Houses
The house system is a key part of the school community. It began in 1925, when the four houses were named after school governors; Chancellor, Hulton, Pennefather and Tancock. The four houses became three in 1986; C, H and S, standing for Chelmsford High School. A fourth house, G - standing for Girls' (making it 'Chelmsford Girls' High School') was added when the students on roll increased.
When new pupils enter the school they are split into houses randomly (until recently, students were put in a house depending on their surname) and this determines which tutor group they join (the first on the register goes to C, the second to G, the third to H and the fourth to S. Then the process repeat s- CGHS, etc.) - 7C, 7G, 7H or 7S. Throughout the school, they move up to 8C, 8G, 8H or 8S and so on. New entrants to the sixth-form and teachers are also given house assignments.
Recently, the houses were given the surnames of famous women and voted for the one they thought was the most inspirational to have representing their house:
Read more about this topic: Chelmsford County High School For Girls
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)