Sharonika Camplin - Board Chair

This is Sharonika’s third term on the Board of Directors and second as Board Chair. She brings more than 20 years’ experience working in marketing, communications and stakeholder management in senior corporate roles working with government, education, and corporate sectors.

Sharonika’s professional experience includes helping start-ups to global organisations with strategy, brand, marketing, digital campaigns and communications as well as numerous people, culture and philanthropic projects within these organisations and across diverse countries.

With two children at the school, Sharonika brings not only her professional experience, but also a parent voice on to the Board and is invested in ensuring its continued growth and success. At the school, she is also a part of the marketing sub-committee and took an active role in the development of the current CHSS Strategic Plan.

Alison Whitmill - Director

Alison has been involved with the school since its conception in Stratford in 2002. Starting as a teacher aide and parent, now she is heavily involved in the therapeutic space of the school. She has trained as an Extra Lesson Practitioner which supports the physical and spiritual development of the child helping them to feel more at home in their body. She works closely with the teachers and students in supporting well-being to help create a harmonious learning space at the school.

For the last few years Alison has spent 8 weeks each year training as an anthroposophical Art Therapist at the Sienna Academy in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Alison will complete the five- year training at the end of 2023. This training is endorsed by the Emerald Foundation based in the Hague, Netherlands which is a prestigious institution that requires rigour and commitment alongside study of Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings.

Alison brings a wealth of experience and wisdom as a colleague but also as a long-term parent of her three daughters who were founding students of the school. Alison embraces Anthroposophy and brings this to all aspects of her life. Alison is a member of the college core group that supports the development of anthroposophical impulses at the school.

Other current Directors are: - Rebekka Atz - Michelle MacLean - Vicki Pfeiffer