The House Point System
The house system operates consistently throughout the school and is designed to promote collaboration and collective achievement amongst staff, parents and children of all ages. It also allows for a healthy measure of good-hearted competition.
House colours are allocated from Year 1 onwards. Children (and their families) and staff are allocated to one of four houses as part of the admissions/induction process. If your child has an older sibling already attending Hillcross, they will be placed in the same house to keep family members together.
In line with our Thinking School status, school houses are named after great philosophers and thinkers and are linked to a colour as follows:
- Wollstonecraft (Red)
- Plato (Yellow)
- Confuscius (Blue)
- Hypatia (Green)
The Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher are not allocated to a house in order to ensure impartiality.
Each house earns points via collective achievement such as best attendance or sports day performance. Additional opportunities to earn house points are provided across the year, such as an Easter Egg hunt, staff competitions, completion of the parent questionnaire and donations of textiles for the termly collection. Points are tallied and displayed in the school hall and on the home page of the website. The house with the most points at the end of each term receives a reward. The house with most points at the end of the year receives an even bigger reward.
School Uniform Implications
Children from Year 1–6 must have a plain round neck T-shirt in their house colour to wear on their PE day. They must also have a transparent water bottle with the lid matching their house team colour. These can be purchased from the school office or parents can source their own transparent water bottle in their child’s house colour (see school uniform policy for a colour guide).
Children in Nursery and Reception will wear a plain white round neck T-shirt on their PE days. Their transparent water bottles will have a maroon or white lid. These can be purchased from the school office or parents can source their own transparent water bottle with a black, white, grey or maroon lid/tint.
