The House system
Upon entering the Middle School in Year 7, all boys are assigned to a house. There are 10 houses, each named after prominent figures in the school's history. Four of these—Da Costa, Farrell, Hawkes and Short—were the original four houses founded in 1920. To accommodate the growing student population five additional houses were founded: MacDermott, Woodcock, and later, Young, Howard and Farr.
There is also a boarding house, School & Allen House, that was established in 2003 through the amalgamation of School House with Wyatt & Allen. Houses meet several times each week, and compete in various intra-school competitions throughout the year. Through sporting, academic, musical, fundraising and other competitions throughout the year, the houses compete for the Sir George Murray Shield.
- House Names and The Profiles
- House Names and The Profiles
- Da Costa, : Da Costa,
- Farrell, : Biography
- Hawkes
- MacDermott, : Obituary
- Woodcock, Woodcock,
- (Wyatt & Allen.*) : William Wyatt (1804 - 1886)
- (School )
- Young,
- Howard
- School & Allen* (2003) : William Allen (1790 - 1856)
- The Sports Ovals
- The Sports Ovals
- Main
- Lloyd
- Girdlestone : Henry Girdlestone (1863 - 1926)
- Palm House
- Caterer
- Wilson
- Williams
Headmasters of St Peter's College
Ordinal !! Officeholder !! Term start - end !! Time in office !! Object
1 || Rev. Theodore Wilson || 1848 1850 || 1–2 years || Oval
2 || Rev. Samuel Allom (acting) || 1851 1853 || 1–2 years
3 || Rev. Edmund Jenkins (acting) || 1853 1854 || 0–1 years
4 || Rev. George Farr || 1854 1878 || 23–24 years || Oval, House
5 || Rev. William Stanford 1879 1881 1–2 years
6 || Rev. Francis Williams 1882 1889 6–7 years || Oval
7 || Rev. Philip Raynor 1890 1893 2–3 years
8 || Rev. Henry Girdlestone || 1894 1915 || 20–21 years || Oval
9 || T. Ainslie Caterer (acting) || 1916 1919 || 2–3 years || Oval
10 || Rev. Julian Bickersteth || 1920 1933 || 12–13 years
11 || Rev. Guy Pentreath || 1934 1943 || 8–9 years || Art
12 || John Holroyd Hill (acting) || 1944 1945 || 0–1 years
13 || Colin Gordon || 1946 1960 || 13–14 years
14 || Rev. John Miller || 1961 1978 || 16–17 years
15 || Dr Tony Shinkfield || 1978 1992 || 13–14 years
16 || Richard Burchnall || 1992 2004 || 11–12 years || Sports
17 || Philip Grutzner || 2005 2010 || 4–5 years
18 || Simon Murray || 2010 2017 || 6–7 years
19 || Ben Hanisch (acting) || 2017 2018 || 5–6 years
19 || Tim Browning || 2018 incumbent || 5–6 years
Other
- [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55045020 80 years
- ST. PETER'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. (1853, July 2). Adelaide Observer
\ (SA : 1843 - 1904), p. 2. Retrieved May 10, 2019
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