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:
“Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)