Mount Isa School of the Air

What a fun day we had in Normanton yesterday at Minischool!
Shake & Stir Theatre Co visited to do some drama games with us and help out 💚
We then rocked the night away at the disco 🪩

Day 1 done of Normanton Minischool!
We had a very exciting morning going for a ride on the Gulflander 🛤️
Teachers have lots of fun ‘MISOTA Rocks’ activities planned for the week 🌍
There were many smiling faces at nights games night to finish off our big first day ☺️

All aboard Normanton Minischool 🚂

That’s a wrap on the Julia Creek Minischool for 2024. It sure was freezing but that didn’t stop the fun times 🩵💛
Check out some of the amazing artwork students created with our Minischool artist, Garth.
Thursday night saw a celebration of the week as well as farewelling our Year 6 students from Julia Creek Minischool.
Thank you all for a fantastic week, we will see our next crew in Normanton 🤗

Day✌🏼of Julia Creek Minischool!
Our students rocked out to classic hits at our Rock n Roll disco 🪩

Our Year 6 students and their teachers recently had the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage, and democracy by attending our Year 6 Camp to Canberra.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion, the Australian Government contributed funding to our school to the amount of $900 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion.

On behalf of our school community, particularly our Year 6 Students, we would like to acknowledge and thank the PACER rebate scheme for the financial support that was given to ensure that our students experience and learn about Civics and Citizenship in action.

With confidence, we can predict that our Year 6 students will take these learnings and be the leaders of our collective tomorrow.

Minischools for 2024 have kicked off this week in Julia Creek!
Our theme for this year is ‘MISOTA Rocks’ where students will be exploring Geology activities with their peers and teachers 🔎🌎
Check out what we got up to on day 1 and our games night 🎲

Ready to rock at Julia Creek Minischool 🤘🏽

Check out the article in this week’s North West Weekly about our Year 6s heading to Canberra 🩵💛

One of our favourite stories in this week's paper was seeing these remote bush kids having a blast in Canberra and surrounds as part of the Year 6 Mount Isa School of the Air camp.

Year 6 camp updated flight arrival time of 4:55 pm into Mount Isa 😊

It’s Show time in Mount Isa and our student work is proudly on display! If you’re in town, pop in and have a look!!

Year 6 students are about to board the flight to Brisbane to start our journey home ✈️

Final day in Canberra was jam packed! Year 6s visited Museum of Australian Democracy, Australian Electoral Education Centre, CSIRO and AIS.
We sure have learnt and experienced a lot this week but have some students keen to head home to see their families 🩵

What a day it was for our Year 6s, with our trip to the snow! We experienced lots of firsts today - playing in the snow didn’t disappoint ❄️
They are all tucked up in bed now ready for a big last day of activities 😴

First day of Year 6 Canberra camp was a great success ☺️ We visited The Australian War Memorial, Parliament House and Questacon.
Everyone is looking forward to a day in the snow tomorrow ❄️

Feeling frosty ☃️

Year 6 campers have arrived in chilly Canberra 🥶

Year 6 camp students have made it to Brisbane, waiting for our flight onto Canberra soon ✈️
They’re all excited to be together and looking forward to the week ahead 🤗

What a way to finish Term 2 Group Days! We visited Burketown on Tuesday and had a great group of students participate in our Olympics themed activities. We even had a visit from the Burketown Rural Fire Service 🚒
Miss Lauren & Miss Geddes really enjoyed presenting Group Days this term and thank everyone for their involvement and look forward to Minischools next term 😊

Next on the Group Day tour was Normanton! We had a great turnout of students and it was so much fun spending the day learning about the Olympics and participating in the MISOTA Mini Olympics 🏆✨

Clarafield & Euraba Group Days 🏆
Last week, we travelled out for two more Olympic themed Group Days and had a blast!
Thanks for coming to spend these fun days with the Field Team and Mr David 💙💛

Year 4/5 Campers are on the last leg of their journey. Leaving Cloncurry now. 9:00pm

Year 4/5 Campers are leaving Julia Creek. 7pm

Year 4/5 Campers leaving Nelia turn off now. 6:05pm

Year 4/5 Campers are running behind schedule due to a later departure time, unexpected stops to check the bus aircon system, bathroom stops and a thousand red lights due to roadworks. We apologise for the delay.

Year 4/5 had a lovely afternoon tea in Richmond and are now heading towards Nelia. 4:50pm

2:55pm - Year 4/5 Camp leaving Hughenden

After a yummy muffin, juice and piece of fruit,we are leaving Charters Towers. It’s 11:40am.

Year 4/5 Campers are just leaving Townsville. We are hoping to be in Charters Towers around 11:15.