Working together reaps rewards

Thank you to the Rotary Club of Rockhampton South for donating books to every Prep student at RGS during Term 2.

Rotary Club member Mike Fitzgerald kindly delivered the books to the RGS Prep students and they are already loving reading their new stories!

The Rotary Club is supporting an early literacy programme for Prep students across all schools in the Rockhampton area, with around 1200 students from 40 schools receiving the beautiful books.

The Rotary Club’s Early Literacy Project Team said: “Being able to read fluently is one of the most important life skills your students will ever develop in the years ahead. If this small personal gift helps to spark a lifelong love of reading in even one of your students, we can rest easy knowing that we have achieved our goal.”

The RGS Show Cattle team has wrapped up a busy term on the show circuit around Central Queensland.

The Secondary School students competed at The Caves, Ridgelands, Baralaba, Biloela, Yeppoon, Rockhampton and Mt Larcom shows throughout the term. Capping off the busy schedule was a successful outing at the Rockhampton Show, where the RGS team won the Overall Interschool Challenge.

Several students gained places in their parading and judging classes while individually Alexandra Olive (Year 12) and Charli White (Year 10) also impressed the judges.

Alexandra and Charli competed in Region Finals for Junior Judges, both Stud and Prime, with Alexandra winning Reserve Champion for Stud Judging and Champion for Prime Judging. Alexandra will now represent the CQ Region at the Ekka.

Charli was named Reserve Champion for Prime Judging. Charli also won overall aggregate All-Rounder Student, winning a steer for the School, sponsored by Brad and Nicole Saunders from Pheasant Creek Brangus. Students will next compete at the Moura Show and Brisbane Ekka in Term 3.

Students at the Rockhampton Special School have welcomed the donation of 20 laptops from The Rockhampton Grammar School to help with their studies. When the opportunity presented itself to purchase some laptops from RGS, laptops no longer in use by the School’s students and staff, RGS decided to donate the devices to Rockhampton Special School.

A helping hand is always appreciated when it’s assisting students grow in the classroom. Rockhampton Special School staff, and past students, Principal Erin King (nee Gill, RGS 2000) and Prue Moore (nee Dodson, RGS 2003) welcomed the additional laptops.

Erin said the donation was amazing, as the vision for the school was to ensure all senior secondary students had access to individual devices at school as some of the Rockhampton Special School’s laptops were old and outdated.

“Instead of the traditional handwriting pencil they can use a keyboard to engage in the curriculum successfully,’’ Erin said.

“Some Junior secondary students will also receive a laptop to use as we have some students who have difficulties with accessing traditional methods of pen and paper.”

Erin said she found students at the school engaged more successfully on the computers.

“There is no focusing on pencil and paper to write, which takes up a lot of energy for our students,’’ Erin said.

“They can also utilise a variety of platforms such as internet research and develop skills to support them to be life-long learners.”