Houses
The school has five houses, or Halls as they are known within the school. They have two forms from each year and take part in competitions within their hall or with the entire year or school, being awarded hall points for successes. These is an annual sports day held towards the end of the Summer Term, where the houses take part in athletics events and are identified by a coloured sash. Previous examples of hall competitions are the Litre of Light campaign, where forms were required to fill as many two litre bottles as they could with change raised from cake sales and fundraising evenings.
The Halls are named after five inspirational figures:
- Muhammad Yunus (red)
- John Wood (yellow)
- Chico Mendes (green)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (blue)
- Wangari Maathai (purple)
Each house has a mural situated around the site.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?’ you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:26-27.