As we become accustomed to our ‘new normal’ and put the difficulties we all faced through the COVID pandemic behind us, the significance of the impact of those years  and those that followed is becoming increasingly apparent. Especially the impact on our youth. 

Research is only starting to catch up to show that our students are still relearning social skills and carrying the effects of isolation from friends and family, fear of the pandemic, direct losses due to illness or the breakdown of family units due to parental stress. We see that this is manifesting in our youth both in classrooms and at home as increased anxiety and behavioural incidents, lower school attendance rates and relationship issues.

Our first National Check-in Week revealed that 43.1% of students were not in a state ready to learn. Our updated report shows the trends over time for emotional state, readiness to learn and where student wellbeing stands today based on close to 1 million individual check-ins.