Youth Speaks
The Rotary Youth Speaks Competition is a well established and successful annual competition organised and promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Northern Ireland….
The Rotary Youth Speaks Competition is a well established and successful annual competition organised and promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Northern Ireland….
Surrey Young Carers are a remarkable group of youngsters who care for…
The Reigate Rotary Club choir sang carols beside the Christmas tree outside …
A collection took place on Sunday outside Morrisons Supermarket ….
Cat Connelly and Darren Smith with some of their members meet the Reigate Rotarians
As part of the Reigate Rotary Club’s program for the support of local youth projects, the club presented three Lynx Tablet computers to the Sovereign Youth Club in their Slipshatch Road, Woodhatch headquarters last week.
The tablets will be used by the members of the ‘ Drop in Club ‘ under the instruction of their youth leaders both for education and amusement purposes. The youth club is funded by Surrey County Council but these funds only go so far. Reigate Rotary Club chose the computers from a ‘wish list’ of items which the budget would not stretch to.
The Sovereign club holds sessions for 10-13 year olds on Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm and on Thursdays for 14-19 year olds. The sessions include sports, crafts, cooking, games and a lot more. The youth club in Woodhatch was founded in 1669 providing leisure activities for the local area and has gone a long way to keep up with the demands of 21st century young people with some help from the Rotary Club and other sponsors.
Leavers of Sandcross and Merstham Schools receive their illustrated dictionaries, gift of Reigate Rotary Club
The annual gift of dictionaries made by The Rotary Club of Reigate to Year 6 leavers at two local schools took place on Monday 20th July.
In the morning at the Sandcross School leavers’ assembly, following a humourful review of the year’s highlights and successes and an ultra-modern performance of foot and hand dancing, Rotary President Duncan Anderson presented a dictionary to each of the 120 leavers. He explained to them something of the charitable work undertaken by Rotary, both internationally and in the local community, particularly underlining the support given to literacy programmes in schools. His words to the assembly ended with the wish that the children will continue to do well in their future schooling.
Merstham Primary School leavers at their assembly in the afternoon of the same day were also presented with dictionaries by busy Rotary President Duncan Anderson. The Year 6 leavers entertained the audience gathered in the school hall with a cleverly staged “Dr Who” type performance. Each leaving pupil acted as if he or she was returning to the school some 15 years in the future and from that distance in time describing the qualities, skills and experiences that they had derived from their years at Merstham Primary School.
Both head teachers, Judith Constable at Sandcross in the morning, and Nina Saunders at Merstham in the afternoon, complimented their Year 6 leavers on their hard work and congratulated them on their achievements, including excellent SATs results.
The Rotarians who witnessed these two events were impressed at the high standards maintained at both schools, and more than ever reminded of how important a part education plays in shaping both the individual and the country’s future and potential.