For some families in Wilcannia, many of them the Barkindji people, remote learning due to coronavirus measures has proved a challenge, forcing the local school and its teachers to get creative.
As students across New South Wales begin term two with a continuation of distance learning, some remote schools in the far west of the state have had to think differently in order to provide disadvantaged children with the best chance of an education.
Teacher Tarren Walsh says the initiative is an important way to overcome the digital divide that exists in the community. “We’re one of the lucky families because not everyone [in the community] can read or write. Not everyone here has the basics,” he said with the radio blasting in the background. Professor Natalie Brown, director of the Peter Underwood Centre at the University of Tasmania, was the lead author on a paper that found 46 per cent of all children are at risk of adverse effects on their educational outcomes, nutrition, physical movement and emotional wellbeing by being physically disconnected from school.
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