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Aboriginal Drama Program 2016

Storytelling and the Dreamtime

With 
MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Watch excerpts and interviews from the 2016 Aboriginal Drama Program. Aboriginal elders and artists worked with 27 students in Years 7 to 11 across 4 days to explore Dreamtime stories and develop their skills in playbuilding and scripting scenes, as well as performance and characterisation techniques.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Approaches to monologue

With 
Sophie Kelly
Virtual Excursion:

Filmed at the NSW State Drama Camp in 2014, actor and teacher Sophie Kelly introduces steps in exploring and developing a monologue for performance. She uses Lindy Davies' three step process of dropping in, abstract/impulse and blueprinting, to ultimately create 'authentic connection'.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Art Bites

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Art Bites invite students to join a choir rehearsal, dance ensemble, music practice, art club or a debating team meeting.

These short video lessons in a range of areas offer students a chance to engage in co-curricular activities.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Creating a piece for drama festivals

With 
Ben van Biljon, Tamara O'Rourke, Cath Simpson and David Todd
Virtual Excursion:

Examine the elements required for creating an effective play built or scripted primary drama piece. The featured primary teachers deconstruct their state drama festival plays and offer strategies and tips for teachers to create their own class or ensemble based drama pieces.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Creative Classes

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

Creative Classes uses our extensive collection of inspiring, and unique video assets that have been adapted into mini websites for teachers to share with their students.

Each website offers high quality stimulus content and provides engaging, independent activities that have been linked to syllabus outcomes in creative arts subjects.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Improvisation and playbuilding

With 
David Todd
Virtual Excursion:

Discover how to use images, text, ideas and stories as a starting point to devise original pieces of theatre in collaboration with others. Learn how to create group works that have a beginning, middle and end and deliver a clear social message or themes to an audience. Starting with improvisation, ideas and scenes are refined to produce a complete piece of theatre.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Intersection: Beat

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The 2020 NSW Public Schools Drama Company, in partnership with the Australian Theatre for Young People, presents a selection of short films from Intersection: Beat. In this eResource, you will find the completed films, a documentary, and a series of insightful interviews with the creatives and cast. Also included are suggestions of how to use this resource in your classroom.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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Teaching secondary drama with Complicité

With 
Eric Mallett
MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

This course provides a broad range of activities, movement and devising for drama teachers to take into the classroom. The featured model lessons enable participants to understand how to deliver strategies for devising performances in the drama classroom and gradually increase complexity and depth of character development and scene work to effectively engage an audience.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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The Connections Program

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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

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.

This program is open to all students with disability and their teachers.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
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The Primary Play Book

Plays from the State Drama Festival

Download The Primary Play Book (.DOCX, 10.69MB)
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MyPL:
Virtual Excursion:

The Primary Play Book compiles scripts from teachers who have consistently produced outstanding scripts and stagecraft for the NSW Public Schools State Drama Festival, aligns them to syllabus outcomes and expands on the classroom activities that assisted them in preparing the students for performance.

This resource is a guide for teachers with scripts, activities and suggestions about how to incorporate them into your classroom programming.

This series can be accessed via the Arts Unit Learning Hub. (remember to allow flash on your web browser for this series).
Download (.DOCX, 10.69MB)

Virtual excursions

COVID-19 announcement

Various activities for The Arts Unit programs have been temporarily suspended for the foreseeable future to support efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and maintain the safety and wellbeing of students and staff.

Visit the COVID-19 and public schools in NSW web page for more information.

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