Week A

Highdown Houses

Highdown House System Vision: 

To foster a culture of community spirit within Highdown: encouraging vertical integration and collaboration through competitive events, charitable fundraising, and communal celebration.

Four Houses:

All students and staff are members of one of four houses - Caversham, Grove, Mapledurham or Rosehill. 

 

House Points 

House points will be awarded throughout the year for competitions for  each year group.  Any examples of contributing to the wider community as well as excellent effort, work and improvement also attract the reward of house points.

These points are collected each term and collated for termly prizes/rewards as well as contributing towards a running total for the academic year.

Heads of House 

  • Caversham: Mr S Thompson
  • Grove: Mr A Patten
  • Mapledurham: Mrs D Birru
  • Rosehill: Mr M Stickley

Mottos 

  • Caversham – Roaring to success. 
  • Grove – Harder, better, faster, stronger.
  • Mapledurham – Fire your way to victory!
  • Rosehill – Soaring above the rest. 

Mentor Groups 

At Highdown, students will be placed into a vertical mentor group, made up of other members of their House from Years 7 through to Year 13. Vertical mentor groups take place each Wednesday morning in place of the usual horizontal mentor group. This is an opportunity for students to forge friendships with students in other year groups and work together on House projects including planning for annual events like the Great Get Together and Christmas Fayre. when they are registered at Highdown School. 

 

House Charities 

The Head of House and student leaders will decide what house charity to raise money for each academic year.  Whilst competitions and fund-raising events will be set during house weeks, students are encouraged to design and deliver fundraising activities throughout the academic year to raise money for their charity. 

The current house charities are:

Caversham – Team Charlie

Grove – Daisy's Dream

Mapledurham – Berkshire Vision

Rosehill – Mind

House Champions 

Caversham are the 2023-2024 Champions for the second year in a row!

House points will be awarded throughout the year for competitions for each year group. Any examples of contributing to the wider community as well as excellent effort, work and improvement also attract the reward of house points.  All competitions, house points, fundraising events, etc. will be added together to create a winning house. They will win the Mary Neal Shield.  The winning house’s flag will be flown and stay on display for the next academic year. 

Ways in which students can get involved 

 

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