Hakluyt's

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Founded as the fourth day house to accommodate expanded numbers, Hakluyt’s occupies a central building in Little Dean’s Yard on the site of the School’s old fives courts. The house is named after Richard Hakluyt, the notable geographer and writer who was a Queen’s Scholar (1564-1570). The name was chosen with an amused eye to pupils’ likely difficulties spelling it correctly, as much as to his undoubted distinction.

Facts and Figures

Housemasters:

Mrs Emma Blakemore (Geography, RSHE & Wellbeing), Mr Chris Kingcombe (Biology, Sciences)

Founded	1987
House Type	Day
Total Pupils	71

Four boys and two girls crouching around a table in Hakluyt's common room, two on a sofa, with lockers and a Christmas tree in the background and making ginger bread houses

A boy and girl on stage in casual clothes having an animated conversation with a chair and a black backdrop behind them

Three girls in blue Hakluyt's house t-shirts standing in a row on Wimbledon Common gesturing the 'winner' sign with their hands and smiling, with trees behind them

One boy standing smiling in a field next to a black hairy cow who is lying down

Two girls in blue Hakluyt's house t-shirts walking arm in arm across the netball court, taken from behind

One boy smiling at the camera while doing the washing up in a kitchen

Two girls in uniform in Hakluyt's common room sat smiling with their ginger bread roof in front of them

"Hakluyt’s is ideally situated in the heart of the School, just through Liddell’s Arch, meaning it is easy to get to and close to all the action while remaining a calm and friendly space. We have great facilities, including a kitchenette, table football tables and a particularly nice pool table and comfortably boast the best collection of house plants in SW1. We are spread over three floors with pupils working their way up as they move through the School, with some sharing of rooms between year groups to aid vertical integration. Hakluytians are encouraged to be kind, to volunteer, to try new things and to be committed. We enjoy house events such as pizza evenings, our annual house concert, gingerbread house decorating and pool competitions. Our teams for house competitions always have a smile on their face and we have had notable recent success in Athletics, winning the Tim Woods Trophy for combined success in the three running events through the year. We are the only house to currently have joint housemasters who share responsibility for the house with specific responsibility for different cohorts in a system that retains the continuity of one housemaster through the pupil’s time at the school."

— CHRIS KINGCOMBE, HAKLUYT'S HOUSEMASTER

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