Cygnus House

House Colour: Kingfisher Blue

Named after the Constellation of Cygnus

Cygnus the Swan

"Together Everyone Achieves More"

Cygnus straddles the northern Milky Way and is sometimes called the Northern Cross. One story claims that Cygnus is Orpheus, the hero of Thrace, who sang and played his lyre so beautifully that wild animals and trees would come and hear him play.

Orpheus was transported to the skies as a swan so that he could be near his lyre.

The new Cygnus logo shows a number of people working together as a team, making up the image of the Cygnus Swan, emphasising our motto "Together everyone achieves more".

House Council

In Cygnus, we think it is important to take into account the views of all our students. So we hold regular House Council meetings to discuss any issues affecting our day to day lives. Each form has at least 1 representative who is there to put forward the particular concerns of the students. These are discussed at length and the most pressing make it forward to the full College Council meeting for further consideration. This process has resulted in an updated College uniform, more benches to sit on in the playground and separate upper and lower school toilet facilities along with the hard play area and basketball courts for use before College and at break and lunch.

The new Cygnus House Council for 2011/2012

The Cygnus Prefects for 2011/2012

Inter House Competitions

Cygnus students are very proud to be a part of Cygnus House and enjoy taking part in the Inter House competitions and charity events that we organise during the year.

We are always exceptionally well represented and those students who do take part really enjoy representing their House.

The competitions are chosen to appeal to different strengths. These could be musical, sporting or academic.

The charity events are always well supported and we managed to raise over £2700 in Cygnus alone with the stars being CY2 who raised £422.

We were also successful in the sporting competitions this year. We won the badminton and came second in Basketball, Netball, Rounders and the biggest event of the year, Sports Day.

The other Inter House events in which we secured first place were Music, Quiz, Science, Citizenship, Charity Walk and the Resources Cup. There were 25 competitions this year and it was a very close fought battle, going right down to the last competition, but the mighty Cygnus managed to retain the overall championship trophy by just 1 point with a total of 101 points. Our target for next year is to hang onto it again.

Well done to the Cygnus teams who all did so well this year.

Sports Captains

Every year two talented sporting Students from each house our chosen as "Sports Captains" who help in the organising of teams prior to and during the inter house sporting competitions.

The Cygnus Sports Captains for 2011/2012 are

George Colvin CY7

Taylor Cuthbertson CY8