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I went to school in the Blue Mountains. We had Blaxland Wentworth and Lawson' the three explorers to cross the mountains. We also had Evans, who was the man sent to confirm their findings.
 
Green house in primary school

Red house in high school but it had some other fancy pants name other than red.... same with the other colours. Both primary and high school were red, green, blue, yellow.

In primary school I had a few showdowns with someone the first few years as we were the fastest runners for our grade..... I always came second :thumbsdown:. I don't remember too many of the other events, I stopped running and focused on other things (was still playing footy and did well as a full back or back pocket player - unstoppable!), would always go for high jump, shotput and discus. Not "house" based but when we did the inter school sports one year I entered the shotput just to hang out with others that had also entered. Didn't take it seriously, threw it and didn't stick around for the result...... they had to find me to give me the 1st place ribbon :D.

We did a cross country run with other primary schools. We tried to stay together as a group... didn't go so welll with varying degrees of fitness among us all. I did ok to keep up with everyone, except when part of the course was done on uneven ground leading me to twist my ankle. I limply walked the rest of the course.... my primary school was going to take off on the bus without me at one stage :eek:. As I walked around the final part of the course to the finish line I got ripped into a beauty, everyone giving me hell for taking so long.

Never participated in the swimming events (chlorine and public pools didn't mix well with my skin).

High school it was not taken very seriously by most people, my group relied on me to bring the Sherrin so we could kick the ball around while the races and other events were happening.
 
Best thing was the 'war cries' teams had... My team, Devonshire, was as follows:

We are the team of the Green triangle
Every team we meet we mangle
D-E-V-O-N-S-H-I-R-E
Devonshire!
Who's gonna win?
Devonshire!
Who's the best?
Devonshire!


Also, our red team was called Dunks, which led to the 4th square in handball being known as dunks rather than the internationally accepted Dunce. Never had any idea we had it wrong until years after primary school finished!
 

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Cole Dammett said:
Best thing was the 'war cries' teams had... My team, Devonshire, was as follows:

We are the team of the Green triangle
Every team we meet we mangle
D-E-V-O-N-S-H-I-R-E
Devonshire!
Who's gonna win?
Devonshire!
Who's the best?
Devonshire!


Also, our red team was called Dunks, which led to the 4th square in handball being known as dunks rather than the internationally accepted Dunce. Never had any idea we had it wrong until years after primary school finished!
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My primary school tried to be all classy and go with Greek mythological characters representing factions. Not classy enough to realise Thor wasn't Greek though. FWIW had the same chants. Great nostalgia blast, good work Silent Alarm.

I remember how daunting the "cross country" runs were (the final event), around the entire school+ the "big" oval twice. Wouldn't even be considered an adequate warm-up for any self-respecting amateur sporting club.
 
I was in blue faction in primary school and was actually pretty good. Won champion girl one year and runner up every other. The other chick who dominated did Little Athletics and always placed at the Interschool Carnivals. We had these two brothers in blue faction who were ****ing guns. The younger brother could easily compete with his older brother's age group and still dominate everyone. Because of them, blue won every single year I was there. Loved sports carnival day. My best events were the long jump, triple jump and the 100m sprint, wasn't much of a long distance runner. Great nostalgia thinking about games like tunnelball, leaderball, passball and all the relays.
 
Cole Dammett said:
Best thing was the 'war cries' teams had... My team, Devonshire, was as follows:

We are the team of the Green triangle
Every team we meet we mangle
D-E-V-O-N-S-H-I-R-E
Devonshire!
Who's gonna win?
Devonshire!
Who's the best?
Devonshire!
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Ours was.

Alligators , crocodiles, mincemeat pies.
We are top dogs scoring high.
Great we are. Great are we.
Wentworth Wentworth you shall see.
 
Do you think maybe all primary school we were lied to, and that athletics days, sports days and swimming carnival winning teams were actually pre determined to allow every team to win 1 in 4 carnivals?
 
