Articles tagged with: education
Fundraiser not so trivial for young students
A camp to Broome might sound like a fun way to end primary school, but getting there is all in the fundraising.
Port Hedland Primary School’s Year 7 parents are holding a trivia night on Saturday, …
Get set kids, school’s out
Kids have plenty of activities to choose from this school holidays in Hedland, including Gemma Maddock’s renowned performing arts workshops.
Movie Marathon.
What can be better than a full afternoon watching movies? Come on down to the …
Primary students explore the brain
At first appearance it might look like an instruction class for junior Dexters or zombies looking for a snack.
Yet the Dampier and Karratha primary school students were not dissecting sheep’s brains at a special class …
More funding needed to preserve Indigenous languages
Language specialists battling to save endangered languages in the Pilbara have welcomed a $54m boost in Federal Government funding, announced earlier this month.
The Federal funding aims to encourage the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait …
Pioneering Karratha students to take up medicine studies at UWA
Young people from Karratha and Geraldton were among the 31 students to commence university studies this week as the second intake of The University of Western Australia’s “choose medicine Rural School Leaver Pathway” program.
The UWA …
Tom Price High School teacher one of the best in the West
A radical career change is paying off for Tom Price Senior High School teacher Kirsten Hunter, who was today named one of eight winners of the WA Beginning Teacher of the Year.
Originally arriving in Tom …
Students attend Pilbara Leaders Symposium
Jonathon Pain, who has 28 years of international investment experience, presented regional Development Australia Pilbara’s impressive annual Pilbara Leaders Symposium this year.
Part of the symposium was a student workshop with year 10 and 11 students …
Students design robot soccer players
A small taste of the future came to Centro shopping centre on Tuesday September 18 when local Year 5 students displayed robots they created as part of a program for gifted students.
The students, who are …
Teddy bears find doctors’ appointments a picnic
Fear not, teddy bears of the Pilbara. If the thought of going to see the doctor curls your belly fluff, help is at hand.
Medicine students from the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia have been …
Power full lesson for Pilbara children
Children at Karratha Primary School and St Paul’s Catholic Primary School had a special but important visitor to the classroom this week by way of a giant frill-necked lizard, Gilbert.
Gilbert is part of the Horizon …
