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WCGS ShieldThe WCGS House System

All students at Wallington County Grammar School belong to a house. There are six houses in total, as detailed below. The Houses each have a local historical association, and assigned colours.

 

  House Description Current House Points (11-12)
  Ruskin
Yellow and black (named after John Ruskin, the poet)

  
  Woodcote Green and black (a part of Wallington noted in Roman area records)

  
  Radcliffe Navy and sky blue (named after John Radcliffe, the 17th century physician, and sometime area resident)

  
  Mandeville Maroon and white (named after Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville, resident and landholder after the Norman Conquest and mentioned in the Domesday book)

  
  Bridges Blue and White (named after sometime area resident, Canon Alexander Henry Bridges, Rector of Beddington)

  
  Carew Blue and red. (a reference to a family of nobility resident in the area in Tudor times, the Carews)