Today’s chat is with the Director of Boarding at Brisbane’s St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Lesa Fowler.

Lesa is a familiar figure in the remote and rural areas of Queensland having overseen the education of so many girls from these regions. She’s been nurturing and encouraging her boarders for 16 years and it’s a position she loves. 

St Margaret’s was established as a boarding school back in 1895  making it one of our country’s oldest boarding schools. Having grown over the years to accommodate 185 girls the campus is now located in Brisbane’s leafy Ascot close to the CBD.

These chats we’re having in the lead up to our Mount Isa Popup expo really serve to highlight the schools that are committed to our most remote families - for you to be able to learn a little bit more about them, and if your kids attend a different school then perhaps you can be inspired by something one our Mount Isa schools are doing and take that to your boarding community?

Lesa speaks with heartfelt warmth about their boarding program, the incredible impact banning phones has had on their school community and the very established links St Margaret’s has to our most remote families.

Enjoy this chat.

Thank you to Courtney Dunn for editing this podcast episode. 

St Margaret’s: https://boardingexpo.com.au/schools/st-margarets-anglican-girls-school/

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