6 February 2025

First-day nerves overcome as Cape kids return to classroom

| Lyndon Keane
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Western Cape College students Ava Wheeler and Dana Braun are all smiles as they prepare to kick off their learning year in Miss Rose’s year 2A class on 28 January. Photo: Supplied.

We’re pleased to report there were more smiles than tears when students of all ages returned to the classroom for the 2025 school year across Cape York last week.

Thank you to parents and teachers for sharing their first-day snaps from Weipa and Cooktown – how many familiar faces can you spot?

It may not be prep, but can you pick a certain Cape York editor in his preschool photo from the mid-1980s? Photo: Mum.

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