Houses
The Students are divided into 4 (primary) or 8 (secondary) houses, each named after a notable Australian Person:
- Primary
- Freeman: Named after the Olympian Cathy Freeman. Colour Silver
- Milton: Named after the Paralympic skier Michael Milton. Colour White
- Rafter: Named after the Tennis Player Patrick Rafter. Colour Navy
- Thomas: Named after the Swimmer Patria Thomas. Colour Jade
- Secondary
- Bradman: Named after the Cricketer Sir Donald Bradman. Colour Navy. Mascot: Bat
- Chisholm: Named after the Humanitarian Caroline Chisholm. Colour White. Mascot: Shark
- Helpmann: Named after the Dancer Sir Robert Helpmann. Colour Gold. Mascot: Tiger
- Mawson: Named after the Explorer Douglas Mawson. Colour Silver. Mascot:
- McCubbin: Named after the Artist Frederick McCubbin. Colour Maroon. Mascot: Koala
- Oliphant: Named after the Physicist Mark Oliphant. Colour Red. Mascot:
- Sutherland: Named after the Opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland. Colour Aqua. Mascot:
- Thiele: Named after the Author Colin Thiele. Colour Jade. Mascot: Turtle
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
—Russell Lynes (1910–1991)
“Hast ever ben in Omaha
Where rolls the dark Missouri down,
Where four strong horses scarce can draw
An empty wagon through the town?
Where sand is blown from every mound
To fill your eyes and ears and throat;
Where all the steamboats are aground,
And all the houses are afloat?...
If not, take heed to what I say,
You’ll find it just as I have found it;
And if it lies upon your way
For God’s sake, reader, go around it!”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)