Houses
The six houses in the school were named after honours given to the St John family and passed down to Walter. A colour was associated with each house, and students were required to wear a cap with the school badge on the front and a small button in the colour of their house on the crown. The colours were also used in sportswear, shirts for football and a sash for Fives and boxing. Both were used in other sports.
- Beauchamp (Pronounced "Beecham") had blue as its colour. Oliver St John was also Baron Beauchamp.
- Bletsoe used Brown. Bletsoe Manor was also owned by the St John's family.
- Bolingbroke was the red house. Henry St John was made the first Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712.
- Lydiard used the violet colour. Oliver was also Baron St John of Lydiard Tregoze
- Grandison had yellow as its identifier. Oliver was also the first Viscount Grandison.
- Tregoze had the green for its use. See above in Lydiard
Prior to Sir Walter St Johns, Boys Grammar School being amalgamated with William Blake School, there were actually 3 houses in the School, the names were as stated above but were actually together: Grandison Bletsoe (GB), Beauchamp Bolingbroke (BB) and Lydiard Tregoze (LT).
Read more about this topic: Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Nothing will be left white but here a birch,
And there a clump of houses with a church.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)
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—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)