The House System
At Rye Hills students are members of one of four houses:
Headingley - red
Silverstone - blue
Twickenham - green
Wimbledon - purple
Each house is managed by a Head of House and assisted by a PSO (Pastoral Support Officer.)
Within each house there are vertical tutor groups which have students from Year 7 - 11.
We have found that Vertical Tutoring (VT) has greatly improved our school ethos as it:
- Creates smaller community groups in the school.
- Promotes a more ‘family-orientated’ approach to school life.
- Enables students to have a more personalised experience, through good relationships with older peers as a result of smaller tutor groups.
- Enables older students in Years 10 and 11 to receive extra mentoring and support from their tutors in the run up to their GCSE examinations.
- Reduces levels of bullying.
- Raises the level of responsibility in all students.
- Enables Year 7 students to become more independent with older role models.
- Allows younger students to witness the school journey, smoothing transition from one stage to the next.
- Develops a positive competitive ethos.
- Allows Years 9, 10 and 11 to develop greater responsibility and leadership skills for mentoring younger students and organising events for their House or tutor group to take part in.
- Enables Year 8 students to have a very important role in helping Year 7 with transition issues.
- Is represenative of the world where we work in mixed-age settings.