Houses
There are six school houses and colours associated with each — Byron (red), Cassidy (yellow), Fitzgerald (blue), Hildegard (black/white for 6th form), Somerville (light blue) and Tomlinson (green). They are named after famous females who have achieved great things in music, mathematics, sports and literature. Each pupil wears a house badge with the colours of their house below the school badge on their blazer, showing which house they belong to. Sixth form have pin badges with their house colors. Each form consists of a wide variety of different year 7-11 pupils that each belong to the same house, known as vertical tutor groups. This plan was put in place in September 2007. This system is soon to be overhauled in September 2010, with vertical tutor groups including all year groups (i.e. years 7-13). The houses compete against each other in events throughout the year, including inter-house year tournaments such as netball, dodgeball, benchball, dance and football. The current winners of sports day are Byron. There are also many other events, such as charity money raisers and arts day where a variety of performances ranging from solo singing to creating art in a certain time.
Originally, there were only four houses: Andrew (purple), David (yellow), George (red) and Patrick (green), the colours being taken from the flower emblems thistle, daffodil, rose and shamrock.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)