News & Updates

Congratulations to SIDE student Jack Choate on his fantastic performance at the recent Senior Canoe Slalom Nationals in Victoria.

Our Year 8–12 Elite Performance students starting the school year - bright and shiny!

Let’s all learn the 4Rs of online safety this Safer Internet Day.

Tuesday, 5 February 2019 is Safer Internet Day and our school is on board!

In December 2018 SIDE student Raymond Binsiar from Buttah Windie near Meekatharra was a regional winner of the Heywire competition.

New students to SIDE attended an Orientation Day on Friday December 7^th. Students attending reflected SIDE’s diverse enrolment groups; regional and dance students, elite athletes, and Australian and Overseas travellers.

Red Room Poetry Object is Australasia’s largest free poetry-writing competition for students and teachers. Poetry Object invites young writers to create, publish and submit poems inspired by special objects.

The SIDE Languages department has been long recognised as a centre for excellence in K-12 language education. We teach French, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese, and through the SIDE Primary Languages Program offer online learning programs to students in regional schools where a face-to-face languages teacher may not be available.

SIDE’s Open Day on Friday 16 November brought together past and present staff, students and their families to celebrate 100 years of distance education.

In 2018 more than a hundred Year 10 to 12 students enrolled in a popular on-the-job program at SIDE that can be used as part of WACE. The workplaces are diverse and many are located within or near students’ communities.

Our home-based students are involved in a myriad of activities whilst studying at SIDE. Here is an outline of one student’s extracurricular activities.