Did your school have houses?

[Velouria]

Airlie, Cortachy, Glamis and Mains.

The first three are villages/towns around Dundee; I have no idea where 'Mains' came from, but could have been Mains of Claverhouse down the road, if it was from the geographical theme...

I was in Mains.

About the only visible signs of the house system were your class number in first year (I was 1M1) - after first year it differentiated, a House Dux, and of course the inevitable Sports Day.

I think I became infamous as the only pupil ever to be followed into Sports Day by the traffic police thanks to a substandard numberplate on my motorbike (I hadn't even noticed them behind me; I took off the mirrors cause they 'looked shite' )!

 

[mhendo]

Did my schooling in Australia.

In Primary School we were divided into four "tribes," with Aboriginal names:

Pitjinjara
Naccara
Berrera
Gunavidji

In High School we had four houses, each named after famous people people from Australia's colonial period:

Farrer
Wentworth
Macquarie
Macarthur

 

[1927]

Barry Boys' Comprehensive me.

Baruc
Cadoc
Dyfan
Illtyd

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Barry Boys' Comprehensive me.

Baruc
Cadoc
Dyfan
Illtyd

And craic

 

[moomoo]

I went to boarding school and there were 4 pairs of houses, each with a connecting common area

Ridley (boys) and St Bridgets (girls)
Edward (boys) and Tudor (girls)
Wakefield (boys) and Elizabeth (girls)
Grafton (boys) and Queens (girls)

It was very competitive and us girls in Elizabeth didn't like them bitches in Queens!

If I remember correctly, Ridley and Bridgets were the really sporty ones, and we were the swotty ones!

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Yeah, named after Elizabethan sailor types. We had Grenville, Drake, Frobisher and Raleigh. I was in Raleigh and my head of house hated me because I never gave a shit about her stupid competition. She once threatened me with telling my parents that I wasn't committed to the house competitions and was totally lost when I told her to go ahead because they really wouldn't care.

 

[White Lotus]

We had:

Carthage (blue) - my house
Rome (red)
Athens (green)
Troy (yellow) who always got the shit kicked out of them.

Weird thing is, I now associate those colours with those ancient cities!

 

[tangerinedream]

No, no houses or prefects or anything. Just pupils and teachers.

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

Juniors

Hawks (red)
Eagles (yellow I was an Eagle)
Falcons (Blue they used to win everything)
Kestrels

Secondary

Iestyn (blue, my house)
Owain (Red)
Madog (yellow)
Can't remember the green one

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

And craic

Very good.

 

[bluestreak]

houses? we barely even had classrooms.

for the first three years my form room was a temporary outbuilding that should ahve been condemned twenty years before.

 

[stroober]

CORBIE
DUNDARG
FAITHLIE (of which i was captain)
KINNAIRD
MORMOND
PHILORTH

 

[Pingu]

middle school

red
green
blue
yellow

last school

Faraday, Grenfell and Ruskin

 

[extra dry]

first school in blyth had, warwick (green), bamburgh(yellow), dunstenburgh(blue), alnwick(red), all castles in the northumberland area. Very competive, if someone say from bamburgh got into trouble the house lost house points. Every term had reasults on house points and some other stuff I can't remember.

 

[girasol]

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!

We didn't have any of that where I came from...

 

[Skim]

Citadel
Drake
Roborough
Plym
Tor
Trinity

This was at a comprehensive in Plymouth in the 80s, and the house names had local themes. I was in Tor. No idea if they still exist at the school, which has since become a "community college", whatever that means.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i mean as in each student was in a different house and had house competitions be it academic, sporting or theatrical. my school had 6 houses and we used to have mostly sports competitions between them.

so did your school have houses? did you like the idea? were you house captain? go on give me the low down on this peculiar british tradition.

Yes, I went to a posh secondary school and they did indeed have houses. Although, for some strange reason, they weren't called 'houses', but 'demes'.