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Illinois Nazi said:
What Primary School were you at? I was at City Beach Primary late 70s/early 80s
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Wembley, we basically all went to City Beach high school from there unless your parents were rich enough to afford private schools.

It's funny looking back on it, the City Beach kids used to look down on Floreat or Wembley kids as povo plebs when it was all quite a rich area.
 
Plugger35 said:
Wembley, we basically all went to City Beach high school from there unless your parents were rich enough to afford private schools.

It's funny looking back on it, the City Beach kids used to look down on Floreat or Wembley kids as povo plebs when it was all quite a rich area.
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I see there's a grand plan to put a new high school in City Beach now.
 
I was green in primary school. It was called Sports Day and we never won either but we were level with blue (who won 5 years while I was in PS) going into the end of day team relay in year 7 but of course we choked big time and came last in the relay and lost the whole day :(. In PS they were literally just named after the colours so there was Green, Red, Blue and Yellow no fancy names and you divided up based on your birthdate.

I moved to WA for highschool and the houses were named after star signs so there was Pisces (me), Taurus, Scorpio and Leo. We had two carnivals a year Summer Carnival and Spring Carnival and they were random sports with no athletics at all, so the summer one had sports like tennis, lawn bowls, cricket, badminton and squash and the spring carnival had sports like hockey, soccer, netball, footy and basketball. I think our house won two or three carnivals while I was the winner of tennis in year 8 and lawn bowls in year 12. ;)
Never at either of the schools I went to was there a swimming carnival though.
 

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Illinois Nazi said:
I see there's a grand plan to put a new high school in City Beach now.
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Yeah they shut down City Beach high school and Swanbourne high school because they were too small.

So there is now a massive lack of public schools in the area, just because it's a rich area it doesn't mean every kid there goes to private schools.

When I was at City Beach we had a quite a few guys there that had families that were rich enough to send them to private schools but they didn't want to go there and wanted to go to a public high school where they could mix with girls.

That's the problem with going to all boy private schools, you might get a better education but you end up socially backwards as you aren't around girls.

I know quite a lot of guys from private schools and they are mostly socially backwards D/Hs that still hang around with their private school boy crew.
 
We had 4 factions while I was at high school and a further 2 were brought in after I left which was pretty stupid.

Red (roebourne)
Yellow (sandleford)
Blue (durham)
Green (kelmscott)

I have no clue what the new ones are.

Roebourne used to cash in on the cross countries, while kelmscott were the athletics kings and it was normally a toss up for the swimming carnivals.
 
I was in Red. Won it every year. #unbeatable
 
Blue in primary school. We won for about my first 5 years (it was about an 8 year win streak) before Red won in my last 2. Gold would get close but never win while Green were just atrocious.

In high school I was in red (Omega) and we dominated everything.
 
Plugger35 said:
Yeah they shut down City Beach high school and Swanbourne high school because they were too small.

So there is now a massive lack of public schools in the area, just because it's a rich area it doesn't mean every kid there goes to private schools.

When I was at City Beach we had a quite a few guys there that had families that were rich enough to send them to private schools but they didn't want to go there and wanted to go to a public high school where they could mix with girls.

That's the problem with going to all boy private schools, you might get a better education but you end up socially backwards as you aren't around girls.

I know quite a lot of guys from private schools and they are mostly socially backwards D/Hs that still hang around with their private school boy crew.
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Yep, I went to Swanny High myself.
 
We had four houses up until about I was in year 3, was in Green. We were pretty awful (Seems to be the trend with green based on what I've read) but had fun hoping that one day we'd be good enough to win the egg and spoon race. Then the sad day came where our house was disbanded because our school didn't have enough students and the remnants were split across the other houses. Was put in Blue where we won a couple of swimming and athletics carnivals. But more importantly, my primary school athletics carnival dreams came true where we finally got to win the egg and spoon race. Good times.

As for high school I don't remember what house I was in nor did I particularly care. Angsty teenager and all that.
 
