Houses
There are nine boarding houses and two for dayboys, each with its own housemaster or housemistress (in brackets), tutor team and matron. Each house also has its own colours. The many inter-house competitions play an important role in school life. In football each house competes in four different leagues (two senior, two junior) and three knock-out competitions (two senior, one junior). A single house will hold around 60 pupils, although School House and each of the dayboy houses hold slightly more. The houses, and their colours are:
- Churchill's Hall Dark Blue & Light Blue (Richard Hudson)
- The Grove Cornflower Blue and White (Stuart Cowper)
- Ingram's Hall Green & White (Mike Wright)
- Moser's Hall Deep Red & Black (Paul Pattenden)
- Oldham's Hall Chocolate Brown & White (Marcus Johnson)
- Port Hill Gold & Red (Andy Barnard)
- Radbrook Violet & White (Des Hann)
- Ridgemount Royal Blue & Old Gold (Will Hughes)
- Rigg's Hall Chocolate & Gold (Peter Middleton)
- School House Black, Magenta & White (Giles Bell)
- Severn Hill Maroon & French Grey (Dan Nicholas)
- Mary Sidney Hall Dark Blue & Pink (Anna Peak)
- Emma Darwin Hall Wedgwood Blue & Green (Kait Weston)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“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)
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)