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 House Colour: Skylark Violet Named after the Constellation of Indus Indus, the Indian (Native American), is completely visible in latitudes south of 15 degrees North from July - September. Indus was invented by Pieter Dirksz Keyser and Fredick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. Native Americans (American Indians, Amerindians, Amerins, Indyans, Injuns, or Red Indians) are indigenous peoples, who lived in the Americas prior to the European colonization; some of these ethnic groups still exist. The name "Indians" was bestowed by Christopher Columbus, who mistakenly believed that the places he found them were among the islands to the southeast of Asia known to Europeans as the Indies. |
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Indus House is set up in the same manner as all of the other Houses, with each of the twelve House groups containing a selection of students from across the five year groups. This helps to encourage all of the different year groups to mix, and certainly helps our new starters to settle into College. Of particular note is our excellent attendance record, which saw Indus pick up the attendance shield for the 2005- 2006 College year.
Continuing with the charity theme, Indus held a joint charity event with Orion House during the summer term, which was called ‘The Tollbar Crossbar Challenge.’ The idea was to try and hit the crossbar with a football from the edge of the box – and around a dozen students managed to achieve this difficult feat. The eventual winner was Oliver Fytche (LY5), who received a Nike leather football as first prize. The event raised £50 in total, and was enjoyed by all who participated or indeed watched from the sidelines. There were also notable contributions from some of our tutees during the music competition this year, with Bryony Webb (IN6) and John Carr-Murrell (IN8) both picking up first place in the violin and piano categories respectively.
The Endeavour Award 2006-7
Each year one student from each House receives ‘The Endeavour Award’, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to TBEC during the College year. After much deliberation, the Indus award for 2006-7 went to Ellis Wood (IN3) who is pictured here receiving her shield from Mr Moore, Assistant Principal for Indus House.
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