Names of "houses" in Sheffield schools

[wobblybob50]

When I was at Waltheof in the late 60's early 70.s we had Talbot (blue), Furnival (red),

Arundel(yellow) and Neville(green). Think it had died out when I left in73.

[nice-nurse]

Can remember those little round badges at Waltheof. Worn with pride!!!!

[lilaclover]

zulu rivelin

maori loxley

kafir sheaf

sheffield city grammar

[piecrust1941]

went to burngrieve secondry school in the fifties they were bank hill mere and wood all named after there schools eg pyebank ellesmere firshill woodside

[raymondo1952]

wentworth,warncliffe, grange,and scholes where the houses at hartley brook school in the 60s

[maginu]

waltheof school in the sixties houses were talbot furnival neville and arundel

 

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ps blue red green and yellow in that order

[six45ive]

Myers Grove in the late 70's.

 

Canada=green (my house)

Ghana=red

India=yellow

Australia=blue

[Plain Talker]

At Hillsborough school late 60's they had :-

Dixon (red) Willis (Blue) Winyard (Green) and Warner(Yellow)

Taken from road names near by. Not very imaginative!

I can also remember I was in a house called "Mappin" at Chaucer which had its own song. Mappin, Mappin, we're the greatest, to the tune ot the German national anthem!

 

Sharrow Lane School had houses named after local roads, too, Priory, Grange, Thornsett and Kenwood.

 

My first school, Hemsworth county primary had houses named after local "Stately" homes, :- Chatsworth, Haddon, Thoresby, and Hardwick.

 

We didn't have houses at Abbeydale Grange, for some reason.

 

When I transferred to High Storrs, we had houses named for the teacher who was head of house:- Hoffman (later Smith), Herring (later Stephenson House) Cary and Catliffe. From what I understand from my neighbours daughter who is currently at HSS, the houses names are something like "Greeks, Romans, Saxon and Normans"

[soft ayperth]

Sharrow Lane School had houses named after local roads, too, Priory, Grange, Thornsett and Kenwood.

 

My first school, Hemsworth county primary had houses named after local "Stately" homes, :- Chatsworth, Haddon, Thoresby, and Hardwick.

 

We didn't have houses at Abbeydale Grange, for some reason.

 

When I transferred to High Storrs, we had houses named for the teacher who was head of house:- Hoffman (later Smith), Herring (later Stephenson House) Cary and Catliffe. From what I understand from my neighbours daughter who is currently at HSS, the houses names are something like "Greeks, Romans, Saxon and Normans"

 

Then, they've reverted to the past, PT. When I was at HSGSB in the 50s and early 60s, house names were: saxons, normans, trojans, picts, goths, jutes, franks, etc. I was a jute.

 

Sid Hoffmann? Great English teacher. Personable and knowledgeable.

??? Herring? We used to call him "Fish." Average science teacher, likeable enough, not of the same caliber as Pole Robinson or Polly Stanford.

Edited January 10, 2013 by soft ayperth

[Plain Talker]

Then, they've reverted to the past, PT. When I was at HSGSB in the 50s and early 60s, house names were: saxons, normans, trojans, picts, goths, jutes, franks, etc. I was a jute.

 

Sid Hoffmann? Great English teacher. Personable and knowledgeable.

??? Herring? We used to call him "Fish." Average science teacher, likeable enough, not of the same caliber as Pole Robinson or Polly Stanford.

 

Yes, the very same. I found him okay, though I was taught my English by Ms Ward.

 

Mr Hoffman retired a couple of years after I left, and Ms Smith, his deputy head of house took over, The same with Herring House, Mr Stevenson took over. Apparently, Smith House later took over all the left hand side of the building (the boys school), and Stevenson took over all the Right hand side (the Girls' school). When I was there in the 70s, it was Hoffman on the upper left, Herring on the upper right, Catliffe house was bottom floor left, and Cary was bottom floor right.