At Warwick School, the House system sits at the heart of school life, providing every pupil with a strong sense of belonging from the moment they arrive.
The House system is an important part of life at Warwick School
It aims to:
- Enhance pupils’ sense of community
- Provide pupil leadership opportunities
- Encourage pupils to participate in new co-curricular activities and broaden their horizons
- Ensure that all pupils are known as individuals and provide an additional support network
Pupils join a house when they enter the school and will remain in that house for the duration of their school career.
Throughout the year the houses participate in a range of competitions of a sporting, intellectual and artistic nature. Pupils also earn points for their houses when they are awarded commendations. At the end of the year the Cock House Cup is awarded to the house with the most points.
History
The house system at Warwick School started in 1897, when the houses were imaginatively labelled A, B, C and D. D was for day pupils, and A, B and C were parallel divisions of School House, for the boarders.
In 1902 most of the houses were re-named after the house-masters of the time: Liddell, Davies, Tomas, Sill and Town. These names didn’t last long, either, because all the staff were sacked when the school went bankrupt in 1906.
By the 1920s, the modern names started to be used, many of them based on the family names of the Earls of Warwick.
Our Houses
