Our Houses

Beverley Grammar School traditionally had a four House system; this was changed to a five house system in the 1990s.

Each House has a colour and students who accumulate enough house points are awarded their house tie in one of our celebration assemblies:

  • Burden – Gold
  • Conington – Light Blue
  • Fisher – Dark Blue 
  • Minster – Red
  • School – Green

The Beverley Grammar School Values Tie was introduced in 2023. This tie incorporates the colours of all of the houses and is awarded to  students who have demonstrated our values to an exceptional level.

Named after Henry Burden, headteacher from 1912 to 1935. He created the modern school and is credited with saving the school from terminal decline.

Named after John Conington who was an English classical Scholar. He was educated at Beverley Grammar and went to Oxford University, where he became a fellow and recognised as a most renowned scholar.

Named after the martyr John Fisher who became Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University. John Fisher’s opposition to King Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon meant that he was charged with treason and beheaded.

Named after Beverley Minster in order to commemorate the founding of the school in 700 AD by St John of Beverley

Named after the original school which started inside the Minster and then was moved to a building in the Minster grounds. It later moved to a site in a larger building in Keldgate. In the early 1900s it moved to our present site and was in the building that is now the Art Block.