Footscray-based social enterprise, 100 Story Building, is helping Dinjerra Primary School students to find their voices.
The organisation, which aims to help improve the literacy of marginalised children, recently extended its program to Dinjerra Primary School.
Dinjerra interventions manager Nazlia Edwards said the program, which will run for three years, had allowed students to flourish creatively.
“It’s been a really great example of where their voices have been listened to so real student voices and really, truly reflective of student agency,” she said.
“They’ve also done a workshop in each of the classrooms across the prep to grade 6 levels for demonstrating to our classroom teachers their philosophy and their way that they engage children in writing workshops.”
Ms Edwards said the school library will be transformed into a study hub, providing students with a space to be imaginative and creative.
She said artist Ben Allder had adapted the students’ written ideas to create a visual learning space.
“The co-facilitators have been coming to the school over the last eight weeks and they’ve been co-designing a story hub space with a group of about 20 of our 5-6 students,” Ms Edwards said.
“They’re going to leave the legacy because lots of them are in grade 5-6 where, you know, the story hubs will continue to evolve and develop over the years.”
“And they’ve been really thinking deeply about how the story hub space will be used by students across the school and how it will live on for years past once they’ve left the school.”
Max Westwood
