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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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)