Roan Playing Fields are located approximately two miles (3 km) to the south, in Kidbrooke Park Road, west of Sutcliffe Park. Motto and house teams The school's motto is "With honour and hard work" (). The John Roan had four house teams, named after people of historic significance: Seacole, Da Vinci, Darwin and Stopes, named after Mary Seacole, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Marie Stopes. Two tutor groups per year were in the same house team. There were also house leaders and competitions amongst the four houses. The house system was scrapped in September 2017, and the colour ties now correspond to year group. In the 1950s and 1960s, the houses were named after four British naval or military figures, all connected with Greenwich, viz. Drake (house colour: green), Nelson (red), Rodney (Blue) and Wolfe (yellow). In his ‘History of the Roan School and its Founder’ [1929] Mr J W Kirby lists eight houses: School House, Drake, Collingwood, Grenville, Nelson, Raleigh, Rodney, Wolfe. Notable former pupils See also :Category:People educated at the John Roan School. Ebou Adams, professional footballer at Forest Green Rovers Asad Ahmad, London BBC news presenter Dave Berry, former MTV presenter Marc Bola, professional footballer at Middlesbrough Eberechi Eze, professional footballer at Crystal Palace David Hillier, former Arsenal footballer Ivan Thomas - cricketer Roan Boys' Grammar School Rt Rev Ralph Dean, Archbishop of Cariboo from 1971–73 (Bishop from 1957) Harry Denford (born 1968), comedian, playwright and actor Sir Jack Drummond, biochemist who separated Vitamin A, and declared the chemicals that are now known as Vitamins A, B & C, and was murdered in France in 1952 Norman Haggett (1926-2018), RAF officer, member of the RAF Falcons display team and first-class cricketer Peter Guy Ottewill, RAF pilot awarded George Medal for bravery Hugh Phillips, orthopaedic surgeon and President from 2004–5 of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of the British Orthopaedic Association from 1999–2000 John Regis, athlete Rt Rev Gavin Hunter Reid, Bishop of Maidstone from 1992–2001 Ian Rickson, Artistic Director, Royal Court Theatre, London 1998–2006. Inter alia directed Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem(2009) Steve Rider, TV sports presenter Dr Alfred Salter (1873–1945), Member of Parliament for Bermondsey West Arthur Smith, comedian Richard Smith CBE, Chief Executive from 2004–9 of UnitedHealth Europe, Editor from 1991–2004 of the BMJ, and former TV doctor for BBC Breakfast from 1983–7, and brother of Arthur Smith Prof Anthony Trewavas, Professor of