Bailey Brooks and Tilly Warby have been going to school together, 900 kilometres apart, since pre-school.

From 8am until 2pm the six-year-olds gossip, make sock puppets and do yoga together, along with 13 other students in their class spread as far as the tropics of the Tiwi Islands and the terracotta desert of Corella Creek.

Bailey Brooks with her family at the Lilla Creek station 400 kilometres outside of Alice Springs. Credit:Jace Armstrong

On Wednesday, Bailey brought a goldfish home from town and played show and tell through an internet "chat box" with Ryan and Belle who both live 500 kilometres away from the nearest child.

They could do a lot more if they had the bandwidth to deliver more digital interactive teaching services, said their principal Mel Phillips.