Today's School
There is a house system and Form Groups within the school designated by the letters A to F (Year 7 currently), and V to Z (Year 8-11 currently) with the sixth form sorted in houses A to H. All students and staff are sorted into a House randomly which are Behn (Aphra Behn), Meitner (Lise Meitner), Rorschach (Hermann Rorschach) and Tinbergen (Nikolaas Tinbergen). Each house has a house leader who chooses a significant person in their subject's history as the name of the house.
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