House System

Our House System is organised into 4 main groups, named after Australian Sporting Heros. Students will be placed in a House group when enrolled at Heritage College and students in the same family will be allocated into the same House.

LANDY (green)

John Landy, is a former athlete.  In Australia, Landy is perhaps most famously remembered for his performance in the 1500 metres final at the 1956 Australian National Championships prior to the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games. In the race, Landy stopped and doubled backed to check on fellow runner Ron Clarke after another runner clipped Clarke's heel, causing him to fall early in the third lap of the race. Clarke, the then-junior 1500 metre world champion, who had been leading the race, got back to his feet and started running again; Landy followed. Incredibly, in the final two laps Landy made up a large deficit to win the race, something considered one of the greatest moments in Australian sporting history.

ELLIOT (yellow)

Herbert Elliott is a former athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners. He never lost a race over 1500 metres or the mile and during his career he broke the four-minute mile on 17 occasions. Elliott credited his visionary and iconoclastic coach, Percy Cerutty, with inspiration to train harder and more naturally than anyone of his era. Cerutty was known to avoid the track and talk about role models outside athletics Jesus.

JACKSON (red)

Marjorie Jackson takes enormous, and justifiable, pride in her role as a breaker of barriers. She was the first Australian female runner to break a world record. She was the first Australian woman to win a track and field gold medal, indeed the first of either gender to win gold on the track since Edwin Flack in 1896. And she was first female general manager of an entire multi-disciplined team: the 332-strong contingent which represented Australia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.

COURT (blue)

Margaret Court is a  former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 1970, she became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year. Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player. She won 62 Grand Slam titles overall (24 singles, 19 women's doubles, and 19 mixed doubles), again, more than any other player.