Destination Boarding

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 t...

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 f...

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 f...

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 f...

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...

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...

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 board...

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 board...

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 board...

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 board...

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 board...

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 boa...

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 board...

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...

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 boa...

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 b...

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...

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...

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...

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 hone...

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...

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 opt...

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...

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 mode...

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 s...