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“the best thing is the sense of community”

Houses

Pupils' lives at Eastbourne are centred on their houses. Here boys and girls find themselves part of a house community. It is in their houses that pupils, both boarding and day, will make their closest friends, will receive the unstinting support of a housemaster or housemistress and will naturally gravitate between classes, meals, activities, recreational arts, sport, town leave and other social events. Each house has features that are common to all houses but equally each house has its own individual atmosphere.

There are ten houses at the College.

Gonville, Pennell and Wargrave are for boys who board, whilst School and Nugent are for boarding girls.

Blackwater and Watt Houses are for day girls, and the day boys live in Craig, Powell or Reeves.  One of the real strengths of the College as a boarding school is that day pupils, like boarders, are based in proper houses and looked after by a housemaster or housemistress, with whom they quickly build a strong rapport.