What We Do

Adam Scott drives learning at RCH

Thursday, 14 October 2010 13:23

Aussie professional golfer Adam Scott made a special visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital on 7 October 2010, to play and interact with sick kids and their siblings who attend the Royal Children’s Hospital School (RCHS).
Adam_Scott_01.jpg
Thanks to the Adam Scott Foundation, RCHS students are some of the first school children in Australia to use the latest interactive teaching technology in a hospital classroom.

The high-tech ActivBoards were recently installed in the RCHS classroom, along with four other children’s hospital schools around the county, giving students the opportunity to bring learning to life through movement, audio and interaction.

Royal Children's Hospital Foundation CEO Karenlee Spillane said: “Students are often disengaged when they have long absences from school due to medical procedures and that is why we’re so pleased that the Adam Scott Foundation offered to donate the latest teaching technology to help us engage with our students in a fun and exciting way”.

Adam Scott visited the Wonder Factory to play a game of putt-putt and Wii with the kids. He also visited a ward and was taken back to his schooling days with a writing and spelling lesson using the new interactive board.

The donation will make a difference to lives of young patients like 12 year old Grace who is receiving treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the hospital.

“Hospital schools across the country help patients like Grace, and her siblings, to have some normality in their lives especially at a time when there has been so much upheaval to their daily routine,” said Ms Spillane.  

 

 

promo

Meet Jack

To see Jack playing with his younger brother Luke, you’d never imagine he has a chronic, life-threatening disease.

Read more