School Houses

School Houses

All pupils represent one of our four houses and earn points for their house be demonstrating outstanding learning behaviours, by competing and by serving the school community. All teachers also represent one of our four houses.

School Houses

Anning

Mary Anning (b. 21 May 1799 – d. 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.

Turing

Alan Turing (b. 23 June 1912 – d. 7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre.

Johnson

Katherine Johnson (b. 26 August 1918 – d. 24 February 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".

Hawking

Stephen Hawking (b. 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

Our House Captains