Pastoral Care and Houses
The school has a multi-layered system of pastoral care.
In Years 7 & 8 pupils have their own Junior School Housemaster or Housemistress.
Upon entering the Senior School (Years 9 - 13) pupils join one of four Houses, A, B, C or D, each with its own Housemaster/mistress. In the 1950s and 1960s the houses were often named after their Housemasters although this was gradually replaced by the letters A, B, C and D.
Each Housemaster/mistress has responsibility for, and organises, a team of Tutors. Tutors have between two and ten pupils in their tutor groups. Every morning Tutors meet with their tutees for registration. Regular tutor meetings are also a feature of the pastoral provision.
Housemasters/mistresses lead house meetings and the Headmaster leads assemblies for individual year groups and the entire school.
House membership is identified by a distinctive coloured tie.
- A House - Red
- B House - Light blue
- C House - Yellow
- D House - Navy blue
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
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