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:
“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,—to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)