Houses
A House is a component of the school community and a place where pupils reside and engage in private study. Normally, a pupil remains at his chosen House until he or she leaves the school. Each house has its own colours. Competitions are regularly arranged between the Houses in a range of academic, artistic and sporting activities. With the exceptions of School House and Ellerslie House, the eleven houses at Malvern are named with numbers 1 to 9, a system which used to be used at Roedean School, a girls' school founded by the sisters of the Old Malvernian judge Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence. The houses, in order of foundation are:
| House | Sex | House Colours | |
| School House | Boys | Black, Magenta and Blue | |
| No. 1 | Boys | Red and White | |
| No. 2 | Boys | Blue and White | |
| No. 3 | Girls | Light Blue | |
| No. 4 | Girls | Maroon | |
| No. 5 | Boys | Red and Black | |
| No. 6 | Girls | Light Yellow | |
| No. 7 | Boys | Purple and Black | |
| No. 8 | Girls | Pink | |
| No. 9 | Boys | Green and Black | |
| Ellerslie House | Girls | Teal |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palaces built upon the sand.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)