Supporting student mental health

Landcom continues to partner with the National Theatre for Children to deliver the Mind Master program at primary schools in Airds and Claymore. This program aligns to Landcom’s target of residents reporting high physical and mental health under our Healthy and Inclusive Places Pillar of our Sustainable Places Strategy.

The first stage of ‘Mind Masters’ three year program was delivered to 295 students and 22 teachers at Claymore Public School. The program, designed by clinical psychologists and curriculum aligned, aims to instil concepts around mental health and how to build resilience and wellbeing. This was the first live performance at Claymore Public School which forms part of a yearly, four stage program with National Theatre for Children.

Teacher feedback on the program at Claymore was positive, with teachers rating the overall educational value of the program as 6 out of 7 and the ability of live theatre to increase students capacity for retaining the message as 6.5 out of 7.

Overall the performance was received very positively with a Claymore Public School teacher commenting, ‘The performance was not only educational it was also very engaging. Students will remember the performance along with the message.’

‘The show was highly engaging, students have not stopped talking about it. Delivering such useful and important educational content in engaging ways motivates students to learn and promotes further discussion, students are likely to retain this information.’

All teachers surveyed said that would like to see this program run in their school in the future.