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The Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA) exists to promote the interests of boarding schools in Australia by enhancing the well-being of boarders, facilitating the professional development of staff and advancing best practice among schools.
MEMBERSHIP To have a membership that is inclusive of all employers and employees within the boarding school sector of Australia. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT To provide effective professional development for staff in order to promote best practice within Australian boarding institutions. LEADERSHIP To give leadership to the boarding school sector of Australia and represent its interests in policy formation at all levels of decision making. STATE DIVISIONS To fulfill the ABSA Mission not only at a national level, but at a regional level, by supporting active State Divisions which represent the needs of their state constituents. MARKETING To promote the work of ABSA as the peak body representing Australian boarding institutions and to market its member schools to the public. FINANCE To retain ABSA’s strong financial position while funding the growth and development of the Association towards the fulfillment of the Mission and Goals.
The ABSA Board’s membership incorporates some of the key figures in the Australian boarding industry. The Board aims at membership which gives a good representation of boarding personnel from around Australia and from the main boarding sectors. The current Chairman is Garth Wynne, who is Headmaster of Christ Church Grammar School in Perth. Garth is currently a director of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA) and the Chair of its Western Australian Branch (AHISA WA). Beyond the education sector, he is a board member of Anglicare WA. Prior to his appointment at Christ Church, Garth had a varied career in education working as a boarding housemaster and in a range of roles primarily concerned with the administration of pastoral care in independent schools in Australia (Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia) and the United Kingdom. The Executive Director is Richard Stokes. Richard is the editor of Lights Out, the ABSA quarterly magazine, and has had over 35 years experience as a Head of Boarding and as a Boarding Master. He provides consultancy to all member schools, facilitates multiple workshops including assisting staff to complete the Duty of Care workbooks. One of his key roles is producing conferences at both State and National level. The Operations Manager is Thomas Dunsmore. Through a Traineeship with ABSA he has completed a Diploma in Business and currently is managing a number of major projects for the Association, including the production of this Directory, the administration of all conferences and the development of Boarding School Fairs.
ACT anberra Girls Grammar School Canberra Grammar School NSW Abbotsleigh All Saints’ College Ascham School Barker College Calrossy Anglican School Cranbrook School Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School Frensham Hurlstone Agricultural High School Kambala Kildare Catholic College Kincoppal - Rose Bay School Kinross Wolaroi School Knox Grammar School Loreto Normanhurst MacKillop College New England Girls’ School Newington College Presbyterian Ladies’ College Armidale Presbyterian Ladies’ College Sydney Pymble Ladies’ College Ravenswood School for Girls Red Bend Catholic College Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview Shore: Sydney Church of England Grammar School Snowy Mountains Grammar School St Catherine’s School St Francis De Sales Regional College St Gregory’s College Campbelltown St Joseph’s College St Paul’s College St Scholastica’s College St Stanislaus’ College St Vincent’s College Tara Anglican School for Girls The Armidale School The King’s School The McDonald College The Scots College The Scots School Albury The Scots School Bathurst & Lithgow Trinity Grammar School Tudor House Wenona School Yanco Agricultural High School NT Kormilda College St John’s Catholic College St Philip’s College Yirara College QLD All Souls St Gabriels School Anglican Church Grammar School Blackheath & Thornburgh College Brisbane Boys’ College Brisbane Grammar School Clayfield College Columba Catholic College Concordia Lutheran College Dalby Christian College Dalby State High School Djarragun College Downlands College Fairholme College Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School Ipswich Grammar School Marist College Ashgrove Mount St Bernard College Peace Lutheran College Rockhampton Girls’ Grammar School Shalom Christian College Somerville House Spinifex Residential College St Augustine’s College St Brendan’s College St Hilda’s School St Joseph’s Nudgee College St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School St Patrick’s College Townsville St Peters Lutheran College St Saviour’s College St Teresa’s College, Abergowrie St Ursula’s College Toowoomba St Ursula’s College Yeppoon Stuartholme School The Cathedral College
