Names of "houses" in Sheffield schools

[pitsmoorboy]

At Burngreave secondary modern we had

Bank

Hill

Mere &

Wood

and if you got on the wrong side of Hugesy (headmaster) we also had, Dog, if you wanted a crafty drag at play time you went to the, Sh*t,

BTW. Just heard of Eric Claptout.

[Mr_Ned]

Originally posted by P&A

i went to City School, Stradbroke we had "houses" of Tudor, Lancaster, York cant remember the other one!!

 

I too went to this school and the one you can not remember was Stuart (Yellow)

[glaham]

Carfield Juniors

 

Chantry - blue

Ruskin - yellow

Montgomery - red

Elliot - green

 

Although I might have got the colours wrong.

[Miss_smiley]

Originally posted by IronKnight

do you remember the little strips of canvas (or what ever material it was) with the colour of the house one was in.

 

No, I dont really remember much except when we all got into groups to compete against eachother. Those were the days, 4ft snow drifts, playing in the playground, sweets from Barnards (or was that when I lived at another house??).

 

[brummy_tracy]

Eckington comp in 80's had:

Rother = Yellow

Bramley = Green

Phoenix = Red

Raven = Blue

 

I think the colours are right anyway, not sure what they were supposed to stand for, Im trying to forget.

[jgharston]

Malin Bridge:

 

Jupiter - blue

Saturn - yellow

Mars - red

Venus - green

 

which became:

 

Longley - yellow

Richmond - red

Whirlow - green

Endcliffe - blue

 

Then Myers Grove:

 

Australia - blue

Canada - green

Ghana - yelllow

India - red

 

Ahh. I always think of Canada as being green, and Longley

as being yellow

 

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mustgetbacktowork, mustgetbacktowork, mustgetbacktowork.

 

JGH

[deano]

Originally posted by LoopyLou

I wonder who got the job of deciding the names....

 

I went to charnock school where the houses were named after famous people of days gone by

CHANTREY (red)

NIGHTINGALE (yellow) the best one - especially at the relay race on sports day

BRINDLEY (green or blue)

HARDWICK (green or blue) who cares which was which because they never won anything anyway!!

 

anybody else remember charnock school ?

I went to charnock school too!!

was in hardwick if i remember correctly(green?)

Never forget getting "done" for writing on my desk in mr Roberts class!!

[trophyman]

i went to norfolk school and our house groups where

 

furnival, neville, shrewsbury and lovetot

 

i started off in shrewsbury but got moved into neville

 

furnival was RED, neville was BLUE, shrewsbury was YELLOW and lovetot was GREEN

[Dirtydog]

Originally posted by hazel

Notre Dame 47-52

 

Red Our Lord

Green St Joseph

Blue Our Lady

Gold Blessed Mere Julie who founded the Notre Dame order of nuns.

 

Hazel

 

When I attended the houses were called after regions of France; I can only recall two though. I think Yellow was Compiegne (sp?), and Green was Picardy. Blue and Reds' names escape me.

Then I think they changed back to your original names and then changed again to the rivers of Sheffield.

[berinda]

City Grammar in the 1950s had three houses - the third one was Kaffir (blue badge) - and as mentioned earlier, Maori (red badge) and Zulu (green). I think this is right.