Houses
There are around 627 male and female students in the senior school (ages 11 to 18), in four Houses, named after the two founders and two previous teachers at the school: Balyes, Dawsons (which includes the 60 boarders), Gibbards, and Owens. A second house for boarders, Ingrams, was merged with Dawsons in the 1980s, and was reborn as a separate house for all 1st and 2nd form pupils. These move into the senior houses at the start of the 3rd form. Ingrams compete in a separate house competition between classes, although they have many of the same events as the senior house competition. There are around 320 pupils in the preparatory school (ages 4 to 11), in four houses named after the families that owned the castle, Fitzpiers, Montagu, Stafford and Wingfield.
| Balyes | Senior School - 3rd form to 6th form, Named after one of the founders of the School, Henry Balye. | |
| Dawsons | Senior School - 3rd form to 6th form, Named after one of the founders of the School, William Dawson, the house is typically dominated by members of the two boarding houses on the high street. | |
| Gibbards | Senior School - 3rd form to 6th form, Named after a former teacher of the School. | |
| Owens | Senior School - 3rd form to 6th form, Named after a former teacher at the School. The house mascot being Frederick the Phoenix, who is represented on the House flag. | |
| Ingrams | Senior School - The first two years, 1st and 2nd form. Named after a former headmaster, William Ingram. | |
| Fitzpiers | Preparatory School - Named after one of the original owners of the Castle, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, the then Earl of Essex, during the 1200s. | |
| Montagu | Preparatory School - Named after Henry Montagu. Owning the Castle in the 17th Century. | |
| Stafford | Preparatory School - Named after one of the original owners of the Castle, Ann Stafford, widow of the Duke of Buckingham, in the mid-15th century. | |
| Wingfield | Preparatory School - Named after the Wingfield family, most notably Edward Maria Wingfield, owners of the Castle in the 16th Century. |
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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)
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)