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:
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
—Russell Lynes (1910–1991)
“There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and
its crumbling, leafy terraces.
There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue.
There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting flies”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)