Oakwood Park Grammar School - Houses

Houses

OPGS used to have houses named after local villages - Allington, Brenchley, Chilham, Detling, Egerton and Farleigh. This house system was abandoned in the 1980s.

The house system was re-introduced in 2009 mainly due to the school's growing size. The school's five houses are:

  • Broughton (named after Andrew Broughton, former Mayor of Maidstone and signatory of Charles I of England's death warrant)
  • Fisher (named after Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, who led the dedication service at the official opening of the school's Oakwood Park site)
  • Hazlitt (named after William Hazlitt, a famous English essayist, playwright and social commentator who was from Maidstone)
  • Sadler (named after David Sadler, a former OPGS student who went on to play 272 games for Manchester United football club following the devastating Munich air disaster, and 4 games for England)
  • Wilberforce (named after William Wilberforce, the famous British politician who successfully stood against slavery, who has family in East Farleigh)

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