Boarding Accommodation: The Houses

Spread Eagle House

Boys' House

Houseparent(s): Mr and Mrs Ian and Gillian McCleary
Deputy Houseparent: Mr Chris Ashworth (Science)
House Tutors: Mr Peter J Jurczak (Religious Studies / Philosophy); Mr Mark Pryor (Maths); Mr Mark Schofield (Science)
Telephone: 01253 774215
Email: i.mccleary@rossall.org.uk

House Captain: Florian Pottinger
Deputy House Captain: Michael Kahl-Adams
House Monitors: Jonas Laukemper; Daniel Stone; James Palmer; Bob Su; Fred Liu

Sports Captain: Chris Metcalfe

Farrell Archivist: Jake Hodgson

House Colours: Black and Silver
House Motto: (Ad Augusta per Angusta): Achievement Through Effort

SE House was established in 1868 and has been a boys' boarding house throughout its history, together with Rose the most senior house. Situated on the far right hand side of the Square, SE House abuts MC House and Big School. It currently houses 34 boarders and 26 day boys.

There are 24 single bedrooms, 5 double bedrooms and a further 2 day rooms which contain wardrobes and study desks. Every bedroom has a bed, matching wardrobe, drawers and desk. There are 2 central changing rooms on the ground floor which connect to the ablutions. Each ablution on the ground floor has a bath, showers and toilets. The first floor has a toilet and the top floor has showers and a toilet. The kitchenette is located on the first floor and contains a microwave, hotplate, kettle, toaster, fridge and dishwasher.

The House has one Common Room with comfortable seating, with SKY TV, freeview, DVD and Video and internet access; a selection of videos to watch; various games rooms on the first and top floor containing pool table, table tennis, air hockey machine, table football and full working weights room on the top floor.

SE News

SE junior team win the inter house hockey, played on Wednesday 24 March 2010

Team consisted of George Briscoe, Will Parker (Capt), Louis Weir, Josh Landmann, Harry Southern, Stephen Kane, Harry Mawer, Edward So, Josh Stone, Will Waterton (Capt) & Dipo Oladapo.

SE 5 - Pe 1 (Goals - Louis Weir 2, Josh Landmann 2 & Will Waterton 1)

SE 5 - MF 0 (Goals - Louis Weir 2, Josh Landmann 1, Stephen Kane 1 & Harry Southern 1)

Well done lads - spread your wings! squawk!!! squawk!!!

Many thanks to the umpires - Mr Emmett, Mr Fairhurst & Mr Pryor.

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SE win the senior football competition!!!!!!!

Team consisted of Florian Pottinger (Capt), Jake Hodgson (goal scorer with 1 goal), Craig Mitchell, Jonas Laukemper, Jan Strottmann, James Palmer, Michael Kahl-Adams, Chris Metcalfe (sport warrior), Chay Hodgson, Kosta Karamanidis and Max Bieber.

Pe 1 - MF 1
SE 0 - MF 0
SE 1 - Pe 0

Well done to all who played and supported these games. A special thank you to Mr McCafferty and Mr Schofield for refereeing the games.

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Senior Hockey (over 16s) inter house competition
Sunday 7th February 2010

SE wins the Senior Hockey with Chris Metcalfe (scored 3) leading from the front as Hockey Captain. Also playing were Daniel Stone (scored 2), Kilian Prevaes, Max Bieber, Michael Kahl-Adams, Florian Pöttinger (scored 3), Jan Ströttmann, Craig Mitchell (scored 1) and Kosta Karamanidis (scored 1).

Overall scores were:

SE 1 – MF 0
SE 5 – Pe 0
SE 4 – LGB 0

All games were very competitive and well fought; this was due to a great team effort played by all teams.

The houseparent of SE is yet again out of pocket, another win means pizzas.

A special mention must go to Mr Fairhurst and Mr Pryor for umpiring the games.

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Senior School ‘General Knowledge Challenge’ held in Big School
Sunday 7th February 2010

The year 9 – 11 team round was yet again won by SE. Our players were George Weaver (Yr 9), George Briscoe (Yr 10) and James Gregory who racked up a massive score of 138 with our nearest rivals being Dolphin on 76 points.

Well done lads you have given the senior team an even greater chance of being overall winners of the knowledge quiz.

UPDATE!

Congratulations to SE!!!!

Joe Ingham and Harrison Rimmer clintch it for SE to win the senior game played in Big School Sunday 21st Mar 2010.

