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  Aug 21 2005, 08:37 AM
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At my Junior School (age 8-11) we were divided into four Houses:
Itchen - Green
Test - Blue
Hamble - Red
Meon - Yellow
The houses were named after local rivers (yawn!) I was in Meon and I really hated yellow at first - but it grew on me eventually 'cos we were the best!!!! 
In my next school Houses were:
Oxford - red
Cambridge - yellow
Plymouth - blue
York - white
I can't think what the connection is there (except they're all cities). I was in Plymouth - we were the Hufflepuffs of the school! 
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Aug 21 2005, 03:19 PM
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My old school had six Houses, each of them named for a famous Scot:
* William Thomson Kelvin: for pioneering work in engineering and physics
* David Livingstone - for missionary work in Africa
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh - for pioneering architecture
* John Napier - for inventing logarithms
* Robert Stevenson - for inventing the lighthouse
* Thomas Telford - for building bridges, canals and aquaducts
I was in Kelvin house, and each year as we moved up through the school, there were inter-House competitions for all sorts of things. I remember our House winning the sports trophy one year; the same year I got an individual prize for winning the 400 m in track and field. Happy days. 
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Aug 21 2005, 03:33 PM
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QUOTE(LilyRose @ Aug. 21 2005,2:37 pm) In my next school Houses were: Oxford - red Cambridge - yellow Plymouth - blue York - white I can't think what the connection is there (except they're all cities). I was in Plymouth - we were the Hufflepuffs of the school!
I think it as the Universities you were supposed to be aspiring to going to at the end of your school career!
Our houses were named after 'role models'
Curie - Red - I was in this one, named for Marie or possibly Pierre Curie the scientists
Churchill - Blue - Named for Winston Churchill
Cavell - Yellow - Named for Edith Cavell a nurse who was executed by the Germans during the first World War
Kenedy - Green - Named for JFK
Even as long ago as I went to school these references were a little old (Marie Curie died in 1934 (32 years before I was born), Edith Cavell died in 1915 (51 years before I was born), JFK as you probably know died in 1963 and Churchill in 1965 (1 year before I was born)).
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