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I did School Of The Air for grades 1 until end of grade 5 in far north WA ( south east of Derby). But back then (early to mid 70s), we had two way radio's, no screens to see our teachers. All school assignments were either dropped off via truckies bringing supplies to town, or the mail service which was dropped via small plane back then.
The truckies would stop, bring us our school parcel, and he would take a parcel from us, which had our completed work, and drop it at the post office for pickup.
It worked for us
My mother remarried when I was 15 and we moved to a cattle station on the New South Wales / South Australian border. My brother and I enrolled in the School of the Air (Broken Hill). I was a problem for them because I was trying to complete years 11 and 12 - most students transferred to boarding school for years 7 to 12. The teachers had to keep liaising with the Broken Hill high school teachers for me. Unfortunately I developed serious health issues and had to give it up, but it was an interesting experience while it lasted. While in this school they had a competition to design a badge and motto. My design didn’t win, but my motto did - Parted but United. This was in the mid 1950s
@@denisegolding9100 Thanks for sharing your story.
I finished grade 5 with school of the air, and we moved down to Perth, because the only boarding schools in WA, were all Christian based, which didn't tickle my fancy at all lol. I went to Governor Stirling High School, where all the boarding kids from "Swanleigh" also went - all I will say about that, is 'yep' my parents and I made the right decision to move down to Perth lol.
All the Swanleigh kids suffered badly from homesickness, and the longing to be back in the bush. Where as we bought an 8 acre property, so I still had my family, horses, pets and motor bikes, so it was nowhere near as difficult for me.
Australia. Very advanced. We have been doing remote classes since radio and no video. Well before COVID and Zoom happened. We did it first. #StrayaIsAwesome
So advanced you are joking ! We don't even have reliable cheap power anymore
Can't make our own fuel ! And can't build houses if our lives depended on it .
Certainly not the lucky country any more .and a pathetic government telling people what to do and buy .
@@gregdean8441😭
You're certainly a little ray of sunshine! Go have a beer mate, and chill out. We're STILL the lucky country, especially compared to many other places. Have you travelled overseas to see how the other half live? I have, and I just about kissed the ground at Tullamarine when I arrived back in Oz. Be thankful for what we do have, really.
@@janined5784 yes lived in Bristol England Cape town South Africa and former Rhodesia now Zimbabwe have traveled Europe and USA for 2 years born in Australia was a great place definitely not now
@@gregdean8441 what a ridiculous load of crap. Cheap power does not equate to progress. It equates to high bills. We mine all the lithium for the world’s batteries. So, we are still rich. Very lucky. You need a reality check. Go do some research and stop being a downer about stuff that is not even true.
My mum did school of the air in the 1950s and 60s. Smartest person you’ll ever meet
Also my hubby (passed 6yr ago) grew up on very remote property far west Queensland and started school radio In 1950 also and never went to boarding school then late teens had bad accident from horse and rushed down t o Brisbane for surgery and to live with Gran and I met him and missed national service to Vietnam but joined Air force and needed strong maths for what he wanted and spent yrs in / out Vietnam with cargo and later joined Fed police...so school of air worked well for him although missed when having to help droving...all on horseback in those days...
We were on a road trip in WA and visited a school of the air, I think at Port Hedland. We found it very interesting. The teacher had a small group on her monitor and was speaking with students. The teacher explained that she was once talking to a young girl who was hundreds of kms away when there was a loud "ka-boom". Horrified the teacher asked what happened. Without flinching the young girl said "Nothing to worry about, mum just killed a king brown with the shotgun".
Wow! Cool! Go Mum!
lol
@@janined5784 You must know it's illegal to kill any snake anywhere...
@@twoflyinghats and out in the middle of nowhere who is going to know?????
You want to tell mama that? @@twoflyinghats
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Thank you so much for doing one about
The School of the Air.
It's also used for children whose parents have traditional travelling occupations as well- so children can travel with their parents & not miss out on education.
