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Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School

Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School

Update: 2025-08-05
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This episode explores how parents can become confident, empowered partners in their child’s education. Through insights from an educator and head of student wellbeing, we unpack the real challenges both parents and teachers face when trying to connect—and what helps bridge the gap. You'll hear practical strategies for building trust, improving communication, and creating a shared sense of purpose between home and school as part of a broader commitment to student wellbeing.

Jenny Brown in conversation with Lisa Chalmers : Director of Health & Wellbeing at Barker College. 

Lisa Chalmers is the Director of Health & Wellbeing at Barker College. Lisa’s role involves cultivating a whole-school approach to student and staff wellbeing, fostering a holistic, supportive and healthy School environment. Developing and implementing comprehensive health and wellbeing programs that cater to the diverse needs of students, staff, and the broader school community and serve to enable excellence, an environment where students and staff thrive, and families are engaged to work in partnership with the School. 


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Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School

Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School

Jenny Brown