Zoology Department technicians Jan Littleton and Shelley Cameron visited the school yesterday to drop the old microscopes off, along with some other science equipment from the botany and physics departments.
After a quick lesson on how to use the equipment, the pupils headed off to find items they could view in much closer detail.
Ms Littleton said those pupils who had not looked through a microscope before were in for an adventure.
"If they can use the microscopes well, it will open up a world that they don’t see — the microscopic world, which is everywhere.
"They can grow stuff and look at it under the microscopes, or they can look at things they can see, but at a deeper level — like the hairs on leaves."
Flag Swamp School teacher Trisha Geraets said one of the school’s parents contacted the university a couple of months ago to see if it had any spare or unused science equipment.
Given the school only had nine pupils, she said it was difficult for the small community to raise enough funds to buy science equipment, which was usually expensive.
"We were really keen to have a microscope for the school’s science curriculum, but we just couldn’t afford to get one.
"We’ve been just making do with what we have, but now that we have a microscope, we can do things properly.
"This will be amazing. They’ll be able to see all these tiny creatures that they otherwise wouldn’t know exist."
