Field services such as home visits and mini-schools are offered to all isolated students.
Mini-schools or workshops
A mini-school involves inviting parents, students and supervisors in the isolated, traveling and medical categories of enrolment to the Walgett or Bourke centres. At times a central location may be used to combine the centres.
Mini-schools may involve two, three or four days of "face to face" teaching and learning opportunities for the students, supervisors and teachers. Most commonly there are three mini-schools per year - Term 1, Term 2 and Term 4.
The primary aim of a mini-school is:
- to provide a venue and activities conducive to the development of socialisation skills.
- to enable teacher, parents and students to work together in group activities.
- to workshop parents/supervisors in the philosophies behind Key Learning Areas and education in general.
- to create a sense of whole school identity among students enrolled in DE.
- to enable teachers to work directly with their students, covering areas of learning that are difficult to assess through standard DE mode.
- for teachers to discuss student progress with the supervisors/parents and vice versa.
