Opening the lines of communication can be difficult when it comes to well-being and one school has found that the interface of an app is encouraging students to speak out about what is troubling them.
   ACC Moreton wants the school to be a place where kids can meet their potential and enjoy their school experience, communication between staff and students is a big part of that.
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The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, which aims to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse fell on Friday the 4th June.
   This year, we need to make more proactive, measured, and mindful steps towards genuinely including children in our social policies, education systems, and community environments. Read more

Australasia’s longest running teaching awards the National Excellence in Teaching Awards (NEiTA) is encouraging parents, and all school community members to nominate educators who have displayed dedication, passion and creativity in the past year.
   Research found 64 per cent of parents believe teachers are not sufficiently recognised, leading to the large numbers leaving teaching.
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The AdSpace High School Advertising Challenge has been running for more than a decade and invites students from Years 10-12 to work in teams of six with a QUT advertising student as their mentor.
   Professor Gayle Kerr from QUT’s School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, said the event was cancelled last year because of COVID-19 but is all set to go ahead on Friday 23 July.
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GradeXpert allows unprecedented versatility for tracking and comparing all aspects of school life –  test scores, attendance, behavioural markers or any other metrics.
   Group CEO Dr Kiki Tanousis said: “GradeXpert is a fantastic addition to the growing cluster of expert systems that is XUNO. Schools need no longer tolerate ill-fitting mediocrity from legacy systems.”
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Chances are you used a Microsoft product today and their ubiquity could be a force in helping students to feel better about themselves.
   Reflect is a check-in app that supports educators in building a classroom environment and praise badges and sticker packs are new Microsoft product features that have an eye on students’ happiness.
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Around 80 per cent of Melbourne’s food is grown in its outer suburbs, the business is huge, dynamic and is a good example of sustainable, high intensity farming.
   So, Werribee horticulture business, Velisha Farms, has started offering primary schools across Victoria the opportunity to participate in a hands-on program to see where much of their fresh food comes from and inspire them to pursue careers in agriculture.
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