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From Home to Boarding: How to Navigate the Transition with Dr. Lisa Fahey

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In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lisa Fahey, a psychologist specialising in trauma recovery and behavioral interventions for young people. As a mother of five former boarders, Dr. Lisa brings both professional expertise and personal experience to the table—making her insights invaluable for families navigating the boarding journey. This chat focuses on how parents can…

Supporting your boarder (from a distance)

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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.

How to make the transition to boarding school easier

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It’s normal for children to feel scared, homesick, lonely, or unsure. Here’s how to make the transition to boarding school easier. Every January boarding schools welcome new students into their doors. These students come from different backgrounds, situations and walks of life, and range from year 5 to year 12. And each year a good…

Do what you need to do

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As our kids made the trek back to their boarding houses for the start of the new school year late last month, we knew many of them had home firmly on their minds.

Dimity Evans

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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…

Will & Emma Benham

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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…