Houses
Prior to the school's turning comprehensive in 1975, there were four houses, each named after one of the four roads forming a rectangle around the school site. These were Brampton, Hamilton, Jennings and Park. From 1975 onwards, with the increase in the yearly intake, two further houses were added, York and Churchill, also named after two other nearby thoroughfares. Each of the six houses has its own colour: Brampton, light blue; Churchill, red; Hamilton, green; Jennings, purple; Park, yellow; and York, white. Students' ties vary to display the corresponding house colour as an additional coloured stripe. The house system is used to divide each year group into six form groups, which remain the same throughout successive years, e.g. a student who is placed in 7B (Year seven, Brampton) upon entry will proceed into 8B, 9B, 10B and 11B. Inter-house competition is encouraged, with a rugby and football tournament taking place in each of the five compulsory years.
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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)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)