activities, including two weeks in the Melbourne city classroom. Other activities include a comprehensive Outdoor Education program, with hiking trips and ski camps together with a Netbook Computer program which enables unprecedented elearning opportunities. Houses Gippsland Grammar has four Houses which participate annually in a competition which includes academic, cultural and sporting pursuits. These include interhouse Swimming, Athletics, Cross Country, Drama, Debating, Art, Music/Cultural Festival & Rowing. The winner is awarded the Inter House Trophy for the year. They are as follows: Cranswick Dargo (Royal blue) Tisdall Hotham (Gold) Wellington Binks (Maroon) Blundell Bogong (Red) Each House is named after a significant person and a place which has a connection to the surrounding areas of Gippsland: Blundell, Cranswick and Tisdall were the names of the St. Anne's houses and Bogong and Dargo were the Gippsland Grammar School's sporting houses. Hotham was created at the time of amalgamation and 1984 was the inaugural year of Wellington-Binks. Alumni Lindsay Tanner — former Federal Finance Minister, Labor politician. Wil Anderson — comedian. Andrew McQualter - midfielder with St Kilda Football Club. Christine Kininmonth — broadcaster, inventor and regular panellist on the ABC television programme, The New Inventors. Simon Gregory — scientist involved in the Human Genome Project. James Tomkins - Olympic rowing gold medallist. Xavier Ellis — midfielder with Hawthorn Football Club Martin Bean — vice-chancellor of the Open University Craig Huffer — middle-distance runner Irving Mosquito - Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Bombers. Paige Barr - national representative rower. See also List of schools in Victoria List of boarding schools Victorian Certificate of Education Head of the River (Victoria) References External links Gippsland Grammar School website Grammar schools in Australia Anglican secondary schools in Victoria (Australia) Gippsland Independent Schools Educational institutions established in 1924 Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools Sale, Victoria Boarding schools in Victoria (Australia) 1924 establishments in Australia