The Creative Curriculum

Want a creative, dynamic classroom? Need some inspiration? Love the Arts but have no idea how to use it in the classroom?

The Creative Curriculum: Performing Arts in the Primary Classroom is an extended professional development program designed to enhance your confidence, capacity and enthusiasm for integrating the arts into the classroom.

Part One - a full day on-site workshop at Arts Centre Melbourne
Alongside a small group of your peers from schools around Victoria, three Teaching Artists will take you through a series of practical masterclasses, skills development activities and facilitated discussions. You will explore ways to apply various artistic disciplines across the curriculum, and develop skill sets, teaching tools and strategies to integrate and extend this within a classroom context.
Artistic disciplines explored: rhythm, music, sound, body, text, performance-making, visuals, design and objects.

Part Two – Collaboration with a Teaching Artist (4 hours in-school)
After completing the full day program at Arts Centre Melbourne, you will develop a proposal for a project that you would like to see happen in your school and be paired with a Teaching Artist for further collaboration. Through correspondence and an in-school workshop session (up to 4 hours), the Teaching Artist will work with you and your school to identify methods of applying a practical performing arts model to your own school environment and curriculum needs.

Teaching Artists

Jane Bayly (rhythm & sound)

Jane is as an actor/singer, theatre maker and teacher. As co-deviser, she made several shows with Crying in Public Places, and with Carole Patullo made Button, a play with songs, selected for the 2013 VCE Playlist (La Mama; 2013-15). She has performed with independent and mainstage companies including Hubcap Productions, Aphids, Arena Theatre, Auto Da Fe Theatre, Keene/Taylor Theatre Project, HotHouse, Playbox/Malthouse and MTC. Recent screen work includes The Time of Our Lives and The Broken Shore. A teaching artist, Jane works with theatre companies, community organisations and in the education and health sectors.

Dave Hope (visuals & objects)

Dave Hope is a prop maker/set builder/puppet maker and theatre designer. Over the last thirty years he has puppeteered around Australia and Europe, art directed TV ads in Spain, been Head Prop Maker for UK TV, designed various theatre pieces for children and built countless sets for everything from The Australian Ballet to beer commercials. Along the way he has made a three metre articulated cockroach, a flying owl and a brace of pheasants. He is currently turning in-line taps into light switches for a new adventure park outside Melbourne.

Chris Thompson (body & text)

Chris is a multi-award winning writer, director, theatre maker and teacher. He has been Artistic Director of several companies including St Martins Youth Arts Centre, HotHouse Theatre, Jigsaw Theatre and Union House Theatre. His plays for young people have been nominated for five Writers’Guild AWGIES winning three times for Shady Characters, The Bridge and The Sadness of Mister Saisson. His screenwriting has been nominated for the QLD Premier’s Literary Award and won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Chris is a sessional lecturer at ACU, currently works with Open Channel and has been a Teaching Artist with Arts Centre Melbourne for almost twenty years.

2017 Delivery Dates

Semester 1
Part 1: Term 1 - Friday 17th March
Part 2: Term 2 - Negotiable (April, May, June)

Semester 2
Part 1: Term 3 – Friday 8th September
Part 2: Term 4 – Negotiable (Oct, Nov)

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The Creative Curriculum provides positive strategies to support the Victorian Curriculum: the Arts, and embed an innovative use of the performing arts into your practice. Supported through the Strategic Partnerships Program of the Department of Education and Training.