School of the Air - Superman writes...

We are in Longreach, staying at the caravan park and today, Brenda and Murray took me to visit a real live school and to watch and listen to a lesson.
This is a paid tour-I was free-there was no provision for infinite persons-but the lady still gave me a sticker.
First we listened  and watched a video about School of the Air and then we had a tour of the school.
There are approximately 170 students spread over an area twice the size of the state of Victoria. Some children are supervised by their parents or a nanny or by a volunteer. Their lessons are posted in 6 week blocks with a daily timeframe of 6 hours. Each student spends 1 hour a day on the air talking with their teacher and classmates.
 We watched a 'live' lesson with year 1's reading a book about 'wheels'.
We saw dormitories that could hold 50 students - they come for week long visits to attend on site school lessons and some studios where the teacher talks to the students and a very well resourced library.

 Each student is allowed 40 items for 6 weeks. I had my photo taken with Liza and Wendy - the library staff.

I liked the furniture in the conference room, especially the mushrooms!