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unusual facts about House system


Harvard Houses Historic District

Harvard College uses the House system, and has 12 residential colleges, 9 of which are on the river and comprise the historic district.


Apirana Ngata

Several schools have houses named after him, including Rangiora High School, Tauranga Boys' College, Rotorua Intermediate, Cashmere High School, Te Aute College (where Ngata went), and Te Puke High School.

George Spencer Academy

Students' forms are split into George Spencer's four houses: Armstrong, Hubble, Loxley and Socrates.

JCB Academy

The school pupils and teachers are divided into three houses, named Bamford (after JCB founder Joseph Cyril Bamford), Arkwright (after industrialist Richard Arkwright) and Royce (after Rolls-Royce founder Henry Royce).

Sir John Lawes School

The school is split into seven houses, Austen (Red), Britten (Yellow), Hepworth, (Green), King (Silver), Lawes (Orange), Newton (Blue) and Ryder (Purple), named for Jane Austin, Benjamin Britten, Barbara Hepworth, Martin Luther King, John Bennet Lawes, Isaac Newton and Sue Ryder respectively.

St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad

The students from first to tenth grade are divided into four houses: Daffodils, Pansies, Roses, and Shamrocks and follow two syllabi: ICSE (white belts) and SSC (red belts).


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Herne Bay High School

The house system is known as a "Mini Community" and each house is named after planets of the Solar System: Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus, each of which has its own Head of Mini Community, Mentor Team, logo and coloured tie.

Moor End Academy

The Academy's house system includes houses named after historical figures, including Gertrude B. Elion, Mahatma Gandhi, and Plato.

Wireless Application Protocol

While the largest operator NTT DoCoMo has famously disdained WAP in favor of its in-house system i-mode, rival operators KDDI (au) and SoftBank Mobile (previously Vodafone Japan) have both successfully deployed WAP technology.