MESSAGE FROM THE RECTOR

Dear Kids

Hope you are all doing fine.

Eight years have quickly elapsed since we began the RTSS journey together. A small school lost in the plains of ILOT and today when we look back we feel proud of the distance we have covered together (THANK you my school kids, parents and my wonderful teaching and non teaching staff and my model PTA).

As time passes by, I feel deeply atttached to the hundreds of kids whom I meet daily in the main hall of the school. I miss you during the holidays, I miss those who have left school after their HSC. You have given so much in the making of this great school. In the years to come, my dream is to see ILOT, D'Epinay, Long Mountain, Congomah and the villages of the vicinity transformed with the support of exRTSS pupils. You have been instilled values and qualities which will help you to face the many challenges of LIFE. I am proud of you. I am proud of your achievements. At the beginning many doubted whether we would travel through the thorny paths of myriad challenges successfully or not. Together, hand in hand, with unfaltering HOPE and great sense of SOLIDARITY, we made it so far and hope the RTSS will gather further momentum and pave the way for thousands of future leaders and nation builders.

Your success is mine. My dream is fulfilled when your dreams come true. We are linked and our destinies criss cross. I feel proud to have shared part of my glorious professional life in your midst, in your company. There will be other challenges on our way and together we will overcome them. As long as we have faith in one another, the greatest of mountains will look like plains.

These days I am reliving those early days of the RTSS (in 2003) when we were hardly known at the regional or national level. Today the RTSS is one of the most sought secondary schools of ZONE 1. Securing a seat at the RTSS is a matter of pride. Only a handful of National colleges can claim to outdo us academically. 100% at School Certificate Level for 4 consecutive years, 93.5% in 2008, 94.5% in 2009 at the HSC level are feats which only rare schools have been able to achieve. Leave aside academic performance, we excel at many other things-discipline, kids who love their school, parents who are supportive, educators who go that extra mile to help our kids toe their destination. We have lived up to many of our set dreams and there are others that we are going to reach sooner or later. We missed obtaining a laureate in 2009 by a whisker (hope we have better luck soon).

Let us renew our faith in ourselves first and then march boldly towards our destination.

Above all, I love all of you my dear kids. What am I without all of you? You make the essence of my professional life. You make me humbly proud of so many things.

I have managed the school differently thanks to your trust in my endeavours. My heads of department, my staff and everybody linked to the RTSS, directly or indirectly, deserve my gratitude.

Take care.

(28th July 2010)   

MESSAGE ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE WEBSITE

 It is indeed with great pleasure that I am jotting down these few lines to all the users of the RTSS website. Sometime back, I wanted a forum where we could share views and learn from one another. At a time when Technology has metamorphosed our educational landscape, the RTSS could not possibly trail behind. We needed to innovate and here is a vivid example of our commitment to quality and up to date education. I would like to draw the attention of one and all that technology is a good master but a bad servant. Let us use it for a good purpose. Never be tempted to depart from the norms of equity, justice and respect. We should never write or post photos or comments on this site which may directly or indirectly cause any form of harm to anyone.

In the weeks to come, this new mode of interaction should bind us further. I know it will not take long for our kids who have already left school and who are in different corners of the world to use this website as an opportune medium of interaction and sharing. Those students who are currently enrolled at the RTSS should endeavour to protect this website from potential hackers or RTSS bashers. We should religiously safeguard confidential materials for our own use and should refrain from allowing unauthorised people from accessing this site.

The RTSS has made tangible effort to be among the best institutions of this island. We have a long way to go because we are still seven years old. My dream is to make this school the best in the country, so that it becomes a reference for one and all. Becoming the best is not an obsession or something baked in arrogance but our way to ensure all the kids who are admitted in the school do get the best of education so that they can blossom emotionally, intellectually, socially, professionally, culturally and artistically.

This website should be a move towards making e-learning a reality. Our kids should get a grasp of e-learning from now itself so that later on they can use it for their personal and professional growth.

I would like my staff also to use this website to keep in touch with one another and with the kids of the school. It should be a window of cordial interaction which is opening amidst a new era of technological revolution. Education is dynamic and is always in a state of perpetual flux. I want this website to reflect the vibrancy of that intellectual brewing and fermentation process. Perhaps we are ushering the dawn of a VIRTUAL SHANTINIKETAN in the making. I want to thank all my collaborators who have helped me in making this dream project of mine a reality and my whole hearted gratitude goes to the RTSSPTA for its unflinching support.

I wish all of you the very best in life.

M Gungapersad