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Bridging the Great Divide… lead up to, and managing boarding school

Ruby Riethmuller hosts a panel discussion with students from Abbotsleigh (Sydney), Haileybury Rendall School (Darwin) and Calrossy Anglican School, (Tamworth)

Ruby Riethmuller hosts a student panel and asks the following questions:

Describe the feeling of going to boarding school (fear?) when you’re in primary school – did they have a sense of overwhelm at the thought?

Have they any advice for parents to help them manage that weight of trepidation in the lead up to going to boarding school?

What can schools do to best support new country boarders both academically and emotionally?

Panellists:

Ruby Riethmuller, Founder & Director of Womn-Kind (Facilitator)
Nell Owen, Abbotsleigh (Sydney, NSW)
Genevieve Smith, Abbotsleigh (Sydney, NSW)
Jasper Brooker, Haileybury Rendall School (Darwin, NT)
Daisy Timmins-Bartlett, Calrossy Anglican School, (Tamworth, NSW)

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Katie Brown, Escott Station, Burketown

I grew up in Central Queensland near Rockhampton and attended an all-girls boarding school as a day girl. After finishing

Georgie Robertson, Coolamon

I grew up on “Lignum Park Station,” a 70,000-acre sheep and cattle station outside Ivanhoe in the Central Darling Shire

Kirsty Wiggins, Narromine

I grew up on a sheep and cattle station right on the NSW/Queensland border near the tiny outback town of

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