Cityscape is an innovative education program that uses the city to inspire learning. Designed for students in years 9 and 10 and their teachers, Cityscape is a bold approach to the middle years of education. Over five days, student teams carry out an active research project throughout the city and engage in workshops with Cityscape’s diverse organisational partners.

Cityscape involves…

• an action research project – where small teams of students explore a topic of interest by interacting with the community in the CBD
• hands-on workshops with various Cityscape partner organisations exploring key issues such as homelessness, fitness and youth media
• a comprehensive learning package that teachers can use to prepare for and extend the 5-day program

Cityscape benefits…
students

• empowering and inspiring them to be active, life-long learners
• helping them to recognise their own strengths and passions
• connecting them with community, people and places
• developing real-world problem solving, team skills and a love of learning itself

teachers

• strengthening and invigorating relationships with students
• sparking new ideas to take back to the classroom
• providing a detailed learning module before and after the Cityscape week

communities

• addressing disadvantage by supporting schools and students on a needs basis
• making use of community resources to boost educational outcomes

Cityscape contact:cityscape@fya.org.au

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Step Up offers students who have engaged in and excelled at the Cityscape program to take their personal development learning to a higher level. All EMA students who have participated in the Cityscape program are eligible to apply for this five day, fully funded, residential learning journey. 32 students from a broad range of schools and communities will be selected to experience a unique program that links them into a dynamic community of peers, facilitator and mentors supported by our vast networks and CBD resources.
All schools will receive more detailed information during their week at the City Learning Centre.

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