Houses
Like many independent schools Rossall adopted a house system early on, with each pupil belonging to a house. It forms an integral part of life at the school and there are frequent inter-house events in sports as well as the arts. The middle school houses are used simply as a means to compete in competition. The senior school house have this purpose too but are also physical entities with their own buildings. The current houses are:
| House Name | Student's Gender | Part of: | House Colours | Founded | House Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor | Boys + Girls | Middle School | 2004 | Boarding | |
| Dragon | Boys + Girls | Middle School | 2006 | Day | |
| Falcon | Boys + Girls | Middle School | 2006 | Day | |
| Stag's Head | Boys + Girls | Middle School | 2006 | Day | |
| Lugard | Boys | Senior School | 1985 | Boarding + Day | |
| Puffin | Girls | Senior School | 2011 | Boarding + Day | |
| Dolphin | Girls | Senior School | 1980 | Day | |
| Maltese Cross | Boys | Senior School | 1886 | Boarding + Day | |
| Mitre Fleur-de-Lys | Boys | Senior School | 1975 | Boarding + Day | |
| Pelican | Boys | Senior School | 1888 | Boarding + Day | |
| Rose | Girls | Senior School | 1884 | Boarding + Day | |
| Spread Eagle | Boys | Senior School | 1868 | Boarding + Day | |
| Wren | Girls | Senior School | 2008 | Boarding + Day |
- Wren was originally founded in 1987 but was abolished and then re-launched in 2008. This was due to an insufficient intake of girls into the school.
- Anchor was originally formed as a boys boarding house, but was amalgamated into Maltese Cross Anchor shortly after its 100 year anniversary in 1991-92. The original colours were Brown and UN Blue, and the house was notorious for the warlike and irreverent attitude of its members, a contributory factor in its dissolution.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,—to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
—Russell Lynes (1910–1991)