Sibford School has four Houses. All students and staff are assigned into one of the houses.
FRY
Elizabeth Fry was born on the 21st of May 1780. She was a philanthropist who helped to improve the conditions of prisons so that prisoners could live good, healthy lives. She thought that prisoners should be treated like any other person. Prisoners called her the Angel of Prisons.
Elizabeth Fry also helped to establish the modern-day ambulance service using a horse and cart. Elizabeth Fry died on the 12th of October 1845 at the age of 65.
To Quakers, she is a symbol of equality and respect for others.
CLARK
Cyrus Clark was born on the 8th of December 1809 in Colorado USA. At the age of 16 he started his own business called Clarks in 1825 . He sold hand-made rugs and sandals for the first 3 years of the company before inventing the slipper. It was an immediate success. Clark decided to donate his profit to charity. He knew that the poor needed the money more than he did. Still to this day, Clarks shoes is a very popular brand all over the world. Cyrus Clark died on the 28th of July 1880 at the age of 71.
He is a symbol of generosity to Quakers.
NANSEN
Fridtof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, born in 1861. He is well known for being the first person to cross Greenland's ice caps from 1888 to 1889. He also won a Noble Peace Prize in 1922 for being the 1st high Commissioner of Refugees by the League of Nations.
After the First World War, he was in charge of 400,000 war prisoners from Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Fidtjof Nansen died on the 13th of May 1930 at the age of 69.
He is a symbol of living adventurously.
GILLETT
Martha Gillet was born in Banbury 1823. Her husband was a Quaker Minister, which inspired her to become a Quaker. She started out by helping sick and homeless in the west Oxfordshire area before building her own Quaker meeting room a few miles from modern day Adderbury.
In 1840 she became one of the founders of Sibford School, which opened 2 years later. Martha Gillet died in 1895 at the age of 72.
To Quakers she is a symbol of community.
