Houses
Haydon used to have five houses which were:
- Discovery
- Challenger
- Voyager
- Endeavour
- Pioneer
Each house is named after space craft, including three space shuttles; there was an unfortunate introduction to the house system, since the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated, and one of the crew members was a teacher; despite the unintended connotations, the name stood.
There are two/three forms in each house per year, to a maximum of 12. Each form has 25 students. A form is identified by the year, the house and a number. This last number is either 1, 2, 3 or 4. (Though one year will never have all four forms, most have 2, and some have 3). Odd numbers represent forms that study French and Italian, whilst even numbers represent forms studying German and Spanish. For example 9P1 would be a year nine form, in Pioneer with students studying French and Italian.
The houses have different colours. Challenger is red, Discovery is yellow, Pioneer is purple, Voyager is green and Endeavour is blue. Since 2004, students have worn ties in their house colours, and since 2009 students have their conduct cards coloured according to their house. Each year when the school's Sports Day takes place, students are not required to wear uniform, but are encouraged to wear clothes matching their house colour. For five years in a row Challenger house has won sports day.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 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)