Houses
New Town High has 4 houses; Dechanuex, Ellis, Hunter and Jarvis, which all compete against each other to win the Cosgrove Shield (for Sporting Achievment), the David Close Shield (for Academic Achievment) and the Making a Difference Shield (Sustainability). There are 2 home-groups per house, per grade.
| New Town High School Houses | ||
| House Name | Colour | Mascot |
|---|---|---|
| Dechanuex | Blue | Warship |
| Ellis | Red | Eagle |
| Hunter | Green | Warrior |
| Javis | Yellow | Lion |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don’t know what to save.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)