Blighty Public School celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2004 having commenced in 1929 in the Blighty School of Arts building at a rental of 25 pounds per year.

Twenty students were enrolled in that first year and although numbers rose and fell over the intervening years its interesting to note that there are 26 students enrolled in 2005.

The area called Blighty was originally part of Tuppal Station which was divided into 40 farms as part of the governments aim to resettle ex-servicemen returning from the First World War. It was originally called "Tuppal Soldiers Group Settlement - area No 21"

Blighty is about 40 kms from Deniliquin and 30 from Finley in the south west of New South Wales. It is predominantly a farming community with a mix of dairy farms, wheat, rice and canola crops, as well as fat lambs and beef cattle.

Blighty students have taken part in all three of the CAP research activities "Where's Collie?", "ccc...Collie" and "Collie's Clicks".

Here stage two students are about to go online to gather another clue. Their gnome "Collie" is ready to assist as are the library books and maps scattered on the table.