Houses
Formerly, students at South Island School were organized by a House System, whereby all students were allocated into one of the seven houses (Aylward (yellow), Hillary (blue), Jefferson (purple), Marden (orange), Schweitzer (green,) Noble (light blue), and Tolstoy (red)) AHJM, SNT was the method in which to remember the houses and the order they were sat in stands for interhouse events. The members of each house competed against each other in athletics, swimming, music and debating, etc. Each house was awarded points depending on the finishing place in each competition. At the end of the year, the House cup was presented to the house with the highest score in the last Assembly before the summer holidays.
In the 2011-12 school year the school principal introduced a system in which students were reorganized into six houses, simply named after the words for "home" or "house" in various foreign languages. The house colors were allocated after each head of house pulled slips of paper from a hat with a color written on them. In each year, a house consists of two tutor groups of about 15 students, headed by a tutor. The houses are then grouped into three separate "Learning Families" (Bamboo, Bauhinia and Banyan), headed by the Director of Family.
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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)
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)