Sherborne

House Colour: Black

 

Who's Who?

Head of House: Mr T George

 

Sherborne Tutors 2024-25

Year 7 - Mr T Buck

Year 8 - Mrs A Bonney

Year 9 - Miss L Thorpe & Ms R Satherley

Year 10 - Mrs J Tyler & Miss E Rawlinson

Year 11 - Mrs N Furnell

Year 12 - Miss J Lawlor

Year 13 - Mr P Owen

 

Sherborne House History

Robert Sherborne was Bishop of Chichester from 1508 to 1536. Sherborne was Archdeacon of Huntingdon (1494–1496), Archdeacon of Buckingham and of Taunton (1496–1505) and Dean of St. Paul’s (1499–1505). Exceptionally, he held ecclesiastical posts prior to ordination: he was made a deacon in 1499 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1501. From 1505 to 1508 he was bishop of St Davids.

Sherborne was a patron of the artist Lambert Barnard, commissioning several series of paintings from him. He founded the Free Grammar School in Rolleston, around 1520. It continued to 1909.

 

Sherborne House Motto

Based on our belief that everyone can….

“Here to inspire, challenge, achieve from when we start to when we leave.”

Our House Charity is Feeding Futures who support and develop sustainable schooling and education in Kenya.

 

Sherborne House 2023-24

I am delighted to say this has been a hugely successful school year for Sherborne House with many students living up to the mantle of “inspire, challenge and achieve from when we start until we leave.”

Sherborne have led the House Cup race since the Winter Term with tremendous efforts from Year 7 and Year 9 in particular, topping their respective year groups consistently. It would be a wonderful achievement for the House (having come 6th last year) to be able to lift the Cup for the first time since I became Head of House in 2018. Whatever the final result Sherborne staff are proud of their collective efforts in the classroom and throughout the school community. We have our fingers crossed for the last few weeks!

Will Carter (10Sherborne) and Matthew Gannon (7Sherborne) won the Sherborne Intra House raffle for the highest House Point achievers across the Winter and Spring terms respectively. Both invested their winning vouchers in reading materials.

The Sherborne House Committee for 2023/24 was comprised of House Colours recipients Ben Webster, Emma Mayor, Mary Pitts, Ollie Taylor, Olivia Cogger, Holly Walford, Myah Brent and Hannah Carr (11Sherborne) and House Captains Edward Bromell & Erin Pullen (12Sherborne). I had to make a special request with Mrs Faulkner to award more House Colours than usual due to the number of fantastic applications which is a credit to the form! Many thanks for their efforts in overseeing Sherborne student feedback and charity events for the over the past year.

Sherborne have organically developed a reputation for success in the performing arts over the past few years with a number of finals positions in the House Drama competition, winning in 2021. This year’s entry was directed by Erin Pullen and Edward Bromell (12Sherborne) and was based on The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley by Agatha Christie. While just missing out on the final this year, all in Sherborne were captivated by the performance in front of the school and proud of the group’s acting talent and creativity. Lucy Pitts (9Sherborne) in particular deserves special praise for her role as Hercule Poirot.

Individual achievement highlights across Sherborne in 2023/24 include:

 

  • Monty Wignall-Jones (8Sherborne) winning Coach’s Player of the Week for inter school football as part of the school’s second ever international sports tour across Barcelona.
  • Mary Pitts (11Sherborne), Abi Hughes (10Sherborne), Effie Watson (7Sherborne) and Lucy Pitts (9Sherborne) competing in the National Choir competition who sang Never Enough from The Greatest Showman and City of Stars from La La Land. The choir received particular praise from the judges for listening to each other and sounding as one voice
  • Hannah Carr (11Sherborne) and Jacob Carr (13Sherborne) who earned accolades in Dress Code’s Halloween Coding Competition. Their separate entries in game design earned prizes of AI robots.
  • Jamie Botham (7Sherborne) won the “Best in School” BEBRAS competition in the Juniors section.
  • Congratulations to Matty Mainwaring (9Sherborne) who was selected to represent Brighton and Hove Albion in their tour in the Czech Republic against teams including Bayern Munich. We are delighted Matty has been offered a further 2-year contract with the club.
  • Charlie Johnson (8Sherborne) came first in his race at the Sussex Schools County swimming gala, as part of the fastest boys Year 8 team across the county.

 

After two years as part of Sherborne House, taking over from Mr Thomas and skilfully guiding the class of 2019 through to their final GCSE exams, we say a fond farewell to the very popular Mr Petts who leaves to teach A-Level Law at college and offer a warm welcome to Mr Buck as the new Year 7 tutor.

Finally, many thanks to Mrs Bonney who stewarded Sherborne seamlessly in my absence during the Summer Term.

Mr Tristen George, Head of Sherborne House