Our Programs

We inspire confident and creative individuals through our imaginative literacy workshops and programs. Our arts-based teaching and learning approach helps young people build confidence and take creative risks, and helps teachers promote student agency and wellbeing.

School Programs

Unlock imaginations and get students putting pen to paper with a workshop in the magical world of the 100 Story Building in Footscray – or delivered in your school as an adventure-packed incursion or online for remote learning! Kickstart narrative units or develop students’ creative and writing skills with these fun filled, educational storymaking workshops:

100 Stories Down

Use your illustration and imagination skills to help us find out what lies in the 99 levels below our mysterious trapdoor! Learn more!

Space Write

Design a spacecraft and travel to another planet to discover who’s sending us a mysterious signal from the stars. Learn more!

Comic BOOM!

Mine events from your own life to create an autobiographical comic with some exciting embellishments! Learn more!

A Perilous Quest

Create a hero, choose the objects you need in your backpack, and set off on a journey fraught with obstacles and just a touch of danger. Learn more!

Choose Your Own Adventure

Create a story with branching storylines and many endings, to let the reader choose their own fate! Learn more!

Craft of the Draft

Take your writing to the next level and make editing fun as you identify what you want to convey in each part of your story, and change story elements to achieve that effect. Learn more!

My Place: Instapoetry

Create a fun piece for your grid with our Instapoetry workshop. Generate personal and reflective short-form poetry based on a connection to an image. Learn more!

Weaving the Moon: Poetry Workshop

We take students on an imaginative moonlit sensory adventure, and help them to create poetry from their own memories of nighttime. Learn more!

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Teacher Professional Learning

Explore strategies to embed creativity in the classroom with Sparking Creativity - our Professional Learning program. activities that unpack the creative process, and promote student wellbeing and agency.

Teacher PL sessions are available following every workshop to build on your class workshop experience.

100 Story Building follows COVID-safe rules and is committed to the protection of children and young people. Read our child safety rules and policy.

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Online Workshops

Our programs for Years 3-9 can all be delivered as live video workshops. These have been developed specifically to support schools and teachers deliver creative and engaging writing lessons to students in classrooms or remote learning from home. 

Our workshops are designed to help young writers access their imaginations and experience creative safety as they learn. 

 At 100 Story Building, we model vulnerability, creative courage, and making mistakes in order to encourage students to take creative risks, and believe in the power and quality of their own ideas.

What schools & teachers say

Testimonials

“I just wanted to thank you for this year... One of my students took part in the Early Harvest editing program this year and it has been such an inspiring and confidence building exercise for him.”

Teacher involved in Early Harvest program

“It was fantastic. Brendan did everything he possibly could to engage the students through an online platform rather than in person. He used the camera really well and demonstrated clearly for the students to copy from his drawings and labels.”

Angela Confoo, St Leonards Primary

“The professional learning has made us think a lot more creatively. Also learning ways to engage kids.”

Teacher, Story Hubs partner school

“It's made me more aware to be accepting of all students’ ideas or divert them in a positive way.”

Teacher, Story Hubs partner school

“So far the program has offered us time to be reflective and really unpack how and what we want to teach.”

Teacher, Story Hubs partner school

“Year 7 working group students were committed and engaged in a project that allows them to exercise their creativity and engage in critical thinking.”

Teacher, Story Hubs partner school

“The pilot gives us the chance to develop the literacy skills of our students in a fun,engaging and imaginative way. It offers our staff high levels of professional learning and the opportunity to ‘make learning fun’ and ‘interesting’ through imagination and scaffolded exploration of ideas and thought.”

Principal, Story Hubs partner school

“Students have been given the opportunity to learn the process of consultation and collaboration and have been given agency to make choices about their Story Hub.”

Teacher, Story Hubs partner school

“I saw a wonderful opportunity for our students. Imagine if they were exposed to this level of ‘theatre’ with their work. Where could this take us?”

Principal, Story Hubs partner school

‘One disengaged, very quiet and reserved student was participating during class discussion, bouncing ideas off other students and regularly sharing his opinions. The student is usually very shy and unsure of himself. It was an amazing transformation.’

Teacher, Year 7

‘Participating in the Early Harvest program really helped our students develop new creative ways of writing, building characters, story arcs and narratives. But more than that it gave them a framework through which they can work through the process of writing, from an initial idea through to the final copy,’

Annie Edsall, St Monica’s Primary School Footscray.

‘Students were extremely inspired to write their own ‘choose your own adventure’ story. Students were so excited to share ideas and be able to write their own pieces.’

Breannen B, Teacher Year 8.

‘Kinesthetic learning. They love drawing so the hands on elements to it were fantastic and catered to the group well.’

Christie R, Teacher Year 7.

‘Creative ideas drawn. Imagination shown. This grade can be difficult to manage so great to see rapt attention.’

Sharon K, Teacher Year 4/5.

‘Today we observed engagement with the task for a very reluctant writer. This student does not like writing in class and fights it. So him being eager to complete this activity is a great change.’

Catherine C, Teacher Year 4.

‘Students were exploring ideas and documenting their thinking with pictures and words. Justifying ideas to match the story situation.’

Brad N, Teacher Year 4.

‘The students were accepting of mistakes and challenging themselves. Students who don’t normally participate, wanted to.’

Ranae W, Teacher Year 5/6.