The Growing Stars Workshop – History & Impact
Between 2018 and 2025, Learning Differences Aotearoa Trust ran the Growing Stars workshop for children with learning differences and their parents.
What the Workshop Was Like
Growing Stars was a creative, hands-on programme for children with dyslexia and other learning differences. Over two fun mornings, children explored their strengths through art, craft, and activities designed to help them understand their thinking. Parents came together for an evening session where they could share experiences, learn strategies, and build confidence to support their children at home.
Workshop Feedback
‘The language he is using to describe his dyslexia. This is the language he got from the workshop. He is owning his dyslexia’.
‘My daughter, for the first time ever, wanted to go to school at the start of the school year’.
The workshop has now ceased, but its impact lives on in the Growing Stars Parent Guidebook, which continues to support families today.