School "House names"

[marinyork]

Hmmm. Fair enough. My schools and college certainly didn't have houses. Stumbling in I'm met with a thread with a lot of bizarre names!

 

[craigwend]

(Thomas) Ferens - yellow
(Amy) Johnson - green
(William) Wilberforce - blue or red?
(Andrew) Marvell - red or blue?

 

[Aperitif]

Preston
Kenton
Northwick
Welldon

All bits of land, or wards around Harrow.

 

[Maz]

You're all bonkers. The lot of ya!

 

[Aperitif]

Maz - if you haven't earned a house point - you haven't tasted life!
Preston were light blue
Kenton - dark blue
Welldon - maroon
Northwick - green

 

[zimzum42]

At School in Zambia we had Kudu, Impala and a couple of other antelopes...

In England one school had Wolves, Lions and a couple of other animals like that.

My senior school managed 26 houses, can't for the life of me remember many of them....

 

[Globalti]

Fisher, More and Campion at Prep school.

Farringdon and I can't remember the rest at Secondary.

Martyrs and Scholars at my son's school.

 

[purpleR]

Garry, Affric, Isla and Shiel

 

[peanut]

our Houses were named after the local rivers Abbess, Aythorpe, Berness and Beauchamp

how many other 'full boarders' are there on CC ?

 

[Arch]

Demontfort (blue), MacCauley (red), Latimer (green) and Wycliffe (yellow). I was MacCauley, and Wycliffe always seemed to come last - I think the yellow dispirited them.

You got credits for good work, and three credits were a merit and that went on the house total for the year. Debits were the minus equivalent. Then there was sports day and all that sort of thing

At primary school we were just allocated colours each sports day (held at the local dog track, PA supplied by the Army) and spent a morning making up rosettes, banners and so on, before being marched in a crocodile, singing "When the Saints go marching in", down to the track for all the usual egg and spoon, sack race etc. Winners of races got to choose a sweet from a big jar of chews/lollies etc.

 

[peanut]

Maz - if you haven't earned a house point - you haven't tasted life!
Preston were light blue
Kenton - dark blue
Welldon - maroon
Northwick - green

I once had 16 house points in a single week (school record)which put me into detention all afternoons evenings and weekend the following week

 

[Rhythm Thief]

how many other 'full boarders' are there on CC ?

Me! Oldest public school in Britain, I was at - the same place Guy Fawkes, Kit Wright and a few of the other Gunpowder Plotters were educated at.

 

[Arch]

You got credits for good work, and three credits were a merit and that went on the house total for the year. Debits were the minus equivalent. Then there was sports day and all that sort of thing

I've just remembered, we had a lovely old history teacher (whose method consisted of simultaneously dictating and writing on the board, for us to copy down) who would give 'good' and 'very good', to add up to credits - three goods was a credit, so 9 goods was a merit. Very good was 2 x good. I think that's where I learned the value of saving the pennies...

 

[Haitch]

Had to ask a friend for confirmation, but we had:

Ashton, Chapman, and (quite amazingly) Gordon and Brown!!

 

[Joe24]

We got given merits for good things. But when you got to year 10/11 no-one was really bothered about them, so the teachers never gave them out
There was the competition betweenthe houses as to who got the most merits, my house was normally 3rd because we were one of the smallest houses.
My house lost it when we got a new head of house, she wasnt as cool or respected as the other one