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School of Isolated and Distance Education
The School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) is the main centre for Kindergarten to Year 12 distance education and online learning within the Western Australian Department of Education. It provides education for students who for various reasons cannot attend classes in a regular school. It began operations as the Correspondence School in 1918. Its name and location have changed over time. It is currently located in Leederville, a suburb of Perth.
SIDE caters for Western Australian students who are:
A specialist Primary Languages Program in French, Italian, Indonesian and Japanese is also delivered online from SIDE to regional schools without specialist language teachers.
A Perth-based distance education school was established in September 1918 as the Correspondence School of Western Australia. At this time Western Australia had a comparatively small population spread across a large and diverse geographic area, and families living in isolated areas were unable to provide a comprehensive education for their children. The main purpose of the school was to provide education to the ‘isolated’ and the ‘outback’ students.
Student enrolments for the new Correspondence School grew quickly. The curriculum was expanded to meet the needs of students who were not catered for in traditional schools. The cohort included children in post-primary years who did not have a local high school, physically disabled children, children whose parents had no fixed address or those who were temporarily living overseas where schooling was not available. There were also students in remote and rural areas who were over the compulsory school age but wanted to continue their studies. Correspondence lessons were also made available to Aboriginal children in pastoral areas, at Aboriginal Missions without schools and to post-primary Aboriginal students in small country schools.
Clarence Eakins was appointed Headmaster of the Correspondence School in May 1920, a post he held until 1951. Developments during this time included a comprehensive curriculum covering Infants to Junior Certificate. Itinerant teachers were appointed to visit and work with isolated students and any new technologies and philosophies were employed to improve the education of children across the state. In 1964 Eakins wrote a History of the Correspondence School.
In addition to the Perth-based school in existence since 1918, other services were established then amalgamated into the existing service. Five Schools of the Air were established in the 1960s as part of the Perth school but had become autonomous by the early 1980s.
Throughout its history, the school adopted new practices and technologies with the intention of improving educational opportunities for young people in rural and isolated conditions.
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School of Isolated and Distance Education
The School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) is the main centre for Kindergarten to Year 12 distance education and online learning within the Western Australian Department of Education. It provides education for students who for various reasons cannot attend classes in a regular school. It began operations as the Correspondence School in 1918. Its name and location have changed over time. It is currently located in Leederville, a suburb of Perth.
SIDE caters for Western Australian students who are:
A specialist Primary Languages Program in French, Italian, Indonesian and Japanese is also delivered online from SIDE to regional schools without specialist language teachers.
A Perth-based distance education school was established in September 1918 as the Correspondence School of Western Australia. At this time Western Australia had a comparatively small population spread across a large and diverse geographic area, and families living in isolated areas were unable to provide a comprehensive education for their children. The main purpose of the school was to provide education to the ‘isolated’ and the ‘outback’ students.
Student enrolments for the new Correspondence School grew quickly. The curriculum was expanded to meet the needs of students who were not catered for in traditional schools. The cohort included children in post-primary years who did not have a local high school, physically disabled children, children whose parents had no fixed address or those who were temporarily living overseas where schooling was not available. There were also students in remote and rural areas who were over the compulsory school age but wanted to continue their studies. Correspondence lessons were also made available to Aboriginal children in pastoral areas, at Aboriginal Missions without schools and to post-primary Aboriginal students in small country schools.
Clarence Eakins was appointed Headmaster of the Correspondence School in May 1920, a post he held until 1951. Developments during this time included a comprehensive curriculum covering Infants to Junior Certificate. Itinerant teachers were appointed to visit and work with isolated students and any new technologies and philosophies were employed to improve the education of children across the state. In 1964 Eakins wrote a History of the Correspondence School.
In addition to the Perth-based school in existence since 1918, other services were established then amalgamated into the existing service. Five Schools of the Air were established in the 1960s as part of the Perth school but had become autonomous by the early 1980s.
Throughout its history, the school adopted new practices and technologies with the intention of improving educational opportunities for young people in rural and isolated conditions.