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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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)