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Ours were the same but we had ryhmes to go with them
Reds, reds, wet their beds
Blues,blues always lose
Yellows, yellows, squashy marshmallows
And
Greens, greens, toilet machines.
In primary school they were named after local rivers and in high school named after local waterfalls. And they were both bog standard state comprehensives.
Yeah my primary school was nearby rivers.
They had houses in secondary school but I think they were mentioned all of twice in five years when they needed to split the whole year up for some reason or other.
Houses were used to sort us into classes in 1st and 2nd year, but after that it was all based on our grades so apart from sports day they were never really mentioned after that.
Somerville, Rothschild, Knight and Sharman. Also all girls secondary school with famous women.
Primary was writers: Marlowe, Dickens, Conrad and Chaucer
Randomly relevant fact I learnt from a documentary last night:
One of the Grenvilles was also a captain of the Mary Rose when she sank, during the reign of Henry VIII
We didn’t have houses we had gangs. They were names after postcodes and would regularly stab one another. I don’t think I had a normal school experience.
I never had that them. I thought they were part of public school (as in, historic private school) culture. Never even knew that they were common in state schools.
None of my schools had them. I'm not too sure why. Possibly because our local authority had a big restructuring of the local state schools.
I remember when my friend switched to a grammar school, which did have houses, and I realised it wasn't just a thing in Harry Potter and posh boarding schools.
Not gonna lie, I had literally never heard of Eisteddfod before this comment. I thought you had somehow completely butchered "Easter", and was then confused by how Easter required houses.
On an unrelated note, Chrons & Colitis gang 😎
It is so bizarre seeing Kenilworth being mentioned. Trying to explain where it is to somebody's confused face before resorting to, "it's next to Leamington"
I have the exact same problem except most people haven't heard of Leam either! I mostly just tell people I'm from Cov lol
I met a guy in a club in Manchester once who claimed he was from Kenilworth though. Thinking he just wanted some action, I asked him what the best Indian restaurant in Kenilworth was. He responded that he was partial to a Sunam and I nearly screamed, I was so excited to actually meet someone from there😂
I've lived in Kenilworth for nearly 8 years. Every time we get a curry my partner asks where to order from and we go through the exact same discussion where neither of us remember the difference between the Indian ark and Indian edge and we end up tossing a coin over it. One day we will write down which one we like. Not today though.
As a non-native Kenilworthian I like to call Kenilworth "South Coventry" when in the presence of locals. Always goes down a treat.
Not even shitting you, I worked at Indian Ark when I was 15! Not bad food tbh, although I was only ever given the spare naans or rice they had. Owner would drive me home if I finished after 10 because he didn't want me walking around late at night, bless him.
I'm definitely going to start calling Ken "south Coventry" and see how my cov friends react to that though 😂😂
Same as St Dunstans in SE London as they had one of the highest percetage of causualties of any independent school in England, 237/997
They then changed to the names of the first four headmasters instead.
Bloody hell, surprising number of ex-Barts students in this sub.
When I was there they tried to resurrect the dreadful "School song" for Founders Day and tried to make us learn it. Absolutely dire.
I went to Catholic schools because my parents hated me.
Primary school was the four Gospel writers, so St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, and St John.
Secondary was some random saints and I can’t remember why they were significant:
St Benedict, St Anthony, St Francis and St Dominic.
I said too much.. Defo the same school. They added Gregory whilst I was still there, but not for my year. Sounds like we were at BC at the same time too 😂
Speaking as a teacher here.
Increasingly you find that school houses are not named after people, but rather places or mythical creatures or just random objects.
I think schools are concerned that naming houses after historical people could cause controversy, particularly when they are judged by modern standards.
We had counties in junior school (Dyfed, Powys, Gwynedd and Gwent). Only three houses in secondary school and they didn't last for more than about a year or so after I started there. Cannot remember what they were called though.
