Houses
As with other schools, Brighton SC has student houses. At Brighton SC, each of the houses is named in honour of a famous ship captain.
Each house is headed by a teacher, A House Captain, House Vice Captain, Junior House Captain and a Junior House Vice Captain. For Chorals a 'Cultural' captain is nominated to head each house as a conductor for the Chorals competition.
Students are split into four different houses, also represented by a colour:
- Lonsdale (Yellow)
- Phillip (Green), after Captain Arthur Phillip, head of the First Fleet.
- Murray (Red)
- Grant (Purple)
Note: In 2004, a fifth house, Peter (Blue), emerged to compete at the annual swimming sports. Peter never became a formal institution of the school and once more fell into obscurity.
Throughout the year some key events such as:
- Chorals - House choir event
- Swimming - House swimming competition
- Athletics - House athletics competition
- Cross Country
Tournament of the Minds, and Debating were formerly House competitions, but in recent years have not been undertaken.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palaces built upon the sand.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)