School excursions, incursions and online events

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In this interactive session, ACMI celebrate place and belonging, and explore what screen stories can teach us about our world.

Prompted by familiar screen texts, students will explore ideas about place and setting and engage in a creative design challenge.

Following the program, students will visit ACMI’s centrepiece exhibition, The Story of the Moving Image, where they can learn more about screen narratives, setting and storytelling.

• Year levels: Prep to Grade 2.
• Date: Friday 19 May 2023
• Location: ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne.
• Capacity: Up to 60 students per session.

Composition Workshop and Australian Music Vault tour. Gain a unique insight into the process of music creation and production.

Students will explore technology and techniques used to create the music they hear every day. There are a range of workshops to suit all students, from those with little or no music skills to advanced senior music students. This workshop can be paired with a guided tour of the Australian Music Vault. Choose this option in the booking form to enquire.

• Year levels: Grade 3 to Year 12.
• Location: Arts Centre Melbourne
• Organisation: Arts Centre Melbourne
• Capacity: lab 1 — 32 students and lab 2 — 28 students.
• Duration: workshop 90 minutes and music vault tour 60 minutes (optional).

To book:

1. Schools Booking Form
2. From the dropdown menu, select “Into the Music: Composition Workshop PLUS AMV tour
3. Please mention Education Week booking in the notes section.

For further enquiries, contact the Arts Centre Melbourne Schools team by email: schools@artscentremelbourne.com.au

To be an entrepreneur requires a significant amount of internal motivation. Entrepreneurs also need courage, optimism, and be action oriented.

They need to create the change they wish to see in the world and to motivate and inspire others to uptake the solutions they create for their communities. This one-day workshop introduces students to the methodologies used in start-up businesses globally: value propositions and business models.

Students will progress through key stages from problem identification to ‘getting out of the building’. By the end of the program students will have experienced a full cycle of how to test a business idea and launch their mini start-up.

• Organisation: Banyule-Nilumbik Tech School
• Year levels: Years 7 to 12.
• Date: Monday 15 May 2023 or Tuesday 16 May 2023.
• Duration: full day.
• Capacity: 100 students.
• To register, refer to the Student Start-up website.

Celebrate Education Week at Melbourne Now 2023.

Drop by the Melbourne Now Community Hall on the ground floor for free daily activities including a ‘Draw Now’ activity for students each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 10am and 12 noon. Students can also pick up and make a free ‘Chat Now’ origami chatterbox full of questions and prompts to encourage creative and personal responses to contemporary art and design in the exhibition.

• Year levels: All
• Date: Tuesday 16 to Thursday 18 May 2023
• Time: 10am to 12pm
• Location: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
• Capacity: Flexible
• To find out more: NGV - Melbourne Now

Visit Pioneer Settlement in Swan Hill and choose from a range of activities suitable for all year levels including a discovery workbook, music shop tour, photo scavenger hunt, pioneer toys and games, print shop tour, vintage car or horse and carriage rides and a self-guided tour of Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

• Year levels: Activities available for all year levels
• Date: 15-19 May
• Location: Pioneer Settlement, Swan Hill
• To register visit Pioneer Settlement website

Health and Wellbeing in Nature program, Through a playful exploration of the gardens, students will be encouraged to see themselves as part of the natural world and consider how being in nature can contribute to positive emotional and physical wellbeing.

• Year levels: upper primary, can be adapted to suit most year levels.
• Date: Monday 15 May 2023.
• Time: 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm.
• Location: Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne.
• Capacity: 2 classes (maximum of 30 students per class) at each location.
• Organisation: Royal Botanic Gardens
• To register, refer to Registration for Education Week. Bookings will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

MakeCode Arcade Online is a popular program that engages students through game design. Students will use design thinking to create a game, and block coding to bring the game to life.

• Year level: Years 7 to 12.
• Organisation: Banyule-Nilumbik Tech School
• Duration: schools can book one 2-hour session for an introduction to coding and game design, or multiple sessions to complete their games.
• Capacity: 30 students.
• Location: online
• To book sessions, email: remoteprograms@melbournepolytechnic.edu.au

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Join a live educator-delivered student webinar and receive hands-on activities, videos, resources and games during Education Week to help students with their learning.

Topics:

• Caring for Climate and Change (Grade 3 to Year 10)
• Exploring Ecosystems (Prep to Year 10)
• Towards Zero Waste (Prep to Year 10)
• Farming for our Future (Prep to Year 10).

Organisation: CERES

• Duration: 1 hour.
• Location: online using Zoom or your school’s preferred platform (for example, Google Meets or Webex).
• Capacity: 30 students.

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Education Livestream will take students behind the curtain as we explore the rehearsal process and technical elements used to put the show together. This session will be followed by a Live Q&A with some of the cast. A recording will be available for 48hrs after the event

• Year levels: Years 7 to 12, ideal for senior secondary
• Date: Thursday 18th May
• Time: 2pm to 3pm
• Capacity: Unlimited
• Location: Online event
• To book, visit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Education

How are rainbows formed? Can you make coloured shadows? Can you always trust what your eyes see? Students will be wowed and entertained as they are facilitated by a Scienceworks presenter in a series of experiments with light and colour. These experiments will uncover what white light is made up of, how it bends when it moves through or is blocked by different materials and what happens when that light reaches our eyes.

• Year levels: Years 1 to 4
• Date: Tuesday 16 May 2023
• Time: 2pm
• Organisation: Museums Victoria - Scienceworks
• Location: Online event
• Link to book: The light and colour variety show online

Families in the 19th century didn’t count their steps or go to the gym, but they were motivated each day to move to get things done!

Sovereign Hill are inviting schools to join them online to explore physical activity around the goldfields without the technology of today that makes our daily life easier.

