Role in The Community
Queen Anne has an active role in its local community. Queen Anne's modern services are open for use to the public after the school day finishes, these include a gym, sports hall, gymnastics hall, music studio, tennis courts and football pitches.
During the Festive Season Queen Anne pupils donate food parcels to Sheltered Homes across Dunfermline and surrounding villages.
Queen Anne also plays a part in The Gambia with charity and fundraising in Queen Anne which helps fund expansion and improvement to the John Pickering Senior Comprehensive school located in the Gambia. From 2010, much of the fundraising has been put towards building a skills centre in the Gambian village of Jibboroh. Queen Anne also maintains a social link with the Gambian school as a number of pupils have formed penpals with those in Gambia. Also in 2006 some Queen Anne pupils went to visit the school in the Gambia and reported the project was a success. In 2007 two members of staff from John Pickering visited Queen Anne and there was a return trip of Queen Anne pupils to the Gambia mid 2008. A group of around ten pupils now visit The Gambia biennially in June for cultural exchange.
In mid-March 2010, the Fife Area Confucius Classroom hub opened, based next to the LRC. This national initiative aims to support the learning of Chinese language and culture within Scottish schools. This initiative has led to the Mandarin language being offered not only to S1-2 classes but also for SQA certification at Access level. A group of students will visit China on a World Challenge expedition in June 2012.
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