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:
“Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”
—Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)