Start 2025 Strong – Schools New to Life Skill GO

This short session is designed to make the start of 2025 smooth and easy. A few small actions at the end of 2024 can set 2025 wellbeing programs up for success. Join us in this session as we unpack some key ideas for successful implementation.

Session outcomes:

• Practical advice for schools launching Life Skills GO in 2025, including resources to support teachers introduce check-ins to students
• Advice for embedding Life Skills GO in existing processes to ensure that it does not take away any teaching and learning time
• Sharing of best practice from schools that have had successful implementation with a focus on building staff buy in and use

Note: This session is designed for schools new to Life Skill GO (Less than 6 months usage)

Start 2025 Strong – Schools Over 6 Months Usage with Life Skill GO

This short session is designed to make the start of 2025 smooth and easy. A few small actions at the end of 2024 can set 2025 wellbeing programs up for success. Join us in this session as we unpack some key ideas for successful implementation.

Session outcomes:

• Practical advice for schools energising Life Skills GO in 2025, including resources to support teachers introduce check-ins to students at the start of the year
• Advice for embedding Life Skills GO in existing processes to ensure that it does not take away any teaching and learning time
• Sharing of best practice from schools that have had successful implementation with a focus on building staff buy in and use

Note: This session is designed for schools who used Life Skill GO in 2024

Getting the Most Out of Your Wellbeing Data

This session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education and is designed for Principals, Executives and Wellbeing Team members but all welcome.

We will focus on how to embed your whole school, stage and class reports into existing processes. Specifically, this session will:

• demonstrate how to access your reports
• unpack the utility of features within the reports
• share best practice from schools that are successfully embedding reports in day to day practice

Unpacking the NSW SEF and School Planning with Life Skills GO

This session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education and is designed for Principals, Executives and Wellbeing Team members but all welcome.

We will focus on how to utilise key features from within the platform to support school planning processes and demonstrate alignment between your Life Skills GO platform and the NSW School Excellence Framework. Rydr will unpack the elements and themes of SEF version 3 and demonstrate how you can use data, reports and evidence from the Life Skills Platform to establish a whole school process to meet wellbeing needs that is ‘excelling’. Specifically, this session will:

• Support you utilise Life Skills GO to measure the impact of your wellbeing programs
• Embed healthy evaluative habits to complete your milestones
• Support you connect the evidence from your Life Skills GO reports

Embedding Wellbeing in Your Planning Day

This session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education and is designed for Principals, Executives and Wellbeing Team members but all welcome.

We will share strategies and resources for using wellbeing data formatively on end of term planning days. 

Session Outcome:

• Provide simple strategies and resources that can be used on planning day to support 2025 planning
• Provide explicit demonstration of how to use wellbeing data to inform wellbeing activity

Planning Day Support Document

Tips for Using Individual Learner Profiles

This session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education and is designed for Principals, Executives and Wellbeing Team members but all welcome.

We will focus exclusively on the Individual Learner Profile (Individual student reports) and how it can be utilised. Specifically, this session will:

• demonstrate how to access the reports
• explain how to add comments to emotion check-ins and why it is useful
• unpack simple and easy ways to triangulate student data
• share best practice from schools that are successfully embedding reports in day to day practice

Year in Review

This session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education and is designed for Principals, Executives and Wellbeing Team members but all welcome.

This short session is designed to support you to reflect on your 2024 wellbeing data.  We will demonstrate report and dashboard features that can help you analyse patterns and trends across your school. This will include practical support and resources to empower you to confidently present 2024 data back to your executive team, wellbeing team or whole school as part of your end-of-year reflections and 2025 planning.

Session Outcomes:

• Familiarise participants with useful reports and dashboard features for reflecting on 2024 wellbeing
• Access resources to support your present key wellbeing reflections as part of end of year reflection and 2025 planning

Note: This session is appropriate for schools who have been using Life Skills GO for longer than 15 weeks.

Life Skills GO & NAPLAN

NAPLAN can evoke a range of emotional responses in students, for some it can induce anxiety and worry as students put pressure on their academic performance for a range of reasons, students at the other end of the spectrum can be so relaxed about NAPLAN that they don’t put their best foot forward.

Whatever context you are operating in, you can learn a lot about your school and students by collecting Life Skills GO data strategically around NAPLAN. Of particular interest can be the relationship between student performance and their emotional state, historically students who are in an emotional state that is Ready to learn outperform their peers in other emotional states. If this is true in your school, then building strategies to asset students be in a state of ready to learn will be beneficial.

Session Outcomes:

• A walk through of key features in Life Skills GO and how they can be utilised to monitor student readiness to learn leading up to NAPLAN so you can replicate the optimum emotional state for your students when sitting NAPLAN.
• Consider the best options for collecting Life Skills GO data around NAPLAN assessments to provide key insights when the analysis is triangulated with NAPLAN results.