Houses
There are nine boarding houses and two for dayboys, each with its own housemaster or housemistress (in brackets), tutor team and matron. Each house also has its own colours. The many inter-house competitions play an important role in school life. In football each house competes in four different leagues (two senior, two junior) and three knock-out competitions (two senior, one junior). A single house will hold around 60 pupils, although School House and each of the dayboy houses hold slightly more. The houses, and their colours are:
- Churchill's Hall Dark Blue & Light Blue (Richard Hudson)
- The Grove Cornflower Blue and White (Stuart Cowper)
- Ingram's Hall Green & White (Mike Wright)
- Moser's Hall Deep Red & Black (Paul Pattenden)
- Oldham's Hall Chocolate Brown & White (Marcus Johnson)
- Port Hill Gold & Red (Andy Barnard)
- Radbrook Violet & White (Des Hann)
- Ridgemount Royal Blue & Old Gold (Will Hughes)
- Rigg's Hall Chocolate & Gold (Peter Middleton)
- School House Black, Magenta & White (Giles Bell)
- Severn Hill Maroon & French Grey (Dan Nicholas)
- Mary Sidney Hall Dark Blue & Pink (Anna Peak)
- Emma Darwin Hall Wedgwood Blue & Green (Kait Weston)
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)