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The Houses

HHS

Bickley House

Conham House

Hencliff House

Cleeve House

Why have a House System?

Increases student leadership

opportunities.

Provides a range of sporting and cultural

activities for students to get involved in.

Provides more opportunities for students to take

responsibility.

Creates a sense of ‘belonging’ to something smaller than a

big secondary school! It creates a ‘school within a

school’.

Increases opportunities to mix with

older/ younger

students and learn from each other.

ConhamConham lies

near Hanham on the north bank of the River

Avon just outside the city boundaries in South

Gloucestershire.The Conham Ferry is a

small passenger ferry which operates across the river from Conham

to Broomhill.The Conham River Park lies

in a loop of the River Avon, and forms part of

the Avon Valley Woodlands.

Hencliff

An overgrown area woodland and brambles hides the remnants of quarrying. Extensive

quarrying has left scars on the landscape, but

these are now disguised by much vegetation.

This area was quarried for over 1000 years, with

local stone thought to have been used for

Bristol Castle!

Bickley

Bickley Wood is a protected site due to

its important geology. Bickley is home to red sand stone which was quarried here in the

19th century. Quarried stone was loaded onto barges just below the

weir at Hanham Mills. It took 2 weeks to get to Avonmouth due to the

tides.

Cleeve

Like Bickley, Cleeve Wood is a protected site due to the flowering Bath Asparagus. It is located close to

Hanham Court, which once belonged to the Monks of Keynsham Abbey. It later was owned by Sir Henry

Creswicke, who was Bristol Mayor in 1660.

Increased Leadership Roles

Student Academy Council

House Councils

Community Leaders

Enrichment Leaders

Student Leadership

Team (Post 16)

Prefects (KS4)

Prefects (KS4)

House Captains (Yr. 11)

Deputy House Captains (Yr 11)

Why introduce Vertical Tutoring?• Vertical Tutoring provides a

‘friendlier’ school with tutor groups having a ‘family’ feel.

• Tutor groups are smaller. • More individual conversations

with your tutor about target setting, academic progress and key points in your educational journey.

• More opportunities to learn from other students e.g. Yr. 10 can support Year 9 with Options Choices.

• Vertical Tutoring gives you a chance to work with people of different ages and better prepares you for the world of work.

What is it?

Mixed age Tutor Groupswith 4-5 students from Yr 8-11.

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Structure of the Houses

Houses Conham Hencliff Bickley Cleeve

Staff 4 X Full Time Heads of House

How many Tutor

Groups?

2 x Year 7 Tutor Groups8 x Vertical Tutor Groups2 x Post 16 Tutor Groups

How many

students

Approximately 225 students in each house. (45 students from each Year

Group)

Student Leaders

House Captain and Deputy House Captains (4 x KS4 students)

Uniform School uniform and sports kit to match the houses.

What is coming up?

• Year 7-10 will have the option to buy the new school uniform and sports kit for September 2014.

• The new school uniform will be compulsory for all year groups from September 2015.

• The uniform and sports kit will be available to buy from 1st July 2014. The Stockist is Initially Yours on Hanham High Street.

• You will get a letter at the end of this week in Tutor Time with details of your allocated House and uniform.

• There will be a House Assembly this term to prepare for Festival of Sports and September 2014.

The sorting hat is looking forward to the busy week ahead!

School Values

T TrustR ResponsibilityA Ambition

I Independence

L Life Long Learning