Houses
A House is a component of the school community and a place where pupils reside and engage in private study. Normally, a pupil remains at his chosen House until he or she leaves the school. Each house has its own colours. Competitions are regularly arranged between the Houses in a range of academic, artistic and sporting activities. With the exceptions of School House and Ellerslie House, the eleven houses at Malvern are named with numbers 1 to 9, a system which used to be used at Roedean School, a girls' school founded by the sisters of the Old Malvernian judge Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence. The houses, in order of foundation are:
| House | Sex | House Colours | |
| School House | Boys | Black, Magenta and Blue | |
| No. 1 | Boys | Red and White | |
| No. 2 | Boys | Blue and White | |
| No. 3 | Girls | Light Blue | |
| No. 4 | Girls | Maroon | |
| No. 5 | Boys | Red and Black | |
| No. 6 | Girls | Light Yellow | |
| No. 7 | Boys | Purple and Black | |
| No. 8 | Girls | Pink | |
| No. 9 | Boys | Green and Black | |
| Ellerslie House | Girls | Teal |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when the people eat the stuff they raise, and living in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)