The Houses
Trew Yr 7-8

Trew House is home to approximately 32 boarders and 70 day girls in Years 7 and 8. As the Junior House, we are a bustling, thriving and warm community with our very own characteristics. Each girl is attached to, and has close links with her future Middle School House, competing for them in the many House competitions and donating House points.

Trew retains and continues to develop its own individuality and we have an ever growing number of annual events unique to the House, which change according to the personalities and abilities of the girls. At weekends, we may join in with the Middle School outings but frequently run our own excursions, tailored to the needs of those staying in. One night stays by day girls are very popular in Trew and we rarely have an empty bed!

Val Castle is a trained Junior and Middle School teacher with plenty of experience in both state and private schools, mixed and single sex.  She has spent the past 11 years in the boarding environment and has been Housemistress of Trew since 2000.

Val has a son, George, currently an Organ Scholar reading Music at Oxford, and she herself is an enthusiastic music lover, as well as being a keen swimmer, runner and avid reader - given a spare moment of course!