centre for deaf or hard of hearing students throughout the Dudley Metropolitan Borough. The House System The House System is now fully implemented having been introduced to students in a series of assemblies in July 2009. Each house consists of at least one class from each year group. After students and staff had voted which list of names they liked best as a title for each house the system with the greatest number of votes was Famous Ship Names. There is a member of staff who has pastoral responsibilities for each House. This management structure replaced the Head of Year system where a member of staff dealt with issues that arose from students who belonged to a particular year group. This new method of grouping students in this vertically integrated way will have a number of benefits for students and it is envisaged that it will result in the smoother running of Crestwood. Each house is now identified by a different colour. This colour is integrated into the school badge that is worn on a blazer. The school is very grateful to Totally Uniformed who have helped us to finance this change. The result is that current students have been given a new house badge to replace the old one that they had. The first time the house system was incorporated into the life of Crestwood was for Sports Day on Tuesday 14 July 2009 The school badge had been changed due to The House system being introduced, with the rim of the badge being the colour of the house they are in. The colours and names for each house used to be: Invincible (Orange), Discovery (Blue), Endeavour (Green), Victory (Red), and Warrior (Yellow), but these have now changed to: Fire (Red) Ice (Blue) Earth (Green) Air (Yellow) See also Crestwood School, Eastleigh, Hampshire References External links School website Edubase Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley Educational institutions established in 1959 Academies in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley 1959 establishments in England