Houses
These Houses, in to which the pupils of Tadcaster Grammar School are divided, are as follows:
- Oglethorpe House - Named after Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle and founder of the school in 1557. Green
- Dawson House - Named after Dawson's Girls' School, with which Tadcaster Grammar School was merged. Yellow
- Fairfax House - Named after English Civil War commander-in-chief and alumnus Thomas Fairfax. Blue
- Calcaria House - Named after the Roman name for Tadcaster Red
- Toulston House - Named after school building Toulston Lodge, former residence of Oliver Cromwell. Orange
- Wharfe House - Named after the River Wharfe, which runs through Tadcaster. Purple
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:12-14.