Fairholme College
| Fairholme College, Toowoomba | |
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Toowoomba, Queensland Australia |
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| Coordinates | 27°33′21″S 151°58′41″E / 27.5557°S 151.9780°ECoordinates: 27°33′21″S 151°58′41″E / 27.5557°S 151.9780°E |
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| Type | Independent, Day and Boarding |
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Latin: Ardens Sed Virens (Burning yet Flourishing) |
| Denomination | Presbyterian |
| Established | 1908 |
| Chairman | I.C. Andersen |
| Principal | L. Evans |
| Chaplain | Catherine Butler |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | ~845 (P–12) |
| Colour(s) | Navy, Black and Gold |
| Slogan | "Faith in her Future" |
| Website | www.fairholme.qld.edu.au |
Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia.
Established as Spreydon College in 1908 by sisters Elizabeth, Jessie and Margaret Thomson, the college has a non-selective enrolment policy, and currently caters for approximately 845 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 240 boarders in Years 5 to 12. It is the only school associated with the Presbyterian Church of Queensland that is not owned by the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association (PMSA), and is one of a small number of Presbyterian schools in Australia.
Fairholme is a member of the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), and the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA).
In 1907, sisters Elizabeth, Jessie and Margaret Thomson, all former teachers of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, moved to Toowoomba, with the idea of establishing a girls' school conducted according to the standards of the Secondary Teachers' Association of Victoria. They leased the now heritage-listed house Spreydon, a property with over an acre of land on the corner of Warra and Rome Streets at Newtown in the west of Toowoomba, and on 4 February 1908, opened the privately owned Spreydon College, a Christian boarding and day school for girls. Commencing with a roll of 20 boarders and "quite a number of day girls", the school offered classes from Kindergarten to "Sydney Senior Standard". The Spreydon building housed the Principal and boarders' quarters, while a school room, Kindergarten and tennis court were established facing Rome Street.
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