Houses

From Year 3 the children are allocated to one of the four school Houses (Aylward, Columbus, Nightingale, Stevenson) where they will be part of a group of up to 70 pupils from across the year groups ranging in age from 7 to 13.  Whilst we do not use a “Sorting Hat” to decide the to which House a child will belong, care is taken to ensure that there is a balance across year groups.
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Aylward House

Gladys Aylward was born in Edmonton in North London in 1904. While she was working as a parlour maid she attended a revival meeting at her church. She was inspired by the preacher and became convinced that God was calling for her to be a missionary in China. When she was 26 she trained to be a missionary in London but she failed the exams.
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Colombus House

"In fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue” Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in Italy in the middle of the 15^th Century. Genoa is a seaport. Maybe growing up with boats and listening to the sailors fabulous stories of strange lands and wide oceans inspired this young boy who was to grow up to become one of the most famous explorers in history.
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Nightingale House

Florence Nightingale was born to wealthy well connected parents in 1820 in Florence, Italy. She was named after the city of her birth. Girls from such a background were expected to learn to read, sew, play the piano, wear beautiful dresses, go to sumptious parties and then marry well and become obedient wives and good mothers. Florence was a kind, gentle child and spent many happy hours enjoying nature and bandaging her dolls. Her first living patient was a shepherd's dog. From tending animals she passed to human beings and wherever there was sorrow or suffering Florence was there. From the beginning Florence displayed a serious caring nature and she showed no interest in the superficial pastimes she was expected to enjoy.
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Stevenson House

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13^th November 1805. From the beginning he was sickly and throughout much of his childhood he was looked after by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as Cummy. She read him morbid stories about Scottish history, Bible stories and the psalms and drilled the catechism into him. All this was with his parents' approval. His parents doted on their only child.
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