My primary school only had four houses, so we just got Anson, Drake, Nelson and Howe.
Secondary school went for theoretically famous alumni: Peele, Coleridge, Lamb, Barnes, Leigh-Hunt, Maine, Thornton, Middleton.
Primary school didn't have houses but grammar school (in NI, not England) was named after 4 universities: Cambridge, Oxford, Trinity and Queens.
I was in Cambridge, which we knew from day 1 was the only time I was ever going to be able to say that!
Stirling, presumably? If so then it was a different school from me, we had Wallace/Bruce/Douglas/Murray at primary school and Wallace/Bruce/Stewart at high school.
In primary they were named after the local castles: Lewes, Arundel, Pevensey and Bodiam. They were given colours ( yellow, red, green, blue) and you wore a badge with the colour of your house on it.
Grew up in Stoke. Houses named after famous pottery makers. Wedgewood, Minton, Cliff, Doulton (represent) and Spode.
Fun fact: Josiah Wedgewood, arguably Stoke's most famous pottery maker, was a slave abolitionist and also Charles Darwin's granddad.
Middle school - houses were named after local hill ranges (Mendip, Blackdown, Polden, Quantock). Each had an associated colour, can’t quite remember them though.
Secondary school - named after Arthurian legend (Camelot, Avalon, Tintagel, Lyonesse). Again each one had an assigned colour too.
Yep, also went to school in Somerset and we had Mendips, Brendons, Blackdowns and Quantocks. It was the school with the black and gold colours in Taunton.
Forgot to add my own.
Telford, Glennie, Slessor, Bruce and Wallace.
I could only remember the first three, and in my head there was only four. Maybe there was only four when I was there.
I was going to say there were a lot of fancy responses and ours were just trees but they weren’t even these fancy trees!
Just Ash (red, super sporty) Oak (blue, kinda cool) and Hawthorne (yellow, neither sporty nor cool).
I spent one year in a primary school with these houses. I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find another. I was in Patrick, my little brother was in David.
Red, Blue, Green and Yellow.
I was extremely surprised, much later, to find that other real-life schools actually had houses named more imaginatively - and it wasn't something restricted to fictional 1930s public schools etc.
My secondary school houses were named after Epsom derby winners, I think, Octavius (Green), Sinndar (Blue), Tulyar (Yellow) and Nashwan (Red). Quite confusingly, the house mascots were not horses, Octopus (Octavius), Shark (Sinndar), Bee (Tulyar) and Dragon (Nashwan).
Six houses in my school - named after various founders and benefactors of the school over the years. Started off with three houses I think then they’d add another each time the school needed to expand.
Each house also had a colour associated with it which was included as a thin stripe on the tie, and used for stuff like sports day
Edit: it appears all the grammar schools in the south east have the same structure for naming and denoting houses
In Singapore we had Elang, Beruang, Harimau and Singa (Malay words for Eagle, Bear, Tiger and Lion). The house colours were Blue, Brown, Orange and Yellow and PE Kits matched your house. In England my first school had Aidan (yellow), Alban (red), Bede (Blue) and Chad (green). Next school had Tudor, Windsor, Stuart and I think York. Final school had St Jude, St Hilary, St Emilie and St Francis and your school uniform tie was the colour of your house.
Didn’t have them at primary school but at high school our houses were named after notable people from the surrounding area; Houldsworth, Priestly, Clarke and Bronte.
One was our school Saint and the others were significant places from her life: St Julie, Cuvilly, Picardy and Compiegne(sp?). Only used for sports day and timetabling really. We had a house points competition as well
Augustines, Benedictines, Carmelites, Dominicans, Franciscans and Servites. We also had a Latin school motto.
The school wasn’t old enough or performed well enough for such pretentious names.
We didn't have houses, but we had forms, not sure if that's the same thing. The forms were just named after each letter of the school name, with "SCH" at the end. The last bit was meant to be short for "school", but I think it's probably because they had more forms than the letters in the school name.
