Houses
As with most Australian schools, Sydney Girls High utilises a house system. Students are allocated to a house when they enter the school according to surname. There are four different houses in which students compete under for the Swimming, Athletics and Cross Country Carnivals:
- Campbell (red)
- Garvin (blue)
- Macquarie (green)
- Moore (yellow)
With the exception of Macquarie, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie, all of the houses are named after former Principals of the school: Florence Campbell, Helena Moore and Lucy Arbella Stocks Garvin. The houses are created by sorting students in year 7. Alternatively, students who have family members who were pupils or former pupils of the school may elect to change houses to the same house.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“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)
“Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.