Welcome back to Destination Boarding and our series of conversations where we introduce you to the schools that are heading up to Mount Isa with us, along with a few of the families that call the north west of Queensland and the Territory home.
Today I had the loveliest conversation with Tom Floyd from John Paul College in Brisbane. Tom is a veteran of the Australian boarding school landscape having begun his career in boarding in 1984 at Guildford Grammar in WA – he was there for over 20 years.
Fast forward through a pandemic that saw Tom and his wife exit WA and dabble in retirement. Definitely not suitable they decided and it was then that he was offered the position of Head of Boarding at John Paul College.
JPC is a little unique, in that their boarding community is young – established in 2015 they’re relishing establishing their village as part of the larger school community.
Honestly it didn’t matter what we talked about, whether it was the ‘notion’ of boutique boarding, the cross cultural influences on the boarders as they move through their years at JPC or the independence developed by each and every boarder, Tom speaks with heart and a noticeable endeavour to continue to build his village.
Enjoy my conversation with Tom Floyd.
Thank you to Courtney Dunn for editing this podcast episode.
John Paul College:
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