The Houses
The House system is a feature common to Public Schools in India especially Christian run schools (based on an equivalent system in England).
The four houses are named after the patron saints of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom:
- St. Andrew of Scotland - colour blue
- St. David of Wales - colour yellow
- St. George of England - colour red
- St. Patrick of Northern Ireland -colour green
The houses compete with one another in academics, games, track and field sports, aquatics, arts, literary, dramatic and music competitions.
Read more about this topic: St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)