St Martins Workshops
YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS
Our Young Changemakers Program delivers a foundational creative workshop program addressing essential well-being and life skills, increasing the children’s multiple literacies, confidence and creative capacity, and including performance outcomes.
The program consists of weekly 90 minute to two-hour workshops onsite at participating schools across the four terms of the year. Two workshop artists – both professional arts workers with one focused on inclusion – deliver the workshops and evaluate the progress of the students through reported observations, interviews and surveys. The workshops align with the Drama curriculum, levels 4-6, with supporting content for Literacy Learning Progressions.
PARTICIPANT INTENDED OUTCOMES
- Increased resilience
- Increased willingness to try new things
- Increased confidence, self-worth and leadership qualities
- Improved engagement in school
- Increased sense of community connection and belonging
- Development of creative skills
- Development across multiple literacies
- Increased aspirations, reflected in positive developments in hopes and plans for the future.
Transitioning to secondary school is one of the critical junctions of a student’s schooling. Social challenges and overwhelm affect self-esteem, identity and relationships to peer groups. This program is specifically designed to build creative skills which apply to drama yet also equip this age group to navigate school life.
Currently, we have Young Changemakers workshops at:
- St Albans North Primary School
- Dandenong Primary School
- Stonnington's The Hub
We are aiming to grow our workshop program, especially regionally. If you’re interested, please get in touch.
Dates 2021
Term 1
28th January
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2nd April
Term 2
19th April
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26th JuNE
Term 3
12th July
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18th September
Term 4
18th September
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11th December
Thursday
4:30PM – 6:30PM
Northcote High School
Saturday
2:30pM – 4:30PM
Northcote High School
Saturday
2:30pm – 4:30pm
St Martins South Yarra
We acknowledge the barriers to the arts that exist for many young people because of disability, cultural difference or social disadvantage and we offer scholarships and programs to overcome these barriers.
