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 for Bush Kids week – a week where around 70 families travel hundreds of kilometres from Karumba in the north, Richmond to the east, Windorah to the south, and west into the Northern Territory, to take part in a number of sports. It’s hosted annually by the Isolated Children’s Parents Association Mount Isa Branch of the Air and this year, 2024 is their 25th Anniversary.  

During this podcast series we’re looking forward to getting to know our Queensland boarding schools that little bit better. We’re exploring their connections to our most remote families and their commitment or sense of social responsibility to ensure that families have access to face to face engagement with a variety of boarding schools – we all know that a website can only tell part of the story. It’s the people that bring any story to life. 

Boarding school is part of life for our rural and remote families and none more so than those in far north west Queensland and the Territory. We are excited to bring boarding schools closer to them so they can explore their options and meet key representatives from each school and really focus on discussing the key elements of what each school can provide for their biggest asset – their country child.  We’re so grateful to the 14 schools that will be joining us and encourage any others that are listening to register – it’s not too late to join the podcast event.

Thanks for listening to our podcast chat this week. We’re on our journey to Mount Isa this week with St Hilda’s School located on the Gold Coast.

Can you imagine heading off to boarding school from one of Australia’s most remote regions and landing on the sunny Gold Coast, home to miles and miles of golden beaches, theme parks, international events and let’s face it…schoolies week! I’m pretty sure I would have thrived as a boarder at St Hilda’s. 

The girls have access to all that the coast and it’s waterways offer, surf sports, rowing, swimming… incredible facilities on campus and off.

Today I’m chatting with Amanda Rigby, the Head of Boarding at St Hilda’s School and I remained fascinated with the notion of receiving a top notch education at a boarding school located in our country’s most renown holiday destination.

Needless to say there’s more to St Hilda’s than it’s location and Amanda warmly effuses the essence of community and education that exists for close to 185 boarders from all over the country, and overseas.

We talk about St Hilda’s connection to our most remote families in the north west of Queensland as we prepare to head up to Mount Isa. I’ve said it before, we’re truly grateful to the schools that our coming with us and this series serves to share the good news about these awesome boarding schools. 

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Thank you to Courtney Dunn for editing the podcast.

St Hilda's School: https://www.sthildas.qld.edu.au

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