Shoreham College stuck to tradition and had a flippin’ great Pancake Day celebration yesterday!
This long-running inter-house competition was introduced in 1973, by the then headmaster, Cannon D.H. Booth, who borrowed the idea from a similar tradition at Westminster School.
Teams of four Year 5 pupils were chosen to represent each of the school’s four houses, and each team occupied a corner of a marked-out square on the school playing fields. The whole school gathered on the side-lines to cheer on their house in the most anticipated and fun inter-house event of the year.
A huge pancake, measuring 18” in diameter was tossed into the air by Mr Taylor-West. As soon as it left the tray, the teams made a mad scramble to pick up the pieces of the pancake and run back to their corners, where they deposited the pieces into a bag.
Once the entire pancake had been picked up, Mr Taylor-West did a weigh in, using a Newton spring-balance meter, and the winning team was announced to much cheering from the crowd.
Jenson Mackley, Rory Donovan, Layla Roshan, and Thomas Keeley, Rodney House, won £20, having collected a whopping 1200g of pancake. Raleigh were second, Nelson third and Grenville fourth