About Our Wonderful School
Fairy Meadow Demonstration School promotes Excellence, Success and Opportunity for every student.
Our approach to education is reflected in the school motto "Learn to Live". Each day our students are learning the foundations for a successful future. Fairy Meadow's Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) values of "Respect, Responsibility and Safety" compliment our school motto and serve to teach and instil in our students many important life-long lessons.
Fairy Meadow is a unique school in New South Wales Public Education as we offer a wide range of opportunities to our students and their families. We are one of only four demonstration schools in New South Wales, with a dynamic partnership with the University of Wollongong. Each year our teachers share their exemplary standards and skills in education with pre-service university students, the next generation of teachers.
Fairy Meadow Demonstration School has its own on-site pre-school where students are able to participate in whole school events, promoting a smooth transition into kindergarten. Our school has an on-site child care facility that offers before-school, after-school and vacation care.
Fairy Meadow promotes an inclusive learning environment, offering a specialised ESL program and a special education unit. Our special education unit caters for children with mild, moderate and severe learning disabilities. This is a very diverse, complex and exciting primary school which offers so many life experiences and learning for our very interested, polite and friendly students.
In 2018 Fairy Meadow has two full pre-school classes and 17 classes K-6, including 4 support classes. Approximately 30% of our students speak languages other than English at home and approximately 4% are Aboriginal students. The nature of FMDS is therefore a busy and exciting school, catering for a very diverse student population within a wide range of academic abilities. Our school has a strong focus not only on academic achievement but on a wide range of sports, creative and performing arts.
At Fairy Meadow we value the strong support from our parents, our wider community and our hard working and dedicated P&C. Staff, students and parents are all very proud to be part of Fairy Meadow Demonstration School. Further information can be found on our school website.
We are a unique school in our Region and provide teaching and learning programs via 15 mainstream classes, 5 Support classes. 🦋
We are a Demonstration school with close links to the trainee teacher programs at the Education Faculty of the University of Wollongong.
We currently have 28% of our students who come from Non English Speaking Backgrounds. Our programs cater for a wide range of student abilities and cultural backgrounds and focus on promoting excellence, success and opportunity. Some of our programs include PBS [ Positive Behaviour for Success], Triple L [Language, Learning & Literacy], Daily Fitness and Accelerated Literacy.