MONTO State High School Cattle Club started preparations and training for the 2017 show season with a training clinic held at the Monto Showgrounds over the weekend.

Students learnt the basics in grooming, handling, parading and judging.

A total of 29 students ranging from Year 7-12 participated in the clinic, which had a few former faces show up to help out: National Champion Tania Sainsbury (Hartwig) and State Reserve Champion Luke Aisthorpe, both former students of Monto State High.

Students learnt the basics in grooming, handling, parading and judging.

Tobey Worley, Monto State High's new Agriculture teacher said the enthusiasm and professionalism from the students was impressive.

"We've got a lot of grade sevens this year, a lot of newcomers,” Mr Worley said.

"This will be the first time they've had a proper ag teacher in a while, so it'll hopefully spark a bit of interest in the cattle club and get it up and running like it used to be.”

Mr Worley joined this year and worked with Becky Wilson to re-establish a Cattle Club.

"There's a lot of driving forces, there's a lot of good parents and having a new ag teacher,” Mrs Wilson said.

"We've never had a weekend like this before to really encourage them and get started.”

"On Saturday we had Tania Sainsbury, who's won up to national division in every event come by for some tutoring and then today they put that into practice.”

Sundays program saw the students compete in a mock show, where they applied the skills learnt from the previous day.

For a majority of students this was their first experience with judging and sharing their opinions on the placings to an audience

Mr Worley said there would likely be another clinic in a few weeks time to get ready for the Gayndah Show in April 15.

Until then, students will be having Agriculture practice once a day.