Well done Lads!!!!!!!!

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A message from your Houseparent

Congratulations to all from your houseparent

Craig Mitchell has been given the honour of joint captain of the school 1st XI football team.

Stephen Kane has been chosen to play for the Lancashire U15 boys hockey team.

Oliver Murray who plays for U14s Wigan St Pats team beat Oulton Raiders 50-22 on Sunday in the national cup semi final, the Barla national cup final will be against West Hull at Fylde on the 30th May. If you are around go and support Oliver.

Well done and congratulations to Chris Metcalfe who captains the 1^st XI cricket team this year and also to Stephen Kane who captains the U14 XI

More congratulations go to

Josh Landmann, Will Parker and Louis Weir who have been picked today to play hockey for the county.

Congratulations to the junior members of SE

SE wins the junior football!!!!!!!!!

Team - Capt George Briscoe and his team consisting of: Peter Boardman, Julian Ng, Stephen Kane, Harry Mawer, Josh Stone, Will Waterton, Sam Ho, Lawrence Chan, James Gregory, Brett Harker and Tom Walsh out witted Pelican in the final to win on penalties 3 - 1

George says - Pelican were attacking constantly and missed a lot of chances, we defended well but Pelican said at the end they were proud of us.

Thanks to Mr Root and Mr McCafferty for organising and refereeing the games.

More pizzas hmmmmmm

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U16s Inter House Basketball Competition

On Sunday 31^st Jan 2010 Matthew Au-Yeung, Lawrence Chan, Will Parker, Julian Ng, Edward So and Sam Ho represented the house in this tournament and played very well. Even though none of them play for the school team I was impressed by their effort they played for every game. No matter what the results were they performed excellent on the day, everyone in the gym stood up and cheered for them.

Closest game was with Pelican. We only lost by 1 point just like the seniors.

Good job guys!

by Andy Wei & Brandon Lau

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Cross Country

SE senior boys inter house x country champions, junior boys came 2^nd, overall winners.

The house best runners were:

Seniors – Chris Metcalfe 3^rdJuniors – George Briscoe 2^nd

Well done to all who competed, it was a very challenging day.

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House Swimming

Spread Eagle House retain their trophy. The houseparent (Mr Ian McCleary) was overcome with emotion as his house clinches the trophy yet again. He said "this is costing me a fortune in pizzas but I am very pround of the students taking part".

Overall winners for the second year running thanks to excellent swimming by:

The Senior team - Captain (Michael kahl-Adams), Jonas Laukemper, George Amoes, Jan Strottmann, Chris Metcalfe and Max Bieber.

The Junior team - Lawrence Chan, George Briscoe, Will Parker, Stephen Kane, Josh Landmann and Josh Stone

Special thanks to Mrs Lee for organising the event and the scorer Mr Root

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House Basketball
17th January 2010

The senior inter house basketball competition was a well fought contest all starting at 1pm on Sunday 17^th January 2010. SE drew with Lugard Boys House and only lost by 1 point to Pelican and MF. Overall the students gave 100% to the games with the Houseparent (Mr McCleary) saying Pelican were pround of us. A special thank you must go to Mr Wright for organising and refereeing the games to such a high standard.

Representing the house was – Brandan Lau (Capt), Michael Kahl-Adams, Jan Strottmann, Jonas Laukemper, Hieu (Jnr) Nguyen, Konstantin Semmler, Craig Mitchell and Florian Pottinger.

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Clay target shooting with Blackpool gun club
Sunday 15 Nov 2009

An enjoyable event which turned out to be a nice day with the weather situation. 3 out of the 4 shooters had not fired before with only Josh Stone who had had previous experience shooting at this level. After some practice shoots at an incoming, rabbit run and high shot coming head on, the lads from SE had a competition

Josh was under pressure as he was a competent shot. After 2 shoots at various targets Josh, Thaddeus and Sam were all on 6 shots each and it was down to the last shoot. Josh fired first and achieved 4/5, Thaddeus 3/5 and Sam 1/5. Overall Josh won with 10/15, second was Thaddeus 9/15, and third was Sam 7/15 and finally Marshall who scored 4/15.

We are hoping to eventually have a team of 5 / 6 shooters to compete nationally next year. The main drive for this will be the students themselves to commit their time and money to this sport.

Lawrence Chan, George Briscoe, Will Parker, Stephen Kane, Josh Landmann and Josh Stone.