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:
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)