School houses provide camaraderie, challenges – and a healthy dose of ruthless competition

They say your school days are the best of your life, but I’d go one further: it’s the days you spent competing for house points

From magazine issue: 08 September 2019

issue 08 September 2019

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Eleanor Doughty

School houses provide camaraderie, challenges – and a healthy dose of ruthless competition
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‘Come on Burghley! That’s it Porter, you can do it!’ It was sports day 2008, and we were winning. Of course we were winning — weeks of tactical diagrams had gone into making sure of it. The runners crossed over the line and a cheer went up from the blue side.