House System
As is common in Australian secondary schools, students at Good Counsel College are grouped into 4 separate houses. These houses are usually important during interhouse sporting carnivals but are also commonly used to group students at assemblies and especially during mass transport to event destinations. Each house has an elected male and female captain, who are responsible for aspects of school carnival preparation.
At Good Counsel College it is seen as tradition for members of the same family to be in the same house.
The 4 houses are based on prominent Catholic figureheads.
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