Boarding offers many pathways Keen to go away to boarding school from Year 7, Year 11 student at Yanco Agricultural High School, Dimity Evans has thrown herself into the activities on offer over the past five years – everything from musical performance to showing cattle. While missing family and friends from home, she sees the…
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One chance, one choice
Katie and Shona Donald You know that finding the right education opportunities are a high priority when a family travels well over a thousand kilometres return to spend two days talking with staff of the schools at the 2019 Dubbo Boarding Schools Expo. Meet the Donald family – Katie, Lochie, and their four children travelled…
Will & Emma Benham
Sibling support when living away from home Brother and sister, Will and Emma Benham are both boarders at The Armidale School (TAS), where they’re enjoying a range of opportunities at the same time as carving out their own interests and identities. Will and Emma, along with mum, Pip, share what it means to be able…
Taking time to decide
Myfi and Grace Kellahan When nine year-old Grace Kellahan (Year 4) turned up at the 2019 Dubbo Boarding Schools Expo from West Wyalong with her mum, Myfi, she had with her a carefully handwritten list of questions for the schools they wanted to speak with. Like many families, the Kellahans put their children at the…
Georgia Kirkby
Maintaining outside interests all part of the boarding experience Bellata’s Georgia Kirkby, a passionate poultry and duck breeder, started as a boarder at Kincoppal-Rose Bay School (KRB) in Year 7 following her primary years in Narrabri. Her small hometown has little in common with Rose Bay, a harbourside suburb seven kilometres east of Sydney’s CBD,…
Cooper Evans & Rosie McNair
Boarding memories to cherish Boarding captains at Barker College, Cooper Evans and Rosie McNair are part of a tight-knit, coeducational boarding community. Both are in their third year of boarding, building memories that will take them beyond school. With boarders from across Sydney and regions NSW, Cooper comes from Taree and Rosie is from Dubbo….
Isaac Barrett
Prepared for the opportunities Year 8 boarder at St. Stanislaus’ College, Isaac Barrett of Coonamble loves everything about boarding and the opportunities it presents. It’s said he bleeds the Stannies blue and white. Founded in 1867, the Bathurst school fondly known as Stannies, is the oldest Catholic Boys’ Boarding School in Australia and the only…
Guy Campbell & Olivia Nolan
Unprecedented advantages to boarding experience Canberra Grammar School (CGS) has a rich heritage and culture developed through boarding, woven into the fabric of the school. Boarders, Guy Campbell and Oliva Nolan share their story of what the boarding experience has been like for them. Boarders have an unprecedented advantage of understanding the depth and diversity…
Torie Burton
Fast-tracking tolerance & independence Like it is for any young person starting a new school a long way from home, the year has been a mix of excitement and homesickness for Torie Burton, a Year 7 boarder at Pymble Ladies’ College in Sydney. Staying active seems to have been the key to both enjoying the…
Lily Aveyard
Fun, friends & sport Ascham boarder, Lily Aveyard from Tullamore is a Year 9 student enjoying the fun, friends, and sport on offer, as well as the many other opportunities boarding school brings. With a tradition of boarding in her family, it was no surprise that Lily would go away for high school when the…