The Houses

At Glyn School, we believe in celebrating achievement in as many different ways as possible. We hold an end of term celebration assembly for the whole school each term. Details of the rewards system are found in the Behaviour for Learning policy.

We have a vertical student support system. This means that our support system is structured around a Head of House and Assistant Head of House who oversees 5 forms of students in years 7 to 11.

The House team, consisting of your Tutor, Head of House and Senior Learning Mentor, will support students systematically in their years at Glyn to ensure students are settling in and becoming part of Glyn in the best possible way. Tutors meet their students twice daily in their tutor room with fellow tutees where registration and a uniform check will be carried out. In addition, students will have a chance to be involved in discussions, reflect on assembly or have a chance to talk about successes experienced in their day.

The Heads of House and Senior Learning Mentor offices are in a central location. These are places that students can come to at any time before or after school, break or lunch, to talk to people if they are worried about things in or out of lessons. Whilst the Head of House keeps an eye on behaviour in lessons and students’ academic progress, the tutor is the day to day point of contact for students.

The Head of House will lead assembly every week and will meet with students in their house to discuss progress in lessons, how hard they are working and any extracurricular activities they might want to be taking up. It is important students try their hardest in all lessons. This will be noticed by teachers who will reward students with positive apps. The Head of House will be notified and students’ success will be discussed with parents and highlighted in assembly. Heads of House, Senior Learning mentors and Tutors should aim to maintain regular contact with parents by telephone and email, so they will be kept up to date when students are making the right choices and doing well in school. They will also be informed if students make mistakes, and Heads of Houses will work with students to rectify any problem situations that arise. The House team also has access to student mentors, counsellors, a school nurse as well as key workers for students who are experiencing difficulties in school.

Form Tutors have a very important role to play in transmitting the values and virtues of the school through their daily contact with the students in their form group. There is only one adult that each student in the main school sees daily and that is the tutor.

These eight houses are linked to our local area and can be viewed in pairs:

There used to be an ABBEY at MERTON which was called Merton Abbey;
The BOURNE river goes through Chertsey, site of a BENEDICTINE monastry;
The TUDOR family named CAREW;
DERBY is named after Lord Derby, the founder of the famous horse race whilst OAKS was the name of his home; in addition to being the name of the prestigious race first held in 1779, the year before the first Epsom Derby.

The below list has been updated for the Academic Year 2020 to 2021

Assistant Headteachers - Mr B Holloway and Mr R Lightfoot

	Head of Abbey House: Mr M Daniels		Head of Merton House: Miss C Southall
	Deputy Head of House: Mr J LOng		Deputy Head of House: Mrs D Scafidi
	Form Tutor Team		Form Tutor Team
7A	Mr K Wright  and Mr A Brockless (Weds PM)	7M	Mr N Gravenell
8A	Mrs F Cutrufo and Mr M Daniels (Monday am)	8M	Miss L Stokes
9A	Mrs A Rathmore (Not Fri) and  Mrs S Arain (Thurs and Fri)	9M	Miss S Mohammed
10A	Mr J Sidhu	10M	Mrs S Hartnett
11A	Mr M Keating and Mrs H Davey (Mondays Week 1)	11M	Miss J Phillips
	Head of Bourne House: Mrs J Fairbrother		Head of Oaks House: Miss P Piper
	Deputy Head of House: Mr A Summers		Deputy Head of House: Ms C Wilson-David
	Form Tutor Team		Form Tutor Team
7B	Miss E Kay	7O	Mr A Coleman
8B	Miss S West	8O	Miss H Daudi
9B	Mr M Toye	9O	Mr T Inthirarajah
10B	Mr M Cooke	10O	Mr T Scorgie (not Weds pm) and Ms C Wilson-David (Weds pm)
11B	Mr J Ellis	11O	Miss A Gascoigne (not Thurs pm Wk2) and Mr J Benyon (not Weds)
	Head of Carew House: Mrs R Regan		Head of St Benet House: Mr C Beaney
	Deputy Head of House: Mr N Miller		Deputy Head of House: Mr T Ahmad
	Form Tutor Team		Form Tutor Team
7C	Mrs C Brown	7SB	Miss A Jade
8C	Mr M Chhatralia	8SB	Mr A Churchill (not Weds pm) and Mr T Ahmad (Weds pm)
9C	Miss C Caverhill	9SB	Miss R Picken (Mon, Tue and Weds) and Mr K Sullivan (Thurs and Fri)
10C	Miss A Hinchcliffe	10SB	Ms L Ennos
11C	Mr S Olsen	11SB	Mrs A Thomas (Not Fri) and Miss T Stone (Fri)
	Head of Derby House: Mrs M Bloomberg		Head of Tudor House: Miss J Zimmermann
	Deputy Head of House: Mr P Hazzard		Deputy Head of House: Mrs G Turnbull
	Form Tutor Team		Form Tutor Team
7D	Miss L Thayaparan	7T	Miss L Merchan Poules
8D	Miss K Bryan and Mr M Day	8T	Miss S Bayliss (Not Weds) and Miss M Dixon (Not Mon and Fri)
9D	Miss D Al-Yasiri	9T	Mr P Hazzard
10D	Miss N Munns (Not Mon or Tues) and Miss M Zhang	10T	Miss J Ryell (Not Tues and Weds) and  Mrs K Poole (Not Thurs and Fri)
11D	Mr K MacLeod and Mr M Day (Weds, Thurs and Fri pm)	11T	Mr J Braybrook