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:
“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)
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”
—Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)