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Beech
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Oak
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Sycamore
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Willow

Our Houses

At #TeamSwanwick, we firmly believe in ‘no one is bigger than the team’ and our House System plays a key role in instilling a culture of teamwork in our students as well as fostering a sense of identity and belonging within the team.

All students are ‘sorted’ into Houses when they join us in Year 7 or Year 12 (or during an in-year admission) with a choice of Beech, Oak, Sycamore and Willow. In true democratic fashion, our students and staff voted for these House names and these House names were suggested because these types of trees all grow on our beautiful 22 acres of land.

Our staff are involved as well with each member of staff being allocated a House and participating in a House competition every half-term. Finally, do not worry, because our families do not miss out! Any siblings at Swanwick Hall School are placed in the same House meaning that their family can be involved too!

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Beech House

Represents Wisdom and Knowledge

Wisdom

  • The ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgements.

Knowledge

  • Understanding of information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally.
  • The state of knowing about or being familiar with something.
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Oak House

Represents Strength and Endurance.

Strength

  • The ability to do things that need a lot of physical or mental effort
  • The degree to which something is strong or powerful
  • Good characteristic

Endurance

  • The ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time.
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Sycamore House

Represents Longevity and Transformation

Longevity

  • Living for a long time
  • Remaining popular or useful for a long time

Transformation

  • A complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that thing or person is improved.
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Willow House

Represents Adaptability and Growth

Adaptability

  • An ability or willingness to change in order to suit different conditions.

Growth

  • The growth of a person, animal, or plant is it’s process of increasing in size
  • An increase in the size or the importance of something

House Events

Date Event Year Group(s) Staff
 

5/09/25

 

 Build a chair out of balloons (Staff competition) N/A N/A
 

22/09/25

 

 European Day of Languages Poster Competition All Miss Owen
 

30/10/25

 

 Blind Football Year 7 Miss Brooks
 

2/10/25

 

 Miss Ostler’s ‘Not a Pub’ Quiz All Miss Ostler
 

6/10/25

 

 Maths Puzzle (Online) All Mrs Myers
 

7/10/25

 

  

Blind Football

  

Year 8

  

Miss Brooks
 

13/10/25

 

 Tell us you best adulting horror story! (Staff competition) N/A N/A
 

14/10/25

 

 Blind Football Year 9 Miss Brooks
 

16/10/25

 

 Countdown All Miss Ostler
 

20/10/25

 

 Maths Puzzle (Online) All Mrs Myers
 

21/10/25

 

 Blind Football Year 10 Miss Brooks
 

23/10/25

 

 For the half-term: Send us a photo of the scariest costume! (Online) All Miss Owen
 

24/10/25

 

 Reward for winning house for this half-term All Miss Owe