Houses

The house system was introduced in spring term 2024, with children voting for the house names from a selection of suggestions that included scientists, authors and poets, sports personalities, birds of prey, planets, ancient civilisations, influential people and local places.  Planets won by quite a margin, followed by birds of prey.

Danegrove has four houses (Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune) that children are allocated to on entering school.  Over a week, children will have the opportunity to earn house points that have a duel value, the first is to add points to your house total (promotion of teamwork) and the second is to earn house points towards individual merit awards (the house merit badge followed by bronze, silver and gold badges).

House points are awarded for a variety of reasons, from demonstrating the school values, contributions in class, individual pieces of work, demonstrating good manners around the school, positive approach to learning etc.  House points are also awarded at Sports Day (where children compete, representing their houses) and for interhouse competitions.

The head pupil team collect the house points each Friday, with the totals being shared and celebrated at our weekly celebration assemblies - it gets very exciting, especially towards the end of each term! 

At the end of each term, the winning house will receive a house treat. The treat will change depending on the time of year. Last academic year, the spring treat was won by Jupiter (5959 points) and in the summer, the winning house was Neptune (8214 points). 

The KS2 2024 sports day trophy was also won by Jupiter, who will be the first of our new houses to have their name engraved on the trophy. 

House Captains

To further add to the house system, we will be selecting two house captains for each house from our year 6 classes - check back soon to see who they are.

Inter-house Competitions

We are excited to announce that in spring 2025 we will be starting a programme of inter-house competitions, that currently will include football, netball, cross-country, debating and a Spelling Bee.   Watch this space for further news and updates.