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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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)