Gormandale & District Primary School

Rosedale Road Gormandale

5197 7444

 
Gormandale Primary is a well appointed and modern school having been recently built to replace the original Gormandale school and Gormandale East school.

A highlight for the school was when students had the opportunity to speak directly with astranaught Andy Thomas on the MIR space station.
The contact was organised through the MIREX/SAREX organisation in the United States who facilitates amateur radio experiments with manned spacecraft. The original application to be involved with the program was 4 years previously and it was a great surprise when the school received a phone call from the Australian coordinator, Graham Ratcliff in Adelaide, who said that Andy Thomas had spoken to a number of U.S. and other international schools but because of his Australian background wanted to speak to some Australian schools. The School of the Air in Adelaide and Gormandale & District were the only schools in Australia to receive this honour.

 

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