School Houses
Each child and member of staff is allocated into a house team which they stay in throughout their time at St Paul’s; siblings will be put into the same house. Our house system is based around amazing people who have called Britain home.
In the autumn, new Year 6 captains are chosen via an election. House teams usually meet on a termly basis, at a meeting led by the Year 6 house captains and the teacher leader.
Mary Anning
Noor Inayat Khan
Alan Turing
Benjamin Zephaniah
Amazing People Who Have Called Britain Home
Our house names stem from key figures in Great Britain's history, who have had an impact on the ways we live, think and feel today.
Throughout the centuries, the history of this small island nation has been shaped by the people who were born in Britain or arrived on its shores.
From early Britons to modern pioneers, leaders, writers, athletes and activists, this country has contained a wealth of incredible talent, only made greater by our history of immigration, integration and innovation. Whether they were born in Great Britain or chose to make their home here, the extraordinary Britons we have chosen for our house names have brightened Britain - and the world beyond it - and changed both for the better.
Mary Anning
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and an expert of palaeontology (the study of extinct animal and plants). Mary Anning became known across the globe for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel, being one of the earliest fossil hunters to do so.
Despite all of her important discoveries and vast knowledge of fossils, Mary was excluded from the scientific community at the time because she was an uneducated, working-class woman.
Even though members of the Geological Society of London bought her fossils, she wasn't allowed to join. Her finds were also published in scientific papers, but she was never credited for them.
Noor Inayat Khan
Britain's first Muslim war heroine. Noor Inayat Khan, a radio operator and secret agent during WW2, who transmitted messages against the German occupation as part of the French resistance.
Noor Inayat Khan grew up in London and Paris. Her religious background, Sufi Islam, emphasised pacifism and she had a happy childhood, immersing herself in music and poetry.
When war broke out in 1939, she chose a path of nonviolent resistance, joining the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and later becoming a secret agent in occupied France.
Despite the threat of discovery, she continued to transmit messages.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was not a well-known figure during his lifetime.
Alan Turing, the genius code cracker and father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Alan grew up in England, where his best friends were numbers and a little boy called Christopher. When his young friend died, Alan retreated to the world of numbers and codes, where he discovered how to crack the code of the Nazi Enigma machine.
But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial part in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in WW2.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah is a British poet, writer and playwright who was born in 1958. He has published poetry books, children's books, plays and novels, and has also published several albums. He often performs his poems to music, or a beat, that draws on the rhythms of reggae and he was 10 when he gave his first performance.
Zephaniah had dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that can make it difficult to read and write. When Benjamin was young, less was known about dyslexia and Benjamin left school at the age of 13, unable to read or write.
Zephaniah writes about things that he is passionate about like politics and society. His message to people thinking of taking up poetry is "You are important and me, and the world, need to hear your voice".
House Captains - photo coming soon
House Points
House points are given out by all members of staff for pupils who show good work and behaviour. They are posted into a boxes around the school and in the entrance hall. Our house captains count them up at the end of each week. The winning house at the end of a half term will be rewarded with a mufti-day. These results are displayed prominently in the hall.
Badges
Each child and member of staff are given a house badge when they first join St Paul’s which clearly identifies them as belonging to their given house. Badges should be worn each day.