I remember being in the interschool carnival one year as a backup tunnel ball. Back up javelin. Back up 4x100m runner. Back up 100m runner. Back up 800m runner. Back up 400m runner Literally didnt get to participate in anything in like year 4. Actually cried because i didnt get picked for anything when off and remember my dad ripping the teacher who organised it a new one for having to pay fees ect To sit on the bleachers all day being the back up from everything of the individual races to the team sports. Got a big apology from the teacher. Hes probably still a campaigner. I did do swimming in high school. Once however i discovered alcohol and my lack of willingness to wake up at 6am to swim for 2 hours on tuesday my career went downhill.
 
My house colour was the Hawks without the pee.
 

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I was Red. We were shit from years 1 to 4 but dominate with a hattrick from year 5 to 7.

Yellow was the powerhouse in the early years but didn't get a hattrick during my time.

Not sure if we had a father-son rule but we did have a sibling-sibling rule. Part of our later dominance came from having a lot of younger siblings (of former students) who were pretty good.

My year we dominate swimming every time. Year we got the top 4 (including myself - I was actually a good swimmer back then because my sister had frequent colds and our mother made us swim a lot) for the boys in every stroke.
But later some random immigrant campaigner came in and joined green and we had to settle for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. We still wrecked his shit in the relay though
And then they made some stupid qualifying rule where only the top two from each faction could get into the first division and the others had to be in second division.
So we got 2 and 3 in first division and a massively dominant 1st and 2nd in the second divy

In high school attending the swimming and athletics carnival had compulsory attendance in year 8 but there was no need to compete.
Nobody bothered after that unless they thought they might make the school representative team
 
Blue in lower primary
Gold in upper primary (changed school)
High school didn't have a house system

Now I am in red as a teacher.
 
Yellow was always shit. Always.

Blue was dominant for a while, and green. Red was always respectable.

All primary school I was in blue, then first year of High School I was blue as well, and after that got swapped to red for the rest of high school.

Like some other schools our Primary school had names for each colour, Green was Hindmarsh, Blue was Flinders, Red was Stuart, and Yellow was Light. High School just stuck with colours.

Never had swimming carnivals though, only athletics.
 
My main primary school had the 'houses' named after greek gods - Thor, Agena and two others which i cant remember.
 
Red all my life. We were always pretty consistent, don't think we were ever 4th, usually 1st or 2nd. Green were rubbish in Primary school (I think they were the smallest by a way though); Gold were pretty dominant in athletics because of 3 or 4 gun kids. We were the best at swimming though. Won the year 6 carnival by a shitload because all the year 6s in Red (me included) did swim club for the town.

High school was largely similar, though Gold were the shit one. Won in my last 2 years for swimming carnival, and maybe athletics too. We had a good setup with two carnivals for swimming. We had a serious swimming carnival, where the kids who gave a shit about competing went and swam properly at the 50m pool in town and another one at the school pool where everyone could just go mad. Swimming carnivals had an awesome atmosphere, with everyone packed around a 25m pool. Athletics was kinda shit in comparison. Everyone was so spread out on the ovals, at the sprints/the high jump/the shot put etc.
 
I can barely remember our actual names. I think we had a Lockyer and Michaelmas but the only time I saw them was on some old banners that looked like they were made in 1987.

Sibling-sibling rule was really good. My sister was champion girl most years. Pretty bad swimmer but I don't think she ever lost a race, long or short distance. She was always taller than the teachers too. I was always pretty jealous – I was pretty consistently average, finishing like fifth and sixth for races after I peaked in about year two. But I remember gold used to come one-two-three in swimming – me, this pansy who had a mum who made him wear mouthguards for soccer, and this knob called Martin who tried changing his name to "Micky" (as in Michael Owen). We used to alternate who finished where. I'm pretty sure they used to wear cockjocks and the teachers tried getting me to do the old 6am training and budgie smugglers... no thanks.
 

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I was in red in primary school until the end of grade 4. Then green in a 5-12 school.

Won most things.


When my daughter went to a private school with an extremely strong "house" system, she said she was really disappointed to think she had been assigned to Gryfindor, only to later realize she was in Huffelpuff.
 
We had our names after plants/trees for some reason but I was in the Gold equivalent team. I would tell you all about but honestly.. I don't remember a single thing from primary school.
 
Green for me, and yes Blue were usually dominant. Though, we had our golden patches at times. Faction names were Banksia (green), Jarrah (red), Tuart (blue) and Wattle (yellow).
 

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