The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James The Glennie School The Kooralbyn International School The Rockhampton Grammar School The Scots PGC College The Southport School Toowoomba Anglican College & Preparatory School Toowoomba Grammar School Townsville Grammar School Western Cape College - Residential Campus Whitsunday Anglican School SA Immanuel College Loreto College Pembroke School Prince Alfred College Rostrevor College Sacred Heart College Senior Scotch College Seymour College St Mark’s College St Peter’s College Walford Anglican School for Girls Westminister School Wilderness School TAS Fahan School Launceston Church Grammar School Scotch Oakburn College Springvale Accommodation St Michael’s Collegiate The Friends’ School The Hutchins School VIC Assumption College Avalon College – ELICOS Only Ballarat Clarendon College Ballarat Grammar Caulfield Grammar School Firbank Grammar School Geelong Grammar School Genazzano FCJ College Gippsland Grammar School Huntingtower School Melbourne Girls Grammar Melbourne Grammar School Methodist Ladies’ College Monivae College Presbyterian Ladies’ College Scotch College St Catherine’s School St Patrick’s College The Australian Ballet School The Geelong College The Hamilton & Alexandra College The Kilmore International School The Peninsula School Toorak College Trinity Grammar School Worawa Aboriginal College Xavier College WA Aquinas College Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School Carmel Adventist College Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon Christ Church Grammar School Clontarf Aboriginal College Great Southern Grammar Guildford Grammar School Hale School Iona Presentation College La Salle College Mazenod College Methodist Ladies’ College Narrogin Residential College Penrhos College Perth College Presbyterian Ladies’ College Santa Maria College Scotch College St Brigid’s College St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Wesley College WA College of Agriculture Cunderdin WA College of Agriculture Denmark WA College of Agriculture Harvey WA College of Agriculture Morawa
The
Historyof ABSA
ABSA has its foundations back in the mid 1980s, when groups of people working in Boarding Schools in both Queensland and Western Australia decided to get together to share good practice and to look over each other’s Boarding Houses. These groups, known respectively as the Western Australian and Queensland Residential Schools Staff Associations grew over time, and eventually changed names to become the Boarding Staff Association in each State. The development of the Australian Boarding Schools Association occurred in the early 1990s with the amalgamation of these two groups, to allow the organisation of a national conference. 2000 saw the formation of The Australian Residential Schools’ Association, a group of Boarding Schools with a common interest to develop a base-level training course for Boarding Staff. Dr Tim Hawkes wrote Duty of Care, A Certificate Course in Residential Care which was first published in 2001. During 2006 Dr Timothy Hawkes began discussions with the Committee running ABSA, and the decision was reached to merge the two groups to form the Australian Boarding Schools Association, which came into being in October 2007. Since 2007 ABSA has run nine national conferences, has developed the Duty of Care Certificate Course into a two book set which has become the standard for training of all Boarding Staff around Australia, has formed Divisions in all States to hold local professional development events, and now has a National Office based in Brisbane.
What ABSA Offers Duty of Care Workshops Duty of Care Workbooks New Leaders Conference Heads of Boarding Conference National Conference State Symposiums and Conference Various State Division Workshops Consultancy for Boarding Schools - reviewing catering offering, marketing, the boarding service itself, discussion with Principals and Boards, assistance with Heads of Boarding selection, review of building plans, etc Personalised workshops including team building, student leaders, social media, active duty, teachers in the day school, etc Promotion of Boarding - directory and agricultural shows Networking with other schools Preferred suppliers with best offerings for boarding schools Boarder conferences Website - job advertisements, useful documents, fiFind-a-school Social Media offerings including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Heads of Boarding benchmark appraisal system Input and representation with key groups including the ICPA Development of National Boarding School Standards and Your ideas . . . our aim is to best serve our members.
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