Diversity Week
Divsersity Week @ Fairhills
On Monday 4th September Fairhills High School celebrated Individuality Day
What is Individuality day? Individuality day is about recognizing and celebrating that we are all unique in different ways. Individuality day is aimed to promote all the many great personalities, characters, strength and talents that we have at Fairhills HS.
Fairhills HS hosted a free dress day and it was so great to see students and teachers dress up in their outfits.
We hosted a Talent quest at lunchtime, which was a huge success. We had some awesome band performances, as well as individual performers, showing off their amazing talents. Congratulations to those who won the competition and a huge thanks to everyone who participated and all those who helped out on the day.
Tuesday 5th September Fairhills HS celebrated Disability awareness
Disability day at Fairhills HS is about recognizing and spreading awareness of the different mental and physical disabilities that are common in our community. Fairhills HS students hosted a number of games at lunchtime in the Gym. Students got to participate in a blind obstacle course, a group Hula Hoop contest and other exciting games. A huge thank you to all the student leaders who organised and ran the event.
Fairhills HS hosted a slide the pool competition to raise funds for motor neuron disease. While it may have been a bit of a wet day for some, it was also lots of fun. Well done to Mr Donaldson and Ms Bishop for joining in and the students who participated.
Wednesday 6th September Fairhills HS hosted its first ever expo
A number of different groups and services from the community came out to talk to students about the services that they offer. The purpose of the Expo was to try to link students to their local community. We had the following groups/organisations present who all organised different fun activities for our students at Fairhills HS and gave out lots of lollies and promotions;
Knox Youth Services
Interchange
Bayswater Indoor Soccer
Emerge Youth Group
Headspace
Knox Leisure Works
Knox Softball
Interact
Chess club
Global
A big thanks to our Year 9 year level leader Troy Ayling, for introducing the Expo at the Assembly. Well done to all the other students and teachers who helped out on this fun day.
Thursday 7th September was the celebration of Culture at Fairhills HS
We are lucky at Fairhills as we reside in a multicultural area. People in Knox come from over 130 different countries and just in the city of Knox, over 30% of people were born overseas. To celebrate culture, Fairhills HS hosted its annual international food festival. We had many students and staff come along to enjoy this yearly tradition. A big thanks to Ms Maghami and all the students who helped make all the yummy food.
Friday 8th September Fairhills HS celebrated gender and sexuality
There were lots of fun activities at lunchtime, including Tie Dye T – Shirts and Face painting.
A huge Fairhills HS banner was designed and decorated by our students.
We also had Kate Arnott present from Knox City Council making rainbow badges.
A big thanks to Ms Muratore and the student leaders for making this day fun.
(Special thanks to our Well- being Coordinator Paul Graham and Student Voice Leader Mirza Skelic for making all this happen and all the staff and students who were involved and helped out )