Tulse Hill School - Houses

Houses

Games and social activities were originally organised on a House system, with boys being allocated a house on entering the school and thereafter being guided by a housemaster. It was the House masters job to get to know their individual house members and there were often house meetings after morning assembly. Inter-house sporting fixtures were another feature of school life, together with house outings and social activities. The house system at Tulse Hill was eventually replaced by pastoral group units.

The eight school houses were named after eminent men who had associations with the borough of Lambeth.
Each house had its own colours:

House Founded Colours Named After
Blake 1956 Light Blue William Blake
Brunel 1956 Pink Isambard Kingdom Brunel Engineer
Dickens 1956 Green Charles Dickens
Faraday 1956 Black until about 1959, then Dark Blue Michael Faraday
Temple 1956 Yellow William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
Turner 1956 Maroon Joseph Mallord William Turner, Landscape Artist
Webb 1956 Grey Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
Wren 1956 Brown (56-79) Christopher Wren

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