Housemistress - Mrs Chris Allison
Mrs Chris Allison has been Housemistress since 2001: she teaches English, coaches netball and runs Cranleigh School’s equestrian activities.
Deputy - Mrs Heli Dixon
Mrs Heli Dixon and her young family joined West in 2007. She teaches Classical Civilisation, coaches a variety of sport and is famous in the House for her chocolate brownies! Her husband is Head of French at the Prep School.
Warden – Miss Adele Willis
Miss Adele Willis is Assistant Head of the Maths Department, as well as coaching a variety of sports and being a keen runner. Everyone knows when Miss Willis is in the House – you usually hear her singing before you see her!
TUTORS
Miss Olivia Mullins is the longest-serving Tutor in West, having joined us when it first opened. She is Assistant Head of the English Department, as well as coaching a variety of sports and herself competing in triathlons. You will often see her out pounding the paths of Cranleigh.
Dr Sue Kemp teaches Chemistry as well as coaching netball and rounders. As the only scientist on our Tutor team she is in demand during prep on her duty nights to help with tricky equations.
Miss Rachel Nicholson joined West in 2007 and teaches French, German and Italian. She is an enthusiastic hockey coach who coaches both girls and boys.
Mrs Anne Cooke teaches History and Critical Thinking as well as working in the School Library (hence her love of reading and her willingness to pass on good books that she comes across). She joined West in 2007 and her husband is Assistant Chaplain and Head of RS and Critical Thinking.
Mrs Uta Yardley is Head of German and has a keen interest in badminton as well as riding.
Mrs Jenny Pimm is a sports coach at both the Senior and Prep School and so enjoys seeing the girls as they move from one school to the next.
Mrs Wendy Yates teaches ceramics and is one of the newest members of our Tutor team, joining West in 2008 along with Mrs Lucy Smart who
Mrs Lucy Smart teaches French and joined West in 2008. She is Assistant Head of the French Department. is married to the Head of Politics and has the smiliest baby daughter you could wish to meet. She enjoys lookng after her Lower School tutor group as well as coaching netball and getting involved with Summer league sport.
Miss Sophie Diamond joined West in 2009 after a PGCE at Oxford and teaches French and Spanish. She is a Lower School tutor takes a Fourth Form hockey team and hopes to get involved with outdoor education later in the year.
Miss Sarah Webb is new to West in 2009 and joins the History and Politics Department. As well as tutoring a Lower School tutor group she enjoys getting involved in sport and is particularly keen on football.
MATRONS
Ms Carol Casson and Mrs Isabel Parker are both core figures in the life of West, providing good humour, kindness, an understanding ear and delicious cookies in equal abundance. Their room is regularly the hub of evening activity, and the daily running of the House would suffer greatly without them.
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Visitors & Prospectus 
West House can accommodate 100 girls and our aim is to make the boarders and day girls feel as one. With this in mind most of the rooms house both, starting in the IVth Form and LVth with rooms of four. In the UVth they move into double rooms and in the VIth Form all girls have their own room, most of which have their own sink and vanity unit. Our policy is to allocate rooms for all junior girls, as we feel that this encourages wider integration and a strong sense of House unity, and we change the combination of girls in the rooms each term. Girls bring their own duvet covers, which add colour and vibrancy to their rooms, as does the array of photos of family, friends and pets that adorns their walls and bed units!