We feel the children benefit from being members of mixed-age school teams. It helps develop opportunities for year groups to work together, encourages children to support each other, gives them a strong sense of responsibility and belonging and provides them with a range of additional activities to take part in.

There are four houses with balanced numbers of boys and girls and numbers from each year group. Family members are in the same house. Children are not moved into another house unless there are exceptional circumstances. Our houses are named after stately homes around Derbyshire;  Chatsworth House, Kedleston House, Hardwick Hall and Calke Abbey. 

The  house point system is used in school daily. Pupils can earn house points for hard work, effort, and a positive attitude to learning. It is also used on Sports Day.

House points are recorded on a chart in the school hall at the end of each week. At the end of each school year, the pupils from the overall winning house will get to visit their house.