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Brainstorm Productions

Brainstorm Productions

Brainstorm Productions' live educational theatre performances empower primary and secondary students with practical strategies for online safety, bullying prevention, help-seeking and wellbeing.

  • NSW
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Vic

Availability is confined to specific regions. Contact the provider to check availability in your region.

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: VIC, eSafety

Product type: Posters; Activity sheets; Student activities; Drama performance; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Brainstorm Productions
ABN: 17 088 834 637

https://www.brainstormproductions.edu.au/

info@brainstormproductions.edu.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Grief and loss

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Technologies

  • The Arts

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)

Main beneficiaries: Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

We deliver live, face-to-face educational theatre performances to primary and secondary students. The aim is to facilitate discussion and learning around the topics of bullying prevention, cyber-safety and wellbeing, while also providing an engaging and accessible performing arts experience.

Each 50-minute performance uses a narrative, relatable characters, movement, music and humour to target learning outcomes from the Australian Curriculum, with a focus on Personal and Social Capability, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, and Health and Physical Education. Behaviours, consequences and positive skills are demonstrated in the context of real-life scenarios.

Each performance is followed by a QandA session and supported by curriculum-linked classroom resources to to spark discussion, target key learning outcomes and complement each school's broader bullying prevention and wellbeing strategy.

Schools only need to provide a suitable indoor venue with access to electricity, no special equipment, staff training or backfill required.

The program was developed by educators, creatives and a clinical psychologist, and delivered by professional young actors.

The program is available in:

  • Metro Sydney, Central Coast, Newcastle, Blue Mountains, Singleton, Maitland and Port Stephens
  • Metro Melbourne, Geelong, Mornington Peninsula, Ballarat, Kyneton, Castlemaine and Gippsland area, as far east as Sale
  • Metro Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, including Warwick & Laidley
  • Metro Adelaide
  • Northern Rivers NSW, from Lismore to Kingscliff.</p

Evidence

The program is based on the practice of educational theatre, or 'theatre in education'. There is evidence for the effectiveness of educational theatre for improving student outcomes in the areas of bullying prevention, health promotion and mental health, including other curriculum areas such as science and history.