Sporting Houses
The 'houses' divide students of the school into four different groups which compete against each other during the college's many sport events and (in the past) other co-curricular contests such as debating, performing arts and music. The yearly sporting events include an Athletics Carnival, where students compete in many track and field events, a Swimming Carnival, where students compete in swimming races and the Easter Road Race, a race relay run at Brookvale Oval where each house has a representative from each year. The school aims to honour Augustinian heritage and history within its customs and traditions; and all houses are named after former Augustinian Bishops of Australia:
- Murray (red), named after James Murray, former Bishop of Cooktown, 1898-1914.
- Goold (blue), named after James Alipius Goold, first Bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne, 1848-188
- Crane (green), named after Martin Crane, first Bishop of Sandhurst,1874-1901.
- Reville (yellow), named after Stephen Reville, second Bishop of Sandhurst,1901- 1916.
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Famous quotes containing the words sporting and/or houses:
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)