While well-being is often associated with maintaining balance and avoiding burnout, flourishing represents a more ambitious and holistic vision. It’s not just about managing stress - it’s about thriving, growing, and leading with purpose.
   Flourishing integrates resilience, fulfillment, and growth, allowing school leaders to create thriving learning environments where both staff and students reach their full potential. Read more

Adolescence is a complex developmental period, and young people can experience diverse and multi-faceted risks to health. Research has shown that for adolescents, six key modifiable health behaviours play a critical role in both physical and mental health, now and in the long term. These factors have been coined “The Big 6”; dietary intake, physical activity, sleep, sedentary recreational screen time, alcohol and vape/tobacco use. Read more

Australia, as with other countries that scored highly on the last PISA test for creativity, has teachers who highly value creativity and put their values into practice, regularly, intentionally, and skilfully.
   That success underlines the fact that creativity is not a fixed trait, and such a view constricts potential. Prof Daniel X. Harris (RMIT, AARE) says, “The debate over whether creativity is teachable is often rife with misinformation." Read more

Neurodiverse girls, including autistic and ADHDer girls, are an under-identified group, historically under-represented in male-dominant research studies on autism and ADHD, and often misdiagnosed with anxiety or other conditions.
   One reason autistic or ADHDer girls may get overlooked is that they may engage in “masking” to fit in and hide their challenges, reduce stigma and to minimise stress or distress. Read more

The Australian 2025 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) team looks to continue its world beating ways this year in Kosovo, heading to Pristina to compete from 11-17 April 2025.
   This is the eighth year Australia will be represented at EGMO, the premier international mathematical problem-solving contest for young women. Contestants will be tasked with answering two papers over two days. Read more

“Wakakirri is more than just a performance - it’s an experience that lasts a lifetime,” Adam Loxley, Festival Director says. “It's easier than ever to get involved with our free Story-Dance beginners program, designed to help new schools dive right in.
   “Wakakirri fosters student engagement and well-being through the creative process of developing and performing captivating Story-Dances.”
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