Last academic year our School Council wanted to discuss the renaming of our Key Stage 2 House system. After much discussion and many sensible suggestions they decided that the existing House names should be changed to names of British trees.
The new Houses are therefore:
Oak
Beech
Birch
Willow
The decision was made to reflect Modern Britain and our commitment as a school to consider and care for the environment. Our Mortimer Woodland has one of each tree planted in it which hopefully the children will see flourish year on year. All of the children have looked at a mini-study of each tree with their class teacher.
Last week we held elections for new House Captains and Vice Captains. Several Year 6 children took part and the members of each House voted for who they thought would best represent them. All of the nominees made fabulous speeches and all were worthy of a position but sadly only four positions are available in each House. We are very proud of everyone who took part and offer commiserations to those who just missed out and a huge congratulations to our new House Captains and Vice Captains. We know they will lead their Houses in the best possible way.
