Scots College stint for students
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Esava Ravouvou and George Naqau were pioneers from Ratu Kadavulevu School in a partnership with Scots College in Australia.
It has created a bond between the two schools and how they will exchange programs academically and through sports as well.
Kadavu lad Naqau and Nadroga flyer Ravouvou returned from a three months exchange program from Australia and were excited with what they learned.
Ravouvou acknowledged his school and the management for believing in them to be the pioneers in the exchange program.
“We really learnt a lot during our three months program with Scots College, we learnt ways of interacting with fans and the basics of rugby and a view of studying the field itself and these are some of the new things that we’ve learnt and most importantly is education.
“We played for the Scots under-16 team and I played wing while George played flanker and we would like to thank the management of both schools for giving us the opportunity to learn more about rugby and we look forward for another year of exchange next year,” said Ravouvou.
Former student of RKS and senior teacher at the Scots College, Robert Heritage, said this was a new beginning for educating children to cross the stage with dignity, purpose and options, preparing the great minds and leaders of the future. He said RKS would be playing its part in this vision.
“The rich cultural experience, excellent values and courageous spirit that the visiting Fijian school team brought to the Australian competition was so valued by Scots College that they have introduced an exchange program with RKS in 2019. The first students to participate in this exchange were Naqau and Ravouvou.
“There are other plans to extend and bring the two schools closer together including a teacher education program whereby a RKS teacher spends a month at Scots learning how the college runs its education program and teaching strategies to enhance the education and sporting abilities of boys,” said Heritage.