Director of Boarding

Megan Christie

While is was lovely to see many of our day students back on campus this week, my thoughts were with many of our boarding students who were not able to return to boarding and school due to the current travel restrictions in place. Our amazing boarding supervisors and subject teachers will continue to work hard to make sure these girls who are still Learning@Home are supported until they are able to return to us. I am hopeful that very soon we can all be back together and our Boarding House is filled with love and laughter again.

Last week was National Boarding Week, a week to celebrate the fantastic efforts and commitment from our boarders, boarding staff and schools. With the theme #stayingconnected, never before has this week been more significant. Although our boarding community were apart, St Patrick’s College Townsville celebrated this special week from May 17 to 24 with some lovely activities. On social media, our College community was able to step back in time of over 140 years of boarding history.

Our girls all received a happy national boarding week card with handwritten messages from our boarding supervisors. Our boarding supervisors filmed a lip sync to “Ain’t Know Sunshine” by Bill Withers because “This house just ain’t no home, anytime time she goes away”. Check it out if you have not seen it via The Learning Hub. Our boarding supervisors received a beautiful potted plant to acknowledge and thank them for allowing our girls to flourish and grow, and always going above and beyond to nurture a positive and supportive environment. Our day students also created a video message for all of our boarding students. This is available on the Pastoral Page on the Learning Hub.