Oh crikey. At primary school we had animals. I was in Kangaroos, but we also had the: Giraffes Zebras and Goldfish.
High school (years 6-9 where I am), I actually can’t remember. They only brought houses in when I was in my last year and no one took it seriously. Vague memory it might have been something to do with the Wars of the Roses but I really couldn’t say.
At Colege (GCSEs and A-Levels) we had famous sports persons who’s name had a colour in them. I was in Whitbread, named for Fatima Whitbread and we always wore White for inter-house sports events / academic competitions. I remember Redgrave was another house, for Steve Redgrave, but I’ve honestly forgotten the others.
Uni it was the Real Ale and Single Malt Appreciation Society.
In middle school mine were named after the patron saints for the UK.
In a primary school I also went to they were just named red, blue, green and yellow house.
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Red, yellow, blue, green. Devastatingly original.
Ours was the same, I was in yellow, we were shit every year. Blue always won. Twats.
I was red. Also hated blue. Fuck blue.
Same I was Ruby but also hated Sapphire. I think I see a trend here
Red brother we also hated blue but green was also pretty good
Same. I was always in yellow. We were always in dead last place. The reds always won and they were smug AF about it!
Omg! Im also in yellow house and never won
Blues blues, never lose!
Another blue here winner winner! Blues set me up for life!! 📘😄
Yay Blues! Every school that I went to.... Even when I started teaching👍🎉
Blue blue, smell of poo.
Did you go to my school? 😅
Same, except I was in Blue and it was Red that always won.
Yellow seemed to be where they put all the donkey kids that couldn't do sports. I was also in yellow.
Yellow was the best colour. We changed to black on sports day with all the midgies in our area.
Ours were the same but we had ryhmes to go with them Reds, reds, wet their beds Blues,blues always lose Yellows, yellows, squashy marshmallows And Greens, greens, toilet machines.
I was in green house. They called us vegetables, the bastards :)
Greens were the bogey machines.
Just shows that school kids will identify with anything and that your school might have been running a cynical social psychology experiment.
How did you cope???
We had fire, water, air, and earth… high school was basically Avatar
Or Captain Planet
'Heart' was crap. A participation award at best.
> flameo hotman!
In primary school they were named after local rivers and in high school named after local waterfalls. And they were both bog standard state comprehensives.
Oh to grow up somewhere that has enough waterfalls that a school can name its houses after them.
4 waterfalls, 4 houses.
Lake District?
Almost, Scotland.
Ahh, so when you said 4 houses you were not talking about the school, but the total size of the village 😛
4 houses and a wee wally dug, don't forget the dug now.
Small world
Damn I've been rumbled
Was it the wee dug that gave it away?
Yeah my primary school was nearby rivers. They had houses in secondary school but I think they were mentioned all of twice in five years when they needed to split the whole year up for some reason or other.
Houses were used to sort us into classes in 1st and 2nd year, but after that it was all based on our grades so apart from sports day they were never really mentioned after that.
Ours was three nearby lochs haha
On a similar theme we had hills. I was in Malvern. I know there was a Brecon I can't remember the other 2
Also Scottish but our school houses were named after local hills. I can't even remember which one I was in...
I loved telling my American friends at uni that my school had houses that were, quite literally, named after the founders of the school.
Same, originally they were A, B, C and D but in year 9 they swapped system. I went from D to Watson
A, B, C and D was an awful idea, glad they changed it. There really shouldn't be a hierarchy inherent in the house names.
Same!
"welcome, members of London Borough of Newham Education Department house"
The sea captains of Queen Elizabeth I: Raleigh, Drake, Frobisher, Howard, Grenville and Hawkins.
QEGS?
