News & Updates

Monday 19 August – Friday 23 August

You can now enrol your children in VacSwim swimming lessons for the October school holidays.

Destination Moon: more missions, more science is the school theme for National Science Week in 2019. This means, of course, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing in 1969.

SIDE has teamed up with Meekatharra District High School (MDHS) in a ground-breaking virtual learning program that’s changing expectations of what can be achieved through distance education.

Rhys Allan, a Year 12 student at the School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) in Leederville, was recently presented with an Olympic Flag in recognition of his outstanding achievement in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires.

Morris Gleitzman visited SIDE this week as part of our Authors Online program. Morris is the current Australian Children’s Laureate, and spoke to SIDE students in Years 5 to 10 about his writing using our new web conferencing platform, Webex.

SIDE students pursuing their elite sports ambitions travel, train and study. It is often a difficult combination. Former SIDE student, Olympic swimmer Tamsin Cook said recently when talking to the Elite Performance students.

SIDE students work in diverse places: school rooms, travelling within Australia, and while living overseas. Everyone faces challenges.

Congratulations to SIDE Year 12 student Cheri Van Rensburg who has been selected to attend the 2019 July Curtin AHEAD with Confidence Camp.