Figure 1.--Some schools have the children wear colored badges or tabs which identify their house. This varied from school to school. Many schools did not have the chilkdren wear any identifying badges or pins what so ever. This generally reflected the importance of the house system at the various schools. |
Some schools have the children wear colored badges or tabs which identify their house. This varied from school to school. Many schools did not have the chilkdren wear any identifying badges or pins what so ever. This generally reflected the importance of the house system at the various schools. The schools that did promote house competitions used a variety of identfying methods. Round colored pins were a common method. We have also noted embroidered patches. At Wycliffe College Junior School the children wear different ties to identify their house. We noted this at a few other schools, although it was much more common for all the children to wear the same colored ties. A reader writes, "I was fascinated to see a boy in one of your pictures had a purple garter tab visible. I have thought in the past that schools could use colour-coded garter tabs to denote for example year groups, or prefects and when I saw that picture I thought: "Now there is obviously a school somewhere that did! Can you confirm this? The only garter tabs I've seen before are green scouting ones or in some of your pictures blue or red ones with kilts." Of course there are a very large number of schools in Britain. We can not say definitely that garter tabs were not used to identify prefects. We never saw it. We did note colored garter tabs at some schools, but they were used to identify houses.
