Did your school have houses?

[blossie33]

We had Cathedral cities; Chester-Red, Salisbury-Yellow, York-Blue, Worcester-Green, Canterbury-Orange and one other I just can't remember (I have done well to remember the rest, it was quite a long while ago when I left school!).
We used to have a cup which was awarded to the house who gained the most points for various competitions during the year, drama, choir, sports etc.

 

[Major Tom]

Primary School - Four houses Ralegh, Drake, er can;t remember the other two famous Plymouth people - but I was in Ralegh.

In Secondary school we had Smeaton, Winstanley, Rudyard, and Douglas - all designers of various lighthouses on the Eddystone rock in Plymouth sound.

http://www.eddystoneeel.com/LIGHTHOUSE HISTORY.htm

 

[astral]

Four of them, Donne, Burnaby, Spooner and Oswald. All named after famous ex pupils apparently. Kind of says alot about the calibre of ex pupils really

 

[mk12]

Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. We used to have house assemblies, and would compete in different sporting events.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Yep we had houses, god knows what they were called though. All i remember that my house was always competing with netles for the top position.

 

[WasGeri]

In junior school we did.

Raleigh = blue
Cabot = red
Drake = green
Nelson = yellow.

I was in Raleigh, and I won the egg and spoon race for them.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Four of them, Donne, Burnaby, Spooner and Oswald. All named after famous ex pupils apparently.:

Mosley or Lee Harvey?

 

[Orang Utan]

Middle school:
Swaledale
Wharfedake
Airedale
Wensleydale

High School:
Simpson
Hudson
Laurence
Kibble

 

[Tank Girl]

at secondary school our houses were...

lawrence
livingstone
rhodes
scott

I was in scott, "scott, scott, worst of the lot"

you got put in houses according to what other family members had been in previously, but I chose to go into scott because I'd only just moved to the area and had a friend in scott, so thought it would make it a bit easier to have a friendly face in tutor (I think I should have been in livingstone).

 

[i_hate_beckham]

We had

Harley - Gold (really just fucking yellow)
Dunne - Blue
Mortimer - Black
Wigmore - Red

All named after local Lords. Only time normally our houses were shown was when we had to wear a singlet for PE basketball that was in your house colour. Mine wasnt i hated yellow so always wore the blue of Dunne.

 

[geminisnake]

I think there were 5 houses at our school.
Newton - light blue
Faraday - green
Scott - dark blue(coulda been the other way round)
Rutherford - yellow or red
Other one - yellow or red

Longdog can maybe fill in the blanks

 

[Waterfall]

We had four houses that seemed to further separate forms already segregated according to their member's strengths. Red (good at sports), green (brainboxes), blue (all-rounders), and yellow (geeks and freaks). They were given locality-related names in my last year, buggered if I can remember any though.

The house system is pointless, divisive bollocks.

 

[dylanredefined]

we had houses mostly for sports teams and you could have diffrent ties
we also had a cadet corp .Never got to the roof top bit from if though

 

[art of fact]

yeah mine was famous scientists... i think i was in faraday... i was in hawking but got demoted.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I went to Eton. Our House system is ancient and we are very proud of it. It buids a sense of team spirit, honour, decency and healthy competition. I don't see why lefties are always so opposed to it. A house system would do wonders for many of today's bog-standard comprehensives. Less multi-culturalism and gay sex and more emphasis on tradition in our schools would put the 'Great' back into 'Britain'.

My bog standard comprehensive had a house system and it made no difference to things at all. I'm not opposed to it, just indifferent. Most of us at school didn't really care about who won either way, anyhow.

I can't remember any of the names or colours except for Pomfret and Delancey

 

[The Lone Runner]

In both cases these were only fo rthe dredded sports day...

In primary we had 3...
Sparrow Hawk (Red)
Kestrel (blue)
Golden Eagle (yellow)

In secondary 4...
Phoenix
Dragon
Griffin
and another one I can't remember....think my old school should potentially sue JK Rowling

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Abbott
Beaufoy
Carpenter
Hale
Mortimer
Seely

'Famous' folk related to the school. Managed to bunk off the house meetings by going to choir rehearsals instead, which pissed off the housemasters no end. Load of old bollocks, really . . .

 

[subversplat]

I always ended up in the yellow house, in both of my schools that did that sort of thing. I was even house vice-captain in middle school, although that was just a big popularity contest and had no real bearing on anything at all

 

[ICB]

old ones
East Town
North Town
Watson's House
School House
South Town

new ones
West Town
Worcester House
Hallward's House
Moberly's House

dead ones
Polack's (jews, kosher, synagogue)
Daykin's

The town ones are day pupils rather than boarders and roughly reflect where your parental home is in relation to the school. I was in East Town and Watson's.

F*cking hated the place.

 

[red rose]

We had wyllotts - yellow, byng - green, and two more crappy sounding words for blue and red.

 

[Fuzzy]

we had 6 houses.

Bridges (blue and white)
Carew (red and blue)
Mandeville (white and maroon)
Ruskin (yellow and black)
Woodcote (green and black)
Radcliffe (blue and black)

i was in mandeville. we won the house championship 3 times in the 7 years that i was at secondary school and i was house captain.

 

[rubbershoes]

We had 11 houses. they were where you lived so were actual houses. each had it's own name, nickname, teams, prefects and colours. the band on your straw boater showed which house you were in

each house was just named after the first house master.

 

[Hollis]

Balmoral
Canarvon
Windsor
Sandringham
Lancaster
Buckingham

I was in Balmoral - rising to the dizzy heights of Deputy House Captain.

The Head of House was an old Soldier who'd fought in Burma in the war.. He kept bangin' on about the spirit of the House etc.. Nobody else gave a shit.

 

[hektik]

abbey, brampton, eardley, hurst.
yellow, red, blue, green.

mostly just for sports day and inter-school rugby, football, cricket, chess and other sports matches.

 

[on_the_fly]

I went to a Comprehensive and we had

Austin. Yellow
Wickham. Red
Gaunt. Blue

 

[AllStarMe]

Clee - Green
Mortimer - Yellow
Stretton - Blue
Wrekin - Red

I was in Clee, who always seemed to lose at Sports days...nothing to do with me of course

 

[fractionMan]

We had
Drake - green (that was me)
Gilbert - yellow
Cunningham - Red
Scott - Blue.

I always felt sorry for the gilbert lot. Drake were shit at everything, although we won the football one year with me in goal.

 

[eme]

we had four - but only til I was about 13. They got rid of them as they thought them too old fashioned. Tbh I much preferred the atmosphere when you had them... you chatted to all the years 'cos they were in your house, afterwards it just felt like nothing mattered much apart from your own year... hum...

anyway:
Primrose - yellow
Camden - brown
Maitland - can't remember what order the colours were for the other houses!
Kenwood - ??

 

[Batley]

At my comprehensive we had the following houses:

GTi

Parka

Free Dinners

N F

 

[souljacker]

We had East, West, County and Boarders (who were boarders, funnily enough) and everything in the school was based around competition between the four houses. This included near riots as various house common rooms were 'steamed'. Various children were stabbed with Biology scalpels during these battles or twatted with cricket bats.

It was all actively encouraged by prefects and house masters.