We stayed the night in Alice Springs and had the next morning to kill before our flight left in the afternoon. Since we were an easy walk to the Alice Springs School of the Air, we paid them a visit.
This is a mural on the wall at the main entrance.
For O/S 365ers, the School of the Air was established in 1951 in Alice Springs to provide education to children living in remote and isolated communities where it was not feasible to provide traditional education facilities.
The Alice Springs centre covers an area of 1.3 million sq kms and includes children living up to 1000kms away in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Other School of the Air centres are in other regional out towns such as Mt Isa and Broken Hill.
Alice Springs has about 190 students and covers years 1 through to 9
Great mural - so much going on! What a brilliant way to teach the children who live so far away from normal schools. Your trips have made me realise just how vast Australia is! Would they now be using the internet or do they not have the connections? In the UK there are still places where they struggle with internet connection.
