The house system at Lawrence Sheriff helps create competition, promotes good work and behaviour, encourages teamwork, provides opportunities to take on responsibilities and brings everyone in the school together. You will have regular opportunities to earn some house points!
Caldecott
Kent
Simpson
Tait
Wheeler
If you have a family link to a particular house you will be able to indicate this when you complete the new starter paperwork.
"There are lots of house competitions, which I really enjoy" (Bhavik)
A little bit of history...
From the School History 1978: “Games were increasingly seen as a major part of school life and a major contributor to the ethos of the Grammar School. It was for this reason that in 1907 the Headmaster, Rev Hart, introduced the House system which had originated in the Public Schools. Country boys were to constitute School House while the rest were in Tait, Simpson or Caldecott according to which area of the town they lived in, so that numbers were roughly equal. There would thus be House matches in cricket and football while in School Sports any boy reaching a certain standard would score points for his house – the origin of the Grades system which still operates…An Honours Board would show each year the name of the winning house and its score for Sports, Gymnastic Competition and Steeple Chase.”
(School House was renamed Wheeler in 1963 in honour of former Headmaster Cordy Wheeler)
In 2020 a new house was created and was named Kent in honour of recently retired Headmaster Dr Kent