Thu Sep 19th, 2024
Thank you @Jordan Crugnale MP for the praise of our Bass Coast Kids as Catalysts program. Kids can change their worlds!
Wow. Thankyou Jordan Crugnale MP - this means alot ❤️
Wed Mar 20th, 2024
Beautiful, beautiful
www.theguardian.com
It’s never too late and you’re never too old – at least according to the nonagenarians who are coming out, completing PhDs and publishing their first books in their 10th decadeLove this story but especially the term, ‘nonagenarians’ 😍
Her teeth are perfect 🤔🤔🤔
Wed Mar 20th, 2024
A beautiful article. Especially when you see the tortured little boys who grow to seize power as self-aggrandising and emotionally cauterised.
Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it | Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
Many boys educated privately hand their trauma to the next generation – and, dangerously, to those who are raised to govern, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Sun Dec 17th, 2023
More food for thought on the open plan classroom.
What's your experience?
Close the door on open-plan classrooms - Grattan Institute
grattan.edu.au
Classroom designs should not create more work for teachers, just to make sure their students can hear them – and each other.
Thu Dec 14th, 2023
This article in The Age looks into open classrooms.
What is your experience of open classrooms? Share it with us.
Kids Thrive Creative Director Andrea Rieniets, a musician with high sensitivity is not a fan.
Having been active across Victoria in delivering action-based creative training to primary students she's been in shiney new open spaces and tiny schools over 100 years old. No guessing which she prefers.
'Teaching in the open planning classrooms is like doing rich. deep cultural collaboration in a shopping mall, except one in which OUR noise-making from moving, singing and dancing becomes the problem for others unable to close their doors.
How do kids with auditory processing or attention difficulties attach to any teaching when it's wanging around in spaces with such shocking acoustics?
I do wonder if open classrooms may have been designed in part to expose teachers to factory floor oversight rather than being child-centred, soul centred designs.'
What do you think?
Push to phase out open-plan classrooms as ‘40-year-old fad’ leaves some students behind
www.theage.com.au
NSW is ceasing construction of outdated open-plan classrooms, but Victorian students could be left to learn in the distracting, noisy environments.Absolutely agree. Crazy environments to try and learn in. Maybe thoughtful input from kids would help in the design process?
Wed Nov 15th, 2023
Out and about on the airwaves. Listen to MMM news today. Andrea is on launching Kids Thrive The Bridge gaming awareness program for schools. We're putting the power in kids' hands to enjoy playing without being played. Go to
www.kidsthrive.org.au
“Over the past two years, I’ve had to juggle working from home and remote learning with a primary school aged child. We purchased an iPad for learning and then had it ‘babysitting’ our child w...
Mon Oct 2nd, 2023
A child-led social change model, how does it work?
Kids Thrive is Victoria’s leading arts and community development organisation nurturing child-led social change. We partner artists with specialists in children’s education, health, welfare and social justice to create ground-breaking programs promoting child-led change, and cultivating positive celebrations of diversity in schools and other child-friendly locations.
Kids Thrive defines child-led change as:
💫Children taking a lead in identifying community strengths, and finding ways to increase those strengths through their own actions.
💫Children identifying community problems and finding solutions and actions they can take to address these problems – with or without the support of adults.
💫Children taking life-transforming ideas and skills back to their homes and communities, leading their adults by example into new ways of being in the world.
The Kids Thrive child-led social change model empowers children to be brave and creative.
It activates them to identify the change they want to see in their communities and puts the tools in their hands to help lead this change
Do you want to know more? Visit our website: www.kidsthrive.org.au or click on the link in bio
#kidsthrive #kidsleadingcreativechange #childled #socialchange #socialchangemakers
Fri Sep 29th, 2023
Vision. Purpose. Values.
Vision.
Our vision is for all children to thrive and be empowered to lead creative community change.
We nourish connections between children and their local communities, develop children’s courage, creativity and capacity to drive positive change.
Purpose.
Our purpose is to foster positive outcomes for children and their communities. We do this by developing innovative arts and social justice programs in collaboration with specialists in children’s education, health, welfare and cultural diversity.
Values.
Child-led social change recognises that children are able to initiate and lead positive change for the benefit of all.
#kidsthrive #kidsleadingcreativechange
Sat Sep 23rd, 2023
A lesson in enthusiasm☺️
From workshop 2 to workshop 6, the same level of energy, commitment and creativity!💪
Well done team! We secretly wish we had a quarter of your energy😜
ergy😜
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Fri Sep 22nd, 2023
What is kinaesthetic learning?
from Greek kinein "to move" + aisthēsis "capacity for sensation", kinaesthetic learning refers to a style of teaching using movements and hands on activities.
