What our parents say about Fintona

As a parent it is encouraging to be made to feel that teachers are always available to help with any issue with your child and that nothing is too much trouble.

Community Service

Recognising the needs of others

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At Fintona, we believe that some of life's most important lessons are learned outside the classroom. Helping others, giving to the community, respect, tolerance and responsibility are core values that underpin our Community Service program. Fintona students are encouraged to believe that they can make a difference to their local communities, as well as internationally.

All students participate in the Community Service program throughout their school years, in a variety of ways depending on individual strengths and interests. Girls may choose to undertake regular visits to aged-care facilities and nursing homes in the local area, support a range of organisations and causes through fund-raising activities, also to participate in environmental projects.

Older girls have the opportunity to visit Danila Dilba, an Aboriginal health provider located in Darwin. While they are in Darwin students can work in the various clinics run by Danilba Dilba, and also visit some of the remote Aboriginal communities for which they provide health care. Students from Years 9 to 11 have an opportunity to join the World Challenge expedition which involves a community service component in the country of destination. In 2008, fifteen girls and two teachers visited India where they helped refurbish a primary school in a remote Indian town. Many of the girls commented on how they came back viewing themselves and the world so differently. In 2010, a group of Fintona girls will be visiting Madagascar.

Involvement in these activities engenders a strong sense of community spirit as well as instilling a culture of volunteering that stays with the girls forever.