House System
The College has used various house systems throughout its history. In the current system, there is no strong house rivalry, as in many other independent schools, due to the nature of the school as both coeducational and containing a mix of boarding and day students.
Currently, there are four houses:
- De la Salle (Blue)
- Thevenet (Yellow)
- Xavier (Red)
- Celsus (Green)
An earlier version of the system which was in use in the 1980s and 1990s had four houses named after major figures in England’s Roman Catholic history:
- Campion (Green; named after St Edmund Campion, an English Jesuit and martyr)
- Sherwin (Yellow; named after St Ralph Sherwin, an English martyr)
- More (Red; named after St Thomas More, English lawyer, politician and martyr)
- Beckett (Blue; named after St Thomas Beckett, an early archbishop of Canterbury and martyr)
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