Bring LOOK UP
to your school
One assembly, one challenge, one follow-up that takes five minutes. Byron speaks to schools about the flight, the illness behind it, and what it takes to look up from whatever is holding a young person down.
An assembly, then
the part that matters
A talk is a good hour. It is not a program. The LOOK UP visit is built in three moves, and the third one belongs to your school — which is why it is written down here, free, for any teacher who wants to run it whether Byron is in the room or not.
Pause
Ten minutes with no screen in the room. Not a lecture about phones — a timed, deliberate stop. Byron does it on stage with them.
Connect
Each student names one person they would actually talk to that week, and one person the school already has available for them.
Take one step
One small, dated action. A lesson, a flight-simulator session, a call, a walk, a try. Written down before leaving the hall.
The same story,
told at the right age
Primary assembly
30 minutes. The hospital bed, the first flying lesson, and what a plan looks like when you are small. Ends with the LOOK UP challenge in language children can actually run: put the screen down, find one person, do one thing you have not tried.
Secondary assembly
40 minutes with the route on a wall-sized map. Crohn's disease is spoken about plainly, as a thing you manage rather than hide from. Small-group aviation and STEM session available on the same day.
Senior talk & careers
45 to 60 minutes. Costs, licences, logbooks, what learning to fly really takes at sixteen, and how a hospital stay became a career direction. Suits careers mornings, cadets, scouts and STEM nights.
University careers expos, TAFE, scouts, cadets, youth groups and hospital schools are welcome — the same visit, reshaped for the room.
One page for
the teacher
This is the entire follow-up. It needs no budget, no assembly slot and no permission slip. Print it, pin it, or run it in a home group.
Pick the one thing your cohort is carrying this term — screens, sleep, a row, a loss — and tell Byron. The talk is built around that, not a generic script.
Students write their one step before leaving the hall. Ask them to keep it private; the point is that it is theirs.
Give it five minutes in a home group or classroom. The step either happened or it needs making smaller. Both are useful answers.
Ask who tried it, out loud, without naming anyone. A show of hands is enough. That is the whole follow-up.
The school's own wellbeing process leads, as it always would. Byron does not counsel, diagnose or advise, and says so on stage.
Honest about
what a talk can do
Byron is a sixteen-year-old pilot talking about his own experience. He is not a counsellor, a teacher or a clinician, and he says so from the stage. He does not give health advice or tell anyone what to do about their own situation.
If a student becomes distressed during a visit, the school's own wellbeing policy and staff lead the response, as they would at any other time. Ask about the school visit format and Byron's supervision arrangements when you book.
Every young person is told where the real help sits, and it is listed below so your students see it whether or not they remember the talk.
Outside Australia, use your country's youth or crisis line, or contact emergency services.
What schools need to know
before they ask
Scaled to the school. State school, not-for-profit and regional rates available — ask, and we will work with your budget.
Billed at cost from Brisbane. Virtual visits have no travel line at all.
Six weeks is comfortable. Assemblies sometimes fall together in a fortnight — ask.
A mic, a screen for the route map, and space to sit. No staging, no crew, no rider.
A school visit can be combined with a parent evening, a STEM night or a signed-book order for the library. Say so in the enquiry and it can be built into one day.
Tell us about
your cohort
Fill this in and your email app opens with the details already typed, addressed to the speaking desk. Every enquiry gets a reply.
Prefer the corporate route? The full keynote list, formats and video are on the speaking page.
Not ready to book
a date yet?
Register your interest in LOOK UP WITH BYRON and the team will send the campaign pack when the next school round opens.