Sport
The school has four House teams which students represent in sporting events in the school. The Houses take the names of past principals of the school. The house names are, Adey (Red), Macghey (Blue), Morriss (Green), and West (Yellow). Sporting events include the school swimming carnival and sports day.
Adelaide High School has a range of girls and boys sporting teams and offers special interest sporting programmes in Cricket and Rowing. They participate in games throughout the year in the lead up to the main events; for cricket the 5 Highs Cricket Carnival and rowing The annual Head of the river. Other Sporting trips are for the volleyball teams travelling to the Australian Volleyball Schools Cup.
Adelaide High has taken part in a sporting exchange with Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and Melbourne High School since 1910 and it is the longest-running sporting exchange in the state. It is held in early Term 3 and one year the boys are in the Melbourne and the girls are in Adelaide and then the next year they swap. There are competitions in sports such as: Australian Rules football, soccer, tennis, rowing, basketball, netball, softball, chess, debating, theatre sports, volleyball, cross country and lacrosse. Sports previously played against Melbourne were baseball and field hockey.
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—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
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To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)