I often see a lot of criticism from people in the U.S. towards others who choose to take their kids on the road using the internet for "home schooling"
Most people educated here know it's entirely possible to get a decent education without physically attending school five days a week.
The Library will post the books to the kids in with their work.
‘School of the Air’ started in Australia in 1951, using the Royal Flying Doctor Service communications (short wave radio) equipment in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
'School of the Air' Lesson broadcast to the Outback 1962 will give you a great idea of what it was like for our outback and remote school children. Thanks for being interested in Australia Ryan from Indiana.
It is an amazing service, and has done a great job of educating children on remote properties. It's particularly valuable for younger children for whom boarding school would not be a sensible option.
I went to a primary school in a remote area while living on a sheep station. The whole school year 1 to year 6 was 12 kids, one teacher. It took 30 mins to get there on a tiny bus, after crossing a river on a log that spanned it. When it flooded, my mates dad would take us across the river crossing on a four wheeler. The school was called Mingoola school in NSW, I think it’s still going. The teacher use to do a snake check before we went for lunch as there was only a road, a community hall and bush area use. And the teachers accomodation.
The kids can talk back with radio because it is two way not a radio station
school of the air started in 1951
Yep I was just about to say that. They could talk back. Lol.
Cb radio
long distance high frequency , Very high frequency wouldn't cut it
HF radio I would guess
school of the air started with 2 way radio
Yeah and I bet the kids didn't backchat at their teacher too often either. I grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s and if I got the cane at school I'd hope my parents did not find out😂😂. My parents wouldn't tolerate us being rude to a teacher
My daughter got bullied out of regular school and hated the school. We live out west, out past woop woop, and I enrolled her into Distance Education and she thrived and loved it.
The school even had a companion dog for anyone who needed a hug!
She could attend the 2 days a week that the classroom was open, or do everything online or via mail or email or via phone, or any mix of those things that suited her and her best way of learning. It was amazing!
I believe the kids could talk back, like a ham radio situation for learning. I know of a lot of children of Farmers in remote areas that go to boarding school like the boy in the first video
traveling Australia back in the 80's, have listened yo the school of the air a number of times, it was done by HF radio
I currently watch a series about an outback farming family, The Joneses, the smaller kids there have a live in teacher and radio school supervision and the teens go to an expensive city boarding school during the terms! Also, they learn essential farming tasks at home during school holidays and other skills! 🤗
Yep…I was going to be a “governess” for the outback stations supporting kids who did School of the Air but then they changed everything in the ‘80’s by basically getting rid of the governess training and making people do a full on education degree at university. 😢 I then changed to nursing but the same thing happened - they changed the nursing training. Used to be able to do nursing directly through a hospital nursing school, now it’s a university degree. 🤷🏻♀️ Had been enrolled for two years at a nursing school in Brisbane…got a letter 3 months before finishing year 10 in high school saying that the course was cancelled as it was now being integrated into the tertiary system…I was devastated! Gave up on both teaching and nursing. Finished year 12, got into uni on a drama degree but declined it. Got married at 19 and had my children instead. Didn’t work at all until my own kids were at school. 😢
@@Cyannah117 Unfortunate, it's definitely a worthwhile job and so rewarding to see the kids explore the world outside their boundaries!
Ah, That's the Word I had forgotten..."GOVERNESS". A great experience, especially in the 70's when high unemployment rife.
I don't think people in other countries have any idea how vast and isolated some of our properties are.
We have multiple versions of 'Distance Education'. I'm in QLD Australia and if we want Home Based Education instead of mainstream schooling, we have over 20 DE schools to choose from just in our state, OR we can register with the state based Home Ed Dept and use our own customised curriculum for each individual child. These options are open to any QLD family, regardless of where we live. It's not usually a 'distance' issue, just a better way to learn that provides flexibility. #free2homeschool
Wait til you hear about university then! I did my BA by distance learning before online learning was even a thing with the University of New England (UNE). Absolutely incredible, so organised and the library staff.......incredibly helpful people getting books & copying to you. Later on I ended up also doing my MA there as well, this time was online learning thankfully, as I did my entire postgrad living in China!!
