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:
“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and
its crumbling, leafy terraces.
There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue.
There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting flies”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)