The House System provides opportunities for students to develop all aspects of their growth and learning: personality, morality, creativity, knowledge and skills. Student identification with, and participation in, House activities contributes significantly to excellence in academic, social, sporting and cultural fields. Our Houses inculcate values of fair play, teamwork, citizenship, initiative, perseverance, resilience and self-discipline.

There are four Houses:

ENGLAND   Colour: Yellow   Emblem: Rose   Flag: St George’s Cross   Head of House: Mr Matthew Keal   House Captain: Mina Ibrahim   Year 11: Fenna Hasche, Nicolas Zoghb   Year 8: Meral Al-Shair, Ali Abou Bieh   Year 5: Rebecca Grasselli, Ali Alobaidan	SCOTLAND   Colour: Blue   Emblem: Thistle   Flag: St Andrew’s Saltire   Head of House: Mr Edward Salvesen   House Captain: Iman Abu Marzouq   Year 11: Ankita Handa, Ayanle Hassan   Year 8: Lily Sebastian, Alexander White   Year 5: Sara Khalaf, Oussama Khalaf
WALES   Colour: Red   Emblem: Daffodil   Flag: Welsh Dragon   Head of House: Mr Richard Taylor   House Captain: Fady Assaad   Year 11: Ishita Handa, Dylan Crasto   Year 8: Anita Al Danab, Mohammed Zahran   Year 5: Sandra Guirguis, Ahmed El Dakoury	IRELAND   Colour: Green   Emblem: Shamrock   Flag: Irish Tricolour   Head of House: Ms Stephanie Hodgins   House Captain: Joash Moosavinia   Year 11: Simran Bhatia, Dario Gelevski   Year 8: Lara El Dabet, Salem Almezel   Year 5: Zahraa Majeed, Mohammed Hussin

The House System comprises three strands of activity:

• The House Point system, which operates throughout the school (although in different forms in Primary and Secondary) and which focuses on upholding both academic effort and desirable attitudes to learning, as well as dignified and responsible conduct within the school community.
• Inter-House competitions, such as chess, photography and Sports Days.
• Fundraising for a House Charity, towards which all Houses contribute in various shared fundraising activities throughout the school year.

The allocation of students to Houses ensures as far as possible equal House representation in each year group and each tutor group. Gender balance is also considered. Members of family groups, and British and Irish students, are allocated to the House of their choice, whenever possible.

Students in the Primary phase of the school enjoy occasional House assemblies which generate enthusiasm in the school community for the House system and allow for the acknowledgement of team success.

Each House is led by a teacher known as a Head of House. One male and one female Year 12 student from each House serve as House Captains, although for 2011-12 only one House Captain from each House has been appointed. Similarly, four boys and four girls from each of Years 5, 8 and 11 (being the senior years in each of the Junior, Middle and Upper Departments) are chosen to serve as House Representatives.