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 🤍 💙 🤍💙 @ArdinglyCollege

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 @OceanCTrust ⛵️ 👏 🤩 @ArdinglyCollege #resilience #collaboration #engagement #compassion

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! ⛵️ @ArdinglyCollege

🤩 Thanks to all parents and pupils who baked or bought cakes for our first big cake sale for @winstonswish - the first children’s bereavement charity @CrosseHouse are supporting this year. Approx £150 raised so far!! @ArdinglyCharity 🍰 🍪 😋 ❤️ @ArdinglyCollege

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 🤍💙 @ArdinglyCollege

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 💙🤍 @ArdinglyCollege

Raising awareness for @YoungMindsUK 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’ ..? 📖 🎶 🌲 🎨 @ArdinglyHealth

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… 🏓🤍💙

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

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

@CrosseHouse 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 🏆 👏 💙🤍 @ArdinglyCollege

@CrosseHouse 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! 💙 🤍 🏆 👏 @ArdinglyCollege

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! 😋 🧁 🍩 🍪 🍰 @ArdinglyCharity

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 @ArdinglyMusic ABC concert! 🎶 💙 🤍

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

@CrosseHouse 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 @RhodesArdingly 🏊‍♂️ 🏑 🎤 💙 🤍 @ArdinglyCollege 👏🏆👏

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. 💙🍕🤍🍕💙@ArdinglyCollege #houselife

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 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! ♟️ ⏰ @ArdinglyCollege