Houses
Repton school has 10 houses, 6 for boys and 4 for girls. The boys' houses are The Cross, Latham House, The Priory, New House, The Orchard, and School House, each consisting of about 65 boys across 5 school years. The girls' houses are The Abbey, Field House, The Garden, and The Mitre (which used to be a boys house), with roughly the same number of members each. School House was originally two houses (some would say three). Hall and Brook House were joined together as houses. The original Brook House building has now been converted to flats. Hall was also split into A-K and L-Z but that was ended by the time of the conjunction.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when the people eat the stuff they raise, and living in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
—Russell Lynes (1910–1991)