Community Trust's $61,500 donation a boon to RBHS | Rotorua News | Local News in Rotorua

Rotorua Boys' High School boarders will soon be able to learn through state-of-the-art technology thanks to a substantial donation from the Bay of Plenty Community Trust.

Two new 52-bed hostels are currently being built at the school and will have new data cabling installed with the $61,500 funding boost from the trust.

RBHS principal Chris Grinter said as the necessary technology was integrated into the school, hostel students would be able to access previous lessons and homework requirements from their rooms.

Bay of Plenty Community Trust chairman Ray Sharp said with students attending the school from as far away as the East Cape and rural Central North Island areas, the donation had the potential of benefiting a wide range of live-in students.

"Many of these students will be from remote rural or deprived areas of the Bay and this electronic age hostel will provide them with life-changing opportunities," he said.

The first of the school's new hostels is expected to be ready by the end of January with students moving in by the beginning of term two.

Other Rotorua organisations to benefit from the final round of the Bay of Plenty Community Trust donations for this year are:

Neighbourhood Support, $12,500; Reporoa Kindergarten, $15,000, Rotorua Arts Village Trust, $5000; Rotorua Lakeside Concert, $10,000 and Whangamarino Primary School, $7385.