Today I’m chatting with Simon Murphy, Principal of Blackheath and Thornburgh College in Charters Towers. Charters Towers is around an hour and a half from Townsville in far North Queensland. It’s a sizeable country town with around 12,000 people and there’s a cluster of boarding schools there - quite unique for a country town of that size. Simon mentions there’s three which employ over 550 staff and account for a combined 400 boarders. It must have a noticeable positive impact on the community I...
Oct 31, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Today we’re chatting with Luke Baills from The Cathedral School in Townsville. Luke is the new Head of School having previously headed up Cathedral’s Junior School for 10 years. Now it’s no surprise that Luke is looking forward to joining Boarding Schools Expo in Mount Isa. He spent 11 years as a Principal in and around Mount Isa, he actually met Steph his wife there. Steph’s family have a long history of cattle production up there and Luke’s keen to get back to the country he loves for our Expo...
Oct 24, 2024•23 min•Season 6Ep. 7
// Hello again - this week’s pod chat brought me such joy. I’ve been a fan of ‘Miss Chardy’ for years and finally got the chance to sit down with her and get the real story of life on a cattle station in the middle of ‘bum truck nowhere’. For those of you not familiar with Dan’s alter ego ‘Miss Chardy’, she was born out of a need to connect with women everywhere and dispel some of the myths that surround our most outback women. I’ve been following along since the days when Miss Chardy and her ne...
Oct 17, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Welcome to Destination Boarding – the little podcast that tells the big story about Australian boarding schools. I’m your host Amanda Ferrari from Boarding Schools Expo and in this series A Road to Mount Isa I’ll be introducing you to our schools that are heading to Mount Isa with us in December. During this podcast series we’re looking forward to getting to know our Queensland boarding schools that little bit better. We’re exploring their connections to our most remote families and their commit...
Oct 10, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Welcome to Destination Boarding – the little podcast that tells the big story about Australian boarding schools. I’m your host Amanda Ferrari from Boarding Schools Expo and in this series A Road to Mount Isa I’ll be introducing you to our schools that are heading to Mount Isa with us in December. It’s our second event up north and this year we thought it was a great idea to coincide with Sports for Bush Kids week – a week where around 70 families travel hundreds of kilometres from Karumba in the...
Oct 03, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Welcome to Destination Boarding – the little podcast that tells the big story about Australian boarding schools. I’m your host Amanda Ferrari from Boarding Schools Expo and in this series A Road to Mount Isa I’ll be introducing you to our schools that are heading to Mount Isa with us in December. It’s our second event up north and this year we thought it was a great idea to coincide with Sports for Bush Kids week – a week where around 70 families travel hundreds of kilometres from Karumba in the...
Sep 26, 2024•27 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Welcome to Destination Boarding – the little podcast that tells the big story about Australian boarding schools. I’m your host Amanda Ferrari from Boarding Schools Expo and in this series A Road to Mount Isa I’ll be introducing you to our schools that are heading to Mount Isa with us in December. It’s our second event up north and this year we thought it was a great idea to coincide with Sports for Bush Kids week – a week where around 70 families travel hundreds of kilometres from Karumba in the...
Sep 19, 2024•23 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Welcome to Destination Boarding - the little podcast that tells the big story about Australian boarding schools. I’m your host Amanda Ferrari from Boarding Schools Expo and in this series A Road to Mount Isa I’ll be introducing you to our schools that are heading to Mount Isa with us in December. It’s our second event up north and this year we thought it was a great idea to coincide with Sports for Bush Kids week - a week where around 70 families travel hundreds of kilometres from Karumba in the...
Sep 12, 2024•30 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of producing around 3.5 hours of content that you can watch on demand throughout the year. Each of those schools ...
Feb 26, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Feb 19, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Feb 08, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Feb 01, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Jan 24, 2024•15 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Jan 17, 2024•17 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Welcome to Destination Boarding wherever you’re tuning in from. For those of you that are new to our podcast we are here to share the stories of boarding school life in Australia - many of our conversations are with ex-boarders or parents of boarders and lately we’ve been talking with some of the schools themselves about what makes their boarding community unique and how they feel about having boarders from across Australia and overseas as part of their broader school community. Today’s chat is ...
Jan 15, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast is here. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of p...
Jan 11, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 4
You may have heard of Oli through his wildly successful podcast Humans of Agriculture where he shares the stories of agriculture with the aim of connecting, engaging and inspiring people towards a happier, healthier and more prosperous planet. He’s definitely on a mission…. Sharing the stories to showcase why the future is in agriculture. It’s a mission that began with a family that originally came from the land - with childhood holidays spent on his Uncles farm in western Victoria while growing...
Jan 08, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 9
It’s here…Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs of...
