2024 Awards presentation
Our 2024 Awards Ceremony will take place in February 2025 at our first whole school assembly. This special event is an important opportunity to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students across all year levels. The ceremony highlights excellence in learning, leadership, and personal growth, reflecting the hard work, resilience, and commitment demonstrated by our students throughout the year.
Honouring these achievements reinforces our school’s values and inspires all students to strive for their best. We look forward to celebrating these successes together and acknowledging the remarkable efforts of our Fairhills High School community.
Parents/carers of students who will receive an award will be invited to this special occasion. More information will be sent out before the end of the year by Jennifer Nansen – School Enhancement Leader.
EMR Intermediate Girls Basketball
Recently our Intermediate Girls Basketball team went out to compete in the Eastern Metropolitan Region competition due to being undefeated in their Division tournament. It was an exciting experience for our girls as they hadn’t made it to this stage during their time at Fairhills. The girls showed great teamwork to win one game and narrowly lose another by 5 point after being 12 points down at one stage. They showed great teamwork and support for each other across the day and have a great future of Fairhills basketball yet to come!
FHS Free Little Library
The FHS Free Little Library is now open!!
If students see a book in the Little Library they want to read they can take the book. When they are done they can bring the book back to library or pass it on the friend. If students have books they would like to share they can leave it in the Little Library for others to enjoy.
The Free Little Library is located in the FHS Resource Centre. Books have been donated by staff, students and the FHS Library. Please see Ms McGillicuddy or Ms Kirby if you have any questions about the Free Little Library.
Happy reading everyone!
Halloween in the Library
Halloween is always a special time of year with spooky book displays, Halloween activities and cauldrons filled with lollies for the students.
Even Pennywise dropped by to borrow his favourite book!
Instrumental Music Report
All instrumental music students have been completing their written music notation CAT this term.
Music students learn the traditional music notation system along with the sight-reading skills to transfer it onto their instrument.
I encourage parents to log onto compass to view their child’s assessed rubric for their final CAT of the year.
The re-enrolment process for the instrumental music program 2025 school year has begun. The consent and payment process occurs through events on compass. Instrumental music teachers will discuss this with their students over the coming weeks. If students indicate they would like to learn in 2025, parents will receive an email with a link through compass for enrolment.
Any queries regarding the instrumental music program, please email nicole.mcalister@educatioin.vic.gov.au or phone Nicole McAlister through the school office.
Year 9 Shark Cage Program
Running the Year 9 shark cage program has been a dream of our Wellbeing Team for over a year now.
We completed our training in 2023 and was wonderful to role out the program over Term 2 and 3, for all our Year 9 students who identify as female.
We were really impressed with how the young women who attended were engaged with the content, willing to share stories, to participate in role plays and activities and to apply the content to their own lives.
The shark Cage program is designed for young women to understand and reduce abuse in a non-victim blaming and empowering way. Throughout the sessions we covered:
- The difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Increasing capacity to set boundaries
- Learning their rights
- Increasing skills in respectful, assertive communication
- Understanding of consent
- Decreasing victim-blaming attitudes
- Learning how to care for and be kind to themselves
- Understanding “gut feeling” about people and situations
- Increasing self-worth
- Ability to recognise abuse or exploitative person
It was a privilege for Peta (Wellbeing Co-ordinator) and myself to be able to have these 9 sessions with these amazing young women in year 9 and to witness their growth, openness and understanding through this program. The verbal and written feedback from the program was really positive.
We look forward to doing it again in 2025 with the Year 9 level, and we continue to dream about having a similar program for our Year 9 young men.
Gail Ackroyd
Chaplain/Counsellor
Seeking Welcoming Homestays for International Students
Fairhills High School is seeking expressions of interest from families to host international students.
As a host family, you’ll receive a weekly allowance of $370 to cover living costs. Fairhills High School will provide comprehensive support to both you and the student as they settle into life and studies in Australia. Hosting an international student is a wonderful way to share our culture, learn from another, and make a positive impact on a young person’s educational journey.
If you or someone you know would be interested in becoming a host family, please get in touch with the Fairhills High School International Student Coordinator via phone – 9758 5022 or email – fairhills.hs@education.vic.gov.au
