[HPforGrownups] Re: British Schools - competition

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 1724


----- Original Message -----
From: Pam Scruton <Pam at barkingdog.demon.co.uk>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: British Schools - competition
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> > This message has run on pretty long, and the only thing I'll add is
> a
> > question to our UK members.  Is the picture of Hogwarts being set
> up to
> > run on interhouse rivalry an accurate picture of British schools?

Absolutely...we had four houses, funnily enough named after the founders,
and it was murder between Collins and Johnson (the other two were kind of
the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff houses) particularly since Johnson were arty
and Collins were sporty, so Collins always lagged slightly until the summer
term, when with all the athletics etc., they regularly took the lead and won
the house cup...

> In some boarding
> schools it means much as described in Hogwarts - children in the same
> house live together.  I do not know of any schools that organise
> teaching in separate houses but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

Mine did - for the first year all classes were taught in the house groups,
and apart from streamed classes, all subjects were taught in house groups
until GCSE set time - every year, you'd suddenly discover at least one
person whom you thought were new until some other, more observant person
would tell you that they'd been there since the year dot.  There were people
whose names I was uncertain of and didn't even have a conversation with
until sixth form...

Alix