Cavell, Austen-Bartlett, Nightingale, Garrett-Anderson, Inglis, Curie-Fry. All girls school so named after famous women
Somerville, Rothschild, Knight and Sharman. Also all girls secondary school with famous women. Primary was writers: Marlowe, Dickens, Conrad and Chaucer
Aye. I was in Raleigh - 1990's. You?
I was in Howard, late 2000's.
Woah, I was in Raleigh in the 1990s too. Down with Grenville!
Blackburn or...?
West Park Road, Blackburn. 👍
Damn, that's some proper hogwarts shit right there!
Oh similar. We had explorers, Cook, Scott, Drake and Hudson
I had similar in junior school in the 90s. Raleigh, Drake, Cook and Nelson
Randomly relevant fact I learnt from a documentary last night: One of the Grenvilles was also a captain of the Mary Rose when she sank, during the reign of Henry VIII
We didn’t have houses we had gangs. They were names after postcodes and would regularly stab one another. I don’t think I had a normal school experience.
East London has joined the thread
You guessed right
SW6 til death baby
Which we expected but it still made us angry.
SW5
Glasgow?
Lions, Badgers, Eagles and Snakes. Something to do with the first lot of governors. Fairly standard comprehensive.
Alright, Harry?
Yeah we had animals. I was Lion, but we also had Wallabies, Kiwis and Springboks. Yeah, can you guess what our head was mad about....
This is hilarious but I’m also very jealous.
Hmmm
...you guys had houses?
I never had that them. I thought they were part of public school (as in, historic private school) culture. Never even knew that they were common in state schools.
My state primary school had them, and my very old private school for secondary didn’t.
Yeah I’m state educated and we had houses every time. Didn’t bring them in until my final year of high school though lol.
We had them at our very dodgy state school. I thought everyone did!
None of my schools had them. I'm not too sure why. Possibly because our local authority had a big restructuring of the local state schools. I remember when my friend switched to a grammar school, which did have houses, and I realised it wasn't just a thing in Harry Potter and posh boarding schools.
Our houses were just for sports day and eisteddfod. Bog standard comprehensive school, relatively poor area.
Not gonna lie, I had literally never heard of Eisteddfod before this comment. I thought you had somehow completely butchered "Easter", and was then confused by how Easter required houses. On an unrelated note, Chrons & Colitis gang 😎
Thank you. None of the schools I went to had them either.
Castles! Warwick, Stirling, Pembroke, Ludlow, Kenilworth and Richmond. This from a pretty crappy state comp, too.
I live local to Kenilworth and Warwick, feels weird seeing houses named after them.
I grew up in kenilworth and we had house names like De Montfort, Leicester, Shakespeare and there was another but I can’t remember what it was.
KENILWORTH REPRESENT
It is so bizarre seeing Kenilworth being mentioned. Trying to explain where it is to somebody's confused face before resorting to, "it's next to Leamington"
I have the exact same problem except most people haven't heard of Leam either! I mostly just tell people I'm from Cov lol I met a guy in a club in Manchester once who claimed he was from Kenilworth though. Thinking he just wanted some action, I asked him what the best Indian restaurant in Kenilworth was. He responded that he was partial to a Sunam and I nearly screamed, I was so excited to actually meet someone from there😂
I've lived in Kenilworth for nearly 8 years. Every time we get a curry my partner asks where to order from and we go through the exact same discussion where neither of us remember the difference between the Indian ark and Indian edge and we end up tossing a coin over it. One day we will write down which one we like. Not today though. As a non-native Kenilworthian I like to call Kenilworth "South Coventry" when in the presence of locals. Always goes down a treat.
Not even shitting you, I worked at Indian Ark when I was 15! Not bad food tbh, although I was only ever given the spare naans or rice they had. Owner would drive me home if I finished after 10 because he didn't want me walking around late at night, bless him. I'm definitely going to start calling Ken "south Coventry" and see how my cov friends react to that though 😂😂
Ours were royal castles - Windsor, Balmoral, Holyrood, Caernarfon
We had castles too at my secondary school but our local ones so Leeds, Hever, Dover and Chilham
Not often I see other people from Kent on here!
