NRL Cowboys House staff are very familiar with cooking for over 100 hungry young people, so it was a full circle experience for students who helped put on breakfast for 150 to kick-start the 2022 Adventure Kings Variety 4WD Adventure.
Education outcomes and opportunities for NRL Cowboys House students have been given a boost with the Morris Family Foundation joining as a Friend of the House.
NRL Cowboys House is keeping students and families connected during the senior school years with more than 30 parents travelling from community for the popular senior parent information sessions, now in their second year.
A poignant National Sorry Day event held at NRL Cowboys House offered staff, students and House partners time to reflect on historical injustices toward Indigenous Australians, as the Cowboys Community Foundation continues to support reconciliation.
Travelling nearly the width of Queensland to attend NRL Cowboys House from opening day, the unique journey trod by foundation student Kody Rogers is one of determination and the courage to change his mind to find his calling.
A striking, larger-than-life mural installed at the entrance of NRL Cowboys House Boys’ Campus will pay homage to the first four graduates of the House whilst marking a special new relationship with Downer Group.
It’s said that “a flower blossoms for its own joy” (Oscar Wilde), but at NRL Cowboys House, hardworking volunteers are ensuring the gardens, facilities and students themselves flourish for everyone to appreciate.
The NRL Cowboys House halls are alive with the sound of students again as 100 excited teens return to their ‘home away from home’ this week, with a strong focus on health and wellbeing setting the tone for term 2.
A disrupted start to the school year across Queensland meant a shorter term 1 for students, who made the most of the opportunities created for them at NRL Cowboys House.