Our Houses

Houses at St Philip’s

The School Council were tasked with the job of collecting categories for the houses from their class mates.

A series of votes were held to make a democratic decision based on the number of suggestions made. Eventually, a decision was made upon the final two categories based around people of significance. Together, the School Council decided upon two choices – ‘people of science and medicine’ and ‘inspirational people’.  Knowledge and understanding of a variety of topics was used, to choose the people who would represent each of the categories. Then they presented their choices, along with detailed information about the lives of each person, to the whole school, in order to allow them to make an informed choice. A ballot was then held for children and staff in the school.

As a result, a firm winner was chosen, with a majority vote of 183 to 102, ‘inspirational people’ was the favourite. The names chosen were Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale, Stephen Hawking and Leonardo da Vinci. They are an excellent mixture of people of gender, race and differing achievements from a cross section of people across history, and the children were extremely happy with the winning choice when it was revealed.