House System
All students are assigned to a house. All members of one family are part of that house. The House System acts as the focus for families, sport and student leadership in the Middle and Senior Schools. In the Junior School the houses support sporting, cultural and co-curricular activities and its students compete in their classes earning points for their house in the annual Junior School Sports Day. In the Middle and Senior Schools these houses compete against each other in the annual Swimming and Athletic Carnivals. The houses are as follows:
- Reynell (Red)
- McLaren (Yellow)
- Morphett (Blue)
- Hardy (Green)
The names of the four houses originated from famous influences and areas situated near or around the college:
- Reynell: John Reynell (Reynella)
- McLaren: David McLaren (McLaren Vale)
- Morphett: John Morphett (Morphett Vale)
- Hardy: Hardy Wine Company
Read more about this topic: Woodcroft College
Famous quotes containing the words house and/or system:
“A pilgrim I on earth perplext,
with sinns, with cares and sorrows vext,
By age and paines brought to decay,
and my Clay house mouldring away,
Oh how I long to be at rest
and soare on high among the blest!”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)