Houses
Queensbury uses a 'house' system to encourage teamwork and competition within the school, with awards and points being given to houses for various events. Each form class is assigned to a house, designated by the PE teachers after a few PE lessons to make the houses balanced. The houses used to be selected randomly and the tie you wore represented the house. The houses and colours are shown below. Each house is named after a road around the school.
| House | Road Named After | Location of the road |
|---|---|---|
| Hilton | Hilton Avenue | south |
| Langdale | Langdale Road | east |
| Cansworde | Canesworde Road | north - west |
| Mead | Meadway | north west |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Hast ever ben in Omaha
Where rolls the dark Missouri down,
Where four strong horses scarce can draw
An empty wagon through the town?
Where sand is blown from every mound
To fill your eyes and ears and throat;
Where all the steamboats are aground,
And all the houses are afloat?...
If not, take heed to what I say,
You’ll find it just as I have found it;
And if it lies upon your way
For God’s sake, reader, go around it!”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“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)