What are the benefits?
Being performing artists, here at Kids Thrive, we have noticed time and time again the numerous benefits there are in integrating movements in learning practices.
When students learn through movement, games, and activities, they begin solving problems more creatively.
Movement prepares the brain for learning while simultaneously offering brain breaks during times of high stress towards academic performance.
Structured movement can also increase class cohesion while strengthening students' individual physical fitness.
Still unsure? Visit our website to read the reports on the benefits of our programs.
And sign up to our email list to be the first to know about Kids Thrive’s latest news.
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Tue Sep 19th, 2023
Coming soon! The Kids Thrive Hub
Imagine an online platform allowing you to access Kids Thrive programs with class plans, videos, and tutorials. How good is that?
Stay tuned for more info! Head to our website to subscribe to our email list to be the first to know about Kids Thrive latest news!
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Fri Sep 15th, 2023
Remember a conversation can change a life.
RU Ok Day is an opportunity to check in with others in your community and ask how they are doing. It is also a time to reflect within, and ask yourself, R U Ok?
Beyond the 14th of September each year, RU Ok is a question worth asking everyday!
For more info on how to engage in a RU OK conversation, visiRay
#kidsthrive #ruokday
Thu Sep 14th, 2023
What happens when kids are given the opportunity to lead a positive change in their local community?
The Kids as Catalysts program builds skills for life. Its aim?
✔️Builds children’s educational engagement.
✔️Delivers educational outcomes including literacy, numeracy and financial skills.
✔️Activates children as major contributors to, and creators of their community.
✔️Fosters children’s resilience, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
✔️Builds and embraces leadership opportunities for children in their schools and communities.
✔️Develops children’s passion for social justice, and capacity to drive community change.
✔️Strengthens connections between schools and communities.
✔️Develops children’s literacy, budgeting, and financial management skills.
Kids as Catalysts is linked to the Victorian school curriculum. Data evaluation shows incredible outcomes in several key learning areas and social domains.
Evidence that Kids as Catalysts:
☑️improved children’s personal, educational and social capacities
☑️increased children’s educational engagement, learning skills and community capacities
☑️built links between families, schools and community groups, and extended children’s safe community network
☑️Contributes significantly to building children’s resilience and educational engagement
Want to learn more about Kids as Catalysts? Head to our website! Or send us a message, we would love to start a conversation.
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Fri Sep 8th, 2023
Words of Principals!
This is what the Kids as Catalysts program does!
Read more about it on our website: www.kidsthrive.org.au/kids-as-catalysts/ or link in bio!
If you are interested in running the Kids as Catalysts program in your school, don’t hesitate to contact us here or via email, we would love to start a conversation.
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Teaching kids to lead, instead of follow. 😀
Thu Sep 7th, 2023
Teachers appreciation post👩🏫💛
When we are facilitating in schools, we are in awe of the teachers, and teacher’s aids. We thought they deserved a BIG thank you.
Thank you for your hard work, dedication, patience and passion, you are truly an inspiration.
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Wed Sep 6th, 2023
Words of Teachers!
This is what the Kids as Catalysts program does!
Read more about it on our website: www.kidsthrive.org.au/kids-as-catalysts/ or link in bio!
If you are interested in running the Kids as Catalysts program in your school, don’t hesitate to contact us here or via email, we would love to start a conversation.
#kidsthrive #kidsascatalystsprogram
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#kidsleadingcreativechange #nonforprofitorganisations #BassCoastCommunityFoundation #kidsascatalysts #kinaestheticlearning #registeredcharity #schoolprogram #kidsleadership #primaryschool #primaryeducation #primaryschoolteacher #melbourne #phillipisland #gippsland #inverloch #newhaven #wonthaggi
Tue Sep 5th, 2023
The gorgeous photos of the Kids as Catalysts Showcase Expo by Angel Leggas 3 Fates Media
We reckon they translate the electric ambiance of this community celebration so well, don’t you think?
#kidsthrive #kidsascatalystsprogram #BassCoastCommunityFoundation
What an incredible night. 👏👏👏
Wed Aug 30th, 2023
Wondering about the impact of the Kids as Catalysts program?
Read the Bass Coast Kids as Catalysts 2022 evaluation report and measure the outcome on students, schools and the broader community.
Read here: www.kidsthrive.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BKiC-2022-FINAL-REPORT.pdf
Or link in bio!
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Fri Aug 25th, 2023
Evaluation time!
When we get to measure the how much students have grown through the Kids as Catalysts program.
Some draw, some write, some like to speak to us, but whatever medium they choose, it’s always powerful.
Read our evaluation reports on our website: www.kidsthrive.org.au/kids-as-catalysts/ or link in bio.
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