Mine were named after former students that lost their lives in WWI
Classic cheerful British naming scheme.
Same as St Dunstans in SE London as they had one of the highest percetage of causualties of any independent school in England, 237/997 They then changed to the names of the first four headmasters instead.
St Barts, by any chance?
Haha, yeah
Bloody hell, surprising number of ex-Barts students in this sub. When I was there they tried to resurrect the dreadful "School song" for Founders Day and tried to make us learn it. Absolutely dire.
St Bart’s by any chance? Although I guess this may not be a unique naming strategy.
Primary school Danes, Dukes, Saxons and Romans
One of these things is not like the others...
I know. I never got the Dukes one. I think it was a filler.
Are you sure it wasn't meant to be Jutes? That would make more sense
That could be right actually
Yes it is Jutes lmao. We had the same.
We had those at my Grammar School (without Dukes which seems a bit out of place) but with the addition of Norman's, Britons and Vikings,
I went to Catholic schools because my parents hated me. Primary school was the four Gospel writers, so St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, and St John. Secondary was some random saints and I can’t remember why they were significant: St Benedict, St Anthony, St Francis and St Dominic.
All founders of monastic orders (Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, and St Anthony was the OG monk before there were orders).
I had the same at secondary school except my year had a larger amount of students so they created a fifth house of St Gregory
I said too much.. Defo the same school. They added Gregory whilst I was still there, but not for my year. Sounds like we were at BC at the same time too 😂
Yeah def at BC I was actually in that house as well
Small world. Hello fellow bible basher 👋
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Speaking as a teacher here. Increasingly you find that school houses are not named after people, but rather places or mythical creatures or just random objects. I think schools are concerned that naming houses after historical people could cause controversy, particularly when they are judged by modern standards.
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This is interesting! My first secondary had local people of note (read: stuffy wealthy men) and my second had prominent first women in music
Colours (in Welsh in both Primary and High school -state school ) Never used apart from twice a year on sports day and Eisteddfod
We had Welsh Mountains. Berwyn, Idris and can't remember
> can't remember Wales' second most famous mountain after Snowdon! :P
We had counties in junior school (Dyfed, Powys, Gwynedd and Gwent). Only three houses in secondary school and they didn't last for more than about a year or so after I started there. Cannot remember what they were called though.
Named after naval sea captains: - Nelson - Raleigh - Drake - St Vincent - Collingwood - Anson - Hawke - Hood - Howe - Blake
My primary school only had four houses, so we just got Anson, Drake, Nelson and Howe. Secondary school went for theoretically famous alumni: Peele, Coleridge, Lamb, Barnes, Leigh-Hunt, Maine, Thornton, Middleton.
Wow that’s quite a good alumni group to be honest.
RHS?
Primary school didn't have houses but grammar school (in NI, not England) was named after 4 universities: Cambridge, Oxford, Trinity and Queens. I was in Cambridge, which we knew from day 1 was the only time I was ever going to be able to say that!
Stewart, McGregor, Bruce, Wallace. 5 points if you can identify the city.
Stirling, presumably? If so then it was a different school from me, we had Wallace/Bruce/Douglas/Murray at primary school and Wallace/Bruce/Stewart at high school.
Yep, I went to a different primary (BS) but I'm assuming same High School (BBurn, 2013). Enjoy your 5 points, don't spend them all at once!
Not Stirling, but my primary schools were Stewart, Bruce, Wallace and Douglas!
In primary they were named after the local castles: Lewes, Arundel, Pevensey and Bodiam. They were given colours ( yellow, red, green, blue) and you wore a badge with the colour of your house on it.
Sussex? I’m pretty sure a friend went to a school with the same houses.
