Welcome to Living Ripples
Building resilience for student success
Living Ripples is a proven three-year process to empower, support and connect Australian primary and secondary schools so they can confidently build student resilience and wellbeing. This practical process enables all primary and secondary schools to survey their students, staff and parents and carers and act on their comprehensive findings.
Wrapping around participating individual schools and the growing national network of Living Ripples schools across Australia, school communities are supported to implement the process with practical resources. Resources include ‘how to’ guides to deliver Living Ripples within a school, sharing stories of Living Ripples schools, research and hands-on assistance to grow cooperation, collaboration and action.
Living Ripples recognises and respects that a school’s commitment to supporting their students’ success is long term, complex and ongoing. This is why one cycle of the Living Ripples process runs for three years.
Our Impact
Growing support every day
students surveyed
schools surveyed
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Impact in action
Stories from Schools
Tenison Woods Catholic School’s Wellbeing Journey
Corrimal East Public School is in the northern suburbs of Wollongong, between the mountains and the sea. With 300 students, its motto is ‘A small school making a big difference’. And the school is making a big difference to its students and their families and community by prioritising wellbeing.
Making A Big Difference
Corrimal East Public School is in the northern suburbs of Wollongong, between the mountains and the sea. With 300 students, its motto is ‘A small school making a big difference’. And the school is making a big difference to its students and their families and community by prioritising wellbeing.
Shining light, student led success
Scarborough Public School is a small school of 56 students on the south coast of NSW where Living Ripples has become ‘very much the everyday’. With the importance of wellbeing for firmly embedded in the School’s Strategic Improvement Plan, the Living Ripples process has specific success criteria and two years on, the impact is growing.
Welcoming, involved, and listening
Russell Vale Public School is a small, family-oriented school in the northern suburbs of Wollongong. Established in 1954, it is proud to serve its community. Russell Vale Public has quite recently adopted the Living Ripples process to build on an already committed, aware and caring school.
Place-based, practical, and purposeful
Brimbank City Council area starts 11 km west of Melbourne’s central business district with business, industry, homes and schools side by side. With suburbs including Deer Park, Sunshine, St Albans, Keilor and Sydenham, the Brimbank community is busy, complex, and diverse.
Founder, innovator and advocate
Berry Public School, on the south coast of NSW in the Shoalhaven region, was the first school in Australia to participate in the Living Ripples process. The appeal for Berry Public School was that the process engages the whole school community, gathers and uses real time data and is aligned to the school’s enduring commitment to the value and importance of student wellbeing.
Inclusive, connected and inspiring
Bomaderry Public is a Kindergarten to Year 6 school in the town of Bomaderry on the Shoalhaven River, four kilometres north of Nowra. Its shift of focus from behaviour management to fostering wellbeing among students, staff and families has been the game changer. Attendance is improving, engagement from families is on the rise and enrolments are increasing.
Who we work with
Our schools