Lol, the kids could talk back to the teachers, they used UHF 2 way radios, like Truckies use,, not like your usual radio for listening to music😂😂😂😂😂
In small towns in the outback they have the one or two rooms school. I’m a retired teacher and have taught at two room schools. Or two teacher schools. One class is made up of students from kindy, one and two and the senior class is grades three through six. It’s really fun to teach in small schools because you usually have less students. I had the junior class and only had 15 students. In the larger schools I would usually have about 22 students all in the same grade.
Look at the NT schools. There's another school of the air in Katherine, NT but they also have physical schools there too. Just south of Darwin.
“Just” for Australia. It’s 300+kms.
About 1/6 of the distance to the SA border, so, yeah, just.
@@judithstrachan9399 but it's a good Aussie joke!
My friend from Queensland was taking me to a café before my flight back to NSW, and said it was "just up the road"... more than an hour later I had to get in a taxi to scoot back, or I would have missed the flight! Lol That's what happens when you're friends with someone from Gin Gin! lol
I taught a few lesson for QLD School of Distance Education from a school in North Queensland. One of the students was so far away, one of the other student would relay messages from me to him and vise versa. It was pretty special and challenging to teach without being able to see how the students were reacting. I'm sure I looked silly waving my arms around as I taught, sitting Infront of the radio.
There is a few episodes of Skippy that shows the remote schooling. Even an episode of Thunderbirds where International Rescue go to an emergency in the outback
Imagine having a government that invests more than almost nothing into education…
The original School of the Air used 2-way radio, another Australian invention.
it was a two way radio
The ABC probably have radio school of the air stories on their channel.
Australian school didn’t stop teaching during COVID. The teachers and students did all work via face to face. 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Do you mean via online platforms like Zoom? Our kid's school was closed for months except for the kids of frontline workers
Schools were absolutely closed during the pandemic lockdown. My son was doing year 12 online. This was Canberra - the capital.
Hi Ryan, and those rzdioes for school were pedal powered😊
I've been looking forward to you discovering this gem of ours. I hope you look into it a bit more. It's an amazing education service
'Kindy' is short for kindergarten.
In the old days they used pedal powered two way radios.
Originally they were "Pedal Radio's" as there was no electricity in the Outback. Basically a Walkie Talkie, no Visual, between "School of the Air Base" Teacher & Station Children, & after speaking you said "Over", so the person on the other end knew to Speak. Young Adults would be employed by the Station Owner as a Supervising Teacher/Nanny & expected to help the wife with Domestic Chores as well. My pen-pal from Lameroo went to a Northern Territory Property & I believe a rewarding time for her.
nbn .. National Broadbend Network . Hi Ryan Thanks for taking interest in us. we appreciate it. Keep your chin up;.
I first learned that school of the air was a thing when I saw Sonny Hammond doing his lessons on a 2 way radio at his home at Ranger Headquarters. Skippy used to do the lessons with Sonny and she got an ‘A+’ for an art project she did. Skippy painted a bush scene on white butchers paper using her paws dipped in acrylic paint! 🤣🦘🦘🎨🖌️🖼️
There's an early 1980's film clip of Princess Diana talking on a 2 way radio to a young student in the outback :)
My cousin attended School of the Air in the 1970's in the Northern Territory.
My son does Distance Ed, we are coastal Qld but having asd and being very noise senitive he couldnt deal with classrooms. He graduates year 12 at the end of the year 😊😊 My dad did school of the air back in the 50s/60s when he worked on stations as a kid.
I knew when you did Flying Doctors, you’d have to find out about the School of the Air
The 2nd video is an ad for NBN (Australia’s internet network)
I taught at Charleville School of Distance Education (formerly School of the Air) in the early 2000's. Best two years of my career. I should never have left!