Dec 13, 2023•12 min•Season 5Ep. 3
It’s here...Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast. Each week right through the summer school holidays we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australia that partner with us to cover the costs ...
Dec 13, 2023•14 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Here we are again, another week, another great chat with someone that went to boarding school. You know I’m always on the look out for interesting people to talk to about their experience of boarding school - whether they were a boarder, or whether they were ‘infected’ by the country spirit of the boarders that were at their school - it’s always lovely to share the story. Please get in touch with me if you have someone you know would be great to hear from. This week’s convo is with renown waterc...
Dec 11, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 8
This week we sit down with Adam Larby, Head of The King’s School, Tudor House. Adam Larby is the son of immigrants - a mother of Chinese heritage and a British father - who came to Australia and settled their young family in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Adam’s childhood was a pretty good one, Coogee beach down the road and a great education at some of Sydney’s best schools including senior years at The Scot’s College. If podcasts were a visual medium you would see how his eyes light up when he spea...
Dec 01, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 7
It’s here…Our Summer Series of Destination Boarding the podcast. Each week right through the summer school holidays (kicking off with a head start this week) we’ll be having short chats with the boarders themselves. We are often asked how we select our students for this series. Well, it’s quite simple…. Each year we produce the Australian Boarding Schools Summit, an online event just for families of boarders where we discuss all things boarding. There are a number of schools from across Australi...
Nov 29, 2023•14 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Emily Patterson’s bridging the great divide by sending her kids to country boarding schools. Hello welcome back to Destination Boarding. Today’s guest is forthright and eloquent with her opinion…so much so that she suggested a couple of redactions before being released - there was even the possibility of re-record but I think you’ll agree we didn’t need to. It’s why we’re here - to have open honest authentic discussions. Emily Patterson is a Sydney girl, mother of three, nurse and self-confessed...
Oct 12, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Macquarie Anglican Grammar school is located almost right in the centre of NSW in Dubbo, well a couple of hours off but who’s counting…. More commonly known as MAGS their mission statement is pretty direct ‘to develop Resilient young people ready to make a difference in the world’ After chatting with their Headmaster, Craig Mansour, I’ve no doubt that there’ll be continual world changers coming out of Dubbo. MAGS was founded in 2002 and is an Anglican Schools Corporation school - one of 19 acros...
Sep 12, 2023•27 min
This is a really frank discussion with Yvette McDonald, who, among many other strings to her bow, is a parent of three ex boarders. The perspective you’re about to hear is one that’s often reserved for the corner table, quiet hushed discussions…. and often not shared. For anyone that has sent their children to boarding schools from larger regional towns or cities, with a selection of schooling options right on their doorstep the decision to go down the boarding school route can often be a conten...
Sep 07, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Welcome to this episode of Destination Boarding where we talk about boarding school with families, ex-students, industry leaders and the executives of the schools themselves. In this episode we’re talking with a young woman who has really shown commitment and determination to work towards her dream of becoming a doctor…. She hasn’t quite decided exactly which field of medicine she’ll ultimately go into but as she’s towards the end of her Degree in Medicine at Newcastle university these are the n...
Aug 25, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Welcome to this episode of Destination Boarding where we talk about boarding school with families, ex-students, industry leaders and the executives of the schools themselves. Today we’re talking with Kate Kovacs - Kate is the Director of Boarding at Loreto Normanhurst. A school in Sydney’s northern suburbs that has a long history of catholic girls education and country boarding. As with many modern day boarding houses, the mix is changing - there’s overseas boarders, metro boarders that come in ...
Aug 14, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Peter Debus is the Managing Director of PrincipleFocus, a financial management and advisory business based in Dubbo NSW with branches in Sydney and Warren and servicing clients all over Australia. Initially I wanted to talk to Pete about the decision he and his wife Virginia made to send their three children to boarding school from a regional centre with a plethora of educational offerings, and some of his responses really speak to an invisible pressure for some families certainly when they feel...
Aug 03, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Welcome to Episode 9 of our Summer Series: Nailing Homesickness where we chat to Quintin, an inspiring student from Haileybury Rendall School in Darwin, NT! In this series Amanda Ferrari & Adelaide Vivers chat with current boarders from across Australia with the aim to give our new intake of boarders for 2023 some tips about how to cope with the feelings of homesickness along with advice on settling in at your new boarding school. Who better to talk to than the boarders themselves! We would ...
Feb 10, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Welcome to Episode 8 of our Summer Series: Nailing Homesickness where we chat to Sylvia, a wonderful student from Wenona School in Sydney, NSW! In this series Amanda Ferrari & Adelaide Vivers chat with current boarders from across Australia with the aim to give our new intake of boarders for 2023 some tips about how to cope with the feelings of homesickness along with advice on settling in at your new boarding school. Who better to talk to than the boarders themselves! We would love you to s...
Feb 03, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 8
