Houses
The school is arranged into ten houses, with students living in the separate houses, eating together as a house and playing sport together as a house in inter-house competitions. Each House is named after a British saint:
- St Aidan's (Girls) Housemistress: Dr. Victoria Fogg
- St Bede's (Girls) Housemistress: Mr Brendan & Victoria Anglim
- St Cuthbert's (Boys) Housemaster: Mr David Willis
- St Dunstan's (Boys) Housemaster: Mr Ben Pennington
- St Edward-Wilfrid's (Boys), originally two houses, Housemaster: Mr Adrian Smerdon
- St Hugh's (Boys) Housemaster: Mr Matthew Fogg
- St John's (Boys), Housemaster: Dr David Moses Phd
- St Oswald's (Boys) Housemaster: Mr Patrick McBeath
- St Margaret's (Girls) Housemistress: Mrs Gaelle McGovern
- St Thomas' (Boys) Housemaster: Mr Paul Brenan
Some of the houses are paired into buildings named after people who have been instrumental in the school's history:
- Hume House - St Cuthbert's and St Edward-Wilfrid's - Named after Cardinal Basil Hume (although originally Saint Edward's house on one side and Saint Wilfrid's house on the other)
- Nevill House - St Dunstan's and St Oswald's
- Bolton House - formerly St Edward's and St Wilfrid's before their merger in 2001
- Fairfax House - St Margaret's and St Hugh's
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