This is pretty much how all Australian children had to learn during lockdown.
NBN = National Broadband Network. Remote kids' (and my) internet is via satellite
@darrenmccourt439 I really don't care. I was just explaining what it meant,
NBN (national Broadband Network) is the semi-government-owned enterprise rolling out a fibre-optic cable network across Australia. Various retail companies sell NBN internet access to consumers.
The school of the air was by two way radio, so kids could talk back and forth over the air. In the early days it was conducted over the Flying Doctor network, and the radios were powered by pedaling, so they got exercise while they learned. It became possible when the Flying Doctor service invented the pedal powered shortwave radio in 1929 and education piggybacked on the good work of the Flying Doctors. Adelaide Miethke was the visionary woman who set it up and made it a success.
I did it for two years, I was in Daley River, in the early 70s.
The radio was two-way. The children were able to talk to the teachers..
NBN stands for National Broardband Network and kindy is short for kindergarten (first year at school)
Kindy? As usual, shorten the word and add ee. Kindergarten, kindy 😊
Or ie, to make it kindie!
NBN stands for National Broadband Network.
2nd video is a commercial for nbn(a government owned company). But the nbn is Australia wide and anyone can sign up. Nbn probably provides distant learning tech as a community service.
NBN = National Broadband Network. Fibre optic cable rolled out across the continent. Although most of those stations would be using satellite, it *used* to be that inward internet was satellite but outward had to be physical, dunno if that’s changed
I did pre-school (3-4 years old) by correspondence (via books and cassette tapes) but went to normal primary (if you call a very, very small local school of around only 20 kids total from year 1 to year 7), then I bussed to a standard high school in a town 25 miles away from year 8 to year 10, then went away to boarding school for 2 years. Australia is a massive country so school of the air and online schooling is normal for remote areas, with kids attending boarding school for high school most of the time. School of the Air was via two-way radio so kids could talk back to the teachers. Most is now just via internet video I think.
Australia has School of the Air but also has the School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). SIDE sends out work packages and generally doesn't have the face to face component of School of the Air. My primary school was also the site for the school of the air in Northern Western Australia.
Port Hedland or further north?
@@judithstrachan9399 Port Hedland
@@judithstrachan9399 Port Hedland
Ryan, as a suggestion locate where Mount Isa is using Google Maps (or similar), then zoom out until you can see Karumba and Birdsville, that is roughly the area that school covers (admittedly not a full circle, more a blob that spans from roughly the borders on the west and south, and the Landsborough Highway)
They used tredle wireless in the old days,
I'm about to turn 41, I started my schooling in school of the air. I was on a sheep station called Curnamona in south Australia. We learned over radio, structured books and activities as well as packages of these and the resources to complete them which came via the postie.
That year 7 boy probably drives a million dollar header or harvester or tractor, while kids in the cities have barely graduated from playing lego.
NBN = National Broadband Network
NBN stands for National Broadband Network. All broadband infrastructure in Australia is run by the NBN with third party internet providers providing the service.
There is also distance education
ruclips.net/video/zc4Jmj6Zpfs/видео.html -- Countrywide 1958. "School of the Air".
Kindy is kindergarten ( age 5)Year 12 they are 17 or 18..Then University or College or Tafe..or work
NBN is National Broadband Network
How on earth did you deduce that it’s French government funded??? It isn’t, the Australian Government pays for School of the Air. The world's first School of the Air was officially opened on 8 June 1951, using pedal powered 2-way radio links.
NBN = National Broadband Network
G'day The "Remote/outback" footage used during the second clip showed Mount Isa in the background. About 20,000 population.and is only a little over 1800km (1100 Miles) by road to Brisbane.
Thumbs down kiddo... you kept talking over all the dialogue. *facepalm*
Yes, it's COOL! Australia IS cool, in every way. There's no place like it, anywhere.
