The Connections Program
The Connections Program provides a range of inclusive teaching, learning and performance opportunities in dance, visual arts, music and drama.
Throughout the year we will be offering arts projects and programs that invite students and their teachers to create their own works based on a central theme. Schools and students will then be invited to showcase their work in Term 3.
The 2020 theme is ‘Found Objects’.
This program is open to all students with disability and their teachers.
To keep up to date with what is on offer in 2020 please complete the registration form on The Arts Unit website.
The Connections Program 2020 - Promo
Contacts
Program Coordinators
Marianne Powles
Arts Programs and Partnerships
Marianne.powles@det.nsw.edu.au
Sonja Sjolander
Arts Initiatives Advisor
Sonja.benson@det.nsw.edu.au
Catherine Gilholme
Arts Initiatives and Events Officer
Catherine.gilholme@det.nsw.edu.au
Connections Program Visual Arts Coordinator
Heidi Windeisen
Heidi.windeisen@det.nsw.edu.au
Shining Stars Organiser
Michelle Davies
Principal, Chalmers Road Public School
Michelle.m.davies@det.nsw.edu.au
Videos
Sequences and dance blocks - Disco dance
Sequences and dance blocks - Green fingernails
Creating a dance program - Who are we?
Creating a dance program - Mirror mirror
Creating a dance program - Props and stuff
Performance and outcomes - Dinosaur dig dance
Performance and outcomes - Two tribes dance
Performance opportunities and recap
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Approaches for dance students with intellectual disabilities
Art Bites
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Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
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Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
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Drama games K-2 – movement and mime
Join Charlotte Connor to have fun with these drama games! The purpose of these games is to focus on mime and gestures, using both imagination and body language to create characters and action.
Making mini paper puppets
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Making mini paper puppets
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Making mini paper puppets
How to make a mini paper puppet and 'breathe' life into it by adding movement.
Operation Art – 1. Junkyard robots
Operation Art
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Junkyard robots
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Junkyard robots
Join Heidi Windeisen as she guides you through the process of making your very own junkyard robot!
Operation Art – 2. The King Sun
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The King Sun
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The King Sun
This is a mixed media artwork for lower primary based on John Olsen’s artwork titled The King Sun. Children will create their own King Sun using food colouring, acrylic paint and oil pastels or crayons.
Operation Art – 3. Rainbow leaves
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Rainbow leaves
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Rainbow leaves
Students will learn about tint and shade scales, mixing paint to create an interesting artwork with leaves they have collected.
Operation Art – 4. From the inside out
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From the inside out
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From the inside out
Never before have we spent so much time inside our homes staring out! A great way to document all of your recent experiences and feelings is through painting! So grab your paintbrush, and let's take a look outside your window!
Creative Classes
Are you supercali-coordinated?
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Autumn leaves
Chicken challenge
Colour my world
Dinosaur dig
Disco dancing
Green Fingernails
Let's sign – I See Stars
Scarecrow dancing
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Storytelling through dance
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The Dot
