New House Names Revealed

With the help of our three Heads of School, and the use of Mrs Clough's sombrero, and Miss B's Australian and Take That groupie hats (!), we revealed the new house names that will be assigned to our existing house colours and the core school value which each will focus on for this term.

Earlier in the week, the House names were agreed by the School Council, and we have chosen an idea that feels particularly meaningful as we begin this new chapter for our school. As St Mary’s and Rupert House come together, we felt it was fitting to name our four Houses after tributaries that flow into the Thames upstream, before joining the river and flowing together through Henley as one. This felt like a wonderful way to represent our two schools coming together as one community - each with its own identity, as each house has, but ultimately united and flowing together in the same direction. We assigned each house with one of our values to focus on in House assemblies and to prepare an assembly on to the rest of the school.

I am delighted to announce that our new Houses are:

🔴 Red – Cherwell – Resilience

🟢 Green – Kennett – Collaboration

🟡 Yellow – Thame – Respect

🔵 Blue - Windrush – Courage

Mr Armitage