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:
“There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and
its crumbling, leafy terraces.
There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue.
There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting flies”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)