City Aid to the Bush

(The following has been written by Rosie Earlie, Principal of Enngonia Public School)

Enngonia Public School has been fortunate to develop a partnership with the Pymble Uniting Church. One of the church’s aims is to provide hands on and materiel support for schools and communities located in isolated and remote NSW. After much discussion between the church, community and school it was decided to offer each tutor and family with a student at the school a computer for home use. This will provide continuity between school and home as well as allowing for greater communication with parents on an educational and social level. We are already beginning to work towards developing sites that allow students who are ‘flooded in’ or unable to attend school to access class work via the internet and have face to face discussions with their teacher. We see technology as an important part in providing equal opportunities for all our students and developing a lifelong love of learning as well as having access to a world beyond their immediate locality.


Last Saturday saw the culmination of a dream for our students and their families when Andrew and Bill delivered and set up their new laptop computers. Andrew Williamson, a member of Pymble Uniting Church, and Bill MacLennan his friend and adventurous IT expert, have spent many months making sure the computers purchased would meet our student’s educational needs. This is the first of many more projects that will benefit the Pymble group, our students and the wider local community.