We welcome back NEGS Armidale this month – with a spotlight on their extensive opportunities to develop your child’s passions. Whether it’s athletics, equestrian, agriculture or performing arts, NEGS creates the pathways to ensure you can ‘be your best’.
Nestled in the stunning New England High Country’s main hub of Armidale, NEGS’ vast campus conjures up a boarding school experience of idyllic days and definitive seasons, nature and colour, and a setting to inspire you to indeed ‘be your best’.
Boarders at NEGS hail from all over the country, both city and rural based students, and instantly become part of the warm family environment that serves to enrich the lives of these young people.
There are many facets of curriculum to explore at NEGS and below you will find links to their athletics pathways program, their world class equestrian program and further information on their Scholarship programs.
Enjoy this Takeover Thursday.
PS. To discover everything NEGS are sharing, each topic below is actually a clickable link to their website and videos. Try them out!
Whatever you do, do it heartily
Be your best @ NEGS
NEGS, a leading independent Anglican regional junior school and girls senior day and boarding school in Armidale.
NEGS believes in developing empathetic, fulfilled young people with drive and purpose who know themselves, take ownership, and embrace possibilities to contribute and thrive in a complex and changing world.
Armed with the core values of integrity, excellence, responsibility, and teamwork, NEGS strives to nurture an environment that allows students from all backgrounds and cultures to flourish.
NEGS truly enriches the experience for our students with a vast 50-hectare campus, exceptional boarding facilities, and caring well-being programs.
Additionally, NEGS offers a wide range of co-curricular activities including equestrian, agriculture, music and arts, providing abundant opportunities for students to realise their true potential.
Future Athletes @ NEGS
Athlete Development Program (ADP) Trials
Boasting the calibre of student-athletes and coaching style, NEGS amps up its Athlete Development program with limited 2025 Scholarships. The Program aims to develop and nurture non-elite, talented young female athletes along the pathway to pre-elite success in their chosen sport.
Sports trials are happening on 1 November, from 1PM.
World Class Equestrian @ NEGS
Elite Equestrian School
NEGS is renowned for its world-class equestrian facility and exceptional coaches with a long history of our equestrian girls representing Australia in the Olympics.
It is the only boarding school of its kind where both students and their horses have access to programs in a number of equestrian disciplines.
Scholarships @ NEGS
Scholarship Opportunities
As a regional school, we thrive in providing opportunities to regional families, putting high priority on giving them access to education at NEGS.
We are currently accepting 2026 applications with a focus on Academics, Sports, and co-curricular. Jump the waitlist and enquire today!
Thank you to NEGS, Armidale, NSW for showing us around their school. As always, enjoy the resources on our website helping you and your family make decisions about boarding school & supporting you once you’re there.
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.
This week’s pod chat brought me such joy. I’ve been a fan of ‘Miss Chardy’ for years and finally got the chance to sit down with her and get the real story of life on a cattle station in the middle of ‘bum truck nowhere’.
For those of you not familiar with Dan’s alter ego ‘Miss Chardy’, she was born out of a need to connect with women everywhere and dispel some of the myths that surround our most outback women.
I’ve been following along since the days when Miss Chardy and her neighbour, Mrs Savvy-B would meet on the boundary for a drink and a chat with the kids every week…. A committed journey of 120km. These meetings which turned into house weekends gave their children the joy of playing with other kids their own age – something we take for granted where we’ve raised our families.
Dan speaks about the journey to boarding school for her three sons, and the realisation that her youngest, Clancy really needed to head off a bit earlier as 5 years on his own with nobody his own age was not giving him the full breadth of childhood experiences. So so tough for any Mum. He’s thriving, by the way, down in Brisbane at Marist College Ashgrove. In fact, the whole family is thriving – and Dan is absolutely enjoying every moment of their years at Marist having made the trek from the Northern Territory down to Brisbane countless times.
Dan is most recently renown for her published cookbooks – she’s a bit of a sour dough guru and regularly does lives on social media sharing her skills with followers all over the world. Her infectious zest for life in remote Australia is breaking down barriers between city and country and there’s nothing more engaging that watching Dan on her travels between Mittibah and Mount Isa or Brisbane or an overseas trip with her mum and sister, or doing what she does with so much love which is feed the station crew. Like she says, the cook holds the crew together – feed them well and they’ll be happy.
Look I could keep going on with this introduction – we talk about ICPA, Sports for Bush Kids and her young life in Mudgee, NSW. But let’s get into this lively chat with Danielle Doyle ‘Miss Chardy’.