Welcome to Corfe House
On behalf of our House community, welcome to the Corfe House wha¯nau. I look forward to meeting you all over the next few months and making 2025 a memorable year. This booklet will answer any questions you may have about the House system at College and Corfe House in particular.
The History of Corfe House The current Corfe House began in the building which is now known as Selwyn. That building was originally a Master’s house, then it accommodated Condell’s House. With the increase in dayboy numbers in the 1960s, the residential part of the House became the fourth dayboy House, Corfe, and upstairs was turned into a biology laboratory and a classroom. The name Corfe had earlier been associated with a House within the College. In the 1870s, those boys who had boarded with the Headmaster, Charles Carteret Corfe, had, in the tradition of the time, taken on the name of their Housemaster. Corfe House has taken the tui or parson bird’s head as its symbol. This forms the crest of the College coat of arms, and the white tuft with almost black plumage reflects College’s colours – black and white. In 2002, Corfe moved across Rolleston Avenue to the new dayboy Houses in Gloucester Street. The building in which it was once housed was renamed Selwyn after George Augustus Selwyn, the First Warden of Christ’s College and the only Anglican Bishop of the whole of New Zealand. The House motto is Rem Bene , translating to Do it Well .
Located in Gloucester Street, Corfe House has good facilities for study and recreation. All boys are encouraged to embrace the opportunities and challenges of everyday College life. We continue to develop and maintain a safe, structured, and stable environment that enables boys to be caring young people of character, able to pursue their unique talents. Parents are encouraged to attend College and House events. You can access the school calendar at www.christscollege.com. If you have any questions, we can discuss these when I meet you. Please contact me if there is anything I can help you with between now and the start of the of the new school year. – Arthur Wood, Housemaster
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