Cole Dammett said:
Do you think maybe all primary school we were lied to, and that athletics days, sports days and swimming carnival winning teams were actually pre determined to allow every team to win 1 in 4 carnivals?
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Nope. Gold and Green never won at mine and blue went on about an 8 year winning streak.
 
Cole Dammett said:
Do you think maybe all primary school we were lied to, and that athletics days, sports days and swimming carnival winning teams were actually pre determined to allow every team to win 1 in 4 carnivals?
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Given that at my primary school, Blue (My house :cool:) had won 13/21 or something and White had won 0/21, I doubt it.
 
gaskin said:
Nope. Gold and Green never won at mine and blue went on about an 8 year winning streak.
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Van_Dyke said:
Given that at my primary school, Blue (My house :cool:) had won 13/21 or something and White had won 0/21, I doubt it.
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Fair enough! I can't really remember any huge winning streaks at my school so today I came up with the theory it could of all been a scam!
 
Green faction all the way through Primary School (Doubleview PS). Absolutely awful at athletics but we dominated swimming.

We also had this fantastic arrangement where the last two hours every Friday afternoon, the upper-school kids (Years 5-7) at the time all cleared out and played inter-faction sport - footy for the boys, netball for the girls. In hindsight, not sure how the education department let them get away with it as we used to hit each other pretty hard.

High school had "guilds" named after well-known Catholic figures, but you kind of stopped giving a shit at that point anyway.
 
In Primary School we had 3 houses at both my primary schools I attended. The first all had flower names, Banksia (RED), Wattle (YELLOW) or Blue Gum (Captain Obvious). Us Blue Gummers were well behind on the track generally speaking, but were more than a match for anyone in the water. The second have since changed their house names to reflect more modern names (not than any of these were offensive), but when I was there the houses were Redbacks (wild guess what colour they were), Jaguars (Orange) and Ozzies (named after the Ostrich, and had the Yellow colour). It was so competitive the year I went to that Primary School, Redbacks and Ozzies TIED for the title, a mere 7 POINTS ahead of my Jaguars (and we had a 13 year old in the house that didnt turn up that day, he would have scored maximum points by default!).


As for High School, the only carnival worth going to for many at the third HS I attended (Houses were Archer, loosely nicknamed Pegasus and wore RED, Berserker Warriors in BLUE, Fitzroy Falcons in GREEN, and my Keppel Cobras in YELLOW) was the Cross-Country, as it was held at the beach on the last day of term with cheap steak burgers for lunch. I actually gave half a toss and finished 5th in Year 11 and 3rd in Year 12 (house won both years, sweeping that Year 12 podium and having something like 5 out of the first 8), then treated the inter school day as a day off school and promptly finished closer to 30th than 3rd. The only decent placing I came in was in the Year 12 3000m held before the main day at a lunchtime.....basically because I was the only starter in my age group I won by default.
 

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i was green and our rivals were red while blue was competitive sometimes and yellow were the duds.

In grade 5 we won the athletics carnival which remains one of my favourite days at school ever, next year i was house captain and was very serious about the thought of going back to back but the day was a disaster with us choking big time and getting disqualified in most of the events.
 
LicoriceAllsorts said:
Prep - Year 6: 4 houses - Flinders (yellow)
Year 7: 4 houses - Montgomery (red)
Year 7-9: 3 houses - Flynn (red)
Year 10-12: 10 houses - Moore (yellow)
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10 houses?! Must've been a massive school.
 
A #redordead here, my brother was a few years before me so I followed in his footsteps and we were like the Waugh brothers (I was Steve), just absolutely towelled up anything that stood in our way. We didn't hesitate to use rough tactics and smashed many a female competitor in bloomers in order to take home the coveted gold frayed edged ribbon. I couldn't swim for sh*t so would strategically be out with general soreness come that time of year to keep the illusion of my invincibility alive.
 
high school had 3 houses, red yellow and green. also, if a member of your family was or had been in a certain house previously, you were automatically assigned to that house (so if your dad went to your high school 30 years ago, and your son started, he would go into the house the dad was in)

it was like yellow were the USA in the Olympics and every other house was Bermuda. Yellow won ****ing everything
 

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