Houses
There are 11 Boarding Houses which are home to approximately 50-60 boys or girls. Each house is run by Housemaster or Housemistress who is a member of the teaching staff at the school and lives in the boarding house with their family. Each house also has a set of House Tutors who supervise Prep (homework) during the week and also tutor members of the house. A pastoral house matron also lives in each boarding house looking after pupils' medical (and often social) needs.
The school does have a very small number of day pupils around 120. Teddy's does not differentiate between day pupils and borders. Day pupils are expected to be in school from 8.30am until 9.00pm every week day and from 8.30am until the end of afternoon commitments on a Saturday. Day pupils are treated exactly the same as boarders. The school does not have day houses, all day pupils have a room within a boarding house and in most cases have their own bed and wardrobe. This policy means that the school does not have a day/boarder divide. So unclear is the day/boarder divide that often teachers do not know who is a day pupil and who is not.
When only the Sixth Form was fully co-educational, girls were members of boys' houses but slept in what is now Oakthorpe. Houses are identified internally by a lettering system which is based on when the house was established. So the first house, Cowell's is the letter "A", Sing's is "B", Field House is "C" and so on. Certain letters such as L and I have been left out.
A new boarding house to be called "Jubilee" is being built and is expected to open in September 2013.
Read more about this topic: St Edward's School, Oxford
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“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)
“People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)