Crosse House Chess ♟️ competition could not be more intense at lunchtime today among Remove and Shell boys! Professional timing and an involved audience for Xavier and Toby! ♟️ ⏰ Ardingly College

Boss of Crosse this week are the Junior Badminton team of Will, Thomas, Eddie, Jacob & Wilf who won the Junior section of a hotly contested tournament! Tom, Seb, Marthinus & Seth helped us to 3rd place overall! 👏 🏸👏🏸💙🤍🏸

Crosse House Prefects and Fifth night out! These amazing ‘boys in blue’ have overcome a lot and come so far since those early Covid years and really deserved a 🍕 🍕 supper at Zizzi’s to mark the occasion before exams start. 💙🍕🤍🍕💙Ardingly College #houselife

Crosse House on fire 🔥 winning House Swimming and JNR House Debating, and 2nd overall in House Hockey! Driving rain 🌧️ and torrents of rebuttal did not dampen their spirits! Three excitingly close fought competitions with Rhodes House 🏊‍♂️ 🏑 🎤 💙 🤍 Ardingly College 👏🏆👏

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Crosse House held its first dinner in 5 years in fine blue and white style Ardingly College with huge thanks to ArdinglyCollegeCatering, parent reps, staff and boys whose collaboration made the night so entertaining & memorable - we’ve all missed these occasions as a community! 💙🤍 🍽️

Friday celebrations for Fifth going on GCSE study leave today! Congrats also to Toby in Shell - our new House Chess Champion! And finally, 👏 👏 👏 to the incredible talent from our house band & singers Harrison & Alex performing at Ardingly Music ABC concert! 🎶 💙 🤍

Thank you to parents and boys who contributed to our charity bake sale in aid of LVI Kenya Service trip - over £110 raised to use for educational resources for Kenyan school children! Cakes from Shell D of E bakers Wilf and Elliot were delicious! 😋 🧁 🍩 🍪 🍰 Ardingly Charity

Crosse House annual end of year awards #1 - congrats 👏 to Neil W for Most Improved Effort, and Harrison W and Will W for jointly winning the Junior Cup as their contributions and performances span house sport, music, drama and competitions! 💙 🤍 🏆 👏 Ardingly College

Crosse House last day was slip-n-slide, inflatable obstacle, bungee, bubble football, tug-of-war, sporting, ice-cream fun! Farewell to the amazing LVI & have a great summer holiday! Well done for winning the Boys’ Academic Effort Cup 🏆 👏 💙🤍 Ardingly College

The new Crosse House Shell enjoyed their water sports morning on kayaks and paddle boards at the reservoir to kick off their first year in house together! 😎 💙 🤍 Ardingly College

Great to get the new Shell out for their first practice Steepo run aided by the LVI with donuts 🍩 at the end! #crossearmy 💙 🤍 Ardingly College

Tense times at break today in our annual house Table Tennis 🏓 competition as first round matches prove worthy of any final already! I believe our reigning champion Mr Verbi was knocked out by Eddie & ‘23 finalist Nathaniel C also beaten by Ollie S! Open season now… 🏓🤍💙

Raising awareness for YoungMinds on #HelloYellow Day 2023 with a 😊 🧁 bake sale, run and presentation on what self-care looks like - plus fun games from Mental Health Ambassadors Ryan & Alex to make everyone laugh! What’s your ‘five a day’ ..? 📖 🎶 🌲 🎨 Ardingly College Health and Wellbeing Centre

Congratulations 👏 👏👏to our new Head of Crosse, Bertie, and Deputy Head of House, Thomas, for 2023-24. Meet our LVI House Prefects (from left to right): Thomas, Bertie, Isaac & Teddy sporting the new Crosse House ties 💙🤍 Ardingly College

Despite no Steepo, Mr Heavens’ BBQ & the Table Tennis 🏓 final brought out the house spirit as Remove formers Seb and Will battled it out for 3 rounds right down to to the wire. Congrats to Will - our first ever DOUBLE Champion 🏓 🏆 👏 #COYC 🤍💙 Ardingly College

🤩 Thanks to all parents and pupils who baked or bought cakes for our first big cake sale for Winston's Wish - the first children’s bereavement charity Crosse House are supporting this year. Approx £150 raised so far!! Ardingly Charity 🍰 🍪 😋 ❤️ Ardingly College

We checked to see where Toby & Ethan are off the coast of Africa after crossing the start line of the ARC transatlantic yacht race in Gran Canaria four days ago. Great daily blogs about all the marine life 🐠 🐢 & swimming with 3,000m of water under you! ⛵️ Ardingly College

Crosse House LVI formers Toby and Ethan have arrived in the Caribbean after their incredible sailing adventure across the Atlantic Ocean 🌊 and raised over £3k for the Ocean Conservation Trust ⛵️ 👏 🤩 Ardingly College #resilience #collaboration #engagement #compassion

End of term at last - bring on the Christmas jumpers and the mud, LOTS of mud! Well done to the teams who endured the downpours today in House Football, esp the outgoing UVI and the juniors who were still smiling at the end! ⚽️🎄🙌 #crossearmy 🤍 💙 🤍💙 Ardingly College