First lot were named after writers. I was in Tennyson, can’t remember the others.

Secondary school they were imaginatively named after colors. I was in Blue.

As a teacher I helped set up a house system, where the house names were chosen to reflect the departments attached to them so we had Brunel, Perkins, Winston, King and Lennon. I was head of Lennon (which, without my executive veto, would have been called Shackleton).

That’s what I was thinking mefty, just wasn’t 100%.

In middle school I was in (Philipa) Pearce, I wanted to be in (Roald) Dahl, still have no idea what (Alan) Garner wrote.
I live in the Fens now so I suppose being in Pearce was prophetic!

Aye we had a few
Cornwallis
Hood
Hawke
Anson
Collingwood
St Vincent
Raleigh
Drake
Blake
Howe and,
Nelson

You can guess the theme. I started in Cornwallis (no.48) 1990, moved to Blake (no.51) then Drake (no.43) then Nelson 1996/7. By Nelson we could operate by surname alone cause we was all grown up.

It was a boarding school. Just in case that wasn’t clear.

Hild(e) and Rosedale were the 2 I was in at my Junior and Comprehensive schools in Saltburn. Can’t remember all the others.

Claytons Primary School, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Claytons, Egham, Thames, Wye.

Then I got sent off to Westbrooke Hay Preparatory School. OMG- Culture Shock! Nelson, Wellington, Churchill? and another bloke who sorted out our great empire. Wolfe?

Then Newport (Free) Grammar School. Saxie, Franklin, Trappes and another I can’t remember.

Now I am a teacher myself. Gwenllian (Glas, Blue), Dewi (Gwyrdd, Green), Mair (Yellow, Melyn) and Illtyd (Coch, Red).

GRYFFINDOR!!!!

Junior school was Britannia and Concorde . ”Twas up near Filton Airport

ojom… where did you go to school?

Airedale
Nidderdale
Swaledale
Wharfedale

King James’s Knaresborough? I was Airedale, 78 to 85

Benedict.
Dominic.
Vincent.

Saints, innit?

Middle school was Dover, Canterbury, Leeds, Penshurst. All Kent castles/cathedrals/posh homes.
Secondary school was Thames, Medway, Dickens and Drake. The symbols of those were the 4 quadrants of the school shield/badge.

Think I was in Dover and Dickens.

I have never understood what the house system meant. My school simply had registration classes that were numbered 1-10 in each year and pupils allocated alphabetically and taught in these classes. after 13 we were streamed for english and maths into 3 broad streams and after 14 for all subjects but still only 3 broad streams. A lucky period in glasgow of true comprehensive education. Ruined by the tories with their false “choice” agenda

I enjoyed the quizzes.

Romans (Red)
Saxons (Blue)
Vikings (Green)
Normans (Yellow)

Clent, Malvern, Waseley and Wrekin

AA so were you Worcestershire born and bred? I just about get my old mum up to clent these days as a treat.

Middle school – Sargent, Scott, Ashcroft and Streatfield. I was house captain of Sargent. All famous people but I can’t remember which Sargent we were named after.

WIlson ? 😉

Raby
Barnard
Lambton
and the odd one out, Manor

johndoh – Member
Airedale
Nidderdale
Swaledale
Wharfedale

King James’s Knaresborough? I was Airedale, 78 to 85
Yep… Airedale here too… but 82 to 89 (my brother was 79 to 86)

We were both pretty universally known as ‘cookie’ 🙄

Bodies of water (saying lakes got you called out by some smarmy milk-monitor type): Rydal, Grasmere, Loweswater and Ullswater, although I’m not sure about the last two.

Anyway, what were ‘houses’ for?

It was some local parks/houses Lyme, tatton, adlington & bramhall.

It’s now some Latin bollocks.

Flower power – not ringing any bells – any more clues?

Going back to page 1, it looks like BFITH went to the same school I did. Now to try and work who it is as I daresay we’ll be a similar age!

Devon related explorers, so Drake, Raleigh, Hawkins and I think Grenville.

School was quite into the whole house thing when I started there, it having been a former grammar merged with the pleb school on same site, but by the time I left I barely heard any mention of the houses and place had turned into a “Community College”.

Used to be a bit of a “sorting hat” kind of thing where you got put into houses though were asked on preference I recall and also the house of older siblings affected where you went.

thomthumb – Member
albatross
falcon
kestrel
merlin

😯 Snap!

I really didn’t think there would be anyone on here that would say those four!

Thornden?

Blake, Davys, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher.

The houses in both my schools only really seemed to be used for sports day. Just a way to have a number of teams made up over all year groups (and siblings all in same group iirc).
In middle school, 4 years, each with 5 form classes they could have grouped one class from each year to make team A/B/C etc. (except then one year had 5 form classes per year).
Don’t recall houses in 6th form (which was still at the same school). But then 6th form had a different sports day, and competed against teachers (until they banned student-staff cricket etc. when someone got conked on the head by a cricket ball).

Think my middle school house colour was yellow. Or am I confusing that with being the Sixer in Yellow Six in cubs?

Brun, Calder, Ribble … and for the life of me can’t remember the last .. probably Hodder ?

Tyler – green
Newton – red
Brunel – pink
Faraday – yellow
Mansion – light blue
Shelley – dark blue

Bannister, Corbett, Edwards, Hunt, Queens and Wilkinson.

School opened 1953 hence B, H & Q; C & E were previous deputy head and head I think and Wilkinson was invented the year I went as it was the biggest year intake ever.

I was in Wilkinson which was named after John “Iron-Mad” Wilkinson (1728 – 1808). He’d lived in Broseley where half the school came from.

Selwyn (pink and black)
Woodward (brown and white)
Meynall (green and silver)
Shrewsbury (red and yellow possibly)
Phillips (red and blue)
Heywood (black and red)
Lonsdale (or was that red and yellow)
Lowe (purple and white)

I think they were founders or something

Edit: remembered the 8th one!

Windsor
Tudor
York
Bailey
Norman
Saxon (was closed down though)
Clarkson (girls)

We had
Airedale
Nidderdale
Swaledale
Wharfedale

Chad(red), Wilfred(yellow), Oswald(green), Cuthbert(blue)

I was Chad 🙂

TheDoctor – Member
We had
Airedale
Nidderdale
Swaledale
Wharfedale

How many ex King James Knaresborough pupils are on here…

What year?

Brading’s, Brown’s, Cribb’s, Dutton’s, Roper’s, Spurgeon’s, Tulley’s, Tyson’s. I guess our school didn’t influence JK Rowling much when she was choosing house names!

Named after the first Housemasters when the system was created. Each House was identified with a colour on the tie and on sports kit. It was mainly to allow inter-House sports, the idea being that each House would play every other during hockey, football, cricket matches but there was good pastoral care and other House activities via that system.

If you had a sibling at the school they would always be placed into the same House.

It was open in the first two years, then you got placed into a House at the start of third year (Year 13).

Secondary. More, Cranmer, Cromwell and one other I can’t remember. Strange names given that it was a secular school.

Primary. I went to six primary schoools – but the ones that stick were from Dickens – Pickwick, Nickleby, Weller, Copperfield.

@ambrose
The Royal Hospital School in Holbrook nr Ipswich. 20 year leavers reunion next month. Doesn’t seem that long ago though.

Denson (Light blue)
Hampden (Green)
Lee (Yellow)
Paterson (Purple)
Philips (Red)
Ridley (Blue) – The best 😉

How many ex King James Knaresborough pupils are on here…

What year?

Left in 1993

Junior tudor stuart hanover windsor
high anson johnson wedgwood