We recognise that day girls and boarders have slightly different needs. We cater for this by the provision of separate houses.
Girls across day and boarding houses and across year groups are integrated through our form system and strong sense of community so that neither group is privileged over the other. We value all those who make up our school community and celebrate its richness and diversity.
House allegiance is an important dynamic within the school, and contributes to many co-curricular activities: lacrosse, swimming, public speaking, drama and music competitions are organised between the houses regardless of day or boarding status. Both types of house experience enrich the life of the school.
Day girls up to and including lower-sixth belong to one of four houses: Venta, Davies, Caer Gwent and Mowbray. All upper sixth-formers belong to Finlay, which is the only joint day and boarding house in school, reflecting the greater freedom and responsibility of the students in their final year.
Unlike a number of boarding schools, we do not expect our day girls to do their homework at school although they may of course do this if they so wish. We recognise that girls may be day girls precisely because they have sporting or musical commitments outside school which necessitate them leaving promptly at the end of the day. However, we encourage all of our day girls to take part in the wide range of activities on offer at school, and most participate in the co-curricular programme on several afternoons during the week, as well playing sports fixtures at the weekend. Girls will never again have so many activities so easily available to them and not taking advantage of them, is, we believe, missing the point of a school like St Swithun’s.
Jo joined St Swithun’s School in 2017 as a drama teacher, and went on to become assistant housemistress for Venta in 2020 and is now excited to become housemistress for Caer Gwent. She enjoys seeing the students in a different capacity and enjoys the house camaraderie from house sport to house drama and the sense of belonging that the house system brings. 
Jen joined St Swithun's in 2020 as a German and Spanish teacher alongside her boarding house role. Jen joined Davies in 2023 and very much enjoys organising and supporting house competitions at the school. 
Hannah started teaching at St Swithun’s in 2010 having previously worked in Oxfordshire and Staffordshire. She is a teacher of mathematics and loves it when the girls have a ‘lightbulb’ moment in her lessons. She enjoys being a form tutor and has worked in the L4 team for the last few years. She also co-ordinates the Young Enterprise scheme and is holding out for Alan Sugar to recognise the sixth form talent!
Hilary started teaching at St Swithun’s in 1998. She is the head of technology and really enjoys seeing the variety of new designs that the girls produce in this department.
Vicky joined St Swithun’s in 2022. She is the deputy registrar and assists the registrar with all things relating to admissions. Vicky wanted to be more involved with the school and she thought that taking on the role of assistant day housemistress would be a wonderful opportunity to enable her to get to know the Venta girls as well as cheer them on in all of their different competitions.
