House System
At the beginning of Year 7, all Penrith students are placed in one of the following four houses, usually on the basis of their last name:
| House | Colour |
|---|---|
| Blaxland | |
| Lawson | |
| Mitchell | |
| Wentworth |
Every year three sporting carnivals are held in which students compete to earn their house points. A winner of each carnival and of the overall house championship is announced each year.
Additionally, the houses are used to form the basis of roll call, which students attend every morning for up to 20 minutes. Each house consists of 8 roll calls, each with approximately 25 students.
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Famous quotes containing the words house and/or system:
“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell’s house and Cromwell’s murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people’s own failure as individuals.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)