For wellbeing coordinators
How to prove a wellbeing incursion actually did something, without a research budget
The evaluation pack I use at every school I visit. Two minutes before, three minutes after, and you have before and after data on your own students. Free, and it works on any provider you book, not just me.
Every year level I perform to, somebody in that school has to justify what it cost
I have watched wellbeing coordinators do it. You book something, the students love it, the feedback in the corridor is warm, and then in term four someone asks what actually changed and the honest answer is that nobody measured. So next year's case gets made on enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm loses to a spreadsheet every time.
I had the same problem from the other side. Years of touring, thousands of students, and not one number I could put in front of a school. So I built this, and I would rather give it away than be the only one using it.
What's in it
Five questions, twice, on your own cohort
- Your cohort, not an average
- Five questions before the show, the same five after. To pair the two sheets, students write a short code made from a couple of letters of their first name, their birth day and month, and their suburb. No name goes on either sheet.
- One page, not a folder
- The report format is in the pack, so the numbers arrive as something a leadership team can read in a minute.
- Works on anyone you book
- Nothing in the student forms names me. Run it on your next incursion whoever it is from.
- Five minutes, on paper
- Two minutes before, three after. Victorian government schools ban phones all day, so this was built for paper on purpose.
Every question is tied to a named framework. Mental health literacy and social and emotional learning under the Schools Mental Health Menu, the Australian Curriculum v9.0 Personal and Social capability, and the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework. The mapping comes with the pack, so the justification you have to write is already half written.
Why give this away
Because I would rather work in a market where schools expect measurement
And these only cost me the time it took to build them. If you run these forms on another provider and they come back well, that is a fair result and you should book them again. If you run them on me, we do the analysis and you get the report within a week of the visit.
Before you ask for it
What it will not do
It will not tell you your students' mental health improved, or that bullying went down. One visit is not enough to move those, and I would rather tell you that up front than have you find it out from the report.
It measures five things a single visit can genuinely shift:
They notice the voice
Whether a student notices their own self-talk at all.
It is not just them
Whether they realise everyone else has it too.
They have one move
Whether they know one thing to do when it starts up.
They can be kind to themselves
Whether they can do that when they mess up.
They know who to tell
Whether they know one adult they could talk to.
There is no clinical or distress screening in it, deliberately. Those questions need trained administration and a response protocol, and they do not belong on a form handed out in a school hall.
Send me the pack
The pack lands in your inbox straight away. After that you will hear from me occasionally, and only with things that are useful to somebody doing your job. One click to unsubscribe and I will not chase you.
Every student form carries the Kids Helpline number, and the pack includes the disclosure protocol I follow when a student writes something concerning. Insurance, Working with Children Check and child-safe policies are on the compliance page.