House System
The School has a house system that fosters competition among its students and prepares them for the rigors of Inter School Level Competition. The first established houses were named after famous explorers; Armstrong Neil Armstrong, Thesiger Wilfred Thesiger and Cousteau Jacques Cousteau. The houses are names after British writers later when the house system was re-established: Orwell, Keats, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
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