House System
The school operates a house system; every girl is placed in one of four houses:
- Burton (Yellow)
- Hastings (Green)
- Storer (Blue)
- Fearon (Purple)
The houses are named after notable people within the founding of both the Endowed Schools and the social architecture of Loughborough town centre. Burton after Thomas Burton the founder of the Loughborough Endowed Schools and Hastings after Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough. Storer after Johnathan Storer who in 1713 founded a charity conveying cottages and land in Loughborough to eleven trustees allowing the purchase of wheat to make bread and clothing, which was distributed to poor people living in the town. And finally Fearon for Archdeacon Henry Fearon who in 1870 financed the oldest edifice in Market Square, the drinking fountain, allowing Loughborough to gain its first piped water supply. It is a total mystery as to how these girls are placed, but areas where they live are thought to be a factor. The house system provides internal competition in a number of sporting disciplines as well as extracurricular activities including music and drama. Each house in addition to the Housemaster/Head of House, possess both a House Captain, a Games Captain and a House Secretary.
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