Earlier this week, The Yarraville Community Centre celebrated the first day Adult Learners Week with an afternoon tea and art session.
Adult Learners Week is an annual celebration , this year it is running from September 1-8.
Education Manager Melissa Giffard said Adult Learners Week is an annual campaign which celebrates and promotes learning opportunities for everyone.
“This year’s theme of Adult Learners Week is ‘It’s never too late’,” she said.
“Adult Learners Week is a great chance to encourage people who might have given up on learning to have another go.”
Adult Learners Association chief executive Jennifer Macaffer was in attendance to deliver an address to the students.
“She discussed the idea of adult learning and the role of the Adult Learners Association which is the national body,” she said.
Melissa said the students expressed their thoughts and feelings about learning as an adult through the medium of art.
“We had four classes come together, accumulating to 60-70 students in the main hall,” she said.
“The students sat around and had discussions on what learning and study has meant for them,” she said.
“Then they developed their collages which was a medium used to express their feelings and attitude to adult learning and how it has affected them.”
