Kids Thrive - Kids Leading Creative Change

19/09/2024

Thank you Crugnale MP for the praise of our Bass Coast Kids as Catalysts program. Kids can change their worlds!

20/03/2024

Beautiful, beautiful

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 decade

19/03/2024

A beautiful article. Especially when you see the tortured little boys who grow to seize power as self-aggrandising and emotionally cauterised.

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

18/12/2023

Wishing our arts colleagues up around Cairns safety amidst the chaos of cyclones and floods. There is a reported risk to drinking water, 10,000 homes are without power and planes half immersed on the runway of Cairns Airport. Stay safe friends.

16/12/2023

More food for thought on the open plan classroom.

What's your experience?

Classroom designs should not create more work for teachers, just to make sure their students can hear them – and each other.

14/12/2023

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?

NSW is ceasing construction of outdated open-plan classrooms, but Victorian students could be left to learn in the distracting, noisy environments.

14/11/2023

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

“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 while I was in Zoom meetings. I know she has been exposed to online gambling and increased habits for...

01/10/2023

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: https://www.kidsthrive.org.au or click on the link in bio

29/09/2023

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.

22/09/2023

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😜

21/09/2023

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.

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18/09/2023

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!