Lizzie, Head of Houses, needs your support!

Hi Everyone!

In case you don’t know, I’m Lizzie and before the Easter holidays, I was elected as your New Deputy Head Girl for Houses. My role is quite diverse, but generally involves promotion of the house system and ensuring that it is always running smoothly and is appropriately competitive. I regularly meet up with your Heads and Vices of Houses and help manage the work they do. I also host the annual house music festival and at end of the prefect year, I am the one in charge of announcing the winner of the house shield!

This time of the year is a particular busy time for me – with sports day coming up on Wednesday, there’s a lot of preparation to do! It’s looking like it will be a really exciting and fun day – like last year, each house has chosen a new representative song that will be played as each one parades out onto the field at the beginning of the Sports afternoon. Bronte has chosen ‘Blue by Eifal 65’. Curie has chosen ‘Shout by Dizzee Rascal’. Nightingale has got ‘Waving Flag by Knaan’, Pankhurst ‘Oh I Just Can’t Wait to be King’ and Teresa……… the Darth Vader theme tune!!

What’s new this year are the house coloured T shirts – and I’d encourage you all to buy one for yourselves (not only for Sports Day but for future competitions!)! Each one is a very reasonable £3 and can be purchased from the PE department. Thank you to everyone who bought one and wore it for Olympic Day a few Fridays back by the way – although I haven’t seen them yet, I hear the aerial photographs of the Olympic rings look fantastic!

Just to finish, I thought I’d tell you about some of our plans for the house system for next year. As you probably know, each house has their own charity to which any fundraised money is donated. In the Autumn term, your Heads and Vices and I are looking into organising a charity week of some sort where each house will take it in turn to raise as much money as possible for their charities on specific days of the week. I’m also working on negotiating with the boys’ school about organising a joint sports day, so that’s another thing to look forward to!

Well if you have any ideas for the house system or anything else house-related that you feel needs mentioning, then please don’t hesitate to contact me – my address is i04greli@challonershigh.com

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy Sports Day, the weather and the last few weeks left of school!

Lizzie
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