Houses
Pupils at the School are divided into the following Houses:
- Bannerman, for Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. (Red)
- Clyde, for Lord Clyde. (Blue)
- Law, for Andrew Bonar Law. (Green)
- Moore, for Sir John Moore. (Yellow)
The School operates a house competition, and pupils may earn points for their house through excellence in areas such as sports, music, academia. The current holder of the overall house championship is Moore House. The Junior School Houses take their names from British lifeboats: Broughtyferry (red), Campbelltown (blue), Lizard (green) and Longhope (yellow).
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“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)
“Nothing will be left white but here a birch,
And there a clump of houses with a church.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)