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Stephen Lawrence – The journey from boarding school to barrister

October 6, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

With a successful legal career, a happy family life and a valuable position as a pillar of his community, Barrister Stephen Lawrence looks like he pretty much has life sorted out.

Tanya Heaslip – from The Alice to the world

September 28, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

Tanya Heaslip is an acclaimed Australian author, a lawyer and an outback girl.

Richard Stokes – Australian Boarding Schools’ ‘Commander in Chief’

September 21, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

Richard Stokes is the CEO of the Australian Boarding Schools Association, which, as the leading authority in Australia on boarding for school-aged children, promotes the interests and well-being of boarders, boarding staff, boarding parents and boarding institutions in Australia.

Peter Gibbs – advocacy & community leader… where it all began

September 20, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

A Gamillaroi man with over 30 years experienced in the community-development sector. Peter went to boarding school, and sent his children to boarding school with these experiences bringing a valued perspective to the conversation.

Bec Austin – from the outback to boarding school

September 8, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

We chat with Bec Austin about her early years growing up and being part of the largest classroom in the world, School of the Air and talk about her parent’s decision to send their four children to boarding school in Sydney.

Supporting your boarder (from a distance)

August 23, 2022 By Ruby Riethmuller

The emotions that come with being a boarder – and equally, a boarding family – are a bit like learning how to dance the tango….. lots of dips and turns. As a boarder living away from home, you’re thrown in the deep end of learning how to understand, voice and overcome challenging emotions.

Welcome to Destination Boarding Season 2

August 15, 2022 By Boarding Schools Expo

We’ve been busy with our live events and launching our online expo Boarding Expo 365, but here we finally are! This season we welcome BSEA Director Amanda Ferrari to the pod studio, along with Jennifer Cowley OAM. Jen and Amanda bring different perspectives to their interviews with boarding parents, ex-students, community leaders and industry experts….

How to open up the conversation around mental health with your boarder

June 29, 2022 By Ruby Riethmuller

I imagine that as a parent, it’s with a heavy heart that you worry for your child’s wellbeing, it’s with angst that you wonder if they feel as though they belong and it’s with curiosity that you navigate the adolescent experience by their side. More often than I would like, I speak with parents who…

Why boarding school is an education for life

April 27, 2022 By Ruby Riethmuller

Whether your child has just begun their boarding journey or is soon to graduate, you can feel confident that they will walk away from school with an understanding far more valuable than algebra or knowledge of the battles of modern history.

Ruby Riethmuller – from boarding school to Womn-kind and winning the buy from the bush big break competition

February 28, 2022 By Amanda Ferrari

We talk with Ruby about life after boarding school and find out what drives her to want to help others at such a young age.

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