Hart House

Hart House
Sedbergh School
Sedbergh
LA10 5SA
Tel: +44 (0)1539 244030

Housemaster: Mr I D Winterbottom (hsmhart@sedberghschool.org)

Deputy Housemaster: Mr A Toward

Assistant Housemistress: Miss E Morgan

Resident House Tutor: Mr M Morgan

House Tutors: Mrs L J Elliston, Mr P Mather, Mr R J Parker, Mrs A B Stubbs

Emblem: The Jay

Colours: Green

HART HOUSE - BRIEF HISTORY

Hart House was the third of the specially planned and purpose-built boarding houses and it was completed in 1890. Hart is named after Henry George Hart, the Headmaster of Sedbergh between 1880 and 1900 and the first Housemaster was Bernard Tower who moved into Hart during the summer of 1890 bringing with him 30 boys from what is now Lupton where he had been Housemaster. One of the other former Housemasters was A.J. Fowler, brother of the famous Henry Watson Fowler (also a member of School staff at one time), who helped the latter with his compilation of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The House magazine and Emblem, The Jay, gets its name from A.J. Fowler.

ETHOS AND VISION

Hart House has a set of four key aims:

To provide an environment in which all boys feel safe, happy and valued.
To provide an environment in which boys can achieve their full academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular potential.
To provide an environment in which boys are encouraged to pursue their interests and fulfil their potential on all fronts whilst feeling empowered to try something new.
To provide an environment from which boys leave feeling confident to face the challenges that lie ahead in their immediate and long-term future.

In reaching these aims, the House runs on principles that; effort leads to results, kindness and respect are fundamental values of boarding and all of this is built upon a foundation of known routines and structures. A happy, hard working and proud House. Floreat Hartonia!