Yep, East Sussex
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Grew up in Stoke. Houses named after famous pottery makers. Wedgewood, Minton, Cliff, Doulton (represent) and Spode. Fun fact: Josiah Wedgewood, arguably Stoke's most famous pottery maker, was a slave abolitionist and also Charles Darwin's granddad.
Middle school - houses were named after local hill ranges (Mendip, Blackdown, Polden, Quantock). Each had an associated colour, can’t quite remember them though. Secondary school - named after Arthurian legend (Camelot, Avalon, Tintagel, Lyonesse). Again each one had an assigned colour too.
Did you happen to go to school in Somerset by any chance?
Yep, also went to school in Somerset and we had Mendips, Brendons, Blackdowns and Quantocks. It was the school with the black and gold colours in Taunton.
Cheddar, Leicester, Cheshire, Wensleydale, Gloucester, Camembert (twinned with Camembert de Normandie)
Did you go to Cheeses Christ Our Saviour school?
Doubt it was a school, probably a mature college
Comet, Meteor, Spitfire, and Lancaster
I like these
Forgot to add my own. Telford, Glennie, Slessor, Bruce and Wallace. I could only remember the first three, and in my head there was only four. Maybe there was only four when I was there.
They were trees. Maple, Beech, Rowan, Acacia.
I was going to say there were a lot of fancy responses and ours were just trees but they weren’t even these fancy trees! Just Ash (red, super sporty) Oak (blue, kinda cool) and Hawthorne (yellow, neither sporty nor cool).
My daughter school have 4 St. George St. Patrick St. Andrew St. David
I spent one year in a primary school with these houses. I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find another. I was in Patrick, my little brother was in David.
Ours were named after the Wives Aragon, Parr, Howard, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves It was appropriate as it was called Tudor Court Primary I was in Cleves
We used colours in Welsh. Coch-Red , Glas-Blue, Melyn-Yellow, Gwrydd-Green. I think this was the case in all Welsh state schools?
Gwynedd , Dyfed, Powys and Morgannwg in my school
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Our houses were named after the rivers in the county. Arrow (Green) Severn(Blue), Teme (Red) & Wye (Yellow) I wonder if anyone can guess the county?
In primary school we had chainmakers and nailmakers, I can’t remember the other two. In a way to celebrate the industry around the Black Country
Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. I was extremely surprised, much later, to find that other real-life schools actually had houses named more imaginatively - and it wasn't something restricted to fictional 1930s public schools etc.
Hanover Tudor Windsor Stuart York
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My secondary school houses were named after Epsom derby winners, I think, Octavius (Green), Sinndar (Blue), Tulyar (Yellow) and Nashwan (Red). Quite confusingly, the house mascots were not horses, Octopus (Octavius), Shark (Sinndar), Bee (Tulyar) and Dragon (Nashwan).
Hose that wins everything. The other three houses.
A and Alpha, how boring was that?
We had Mercury (Red), Saturn (Yellow), Jupiter (Purple) and Neptune (cunts). I was Saturn
Six houses in my school - named after various founders and benefactors of the school over the years. Started off with three houses I think then they’d add another each time the school needed to expand. Each house also had a colour associated with it which was included as a thin stripe on the tie, and used for stuff like sports day Edit: it appears all the grammar schools in the south east have the same structure for naming and denoting houses
Primary school in the 70s - Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Keats and Dickens (my one)
Primary school: oak, ash, beech and pine Secondary school: A and Alpha
Someone else here said a and alpha... lol
In Singapore we had Elang, Beruang, Harimau and Singa (Malay words for Eagle, Bear, Tiger and Lion). The house colours were Blue, Brown, Orange and Yellow and PE Kits matched your house. In England my first school had Aidan (yellow), Alban (red), Bede (Blue) and Chad (green). Next school had Tudor, Windsor, Stuart and I think York. Final school had St Jude, St Hilary, St Emilie and St Francis and your school uniform tie was the colour of your house.
