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Life Skills GO has reached an important milestone in 2025, collecting over 4 million check-ins from students across Australia. These insights give us a window into the emotional landscape of students this year, helping us to better understand the challenges they face and the factors that shape their readiness to learn on a daily basis.
Key Findings - Snapshot
These findings provide an opportunity to take meaningful action:
- High rates of Tiredness signal a need to explore routines, sleep, and school schedules that support student energy levels.
- Online influences highlight the urgency of digital wellbeing strategies and informational sessions around digital safety in schools and at home.
- The home environment context reinforces the value of strong school–family partnerships to create holistic support.
- High readiness to learn demonstrates the consistent engagement of students, which schools can continue to nurture through wellbeing initiatives.
What These Insights Mean
Tiredness Still a Challenge
Tiredness continues to be one of the most common emotions, making up 18.9% of all check-ins. Year 3 primary students reported the highest levels, with over 100,000 “Tired” check-ins, while in secondary schools Year 11 students indicated “Tired” more than any other high school year group. These findings highlight that tiredness continues to impact student's readiness to learn, demonstrating the need for a holistic support system between home and school environments.
Happy Leads the Way
On a positive note, 42.77% of all students checked in as ‘happy’, showing that many students are still experiencing positive emotions in their daily school lives. This reinforces the importance of nurturing safe, supportive environments that allow happiness to flourish alongside learning.
The Online Influence
"Online" continues to play a significant role in shaping how students feel, appearing as the influencing context to students emotions with over 70,000 check-ins so far in 2025. Year 3 primary students and Year 11 secondary students were the most likely to identify the online space as influencing their emotions. With digital interactions now such a core part of students’ lives, the impact of online experiences remains a critical area for schools to explore. The impact of the online influences underscores the importance of digital literacy and responsible online behaviour.
Context Matters—Home vs Playground
Context continues to shape how students feel. "Home" was identified six times more often than "playground" as influencing emotions. This points to the importance of family and home environments in student wellbeing, highlighting how emotional experiences outside the classroom often carry into learning time. This insight indicates the importance of strengthening home-school relationships to best support students holistically.
Readiness to Learn
Encouragingly, 69.65% of check-ins indicated that students were ready to learn. This statistic reflects a strong foundation of engagement and motivation across primary and secondary schools, despite the challenges of tiredness and online pressures. This data point remains consistent from our 2024 insights and demonstrating there minimal shift in students readiness to learn.
Custom Insights Growing
This year, Life Skills GO has collected over 32,000 custom context responses, showing the depth and diversity of factors influencing student emotions. The context component of the Life Skills GO check-in is fully customisable to accommodate diverse settings for schools, for example rural or regional schools may add the context of “Harvest” as a context influencing their emotions.
What’s Next: Utilising the data
We are launching Life Skills GO Surveys to give schools a way to move beyond observation alone and into a continuous cycle of improvement. By combining student voice, teacher perception, and real-time wellbeing data, Surveys provide evidence-based insights that identify the needs of an individual student, a class, a stage, or the whole school. This launch marks the first time schools can access a seamlessly integrated, research-backed survey system within Life Skills GO—ensuring that every action taken is strategic, targeted, and measurable.
Our new suite of student wellbeing surveys are designed to go deeper into the root causes behind the numbers. These include:
- Anxiety Survey
- Tiredness Survey
- Emotional Overload Survey
- Sense of Belonging Survey
These tools will allow schools to better understand the drivers of tiredness, the impact of emotional overload, and how belonging shapes readiness to learn—providing educators with actionable insights to target interventions more effectively.
In Summary
The 2025 data tells a story of both challenges and strengths. While tiredness and online influences remain key concerns, the high percentage of happy check-ins and readiness to learn signals resilience and positive emotional foundations across Australian schools.
By combining daily check-in insights with targeted surveys, Life Skills GO is equipping educators with the tools they need to support every student to feel known, valued, and cared for, both in and beyond the classroom.
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