School Houses

[Caran]

Did you have houses at your school? Mine were Ragdale, Phillips, Clive and I think it was Sinclair. I was in Ragdale. What about you?

[sherrardk]

And we also had to do an Eisteddfod every two years - bizarre singing and saying syncronised (sp) poetry with your hands behind your back (all in Welsh, none of us understood a single word).

[Mass_Hysteria]

I feel totally inadequate........Houses?

I was in 1E, 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E then I left and got a job!

[Khandro]

Can't remember all the house names, but I can recite the register of class 1c Manchester Central Grammar School, 1951; - Aelion,Archer,Baker,Barret,Berry,Broadbent, Brown,Cohen,Crookes,Dawson,Drewry,Foster, Gerrity,Higham,Holden, Mclanachan,Meakin,Morris,Olley,O'Hare,Parker,Porter, Radivan,Rees,Rudd, Smith,Smith,Whitfield,Wilson,Wragg.- anyone out there?

[Jeza]

Forgetting houses we were graded on each subject, Yellow 1,2 and 3 then White 1 and 2. You could be in Yellow 1 for maths if you were good at it but White 2 for another subject if you crap at it.

[DaisyNonna]

Many schools no longer have a house system.
We were very proud of ours. Older pupils there to help younger ones.
Less academically inclined could shine at sport or art or drama or dance.
A complete mix of ages abilities and interests.

[Caran]

Khan fro that's a fantastic memory or have you only just left school?

[Caran]

Sorry Khandro, iPad taking over

[petal54]

mine was Churchill & when change schools Berry

[Canary42]

Sorry Wharton, I don't remember (it was over 50 years ago).

[Stockethill]

Cluny, Crathes, Drum and Mar. Named after local castles. I was in Mar.

[robert551069]

I was in Burleigh House at St. Olaves Grammar School,Southwark, London (Near Tower Bridge0,but the schoolhas now moved to Orpington, Kent.







I was in Burleigh, at St. Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, London, presumably named after William Cecil Burleigh,(1521-1598) Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I.
I don't remember being told the origin of the name, though.

[Khandro]

Daisy; //Older pupils there to help younger ones.// That sounds good, In my school days, what may sound unbelievable today, is that older boys 'prefects', were allowed to administer corporal punishment on the younger ones.

[ferlew]

Myton, Meaux, Tranby and Wyke. I was in Tranby.
I think they are names of old city gates.