Launcelot Primary School - House System (Historical Note)

House System (Historical Note)

The School was built at the time of the building of the Downham Estate in the 1920s and previously called Launcelot Road Infants and Junior School. The foundation of its teaching was Church of England, annual nativity plays were performed by pupils, harvest celebration events held when older residents of the estate were invited to the school each and every August.

It is one of four primary schools on the Downham Estate (the others being Rangefield Primary School, Good Shepherd Roman Catholic School and Downderry Primary School) but is the only one of the four to be named after one of the Knights of the Round Table and, for a time, employed a colour-coded 4-house system into which pupils were placed. These were Galahad (yellow) (in antiquity the son of Sir Lancelot), Bedivere (blue), Geraint (green) and Gawain (red). For further information on the link between the Downham Estate at the tales of the Knights of the Round Table reference should be made to Malory School, Downham.

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