House System
Students at the Summer Hill campus are divided into sixteen houses, named after significant facets of the school's history. One of the houses is reserved for boarders (School House), although non-boarders can now be placed into this house to supplement the numbers. Boys are usually put into their family house, the same house as their father or grandfather or brother.
Each year the different houses compete for the House Cup in a variety of activities such as swimming, track and field, touch football, indoor soccer, chess, debating, music, academic, cricket, fitness challenge, dodgeball, tug of war and quad challenge. Through these activities houses are awarded points, and at the completion of the school year the house with the most points wins the Cup. In the case of significant victories, such as winning the Swimming Carnival or Track and Field, each house gives three cheers (in quick succession, clockwise around the Quadrangle) for the victorious house, with the victorious house giving three final cheers for the School. These cheers are led by the House Officers (often aided by Prefects), who typically deliver the three cheers with as much volume as can be mustered. School House is the current house Championship Holder. The senior school is divided into sixteen houses, as follows:
- Archer (Swag Red)
- Dulwich (Sky Blue)
- Founders (Orange)
- Henderson (Gold)
- Hilliard (Purple)
- Holwood (Tan)
- Kerrigan (Lime Green)
- Latham (Black)
- Murphy (Khaki)
- School (Dark Blue)
- Stephenson (Turquoise)
- Taubman (White)
- Weeks (Mid Blue)
- Wilson Hogg (Platinum)
- Wynn Jones (Bishop Pink)
- Young (Maroon)
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