HOUSE SYSTEM Kelso House 1 400 people House

HOUSE SYSTEM Kelso House

1, 400 people

House System? • St Andrew’s is a large community • Being in a house allows you to be part of a smaller community within a larger group of pupils. • Means older pupils in the house can look after the younger members • Can have competitions • Own charity • More opportunities for leadership- house captains, vice captains, prefects, junior house captains. • House assemblies are driven by you • Same house as brothers and sisters.

KELSO

Kelso Classes 1. 2 1. 8 2. 2 3. 3 4. 5 5. 5 6. 1

Kelso • Kelso (Scots: Kelsae [1] Scottish Gaelic: Cealsaidh, [2]) is a market town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. • It lies between the rivers Tweed and Teviot • The town has a population of 5, 639 according to the 2011 census. • Kelso's main tourist draws are the ruined Kelso Abbey and Floors Castle, a William Adam designed house completed in 1726.

• Names of houses based on Scottish Why Kelso? saints or places of religious significance in Scotland. • The town of Kelso came into being as a direct result of the creation of Kelso Abbey in 1128 • Kelso Abbey was founded by a community of monks of the Tironesian order, from Tiron, near Chartres, in France. • Construction of the abbey is believed to have commenced immediately, and by 1143 progress was sufficiently advanced for the building to be dedicated to The Blessed Virgin and Saint John.

• The abbey was subject to attack during Why Kelso? the two Scottish Wars Of Independence in the late 1200’s and in the 1300’s. • In the 1540 s, the building sustained major damage in attacks perpetrated under the orders of the English king, Henry VIII • Another physical assault was followed around ten years later, in 1560, by monastic disestablishment • A small remaining contingent of monks may have continued at the site for a number of years following the 1560 dissolution, but after further attacks and damage the abbey was declared officially derelict in 1587

Kelso House Values

Kelso House Values Honesty Courage Charity Resilience Responsibility Caring