FIVE Girls Grammar students have shaved their heads for the World’s Greatest Shave today.

The idea came about because one of the girls’ mums was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2013.

The girls have surpassed their fundraising target of $5000, at the time of writing they were closing in on $10,000 with $9,730 raised.

They’re also donating their hair to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths campaign which creates wigs and donates them to cancer patients.

Kaitlin says, “In late 2013 when I was finishing Year 10, my mum Gerry was diagnosed with breast cancer. As part of her treatment, she began to lose her hair, so she decided she would cut to the chase and just shave it all off.”

“Her constant positivity and pragmatism throughout her treatment and subsequent recovery was an immense inspiration to me and it was for this reason that I decided to participate in the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave this year.”

More details are on their team page.

[Left to right: Canberra Girls Grammar School students Kaitlin Miller (Year 12), Emily Bresnahan (Year 11), Catherine Barnsley (Year 11), Lucinda Flood (Year 12) and Bec Thompson (Year 11).]