Houses
Southwell School currently has 6 houses which are named after famous cathedrals in England.
- Lincoln - Green
- Salisbury - Gold/Yellow
- Winchester - Maroon
- Durham - Red
- Canterbury - Blue
- York - Black
Each house meets once a week to collect points for the school 'Citizenship Point' Competition, as well as to discuss the frequent house competitions. These competitions are in swimming, cross country, athletics, mathematics, English and 'house-sport', which is a house competition in various summer and winter sports.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.