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:
“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)
“The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)