PRIMARY SCHOOL INCURSION PROGRAMS
The Australian Acting Academy's primary incursion program has been carefully designed to support cross-curricula learning outcomes by providing students with focused, peak experiences, allowing them to share their creative spirit.
Supporting thriving, engaged, inspiring learning environments for Prep to Year 6.
Supporting thriving, engaged, inspiring learning environments for Prep to Year 6.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
All of our workshops are designed to encourage and develop confidence, creative problem solving, mindfulness, teamwork and, most importantly, fun. Through our Safety Net Philosophy, we help your students build a safe creative space that is perfect for taking risks in learning. We run a series of present workshops, along with working with classroom teachers and department heads to design the best content for your students.
WHY ACTING CLASSES?
Creativity is one of the most important aspects of any child's development. As teachers, you are always looking for new exciting ways to engage your students across all curriculum areas. Our workshops are designed to assist you in keeping students engaged through creative thinking. We go beyond simply targeting the drama curriculum, and invite your students to bring their creative spirit to all learning areas.
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POPULAR PRESENT PROGRAMS
YOUR FAVOURITE CHARACTERS & STORIES... WITH A TWIST!
FRACTURED FAIRYTALES
PREP -2
FULL DAY
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ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Using two classic fairy tales that your students know and love, our expert coaches will build a show combining both storylines and characters!
Your students will leave with an understanding of narrative structure, characters that are portrayed through both body and voice and a performance ready to be shown to families!
Students will work in a positive, supportive environment to play, create and develop key skills shown in the Drama and English curriculum.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
This unit heroes the English and Drama curriculum for Prep to Grade 2.
- Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions (English Language Strand)
- Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (English Literature Strand)
- Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (English Literature Strand)
- Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (English Literature Strand)
- Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts (English Literature Strand)
- Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary (English Literature Strand)
- Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (English Literature Strand)
- Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama (Drama F - 2 Band)
- Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation (Drama F - 2 Band)
- Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience (Drama F - 2 Band)
Discovering animals and the way they move!
ANIMALS
PREP -2
UP TO 2 HOURS
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CALL: 0490 071 298
EMAIL: hello@actingacademy.com.au
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Students are introduced to the world of physical theatre through the movement of different animals. By waddling, crawling, galloping and hopping through the space, students gain an understanding of animals and their survival needs.
Students will discuss that different animals have different needs in order to survive, as well as what survival means. All while working on gross motor skill through physical representations of different animals.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
This unit heroes the English, Science and Drama curriculum for Prep to Grade 2.
- Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (Science as a Human Endeavour)
- Share observations and ideas (Science as an inquiry skill)
- Compare observations with those of others (Science as an inquiry skill)
- Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways (Science as an inquiry skill)
- Living things have basic needs, including food and water, and live in places where those needs are met (Science Understanding)
- Living things have a variety of external features (Science Understanding)
- Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves (Science Understanding.
- Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions (English Language Strand)
- Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama (Drama F - 2 Band)
- Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation (Drama F - 2 Band)
- Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience (Drama F - 2 Band)
Write, rehearse and perform a play, all in one day!
PLAY IN A DAY!
YEAR 3-6
FULL DAY
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CALL: 0490 071 298
EMAIL: hello@actingacademy.com.au
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Your students will work with our coaches to explore and devise their own play in just a few hours!
Complete with an understanding of voice, body and character, your students will complete our workshop with a self devised performance and smile on their faces.
This play could be used as a performance piece for end of year productions, year level showcases or any other
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
- This unit heroes the Drama curriculum and Elements of the English for Grades 3 to 6.
- Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (English Literature Strand)
- Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (English Literature Strand)
- Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (English Literature Strand)
- Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (English Literature Strand)
- Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (English Literature Strand)
- Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama (Drama)
- Develop skills and techniques of voice and movement to create character, mood and atmosphere and focus dramatic action (Drama)
- Rehearse and perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative, drives dramatic tension, and uses dramatic symbol, performance styles and design elements to share community and cultural stories and engage an audience (Drama)
- Explore dramatic action, empathy and space in improvisations, play-building and scripted drama to develop characters and situations (Drama)
Author, Artist, Actor!
DIGITAL STORYBOOKS
PREP - 6
FLEXIBLE: 2 HOURS TO FULL DAY
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CALL: 0490 071 298
EMAIL: hello@actingacademy.com.au
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Using your students' own original written stories we show them how to create background art and then get them in front of our green screen!
They play the characters that are shown on each page of their digital storybook!
Using their understanding of character and voice, their knowledge of narrative structure and their growing tech skills, this workshop will hero all the KLAs.
ADD ON:
Use school devices to create books
How to use iMovie with a green screen
Digital story book collation
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
Curriculum Connection:
This unit heroes the Drama, English and Design Technologies curriculum for Prep to Grade 6.
Please contact us for a clear breakdown for your year level.
A full program of everything you need to run a comprehensive drama unit.
DRAMA INTENSIVE
PREP -6
8 WEEKS / 1 HOUR SESSIONS
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CALL: 0490 071 298
EMAIL: hello@actingacademy.com.au
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
We work class by class to engage your students in an exciting unit filled with opportunities to extend their knowledge, grow their confidence and expand their
creative spirit.
Our 8 week program gives your class one hour each week with our coach, using the curriculum to guide your students' learning. This intensive program also includes teacher resources, providing teachers everything they need to mark their students to the Australian Curriculum achievement standards.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
This unit heroes the Drama curriculum for Prep to Grade 6.
Please contact us for a clear breakdown for your year level.
A peek into the essentials of the dramatic arts.
THE ACTOR'S TOOLBOX
PREP - 6
FLEXIBLE: 2 HOURS - FULL DAY
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CALL: 0490 071 298
EMAIL: hello@actingacademy.com.au
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
This workshop contains all of the tools your students need to have an understanding of the dramatic arts! Playing games, learning to understand their voice and body and growing confidence are our main focus points in this rapid fire workshop.
This workshop is excellent for schools who already have an established drama program and would like to extend their students' skill base.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
This unit heroes the Drama curriculum for Prep to Grade 6.
Please contact us for a clear breakdown for your year level.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We love that our incursions offer professional development opportunities for teachers. We welcome as many staff to attend our workshops. Though if you are looking for formal professional development, please let us know. We can include this as one of your goals for the incursion so that you are getting the absolute most out of all of our visits.
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