Chapel time each Sunday night. This is further enhanced by the opportunity to attend Bible Study sessions during the week and these groups have become very popular as the girls enjoy the heartening support these times together provide.
the girls included baking and craft, and games on the oval or in the Fairholme pool.
The Big Sister program continued in 2020, and this provided a wonderful support to our new and younger girls. Of course, it also provided a good chance for our Senior girls to further In 2020, the Fairholme Boarding develop their leadership skills. Year-level House continued to be a busy and etiquette dinners continued as well, and vibrant place with a huge variety of activities for the girls to participate this allowed the girls to plan activities in before and after school and on within their year levels to contribute towards the overall wellbeing of the weekends. Speed, Power and Strength was offered on three afternoons and two Boarding House. mornings per week, and this proved very popular with the Boarders. Morning and A successful orientation weekend afternoon walks and runs also offered an was held in September and again in late October to ensure that all new opportunity for the girls to get regular families were ready for the 2021 school exercise. On the weekends many girls year. The Boarding House welcomed walked to local parks to enjoy the markets or the playgrounds, with a stop nearly 50 new families to these events, off at the shops on the way. Regular and many of these girls and parents trips to bowling and laser tag, Bounce, commented on how helpful it was to and Grand Central kept the girls active. attend and learn all the information they needed to transition successfully A trip to Wet and Wild started off the to Fairholme College Boarding in 2021. year and trips to Ice World and Emu Gully were offered towards the end of Fairholme Friends of Boarding the year. Other regular activities for
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continued to develop and attract new members throughout 2020. Towards the end of the year it was decided to hold meetings, via zoom, each month after the College P & F meetings, and this has proven to be quite a successful mode of communication. The Friends of Boarding held a very successful Boarders’ Cent Sale which raised significant funds which will benefit the Fairholme community in 2021. 2020 was another successful year for boarding at Fairholme.
