House System
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The Elements – Preston Manor’s House System
We have recently set up a House System to run alongside the standard Form and Year Group format in order to generate and promote the following characteristics:
*Pride – the pride of belonging to a House, and forging allegiances with new and different groups of students
*Teamwork – from working with students from other year groups with a common aim
*Leadership Skills - managing and coordinating, taking a lead role in a project, quiz, tournament or competition
*Healthy competition – learning the valuable life skills of ‘humble in victory and magnanimous in defeat’
*Citizenship - seeing beyond school, working on charity fund-raising events and projects
We have chosen The Elements as both the theme and the name of the four houses: Earth, Air, Fire and Water and the structure of the houses is as follows:
- Each form will be in the same House, with other forms from different years; a full mixture…
- Staff will also be assigned a House; tutors will be allied to their forms, and other staff will be distributed equally…
- Each HOUSE will have a VI Form House Captain…
- Year-round competitions and events between HOUSES, culminating in SPORTS DAY…
- All four HOUSES will support a chosen charity and used house events and competitions to raise money for it