Finley High School will celebrate fifty years of providing quality education to the district rural communities of Berrigan, Finley, Jerilderie and Tocumwal in 2011. The school is a unifying institution for the whole area. FHS has an enrolment of about 490 students. The school is supported by the Country Area Program and continues to work with the community to consolidate a sustainable approach to learning that guarantees success into the future. The school has received numerous awards from the Minister of Education, Director General and at the NSW Training Awards. The school plan focuses on the development of the whole child. There is a strong relationship between the academic, physical, mental and socio-cultural needs of students and a focus on the fact that they are of equal importance and crucial to ensuring successful educational outcomes. The Quality Teaching Framework binds learning across the curriculum and ensures that the school is comprehensive in meeting the needs of all students. Personalised learning, including the setting of targets, is supported by constant feedback, assessment for learning, reporting to parents through reports, newsletters and the ASR. The school has a long history of very significant success across all academic disciplines. It also has outstanding programs in sport and many areas of the arts. In addition the school has won numerous accolades for its Agriculture programs. Over many years students and staff have successfully worked with the local community in beef and dairy cattle show teams, and the school is a registered stud for beef cattle and cross bred sheep. The school is extremley well resourced, and in recent years new facilities including a gymnasium, Science labs, a state of the art Industrial Arts block and a Trade Training Centre for Hospitality have been great additions to the resources available to students and staff. In addition a wireless network across the school allows students and staff to access the Internet from anywhere in the school, while facilities for..