Houses
The houses of Westlake Boys are:
- Hood - (Maroon)
It represents Academia. It is named after John Hood who is a vice chancellor of Oxford University.
- Murchison - (White)
It represents Leadership. It is named after Peter Murchison for his 11 years' loyal service in Westlake Boys High School. He has now gone into retirement.
- Pupuke - (Blue)
It represents Landmark. The school is at the west of Lake Pupuke.
- Smale - (Green)
It represents Enterprise. It is named after Bill Smale, a successful property developer, who is an owner and director of Smales Farm Technology Office Park Next to Westlake Girls High School.
- Stanley - (Red)
It represents Sport. It is named after Mike Stanley who is a two time rowing world champion in 1982 and 1983. He is also the head rowing coach for the schools rowing squad.
- Ururoto - (Black)
It represents Culture. Uru=West, Roto=Lake (Maori translation)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and
its crumbling, leafy terraces.
There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue.
There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting flies”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:12-14.