Houses
Boys in the senior school are put into one of seven houses which compete against each other in sports and other activities, such as debating. The house system is now combined with the system of forms. Six of the houses are named after people connected with the history of the town of Warwick (Tudor, Guy, Greville, Brooke, Oken and Leycester) and the seventh house, formerly for boarders only, is called School. The Junior School has four houses named after more general historical figures (Drake, Scott, Wellington and Nelson).
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—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.