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The School of the Air used radio, but not in the sense that you think, Ryan. Its was 2-way radio (like CB radio), so the kids could definitely respond. Over.
Remember your Royal Flying Doctor Service video? It mentioned pedal radio’s invention. That was what these children’s grandparents used for School of the Air.
The radio was there, the children were there, why *wouldn’t* we combine them?!?
I learnt most of what I know from watching 'Skippy The Bush Kangaroo'.
G'day Ryan, l grew up in the outback of Northern NSW and went too Radio School from 1963 to 1969 and boarding school from 1970 to 1976, l only saw my fellow primary school kids once a year, and we are still all mates and visit each other when we can, l have just retired from the farm this year, cheers mate Neil 🤠.
Gone postal
the "flying doctor" radios were on the 7MHz band recievable across the entire country at night the radios at stations and properties were powered by pedal, so you had to keep the pedals going for the ENTIRE period you were using it. during daylight hours it had a range of roughly 1000 miles so you would be in range of at LEAST one RFDS station no matter WHERE on the continent you happen to be.
I'm sure you could find footage, ABC did a story on School of the Air when it was radio. Also, look for the Indigenous Outback communities education system. That would give you the best idea of remote learning.
When we lived on the Nullarbor in late 80's girls did School of the Air and correspondence schooling. It was fabulous 👌 Be way better now.
How funny that everyone got mad about online education during Covid, but this was a very effective education with the children in the outback for YEARS!!
We have School of the Air out here. We didn't think it was hard to continue classes via the internet during covid. Ha Ha.🤣🤣🤣 Our School of the Air is located in Mount Isa Qld which is the largest town in the Queensland outback. . One of my friend's daughter attends school in a small town and she has Chinese lessons over the phone with the Brisbane School of Distance Education (Early Childhood to Year 12).
Many but not all of the kids when they reach High School, will attend a boarding school or continue with School of the Air. or they are home schooled.
Mount Isa City municipality covers an area of 43,348.60 km2 (16,736.99 sq miles)🦘🦘🦘🦘
It started by using the pedal radio system that the RFDS (flying doctor) used. 2-way radio, not a radio station broadcast. It's called School of the Air, so you can look that up and see how it's progressed.
If there was no available radio, the "Correspondence School of the Air" sent packets of lessons, via the outback cattle station's mail. According to graded ability, or age group. I took part in Correspondence School when I was 7 for about a year. I figured out that if I did the week's work on Monday morning, I had 6.5 days to do whatever else I wanted to. (Correspondence school was never told I did it all in one morning; we pretended I did some each day). Ideal schooling. The cattle station had an extensive library as well. Mother sent the completed work off to the School, rinse and repeat. Once I was proficient in reading, about age 7, I could read whatever subject or topic I wanted to from the station library (subject to vetting by my mother, of course). By 10, I was reading adult books on a diverse range of subjects, had learnt some sewing, embroidery, clay figurine crafting, basic baking, putting on "talent shows" with the other three kids on the cattle station, gone on a day cattle round up trip, outback survival tips, hints about how to care for horses, crops... Just followed my interests. For passive entertainment, we listened to radio shows for kids. P.S. for those kids who had access to the radio, yes they did talk back to the teachers. No cheeky stuff, though; we're talking about the 50's and 60's onwards. With radio contact, there was real time access to ask the teachers questions, get help etc. The parents too. Usually the mothers in charge of the home "work" aspect. There were set times the teacher would call, and depending on many factors, classes would have a few kids, or more than a few (exact numbers I don't know, but if there were five kids of school age on a cattle or sheep station, then they'd all "attend" the radio session at the same time each week). For those kids without the equipment to speak to the teacher, they just tuned in and listened and followed the class. Wrote any questions and sent the work into the Correspondence school, as per normal.
The school of the air started in 1951, using two way radio, the radio network was maintained by the Royal flying doctor service.
