Houses
As with most Australian schools, Canberra Grammar utilises a house system. The Senior School currently has nine houses:
| House | Colour | Mascot |
|---|---|---|
| Burgmann | Gold | Lion Rampant |
| Manaro(boarding) | Red | Dragon |
| Garran | Purple | Bull |
| Garnsey | Sky Blue | Dove with Olive Branch |
| Eddison | Navy Blue | Eagle |
| Hay | Black | Cod |
| Sheaffe | White | Pegasus |
| Edwards | Maroon | Kookaburra |
Also two year seven houses:
| House | Mascot |
|---|---|
| Clements | Agnus Dei (Lamb) |
| Burgess | Kangaroo |
The two Boarding houses are smaller than the day boy houses, to allow for more one on one pastoral care, during school sporting events they combine to form Monaro house to remain competitive with the larger day boy houses.
In the Junior School, there are four houses.
| House | Colour |
|---|---|
| Edwards | Green |
| Radford | Red |
| Garnsey | Blue |
| CJ Shakespeare | Gold |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)