Burnett House

We very much hope that you will enjoy your time in the house and have a great career at WBS. We also hope that you will play your part in the house activities-both the competitions(Sports, Music, Drama and Chess) and the events that we organise for ourselves!

  After the First World War – The Great War for Peace – the house names at WBS were changed to commemorate four old boys of the school who had given their lives in the Conflict.* Leslie J.C. Burnett had been School Captain in 1915 and may well have been amongst the first pupils to come to the school when it opened in 1908 – boys as young as 8 years old studied at the school in those days.

After leaving school Leslie Burnett signed up for the Army and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was killed on 14th March 1918 aged only 20. We will be remembering him, and the many others who have died in conflict, on Remembrance Day each November.

A house is only successful if its members get involved. During your time at WBS I shall expect you to work hard, and to play hard. Rudyard Kipling, in the famous poem If, talks about “the unforgiving minute” and suggests you fill it with “sixty seconds worth of distance run.” Your time at WBS will fly by, and maybe in four years time you’ll be a house prefect or even captain. But once the time has gone it’ll never be yours again. Make the most of the opportunity before you. Gnaw the bone dry!

M.R.Rutter
Housemaster.

*Another four were added after the Second World War when the school grew in size.

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