Braybrook’s Dinjerra Primary School has teamed up with youth literacy program 100 Story Building to create a dedicated story hub to help inspire students’ creative writing.
Situated in the school library, the story hub will be officially launched on Tuesday, November 26 following an eight week collaboration between grade 5-6 students, story hub facilitators and artist Benjamin Adler.
“They’ve transformed the library space using ideas from students across the school and then they worked with an artist (Adler) and they shared their creative process with him and he used the narrative that they’d written to design the story hub,” said Dinjerra teacher and story hub facilitator Nazlia Edwards explaining how the collaboration worked.
Despite working on the development of the story hub, Dinjerra students have yet to see the finished product and won’t until it is unveiled next week.
Ms Edwards has had a sneak peak though and said Adler’s work will well and truly have the desired effect.
“It’s quite amazing what he’s done and it will really spark creativity from the kids to help them with their writing which is the whole point,” she said.
“They’ll go into the story hub space for writing lessons with their teachers and interact with the installations to help them generate ideas for stories.”
The hub will be open for all students at the school, including at lunch times and despite being in the first of a three year partnership with 100 Story Building, Ms Edwards said it would remain in the school library for the foreseeable future.
“It’ll stay like this for a long time,” she said.
“It’s an absolutely amazing example of student voice and agency.”
Cade Lucas.
