Rostrevor Magazine 2020-2021

Rostrevor Magazine 2020 -2021 / Page 13 A unique arrangement with two NT schools enabled Rostrevor students to continue their Rostrevor education from interstate while border restrictions were in place. Our Junior Year students were quick to embrace online learning and enjoyed gaining some new skills. Social distancing was the name of the game at Intercol 2020 with Premier Steven Marshall and Old Scholar and Police Minister Vincent Tarzia (’04) Extra help for Rostrevor Boarders Rostrevor’s boarding students faced a larger challenge than most. While our day students returned to the College at the start of Term 2, Boarders from regional SA were unable to return for several weeks, which was particularly challenging for our Year 12 Boarders. For our interstate and Indigenous Boarders, it was months before they could return to Duggan House and their Rostrevor friends and teachers - although Rostrevor staff moved heaven and earth to ensure their education was continued from afar with some clever partnerships with Northern Territory schools. A wonderful collaboration between Rostrevor College and Darwin’s MacKillop College and the Centralian Middle School in Alice Springs enabled our NT Boarders to continue their education under the direction of their Rostrevor teachers during COVID-19 border closures. Rostrevor’s extra initiative of providing a supervising teacher - funded by The Smith Family - was applauded nationally and was eventually adopted by other boarding schools.