Pupils' lives at Eastbourne are centred on their houses. Here boys and girls find themselves part of a house community. It is in their houses that pupils, both boarding and day, will make their closest friends, will receive the unstinting support of a housemaster or housemistress and will naturally gravitate between classes, meals, activities, recreational arts, sport, town leave and other social events. Each house has features that are common to all houses but equally each house has its own individual atmosphere.