Junior School Arts

Opti-MINDS

Three teams competed: 1 x Honours Award 1 x Spirit of Opti-MINDS Award

JUNIOR SCHOOL ARTS Toowoomba Eisteddfod

• Highly Commended: Year 2 Strings, Junior String Orchestra, Junior String Ensemble and Year 6 String Quartet

Arts Excursions and Performances

• Term 3 Twilight concert for Chorale, Junior Band, Junior String Orchestra • Junior School Musical: ‘Fabulous Creatures’ • Lunchtime concerts each term • Book Week performances by class choirs • Fairholme Singing Studio Recital in Term 4 • Kindy to Year 3 Nativity: ‘Off to Bethlehem’ • Visiting Performances: Didjeribone, and Opera Queensland - The Frog Prince

Chronicle Junior Art Expo

Five artworks selected for display at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery for the Chronicle Junior Art Expo: Aarna Kansagara, Miette Carrigan, Avleen Kaur, Elizabeth Riddle, Suzana Yusaf.

JUNIOR SPORTS

Fairholme Junior Sport offers a wide range of sports and activities for the girls, and involvement and participation rates are excellent in Interhouse activities. The girls from Prep to Year 6 are involved in Interhouse activities; the Kindy students also participate but no points are awarded at this level. Cross Country, Athletics and Gymnastics, with Tennis being optional. The Interhouse Junior Swimming Knockout Tournament is by invitation.

Local Interschool Carnivals in Swimming, Athletics and Cross Country and The Andrews Cup sporting competition between ten schools in the following sports: Swimming, Athletics, Cross Country, Tennis, Touch, Netball, Cricket, Gymnastics and Basketball.

Zone and Regional Sport include Swimming, Athletics and Cross Country Carnivals, plus other sports such as Hockey, Basketball, Tennis, Cricket, Netball, Softball, Touch, Aquathlon, AFL, Orienteering and Girls’ Football (Soccer).

Interschool Friday Sport for Year 5 and 6 is through the Toowoomba Primary Sports Association and the Year 4 students compete in a friendly competition with The Glennie School Junior Years in Touch, Netball and Cricket.

FAIRHOLME CLUBS AND ASSOCIATION

Fairholme Clubs and Association involvement is in: Swimming (F.A.S.T.) - All Year Track and Field - Terms 2 and 3 Cross Country - Terms 1 and 2 Netball - Terms 1, 2 and 3 Touch - Terms 1, 3 and 4 Basketball - Terms 2 and 3

All Schools Touch Team achieved 2nd at SW Qld All Schools Carnival.

ANDREWS CUP

We fielded teams in the following sports: tennis, touch, swimming, cross-country, athletics, netball, cricket, gymnastics and basketball. We celebrate the following Junior School achievements: Basketball - 1st overall Cross Country - 1st in Percentage Trophy Athletics - 1st in Percentage Trophy Swimming - 3rd in Percentage Trophy Individual team achievements: Cross Country - 9yrs and 11yrs teams: 2nd Athletics - 12yrs and over: 3rd Netball - 12yrs and over: 1st and 11yrs: 2nd 11yrs 2nd place in division Basketball - Open A Team: 1st Gymnastics - 10 yrs D division: 3rd

We recognise Kara Cumming who competed in seven out of a possible seven Andrews Cup Teams for Fairholme Junior – both a huge effort individually and a significant contribution to her School.

79% of all Year 4 to 6 girls participated in at least one Andrews Cup sport. It is a great honour to represent Fairholme Junior at Andrews Cup events. Congratulations girls!

AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

These include non-competitive, fun-filled activities which enrich Physical Education, plus the Andrews Cup sporting program run at Fairholme Junior after school. Term 1 Aussie Hoops Years 2 to 4 Cross Country Training Years 2 to 6 Andrews Cup Touch and Tennis Term 2 Athletics Training Andrews Cup Cross Country Training Andrews Cup Netball Term 3 Cricket Saturday Netball Training Aussie Basketball Hoops

Andrews Cup Netball Athletics Training: Andrews Cup Cricket Training: Andrews Cup Basketball: Andrews Cup Term 4 Net-Set-Go Netball Prep to Year 1 Andrews Cup Friday Basketball Andrews Cup Gymnastics All Schools Touch Interhouse Tennis Tournament Lunch time Junior Swimming Knockout Tournament

SPECIALIST IN-CLASS PROVISION

Term 1 Intensive Learn to Swim Orienteering Term 2 Hockey Athletics: Throws Term 3 Gymnastics Basketball Term 4 Cricket Survival Swimming Hot Shot Tennis

HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2021 was a more positive year for sporting compared to 2020, but unfortunately COVID-19 still resulted in some sporting trials being postponed or cancelled.

Swimmers were selected to represent Darling Downs but were not able to proceed to State trials.

Track and Field athletes were selected to represent the Zone, but Darling Downs and State Athletics Carnivals were cancelled.

There were 36 Junior School representations in the Range Zone teams. Several of these girls represented in more than one sport.

Fifteen girls from the Junior School competed in Darling Downs teams. We acknowledge Kate Frith for achieving State-level Equestrian representation.

We are very proud of the students’ accomplishments. Their commitment to training, to working as a team and to improving has been commendable.

2021 NAPLAN Results

Outlined below are our Year 3 and 5 results compared with National results. NAPLAN Results 2021 Scale Score Means

TEST FAIRHOLME NATIONAL*

Year 3 Reading 498 473.3 Writing 473 425.4 Spelling 470 421.0 Grammar and Punctuation 489 433.2 Numeracy 440 403.4 Year 5 Reading 557 511.6 Writing 493 480.0 Spelling 530 504.5 Grammar and Punctuation 535 502.8 Numeracy 515 495.2

* Preliminary National Mean Scores *2021 Preliminary results http://reports.acara.edu.au/NAP/NMS_Percentages