HGS - Our House System

Every student who attends Hitchin Girls' School is assigned to a house. All staff members are also assigned to a house.  

HGS has many inter-house events and charity drives. House points for behaviour and academic achievement are totalled up at the end of each term, awards are given in house celebration assemblies, the points contribute to the House Cup at the end of each term and the overall winner at the end of the academic year.

The 8 houses have all been named after famous historical women: 

Head of Austen House: Miss S Benmoussa

Named after Jane Austen the 19th century novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. 

Head of Bronte House: Miss A Lennon

Named after Charlotte Bronte an English novelist and poet. The eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. 

Head of Curie House: Mr T Backhouse

Named after Marie Curie a was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.

Head of Frank House: Miss K Mills

Named after Anne Frank one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of Anne Frank, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. 

Head of Jewel House: Mr S Clifford

Named after Jewel Plummer Cobb was an American biologist, cancer researcher, professor, dean, and academic administrator. She contributed to the field of cancer research by studying the cure for melanoma. 

Head of Rosa House: Mr D Crowther

Name after Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". 

Head of Pankhurst House: Miss K Murch

Named after Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist. She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote. 

Head of Teresa House: Mr T Pateman

Named after Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.