Tarryn Thomas is feeling more at home at North Melbourne.

The club's top pick in the 2018 National Draft has had a few months training next to the likes of Jack Ziebell and Shaun Higgins, and is taking in as much as he can ahead of his fist year.

"I've settled in very well," Thomas told The Examiner.
 
"Right into the pre-season now and playing in all the practice games with the boys.

"They've taken me under their wing and I am pretty happy with that."

Thomas visited his former school, Prospect High, as part of the club's Community Camp in Tasmania students and spoke with footy hopefuls Jack Chapman, Job Woods and Brayden Fellows.

"I'm just here to show them my face, see the teachers and that, but I'm pretty happy to come back," he cheekily said.

"I want to be a role model to the younger boys. I just want them to look up to me, just being a Tassie boy."

North's Next Generation Academy the key to him being selected by the Kangaroos.
 
"I've formed a good relationship with them over the years I'd been at the next generation academy," he said. 

"I thought that it all opened my eyes a bit so I feel I'm lucky I got drafted there."