Cumming House
Welcome to the Cumming House web pages
My own aim in overseeing this House is to ensure that, as a place in which to grow and develop, it is safe, stimulating and fun. To that end, I believe in supporting the wide range of activities and opportunities that exist in the School, but also in providing many others at a House level. These may take the form of musical concerts, slide shows, barbecues, plays, expeditions, and inter-House sports. All these help to engender a sense of identity and a sense of belonging to something important, that is also moving forward on its own journey. The boys produce a House newspaper, called The Cumming Times, three times a year and this describes what we do more colourfully.
I live in the Boarding House with my wife, who is a General Practitioner, and our three children. I also teach Chemistry and take cross-country.
Cumming was built in 1939 from Canadian Cedar and was the first house to be built to accommodate pupils. In 1940 the School evacuated to Wales and the army moved into Gordonstoun School. Cumming House was used to assemble large quantities of troops. Sources say that the walls bulged with the great amounts of troops that gathered there. George Kennedy, the school's first resident architect, designed the house. The most striking thing about this house is the slight outward lean of the walls.
Accommodation in Cumming House is warm and welcoming. There are many facilities including access to a computer room, a games room containing a CD system, a pool table, table football and a video player and television. There is also a separate television and tea area. Year 13 students have their own television room also equipped with toast-making facilities and a fridge. There is a laundry room for personal clothes.
Beds in Cumming House are of a comfortable size and are accompanied by shelves, wardrobes and cupboards. Year 9 students share double rooms with raised beds, which have desks underneath. Year 10 students share large double rooms but also have separate studies. Year 11 students have single rooms. Sixth Form students either have a double room to themselves or large single rooms. There is also a magnificent central hall where the House assembles for meetings, plays and concerts, which is also used for reading magazines and newspapers. There is grass around Cumming House to play sports on and the House has its own tennis court.
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