Every student who joins The Hayfield School becomes a member of one of our four Houses: Courage, Endeavour, Liberty or Wisdom.
Our House System is an important part of what it means to belong to Hayfield. It creates communities within our wider school community, giving students opportunities to form new friendships, represent their House, take part in shared experiences and contribute to something bigger than themselves.
Each House has its own identity, colour and motto, but all four are united by the values and expectations we share as a school. There is healthy competition between them, certainly, but there is also a strong sense that we are one school.
Ausus sit amet
Head of House: Miss Dawson
Nouam nitimini
Head of House: Mr Turner
Libertas ipsum
Head of House: Miss Hodgkiss
Sapientia potentia est
Head of House: Mrs Klejnow
Our House System is about much more than competition. It is designed to strengthen our school community and contribute to the wider development of every young person. Everything we do through our Houses is shaped by four important aims.
We want every student to feel that they are known, valued and part of something. Membership of a House gives students an identity within the wider Hayfield community and creates opportunities to build relationships across tutor groups and year groups, share experiences and support one another.
Achievement takes many forms. Through our House System, we recognise and celebrate students for their effort, contribution, participation and success, both inside and beyond the classroom.
Whether earning House points through their everyday choices, representing their House or celebrating a personal achievement, we want students to take pride in what they accomplish and in the contribution they make to their House and school.
Our Houses provide another important way of bringing the values of The Hayfield School to life.
Through participation, competition, charitable activity, leadership and everyday school life, we encourage students to demonstrate kindness, decency and a strong work ethic, alongside the creativity and resilience that we value across our school community.
The House System provides opportunities not simply to talk about these values, but to live them.
Our House System creates opportunities for students to experience and understand the principles that underpin life in modern Britain.
Through student leadership, representation, elections, debate, charitable activity and participation in our School Parliament, students learn about democracy, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance, and the importance of contributing responsibly to a community.
Underpinning all four aims is something equally important: we want school to be a positive experience for our young people.
Education is, of course, about academic achievement, but a young person’s experience of school is also shaped by the friendships they make, the opportunities they take, the teams they join, the causes they support, the challenges they accept and those moments when they discover that they can do something they did not previously think possible.
Our House System helps create those experiences.
We want students to leave The Hayfield School with qualifications of which they can be proud, but also with fond memories of the people, experiences and opportunities that made their time here special.
To find out more, please contact Mr R Ellison, Leader of Enrichment and Student Experience.
