STEP FORWARD TO TEACH SCHOLARSHIP 2024/2025

Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the Range escarpment in Australia’s Garden City of Toowoomba, Fairholme College is one of Australia’s leading independent girls’ schools with around 860 students from Kindy to Year 12.

Fairholme students enjoy outstanding success in the academic pursuit, as well as in sporting, cultural and service activities. Please explore further on the College website to learn more about Fairholme’s offerings and our students’ achievements.

From the establishment of our predecessor school in 1908, through the move to our current location in 1917 and into the 21st century, Fairholme is committed to a student enrolment split roughly 40/60 between country boarders and Toowoomba day girls, and to single-sex girls’ education.

A College of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland, Fairholme is committed to creating a caring Christian community where all we do is undergirded by our Christian faith.

We seek an expression of interest from students studying Education at university in 2024 who wish to extend their practical knowledge of working in a school setting. Flexibility and availability to be ‘on-campus’ each week is a feature of the role. Particularly, we are interested in Education students who have a genuine attraction to working in an Independent, all girls’ boarding and day school. 

The ‘Step Forward’ Scholarship is a scholarship that attracts $12 000 per 12-month period ($3000 per school term) and is available to a committed, academically focused Education student seeking to gain greater experience in an education setting through ongoing professional learning, mentorship, and practical understanding. The one-year period will run from the point of scholarship commencement – therefore, unless a final year Education student, it will include Term 1 of the 2025 school year. An extension of the scholarship, beyond 12 months, where applicable, is possible for the right candidate/s.

The recipient will gain experience by providing the equivalent of 10 hours per week term time (*90 hours per term) – the configuration of those hours to be negotiated. This may include in-class work with a mentor or mentors, after hours or weekend support of boarders and participation in camps or co-curricular activities. It is anticipated that through this opportunity, the scholarship recipient will be well-placed to work within a similar setting upon graduation, or, should the opportunity arise, as a beginning teacher at Fairholme College.

For further information and a position description, see below:

Step Forward to Teach Scholarship 2024/2025 (fairholme.qld.edu.au)
 

Applications are to be submitted by the close of business on Friday 12 April 2024, and be directed to:

Ms Rebecca Stone | Executive Assistant to the Principal

Fairholme College, PO Box 688 Toowoomba 4350 or via email to  

*************@fairholme.qld.edu.au

T: +61 7 4688 4624