Middle School
MRS JAYE ROSS, HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL
Foundation 2021 has been another very successful year for the girls attending Fairholme Middle School. We MIDDLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY welcomed 106 new Year 7 girls in January and a small number of new Year 8 and Year 9 girls. ENHANCEMENT • Mother and Daughter luncheons or They quickly found their Holme in the Middle breakfasts to build positive interactions School and all Middle School, girls contributed between girls and parents and to help to the academic successes highlighted below. In enhance the ‘family’ feel in the Middle true Fairholme spirit many Middle School girls School also involved themselves in The Arts and Sport • Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 camps to allow as well as participating in Service activities. opportunities for the girls to mix more Fairholme is proud of the achievement of these and get to know each other in a different Middle School students. environment whilst also assisting students to grow and build resilience as they MIDDLE SCHOOL SERVICE ACTIVITIES • Serving at the following Toowoomba overcome challenges Hospital Foundation fund-raising events: • Social activities with other schools such the Legends at their Game function, the as the Year 7 games afternoons with Women of Strength function, and the Toowoomba Grammar School and St Ladies Diamond Luncheon Mary’s College • Preparing up to 50 meals fortnightly • Excursion to Emu Gully for Year 9 girls to throughout the year for Tony’s Kitchen, celebrate the end of their Middle School where volunteers serve food to the years and also to further enhance their disadvantaged and vulnerable members of confidence through achieving while being the Toowoomba community challenged • Shoes for Planet Earth – girls donated • Year 9 Leaders’ Excursion to Highfields their old joggers to save the environment Cultural Centre to attend the yLead and also to support local charities in the Leadership Conference Toowoomba region • Middle School ‘A Box of Chocolates’ concerts – an opportunity for Middle • Visiting Tricare Nursing Home to entertain School girls involved in The Arts to the residents perform in a supportive environment • Boost Fundraiser for Toowoomba Modified Rugby Program • Lunch-time games and activities, including: • Middle School Book Swap Handball, Chalk Drawing, Just Dance, • Fundraising for Indigenous Literacy Middle School Masked Singer, Middle
School Murder Mystery, RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Buddies, Historical Women Dress-up Day, Mini-Olympics, and the Middle School Pot Plant competition
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