and many years ago starred in a Brooke Hall group which, rather embarrassingly, called itself The Beakles. Nick becomes Housemaster of Pageites in September 2010

Xavier sings A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square at The Band Show Xavier Hetherington (G) Xavier is a music scholar who sings and plays the piano and trombone. As well as winning the inter- House debating competition for the last two years, Xavier was a member of the junior debating team which won the English Speaking Union county final. He is in all the top sets academically and, as an extra language, is learning Russian. He has appeared in the Ben Travers Theatre on a number of occasions. CARTHUSIANS Photograph by Oliver Epp (D) Jasmine Shaddock (H) Jasmine has a distinction in Grade 8 and a diploma (ATCL) on the euphonium; she plays the cello, the trombone and sings. She has been in various school productions, including Oh What A Lovely War, and is a bell ringer for the Diocese of Guildford. Jasmine is passionate about theatre, music and dance and next year is taking a foundation course in art at Farnham UCA. She would love to become a children s TV presenter. Alec McClean (R) Alec is a foundation scholar, the Benn scholar, a music exhibitioner and holds the Blackstone award. He has been in A teams for football, cricket and hockey at U14, U15 and U16 level, plays the oboe, clarinet and bassoon and is lead alto sax in the Jazz Band.

Gavroche Gergaud (G) bowling for the U16s vs Winchester Louis Webb (W) and Gus Giddins (W) Louis and Gus have won the Public Schools National U14 Real Tennis Tournament. After beating Radley in the semi-final, they came back from 0-4 to beat Westbourne House 6-4 in the final. Louis plays at No.1 in the Charterhouse U14 squash team and Gus in the first pair of the U14 racquets team. The Mock Election The Politics Department hosted a series of events to raise awareness of the General Election. This included a hustings, the first mock election since Jeremy Hunt was a Carthusian, and an election night with Dr. Tim Bale from the University of Sussex, followed by Charterhouse s own Question Time. The winner of the election was Felix Hamer (R) of the Liberal Democrats followed by Labour candidate Venetia Menzies (g), Conservative Olivia Hurley (P) and Green Nidhin Laji (P). Photographs by Oliver Epp (D)

Hunter Goetz (H), Harry Walker (B), Michael Thonger (V) and Peter Wright (V) in Oh, What a Lovely War! Robin Cowie (G) as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice Freddie Mills (g) in Never Land Lost

League Winners Charterhouse sealed another successful football season by winning the Southern Independent Schools League. There was little sign of the glory to come when they lost their first league match at home to Alleyn s, but Charterhouse rallied with excellent wins against St Bede s and Lancing. Further comfortable victories over Winchester and KES Witley meant that a victory at high-flying Ardingly would ensure a place in the play-off final. On a grey day in late November, Ardingly played the prettier football, but Charterhouse created the better chances and a 0-0 draw was a fair result. This left Ardingly needing to beat St Bede s to go through, but they lost a twice postponed match and opened the doors for Charterhouse to meet Eton College for the trophy. There was more drama about the staging of the final than there was in the match itself. Both the original and the stand-by dates found the Corinthian Casuals pitch unplayable. Finding another date and venue proved difficult, but eventually it was agreed to play the match at Wallingford FC on the last day of February. Fate still had one more card to play, and, on the day of the match, the Wallingford pitch was deemed unfit and the match was transferred to the artificial 3G pitch at the Madejski Academy in Reading. Having beaten Eton 4-1 in the regular season, Charterhouse were warm favourites to take the title. On an alien surface, however, and against determined opposition, it was never going to be easy. Charterhouse missed a couple of good chances in the first half, but it was Eton who trooped back to the dressing rooms the more disappointed, since Michael Fatsis had saved a penalty to deny them the lead just before the break. Charterhouse took the lead seven minutes into the second half when James Kinsey (below) headed home a Charlie Evans (above) cross. Thereafter they had things mostly their own way and held on comfortably to take the title for the second time in the four-year history of the competition.

The Jazz Band in Malta The Jazz Band (seen above with a local musician) went on tour to Malta at Easter. Malta was awarded the George Cross after World War II and the Band played at the annual commemoration ceremony, warming up the crowds with wartime classics from Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn. Education in the Community Hattie Temple (L02) teaches Physics at St Augustines, a comprehensive school in North West London. She has been working with Charterhouse physics teacher Stephen Hearn on developing plans for the Advancing Physics A Level course, as part of our Education in the Community project. Recently, she brought her entire A level group to Charterhouse for the day in order to complete some practical coursework tasks.

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