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The importance of imagination
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his year the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy is celebrating 40 years of delivering dynamic and engaging drama classes.Their curriculum has been developed to allow creativity and imagination within structured, teacher driven lessons. Einstein said ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Developing improvisation skills helps young people understand how to appraise situations, think outside the box and be more confident in unfamiliar situations. Drama also teaches empathy, cooperation, concentration and memory – and improves motivation and reduces stress! Each lesson contains a different improvisation, short scripts, creative movement and short scenarios using the student’s own creativity. At the end of the
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The art of conversation
e all produce waste, a lot of it. It’s just a part of living in the modern world.
Most of us, though, have become a bit lazy and complacent when it comes to waste – we buy more than we need (and often these things come heavily packaged) and we tend to use and dispose of items relatively quickly.
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ye contact, greetings, everyday chitchat and meaningful communication is so important. But with technology crowding our lives, it’s easy to see why children are losing the art of conversation.
When these items are thrown away, we simply placed them in a bin for the council to take away. Easy.
Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’s unique program helps children gain confidence in their verbal communication skills. It’s all done in a fun, stimulating way – and classes include speech training, dramatic play, creative movement, music, storytelling, dressups and more.
We can all do better if we just Avoid, Reduce and Reuse. Time to face your waste and look at what you buy and throw away. In most instances, there will be simple changes that can be made to reduce the amount of waste we make.
At the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, children can connect and communicate in a safe environment that fosters creativity and imagination. All teachers are qualified educators with specialist training.
When you go to buy something, ask yourself: • Do I really need it? (Avoid) • Do I need as much of it? (Reduce)
Weekly classes for kids of all ages (3–17) are run at many locations throughout WA. Enrolments are now open. Call 9242 4722, email helen.davey@helenogrady.net.au or visit helenogrady.net.au
• Can I use it again, or can someone else? (Reuse). If the item is broken, can it be repaired? And, if I don’t
want it anymore, can it be repurposed and used as something else? All these things prevent waste from being generated in the first place. But if, after all that, you need to dispose of an item, dispose of it wisely. Many councils are moving to a three bin system – general waste (red lid), garden and recycling (yellow lid). In some cases, there’s even a bin for food organic waste (lime green lid). Sorting your waste makes is easier to process, and helps keep waste from going to landfill. Make sure you put the right things in the right bins – remembering that not everything for disposal goes into these bins. Some things have to be taken to special collection sites for recycling, or landfill. Check with your local council for what goes in what bins.
For more information, go to faceyourwaste.com.au
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