Life in Your House St. Thomas’ House is a boarding and day house for boys ages 13-18. It is a striking country house that has been converted into a boarding house by the addition of a modern extension. The house is located on the edge of the school site on the road from the school to the village of Oswaldkirk. St. Thomas’ is blessed with the best view on the site where we sit high on a hill overlooking the Vale of Pickering. The view when the sun rises early in the morning is idyllic, particularly when it shines through the morning clouds to light up the Basil Hume Millennium Cross which is in front of our house.
St. Thomas’ has a reputation of being a house with many talents across a wide spectrum of activities and interests. This has resulted in us having a rich cultural house with boys having each of their unique abilities appreciated by all. Life in the House is underpinned by the Catholic and Benedictine ethos of the school and serves to support the spiritual, moral and intellectual development of students as set out in the school’s mission statement. The Rule of St Benedict has provided the inspiration for many schools over the centuries and at Ampleforth we aim to share in that same tradition of, ‘establishing a school for the Lord’s Service’. (RSB Pro45)
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