We have worked on the creation of a House system for Goddard Park over several months. The themes were based upon Swindon's heritage of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. We added water as a means of transport as the fourth. We asked the Schools Council, Staff, and Parents what names they thought would be right for each House. Some came easily as the GWR Castle engines gave us Castle House in its Green livery.Vickers Armstrong's Supermarine Spitfire provided Spitfire House with a Yellow Sun. Cars were plentiful with Honda and BMW's Mini, but we went back to Pressed Steel's MG for the Red MG House. This left us with the most difficult decision and that was Blue for water. We had suggestions around Swindon's canal, but nothing directly that the children could really relate to. Eventually, we settled on Weymouth House as it is often referred to as 'Swindon by the sea', many of our children (and some Staff) holiday there, we have had annual residential trips there from School for nearly 20 years, and it has the sailing Olympics this year.
All the children and Staff have now been attached to a House (with families in the same House) and a weekly Trophy is to be presented in a full School Assembly. Children can earn House points in a variety of ways including good work, perseverance, courtesy and good manners, being thoughtful about others, as well as good attendance and being in full School uniform. The Schools Council came up with some of the ideas and we are looking forward to this permeating all School life.
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