House System
The students are divided into five Houses:
- D'Aeth (Yellow)
- Gwyn (Purple)
- Havelock (Red)
- Vaughan (Green)
- Wilson (Blue)
The House system was introduced in 1916 with four Houses (Gwyn House being added in 1997). D’Aeth, Gwyn and Vaughan are named after the three founders of the School: lawyer William D'Aeth, merchant Edward Gwyn and William Vaughan, a landowner and philanthropist. Havelock is named after the British General Henry Havelock, a former student at the school, and Wilson is named after another distinguished former pupil, Sir Erasmus Wilson.
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