Stephenson win the House Championship!

Congratulations to Stephenson House who were crowned winners of both the Sports Cup and the House Championship for 2022!

240 invited students gathered in the lecture theatre on Friday 15th July to hear the live announcement of the 2022 House Championship winners and tutor groups and staff across the school tuned in to the live stream that was broadcast simultaneously.

St Katherine's School's House Championship is designed to capture the best of our community. There is no opt out in our House Championship, you can’t not take part, everyone has contributed to this year's result. Attendance, punctuality, positive:negative ratio and reading are at the heart of our House Championship competition and so by belonging to St Katherine’s School community, all students are competitors. They play their part and their contribution matters.

There has been a huge range of opportunities for students to shine as an individual and a member of the team and we have had fun this year in a bigger range of competitions than ever before. Students' dedication to their house, their willingness to try new things and be a little bit silly along the way make our school an amazing place to work and learn. Next year will be even better and if you are yet to have your moment in the spotlight, it is coming. Watch this space!

This year’s House Championship competition was very close. Stephenson House have led for much of the year and you could be forgiven for thinking that victory for them this year was guaranteed. However, on the eve of the announcement of this year's champions there were only 47 points between the house in first place and the house in second. 

The final competition of the year was the positive:negative ratio ethos competition. This competition had been incredibly close all term and the final result required some significant number crunching. Two houses were tied on a positive negative ratio of 91% and therefore we were down to which house had the highest average number of positives per student. The final reckoning showed that in fourth place with a positive ratio of 86% was Pankhurst, in third place Turing with 89% and tied on 91% were Stephenson and Yousafzai. Stephenson House students were calculated to have a greater number of positives each on average and so they took the win.

Mr Humphreys read out the overall result and presented the trophy to Charlie and Sophia - Stephenson House Leaders. For more details of the House Championship, including many individual triumphs, see the end of year edition of our newsletter.