What were the "house names" in your school?

[Buzzer]

...and what was that all about?

At Durrington First we had names of Scottish islands.

Jura, Barra, Isla ...and another one. (we had a Jock headmaster called Cable-Robbie who was quite mad and very Scottish in a Sean Connery kind of way)

At Durrington Middle we were named after Sussex houses

Parham, Petworth, Goodwood...and another one


At Durrington High we just had X, Y and Z. How dull was that?


(probably about as dull as this thread)

 

[MORTY]

Faraday, watt wren and Newton

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Blue, Red, Yellow, Green

 

[steward 433]

First and middle schools were Old english Knights or things i was in Templars

High school was counties and i was in Devon as there was no Sussex in the eight choices??

 

[Cian]

My school was FAR too common for all of that... *goes off to set fire to something*

 

[Marc]

christ thats a brain teaser, I was at Glebe Middle School and we had coloured shields. I was in BLUE and we won everything, cant remember if we had names though?! someone on here must know!

 

[Frutos]

At primary school we had "Pheasant", "Heron", "Kingfisher" and "Swan"

Secondary school our class names were the year we were in and the initials of our form tutor. Mine went through 7GR, 8GR, 9JG, 10DT, 10MST/D and 11MST/D.

We got through a fair few tutors over the years. The first had a nervous breakdown, the second left when his wife had a baby, the third left and went back to Zambia (where he came from).

 

[pasty]

Hodgkin
Monnington
Young
Winchester
Canterbury
York

I was in Monnington and we won every sports trophy on offer.

Edit: Out of curiosity I just checked my old school website, and there are only 4 houses now, Canterbury, Durham, Winchester & York. I suppose it was 22 years since I left though.

Monnington House RIP

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Blue, Red, Yellow, Green

We had Red, White and Blue.

 

[Harty]

Bowes Lyon and Molson named after local figures in Goring's history

 

[Everest]

christ thats a brain teaser, I was at Glebe Middle School and we had coloured shields. I was in BLUE and we won everything, cant remember if we had names though?! someone on here must know!

Ditto

Red - Arundel
Yellow - Bramber
Green - Hastings
Blue - Lewes

 

[clapham_gull]

I can only remember St Dunstans and St Wilfreds, I think I was in the first.

 

[Buzzer]

Bowes Lyon and Molson named after local figures in Goring's history

Are you referring to Goring Hall? If so, you'd think they'd have your most famous pupil as a house name, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Back in the sixties, the residential blocks on the Sussex University were all named after other new universities ... Essex House, Kent House, York House and Lancaster House.

When they decided to build a new one, there was a petition raised to call it Aston Villa.

 

[Dandyman]

Death, War, Famine and Pestilence.

 

[Wozza]

Drake (green), Cook (blue), Raleigh (yellow) and Nelson (red).

 

[Skaville]

Woodingdean Middle School:
Downs - yellow
Hill - Green
Town - Red
Sea (?) - Blue

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Junior School were all UK patron Saints. I was in St Patricks.

Senior school (Brighton College) I was in Chichester. It was a boys-only boarding house then - now I think it is a mixed day house.

 

[Harty]

Are you referring to Goring Hall? If so, you'd think they'd have your most famous pupil as a house name, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Or Bob Monkhouse or even Richard Tiltman