Cheers mate there are some with kids on radio
There's a library because students need books, it's just that in the case of the school of the air the books are MAILED to the students, instead of them walking in and checking them out. it also means all books have a LEAD time ... how long it takes the books to arrive at their destination. Of course with the internet many of them are available as digital downloads, saving the mailing time. The first "School Of The Air" was founded in 1951, with the students learning basically by radio broadcast lectures. This was updated to internet, then video conferencing and recently to zoom style classrooms. No getting up early to catch a bus or whatever, just roll out of bed, get dressed, brush your hair and sit in front of the computer to start class.
Definitely two way communication via radio, so the teacher could interact with the students and the students could participate in group projects.
Radio is vital in the outback.
Back before mobile phones were available, we crossed the Nullarbor with two cars, both equipped with CB radio so we could keep in touch during the trip.
NBN, being a government monopoly wholesaler of broadband Internet access, doesn't need to advertise to drum up business. Being a national government enterprise, it has frequently been impersonated by cold-calling scammers in India running the long-time tech support scam.
You mentioned NBN Australia... that's the national broadband network. In essence, the government has put together a whole lot of wholesale technologies for connecting Australians to Internet including optical fibre, cable, short distance copper wires, satellite, radio... and the NBN sells it onto commercial retailers who sell it to end users. Obviously city dwellers tend to be better connected, but the satellite and radio technologies do work well.
In consideration of the wider internet access picture in Australia , Elon Musk's Starlink is now in the mix too, as are 5G technologies from Telcos but these are not part of the NBN.
The school of the air was originally a two-radio service where teachers and students could communicate with one another - but not see each other. The same radio systems as truck drivers, pilots, CFA etc would use. Without the internet, assignments, projects, books etc would all need to be posted from the school to students and back. Only one person at a time could talk and with the older technology parts weren't as reliable and sometimes the weather would interrupt signals. The NBN = National Broadband Network (internet)
NBNCo = National Broadband Network Company, government owned.
When the driveway is 90 miles from the homestead to the road and once you get to the road you will have hundreds of miles to drive to the nearest "real" school (i.e. a school with classrooms full of kids), this is a pretty obvious solution. Material is posted out from the base of the school (presumably including books from the library), the work is done and the students' output is posted back to be checked by the teacher.
Usually, one room is set aside as the "classroom" and an adult (usually mum) takes on the duties of teacher's aide. If there are multiple families (the owners, staff) living at the homestead, the school-age kids might have their schooling together and this may be in a custom-built "school".
School in the outback is done by radio, called school of the air as the students are hundreds of miles apart. So you can say they are all home schooled. Now with IT it’s more sophisticated. It started in 1950’s.
The School of the Air (or whatever the modern-day equivalent is called) is bound to have a website or YT videos that might give you more info.
My daughter worked in Tottenham, NSW for her first three years of teaching. It is the geographical centre of New South Wales and she was a high school teacher there. It is what they term “beyond the line” due to it’s remoteness and the temperatures reached in mid summer! It’s known as a “six point school also for those reasons!
Lol, just watching Ryan struggle with our " outback " accent 😅
School of the air started in 1951 in Alice Springs South Australia.
The old time radio school... You indicated that you thought the students couldn't talk back, that's not the case. It was more along the lines of talking on ham or CB radio, the students could talk back, with a push to talk microphone.
Unfortunatelty you talked over the lady explaining about the viola ( best to rewind a little afyer you cut in) but interesting topic!, thanks. That little boy was mote articulate than many of his peers.!
Kindy or Kindie is short for kindergarten, what you Americans call pre-school
Each state has its own education setup. The radio school of the air did use microphones so the kids could speak to the teachers. I did hear of pedal driven radios, back in the day when power wasn’t always available, or was unreliable, used for The Flying Doctor too.
Remember that schools in US are based on county boundaries whereas in Oz schools are based on state/territory boundaries and standardised. So no arguments about “what” is taught. There is also national curriculum standards. Makes this stuff simple to do.