Schools are invited to upload student dance, music, drama and visual arts works and activities that have been undertaken by individuals, groups or classes throughout the year.
Show off your students creativity and enjoyment as they explore the theme of ‘Found Objects’.
Applications close in Week 5, Term 3.
If you are having trouble uploading your images, videos and/or sound files you can also email these to artsinitiatives@det.nsw.edu.au as an attachment once you have completed the submission form.
We are hoping lots of students, classes and schools get involved and we look forward to sharing the amazing opportunities and work being done by students with disability.
Have fun!
If you are looking for inspiration, why not try one of our Creative Classes or Art Bites. The links for these can be found at the bottom of this page and you will find lots of explicit teaching instructions, examples and ideas that you can share with your students. Don’t forget to look in the teacher tab for the lesson outcomes and links to the creative arts curriculum. Every art form is covered and many lessons explore all art forms so that a project based learning program can be explored.
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.
The 2021 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 2021 please complete the registration form on The Arts Unit website.
Catherine Gilholme
Arts Initiatives and Events Officer
Catherine.gilholme@det.nsw.edu.au
Sonja Sjolander
Arts Initiatives Advisor
Sonja.benson@det.nsw.edu.au
Heidi Windeisen
Heidi.windeisen@det.nsw.edu.au
Michelle Davies
Principal, Chalmers Road Public School
Michelle.m.davies@det.nsw.edu.au
Are you looking for some fun and accessible creative arts lessons for students with a range of disability in your classroom? Well look no further, we have you covered. The following Art Bites and Creative Classes developed by The Arts Unit are perfect for teachers and carers to give wonderful creative learning opportunities for students from all age ranges and abilities. We are adding to these resources all the time so save this link and watch this space.
We would love to see any student work produced, filmed or photographed, and you can send it through to artsinitiatives@det.nsw.edu.au with your name, your student’s name and school.
If you have any suggestions for other classes or topics to be developed you can also drop us a line at artsinitiatives@det.nsw.edu.au.
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.
How to make a mini paper puppet and 'breathe' life into it by adding movement.
Join Heidi Windeisen as she guides you through the process of making your very own junkyard robot!
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.
Students will learn about tint and shade scales, mixing paint to create an interesting artwork with leaves they have collected.
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!
Digby and Neil explore how they start their portrait paintings by sketching.
Digby and Neil continue their portraits by turning their sketches into paintings.