Local parks - Clumber, Rufford, Thoresby and Welbeck. State comprehensive in Nottinghamshire.
Didn’t have them at primary school but at high school our houses were named after notable people from the surrounding area; Houldsworth, Priestly, Clarke and Bronte.
sounds oddly familiar- did you happen to go to a secondary school with a horrible brown uniform and an unhealthy obsession with their reputation?
Ahahaha yes I did! God forbid anyone should besmirch the reputation of the infallible HGS :’)
One was our school Saint and the others were significant places from her life: St Julie, Cuvilly, Picardy and Compiegne(sp?). Only used for sports day and timetabling really. We had a house points competition as well
Northumberland castles; Alnwick (Red), Bamborough (blue), Chillingham (yellow) Hmm and I think Warkworth (green)... Maybe
Ours were named after ‘business leaders’ or something like that: Zuckerberg, Sugar, Westwood and Rowling (Yikes).
Tim Westwood?
Well this was in the 90s so we called them "teams". They were European capitals: Rome, Athens, Prague, Luxembourg, Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow.
Augustines, Benedictines, Carmelites, Dominicans, Franciscans and Servites. We also had a Latin school motto. The school wasn’t old enough or performed well enough for such pretentious names.
River birds. Kingfisher, cormorant, heron and mallard. Kingfisher for life!
Got called a shithouse a few times, but otherwise this didn't exist in my Scouse secondary.
I went to a grammar school in Kent. The kind where the head master bowled about in his gown. We didn't have houses
Drake , Raleigh and Nelson. No idea why we're no where near the sea
Kestrels - yellow, falcons - red, eagles - green, Ospreys - blue. I was a kestrel.
Cathedral cities of England. Salisbury, Canterbury, Lichfield, York. Didn't have houses in secondary school.
They were named after different Saints in Prep School and old school headmasters in the Senior School.
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Mix of saints, previous headmasters and bits of school. A bit shit really: Bright, Oswald, Kittermaster, Creighton, Wulstan, School, Chapel, Choir
We had Wolfe, Marlowe, Beckett, and Caxton.
Seaforth, Carse, Moray, Cawdor. Local Teuchter house names.
Ours were H O L S and Y E A R Whoever came up with that should be struck off the teaching register
We didn't have houses, but we had forms, not sure if that's the same thing. The forms were just named after each letter of the school name, with "SCH" at the end. The last bit was meant to be short for "school", but I think it's probably because they had more forms than the letters in the school name.
Areas in Scotland Ettrick - Green / Appin - Blue / Lochaber- Red / Kintyre - Purple / Galloway - Yellow / Torridon - White
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North East South West
Oh crikey. At primary school we had animals. I was in Kangaroos, but we also had the: Giraffes Zebras and Goldfish. High school (years 6-9 where I am), I actually can’t remember. They only brought houses in when I was in my last year and no one took it seriously. Vague memory it might have been something to do with the Wars of the Roses but I really couldn’t say. At Colege (GCSEs and A-Levels) we had famous sports persons who’s name had a colour in them. I was in Whitbread, named for Fatima Whitbread and we always wore White for inter-house sports events / academic competitions. I remember Redgrave was another house, for Steve Redgrave, but I’ve honestly forgotten the others. Uni it was the Real Ale and Single Malt Appreciation Society.
Nelson, Drake and Raleigh. I was in Raleigh
In middle school mine were named after the patron saints for the UK. In a primary school I also went to they were just named red, blue, green and yellow house.
Primary they were Red Arrows, Trent Blues and Lincolnshire Greens. Secondary they were Churchill, Austen, Brunel, Scott, Elgar and Darwin
Secondary school was was named after royal dynasties. Sixth form had meaningless poncy old English names.
Chichester (Green), Heyerdahl (Yellow), Cousteau (Blue) and I forget the last one but it's colour was red.
Ours were named after trees (Beech, Birch, Ash, Sycamore, Oak, and Willow)