Due to high demand, we needed another big reprint of the popular Grade 2/3 Get Happier Travel Journal. These are now available and we are sending out all orders. Apologies to those schools who had to wait for their 2024 order of Travel Journals, but I am sure you will appreciate the changes!

Staff had been using many of the Get Happier resources to assist children and families to manage the trauma of the devastating floods that had driven them from their school to another temporary location.

In order to sustain the learnings and support the whole school community, the school decided to undertake the full Get Happier School program across all classes.

Special thanks to Danielle Nilon who pioneered the introduced and facilitated the program within the school!

Over the past 12 months, schools have asked for an opportunity to connect with other Get Happier Schools. I know that some of our schools receive visits from staff at other Get Happier Schools or aspiring Get Happier Schools.

We plan to organise an online get together later this year, and to set up a special and confidential Facebook page for subscribed Get Happier Schools to share and discuss what they are doing. In the meantime, please take advantage of the offer to have a Zoom call with Ivan to discuss any aspect of the program and share ideas. Send him dates and times that work for you, and he will organise a Zoom call.

I had the privilege of working with staff from Everton Park State School and Stafford Heights State School in Brisbane over two fun filled days during January. As well as being a Get Happier School, Everton Park recently became a Glasser Quality School. Congratulations on this great achievement!

With such an innovative leadership team, teachers feel free to apply the program uniquely and creatively in their classrooms to teach the children the framework for thriving in a challenging world.

2024 marks the eight years since Callum Gibbs and the team at Moama Anglican Grammar School pioneered the development of the Get Happier School program.

The whole school program started in 2018 and has continued ever since. Congratulations, Moama Anglican Grammar! Thank you for the wonderful work you do to prepare children for life!

This innovative program continues to provide schools around Australia and the world with the tools to develop sustainable mental well-being and an inspiring school culture. 

This success would not have happened without YOU. I am so grateful to all the teachers and school leaders worldwide who continue to deliver and develop this social and emotional learning program.

I am always inspired when I visit schools that are using the program, and the school snapshot area of our website provides a wonderful summary of what some of our schools are achieving through the program. Check it out here.