Over the last four weeks, there has been a particular focus on sleep health amongst the Barker Community. This is an initiative from the health and wellbeing leaders in the school, in collaboration with the Barker Institute.

Before students returned for the term, Lisa Maltman was a keynote presenter at the 2022 Barker Staff conference.  Student groups have participated in workshops and discussions around the importance of sleep and implementation of healthy sleep habits. On Monday August 8 the invite was extended to the whole Barker community to learn about sleep for better health, resilience, and performance at our Barker Institute public event.

Over 100 parents, attended the event and were encouraged to reflect on their own sleep as well as that of their children in school. The mood was positive, that improvement could be made in sleep habits. This was thanks to the expert, personal, and relevant advice from Lisa Maltman. You can find out more about Lisa through her company’s website: https://thesleepconnection.com.au/

Thank you to the Health and Wellbeing team in the School, our guest speaker, and all who attended as together we are striving to support our Barker community to be excellent in every possible way.