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Rids Mentoring

Dean Smith —

Rids Mentoring

RIDS is a mentoring group recognised for always been filled with a bunch of characters. It is evenly mixed with students from all age groups and all different walks of life. The student’s interests ranged from the elite gaming to becoming future sporting superstars. 

A highlight for the year in this mentor class was activities afternoon. This gave the boys an opportunity to compete in a range of challenges with our Mentor group versing other Mentor groups. RIDS did extremely well and it was great to see juniors and seniors working together and having a laugh. 

This year RIDS had 3 Year 13 students in their last year at the college. Mark Frayna, Declan van der Erf and Jacob McIntyre. We also wish Benjamin Just-Alsop the best as he takes up an apprenticeship for a lines company in Australia. Each of these young men have been the spine of RIDS for a number of years. The energy and enthusiasm demonstrated from each of them in the morning to get juniors involved in STC activities will be solely missed. 

We wish each of them very best in his future. We also congratulate Nicholas Dravitzki who will be a Year 13 Leader for 2020, Well done Nick! It is great to see our new students (Sean Mondala and Hamish Carroll) mixing with the rest of the group and forming very positive relationships. I wish the group a safe and happy holiday, it has been an awesome year and I look forward to picking up where we left off.