House System
The school has a house system with the junior school consisting of years 7 and 8. From year 9 the pupils join the senior houses. In total there are 8 houses, 4 junior school houses and 4 senior school houses. In the senior houses pupils wear a tie indicative of their house. In year 12 (or lower sixth) the form groups are split into two. The nomenclature for representing a pupil's house is: 7La, 11He, 12He(ii)
Junior Houses - all wear a dark green tie
- Brack's (Fullname Brackenbury's)
- Larkin's
- Norman's
- White's (formerly Whiteheads)
Senior Houses - all use a dark green tie with coloured stripes
- Heath's - white stripes
- Mann's - orange stripes
- Pearce's - light green stripes (known as School house until 1976)
- Thomas' - pink stripes
Previous Senior Houses (no longer in existence)
- Coleman's - sky blue stripes
- Searle's - red stripes
- Simmons' - royal blue stripes
- Thornton's - yellow stripes
The house system is used for sporting events - house fixtures results accumulate over the academic year - and for various other competitions, including acting and design contests. The results from all of these fixtures are tallied at the end of the year to determine the winner of the Cock House Trophy.
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