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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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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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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
WC Event Year Groups Staff Location
Term 3 05/01/2026 Pickleball Year 7 Miss Brooks Sports Hall
BookBuzz Competition All Years Miss Owen and Mrs Gonsai
12/01/2026 Pickleball Year 8 Miss Brooks Sports Hall
Logic puzzle challenges All Years Miss Ostler M8
Maths Puzzle All Years Mrs Myers Online
Minute-to-win-it – cookie competition Years 7 – 9 Miss Owen Tennis Courts
19/01/2026 Pickleball Year 9 Miss Brooks Sports Hall
Guess the order of the sweets KS4 Miss Ostler M8
Minute-to-win-it – cookie competition Years 10 -11 Miss Owen Tennis Courts
World Religion Day Competition All Years Miss Owen Online
26/01/2026 Pickleball Year 10 Miss Brooks Sports Hall
Guess the order of the sweets KS3 Miss Ostler M8
History’s Bad Egs competition All Years Miss Owen Online
Maths Puzzle All Years Mrs Myers Online
02/02/2026 Pickleball Year 11 Miss Brooks Sports Hall
Logo Quiz All years Miss Ostler M8
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Poetry Competition All Years Miss Owen Online
09/02/2026 Pickleball Sixth Form Miss Brooks Sports Hall
Origami making (best, most made by house) All Years Miss Ostler M8
Maths Puzzle All Years Mrs Myers Online