re: Anyone have kids at a school with a "house" concept?

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Apparently some schools have moved to a house system. Kids are asigned to a house - the houses cut across all grade levels. The houses meet together, earn points, compete against other houses, etc. The older kids mentor the younger kids. Teaches are assigned houses as well.

Definetly seems like a riff off the houses in the Harry Potter series, but without the witchcraft, etc.

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our christian Classical school does it. My kids are in Wilberforce. Others like ours have Augustine, Lewis, Elliot, Boenhoffer, Spurgeon, etc. as houses. There are prefects like Harry Potter.

creates cool dynamics where older kids are hanging out with younger kids throughout the year and doing service projects etc.

there is a house cup and last week they had their field day. my oldest is an officer and as a junior spent the day hanging out with 5th and 6th graders and leading them around and cheerleading them.

lot of annoying things about christian schools where they have dumb rules to have dumb rules (those perfectly pressed khakis ARE NOT Land's End!!,) but Houses is one of my favorite traditions.


main thing it helps with is younger kids have upper classmen they've known for 4 years when they show up at the HS level.