School houses?

Stephenson (yellow)(my house).
Gordon (red)
Nelson (green)
Pitt (blue)

Ours were very unimaginative. I was in Exeter House because the school was in Exeter Road.

When the Grammar and secondary schools were combined into a comprehensive I hoped that, as we were in Newmarket, the houses would be named after famous horses - lovely names to choose from.

The secondary school had Constable, Sergeant, Gainsborough and I think Turner.

Lemongrove
I have a memory like an elephant for those far off days but ask me tomorrow at 8am and I will struggle to remember what day it is.

Ha-ha, lemon - no!
Ours were red, white, dark blue, light blue. No names, just the colours which I suppose were those of the Union Jack. I was in red. Dark blue was always the top house, followed by light blue, then red, then white. I was at the school for five years and that was always the case even though the house members must have changed every year when some students left and new ones joined. I was average at sports and in the classroom so I never gained a house point for anything. On the other hand I didn't lose any either.

At our school if a sibling was already there you were automatically put in that house.
I think that also applied if a parent had been at the school.
It is now almost derelict , such a shame both for the former Grammar School but also for the beautiful buildings, in the very centre of the town.

Yes annsixty I was very annoyed at the time by the sibling thing, I wanted to be in the same house as my friend.
We had a house meeting every week on a Friday in our lunch hour! Another annoyance.Where earnest prefects berated us for not earning any housepoints that week, and swots made eager suggestions as to how we could all do better.

Lemongrove I won't remember tomorrow what I had for dinner tonight.

Curie - blue
Fry - yellow (my elder sister)
Nightingale - red
Pankhurst - purple (mine)

Primary school were local(ish) rivers - Afton (blue), Bank (green), Connell (red) and Nith (yellow)

First secondary school were Glaisnock, Hillside, Boswell and Bute

And second secondary school were Hilary, Rutherford, Scott and Fleming

Airlie, Cortachy, Glamis and Mains, all Scottish castles. I was in Mains, our colours were yellow/red, another of the houses was blue/white, and I can't remember the other two.

Scott - red, Raleigh - green,
Drake - blue, Shackleton - yellow. I was House Captain of Scott. My granddaughter keeps my badge, along with my Head Girl badge.

Ours were

Schwietzer (yellow) mine
Curie (red)
Ferrier (green)
Napier (Blue)

Another all girls school here - so:-

Grace Darling - badge was white over blue for the waves.
Abbess Hilda - black and white like a nuns habit.
Elizabeth Browning - yellow and green for the countryside.
Florence Nightingale - red and white for bandages.

I was in Grace Darling - she rowed out with her father to a sinking ship, just off the Farne Islands to rescue the crew. (Brief explanation, do look it up).

MrsEggy
We may have been at the same school!
I was in Seymour, blue phoenix badge, Tudor had a yellow Tudor Rose, Beaufort a red portcullis, and Bordeaux a green fleur de lys. The house systems are long gone but the house noticeboards are still on the wall.

Blues
Greens - bogies (well that’s what we called them).
Reds
Yellows

I was in Dominic Savio. The others were Maria Goretti, John Bosco and can’t remember the other.

Then it was Saxon, Norman, Vikings and Celts. I was a Saxon.

Keller, Nightingale & Fry (<-mine)

I attended 2 secondary schools as a student and 2 more as a staff member, I can remember them all except, strangely, the last school I worked in.

First school was Blue Gum, Clematis, Orchid and Wattle (Australian plants)
Second, Cummings, Deakin, Everard and Tate (Australian politicans)

First as a staff member Aztecs, Gladiators, Vikings and Warriors

Now I am not able to stop trying to remember the last. Will have to find out or it will niggle for ages.

supergirlsnan

Ours were Kinver, Clent, Himley and Enville. All lovely local areas.

Mine were Kinver, Clent, Wenlock and another one that I can't remember. Malvern maybe - is that in the Midlands?
I was in Wenlock. We always came last in any sporting endeavours.

The Catholic school I work in had MacCauley, Baghitta, Teresa, John Paul and Romero.
They scrapped them last year. It was very controversial.

Panthers we know the area well
My grandparents married in Llanrwst and my mother was born in Eglwysbach. We visit the Conwy valley a great deal. Not this year though.

Really sorry Pantglas

I went to a girls school founded in the 17th Century. Our houses reflected the titles of the original founders.
They were, Devonshire(green), Campbell (Yellow), Carnaby (Blue) and Westminster (red).
We were proud and competitive at winning house points, to get awarded the shield at the end of the year.

I used my "phone a friend" lifeline as it was driving me mad. Felt much better after doing so as she could not remember them all. However as soon as she mentioned the first one the others came back to me. They were all Australian Olympic athletes
Cuthbert, Landy, Marshall and Strickland.

Now I can rest easy.

Ours were named after school governors-----Tulk (blue), Rickman (red), Rollitt (yellow) and Brunner (green).I was in Brunner