Names of "houses" in Sheffield schools

[So Cal Girl]

I was at Rivelin School in the eighties and Myers Grove comp in the nineties. The houses there were rivers in the case of the former and peoples of the British Isles for the latter, if I remember correctly:

 

Rivelin: Don, Loxley, Porter, Sheaf

 

Myers Grove: Celts, Saxons, Vikings, Normans

 

As far as the colours go, I'm not that anal!. It was all too wierd and stank of aping public schools for the rich and inbred to me.

 

They must have changed it. In the seventies and eighties it was Canada(green) Australia (blue) Ghana (red) and forgot the yellow one!! think it was India??

[nosy nellie]

When I was at Morley Street School(Rivelin)as is now it was Don, Loxley, Rivelin, and Sheaf.The colours were Don was Blue,Rivelin was Red.I could not be sure about the other two.

[Stainless]

Springvale House Special School, anyone who attended will remember the headteacher Miss Rose Wass:

 

Wass Rosalie - Passed away peacefully on...

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[fazz2311]

My eldest son is at High Storrs school and they have taken on the house system again. The houses are based on Sheffield theatres - Merlin, Crucible, Montgomery and Lyceum.

 

My youngest son attends Greystones Primary and they too have brought back the houses. Or in this case the 'Edges'. They have Stanage, Burbage, Froggat and I think Curber. Last year the school had a grand day out and all the children visited their Edge.

[Shellybean73]

Prince Edwards had houses named after Welsh castles...Conway, Caerphilly, Harlech and Caenarfon.

 

Conway was blue

Caenarfon was red

Caerphilly was green

Harlech was yellow

 

we used to have competative sports days too in the summer.

 

i used to be in Caerphilly )

[sparkyfred]

Went to Firth Park Grammar,remember Beattie,Fosch and Haig,can someone tell me the 4th.

 

Kings, which I was in. All named after WW1 warlords.

[wallyp]

Just remembered that my secondary school -High Storrs -in the Fifties had four houses named after Early Britons -Saxons,Picts,

Jutes and er I think Normans.

Anyone else recall their house names?

 

My house at High Storrs was Spartan in the late forties

[Hetty]

Greystoes Sec Mod had Lovetot, Furnival, Talbot and Howard, old Sheffield families. I was in Lovetot 1956-1960.

[Gormenghast]

Went to Firth Park Grammar,remember Beattie,Fosch and Haig,can someone tell me the 4th.

 

Yes, I was in Foch, 1960 to 1965, named after Ferdinand Foch (pronounced "Fosh") and credited with possessing the most original and subtle mind in the French army.

 

Pity we couldn't emulate him.

[sparkyfred]

Yes, I was in Foch, 1960 to 1965, named after Ferdinand Foch (pronounced "Fosh") and credited with possessing the most original and subtle mind in the French army.

 

Pity we couldn't emulate him.

 

then they were renamed to rivers after it went comprehensive - portler,loxley,rivelin&sheaf I think it was. Can't remember which one replaced which or which one I was in after that.