Houses
For competitive intra-school events, the school population is divided into six houses:
- Aquila (blue)
- Draco (red)
- Lynx (green)
- Pegasus (purple)
- Phoenix (orange)
- Ursa (yellow)
The House Committee is in charge of each house, with each house having at least four House Committee members: The House Captain, The Vice-Captain, The Treasurer and The Secretary, and the Quarter Master. Integrated Programme students into the House Comm are called "Caplets". House points are earned through inter-house activities.
The house system was introduced in 2004 in order to prepare students for the change in curriculum of 2006, when the S1 and S2 faculties were eliminated. Before the house system, the school population competed as faculties. The house system distributes students from different faculties evenly, eliminating the size advantage that the S1 or "triple science" faculty used to have from offering the most popular subject combination. The 'Arts Fac' and 'Science Fac' cheers have since made way for the new house cheers.
The house with the highest grand total of points wins the La Coupe Etoile (or The Star Cup), awarded to the Champion House at the Farewell Assembly for the Year 2s at the end of each year.
Past champion Houses
- 2004: Draco
- 2005: Ursa
- 2006: Aquila
- 2007: Pegasus
- 2008: Pegasus
- 2009: Lynx
- 2010: Lynx
- 2011: Lynx
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