• Year levels: All primary years
• Date: 18 and 24 May 2023
• Time: 9:30 am to 10 am.
• Location: online. Sovereign Hill will send a Zoom link to your registered email 2 days before the virtual program.
• Register on Sovereign Hill Learning.

Join this virtual session to hear Lucinda Gifford talk about her picture book, Whitney & Brittany Chicken Divas

• Organisation: Young Australians Best Book Awards Council (YABBA)
• Year levels: All Primary students and early Secondary students
• Capacity: Unlimited
• Date: Tuesday 16 May
• Time: 9.30am – 10.15am
• Location: Online event
• Bookings on YABBA website

The AFL Primary Play program is a curriculum linked and industry designed for all primary school aged students. Delivered by trained AFL Victoria staff, the program offers students of all genders and ability the opportunity to be active in a safe and inclusive environment with the aim to build a life-long connection to the game.

AFL Victoria offer a free 1 or 2 session program for each student and year level from Prep to Grade 6. *subject to availability of AFL Victoria workforce.

• Year levels: Foundation to Grade 6
• Location: Incursion at your school site
• Organisation: AFL
• To register, refer to: AFL Primary Play

Book a VET champion during Education Week to inspire students to consider a vocational education and training pathway.

• Year levels: 9 and 10
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Organisation: Department of Education
• Location: Online or incursion at your school site
• Bookings: Book a VET Champion

Experience one of Gippsland Art Gallery’s sought-after school membership education workshops, without the membership sign-up fee. The workshops are tailored to the group visiting and are linked to the current exhibitions at the gallery. To check out the current exhibitions, visit: Gippsland Art Gallery.

This workshop is an outreach program and Gippsland Art Gallery staff will come to your school if it is within the Gippsland region. Schools outside the region will need to arrange transport to Gippsland Art Gallery.

• Year levels: early years to Year 12
• Location: incursion, school site (Gippsland only)
• Duration: 1 to 1.5 hours.
• Organisation: Gippsland Art Gallery
• To book email: galleryeducation@wellington.vic.gov.au
• Spaces are limited and bookings will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

Teamwork is essential for this workshop. Students will draw different elements of the prompted image. The catch? They won’t know when the music will re-start, signalling they need to move onto the next drawing. This stop-start game is sure to get the creative drawing juices flowing.

This workshop is an outreach program and Gippsland Art Gallery staff will come to your school if it is within the Gippsland region. Schools outside the region will need to arrange transport to Gippsland Art Gallery.

• Year levels: early years to Year 10
• Location: incursion, school site (Gippsland only)
• Duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Organisation: Gippsland Art Gallery
• To book email: galleryeducation@wellington.vic.gov.au
• Spaces are limited and bookings will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

This is a challenging drawing game where the taskmaster directs individual or team drawings. Students will need to put their problem-solving caps on as new directions will present different challenges. These drawings are larger than life and students will need their whole arm or even leg to complete this drawing challenge.

This workshop is an outreach program and Gippsland Art Gallery staff will come to your school if it is within the Gippsland region. Schools outside the region will need to arrange transport to Gippsland Art Gallery.

• Year levels: primary and secondary
• Duration: 45 minutes to 1 hour. Capacity 15 to 28 students per workshop
• Location: incursion, school site (Gippsland only)
• Organisation: Gippsland Art Gallery To book email: galleryeducation@wellington.vic.gov.au
• Spaces are limited and bookings will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

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Diversity Dash gets students active as part of an inclusive, fun, social event delivered by schools. Students can walk, skip, or wheel through a course of fun obstacles, water, and colour. Diversity Dash celebrates diversity within Victorian schools.

Any schools interested in hosting a Diversity Dash to celebrate Education Week must apply via the School Sport Victoria Play webpage.

Students will learn about Bunraku, a traditional form of Japanese puppetry, with this hands-on incursion delivered by A Blanck Canvas.

Includes a puppetry demonstration, puppet making and practice operating puppets.

• Year levels: Grades 4-6
• Duration: 90mins
• Organisation: Victorian State Schools Spectacular with A Blanck Canvas
• Location: Incursion at your school site
• To book email performing.arts@education.vic.gov.au

Learn how to make shadow puppets and work as a group to create a story using improvisation or fairy tales. A Blanck Canvas’ highly interactive incursion is hands-on learning bought to life.

• Year levels: All school year levels
• Duration: 90mins
• Organisation: Victorian State Schools Spectacular with A Blanck Canvas
• Location: Incursion at your school site
• Email: performing.arts@education.vic.gov.au

Learn and engage with the roar of student voice! Join VicSRC staff in-person at a workshop designed for students of all ages to help them understand advocacy and to motivate them to engage in student-led initiatives to begin their student voice journey.

The VicSRC Regional Roadtrip will visit southern coastal areas of Victoria with plans to visit Dartmoor, Heywood, Portland, Port Fairy, Warrnambool, Timboon, Colac, Torquay, Geelong, Bacchus Marsh and Melton. If your school is in one of these regions and you'd like a fun visit from the VicSRC crew, get in touch!

• Year levels: Prep to Year 12
• Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
• Organisation: Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC)
• Location: Incursion at your school site (potentially excursion to site in local area dependent on interest)
• Register: To express your interest email communications@vicsrc.org.au
  

Teachers, discover how the Australian Ballet Education Outreach team uses a dance education approach to support classroom learning.

You will leave with useful ideas to bring dance into your classroom to support the learning of other subjects as well as choreographic tools to get students creating. You will also gain a deeper understanding of the work The Australian Ballet do and how this can support curricular learning.

• Year levels: primary, generalist and specialist school teachers, but all are welcome
• Organisation: Australian Ballet
• Date: Wednesday 17 May 2023.
• Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm.
• Location: online.
• Register on Eventbrite.