Mums move on from mini-schools
A group of seven mums have just completed their last mini-school at the Longreach School of Distance Education. They've had the role of home tutor for their children as they've completed their primary...
View ArticleSchool science: Having fun with an explosion or two
Exploding canisters, burning rockets and balancing acrobats were just some of the fun experiments that the students enjoyed at a science rally conducted at the Longreach State Primary School.
View ArticleHall, Tharwa residents accept school decision
Parents at Hall and Tharwa say they have to be realistic and accept the Government will not reopen their local public schools in the near future.
View ArticleStruggling students 'exempt' from NAPLAN tests
Some parents of underperforming students have been told to keep their children home from school over the next three days of NAPLAN testing.
View ArticleA big balloon and plenty of hot air
The Air Force Hot Air Balloon and a team of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) staff from Canberra are currently travelling through outback Australia on an exercise called Arnhem Drifter. They're...
View ArticleCentral-west schools open new multi-million facilities
$6 million worth of new school teaching facilities have been officially opened in Barcaldine and Longreach this week.
View ArticleCatholic Education's arts masterclass - Mulkadee
About 1000 students from Catholic schools all over north and west Queensland have gathered in Townsville for a week of dance, drama, music and song.
View ArticleWe'll be back in class
The principal of Jundah State School says she will find a way "to make school happen" following Tuesday's wild storms.
View ArticleRemember the days at the old schoolyard
Climbing trees, the politics of dobbing on your friends, and the terrifying prospect of getting the cane.
View ArticleSmall ladies with ukuleles
Step aside, recorder. The time has come for another musical instrument to shine... in one western Queensland primary school at least.
View ArticleRemote students disconnected by satellite
The ICPA says Distance Education students living in remote parts of Australia are suffering as a result of the failed NBN rollout.
View ArticleOutback students record war history
Western Queensland students are lending their voices to an Australian War Memorial project to commemorate Australians lost in World War One.
View Article'Education for the heart' for outback Qld students
Primary school students at an outback Queensland school have begun making hairclips for orphaned girls in Vietnam. Raelene Smith from Our Lady's School in Longreach says the activity is an education...
View ArticleStudents spread joy with baked treats for drought-affected Longreach
Students at a small outback Queensland school have made biscuits and baked treats and delivered them to small businesses suffering drought in the community of Longreach.
View ArticleEntrepreneurial school students call for drought pictures for joke...
Children at a small school in Queensland's Wide Bay are calling on drought-stricken graziers to contribute pictures to a joke fundraising DVD, which they hope will raise $10,000 for those doing it...
View ArticleAcclaimed children's author Morris Gleitzman tells outback kids imagination...
Mick Jagger might have the baby boomer market cornered, but when it comes to pre-teens children's author Morris Gleitzman is a really big deal.
View ArticleOutback Qld children battle nerves and each other in Winton's Waltzing...
Hundreds of outback Queensland children travelled hundreds of kilometres to compete in a poetry festival hosted in the town known as the birthplace of Waltzing Matilda.
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