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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