Bush Christmas incursion

Cost and details

Cost 2025	DoE $18 per student – GST free Non-gov school $20 per student – GST free, min charge $750
Cost 2026	DoE $18 per student – GST free Non-gov $24 per student – GST free, min charge $750 per class
Risk assessment	Risk management plan
Classes	Maximum 3 program sessions per day. Recommended maximum 25 students per session. If more than one day is required for your school, bookings should be made on consecutive days.
Dates	Bush Christmas runs in the second half of Term 4.
Welfare	For medical or special needs notify staff prior to program.
Booking policy	Confirm student numbers and classes 7 days in advance.
Cancellation fee	Less than 30 working school days – $600 Less than 7 working school days notice – full cost Weather or fire danger cancellation – $0

Suggested timetable

Time	Classes
9.30 - 10.45	Class A
11.30 - 12.45	Class B
1.30 - 2.45	Class C

Please include your school's bell times in the notes section of your booking form.

School preparation

Recommended maximum 25 students per session.

Program length is approximately 1hr 15 mins. Please discuss with Field of Mars staff to arrange the timetable and session details.

Equipment and resource requirements for schools

Please provide:

• Freshly fallen gum leaves to make wrapping paper. These should be collected by the students the day before or morning of their session.
• Space for bags and ornaments to dry. Stencil bags can be laid out on the floor, on tables or pegged onto clothes lines. As drying time overlaps between sessions enough drying space for two classes is appreciated.
• Art smocks/aprons for students. Students can arrive to their session wearing the art smocks. If you do not have class sets please contact us.

Space requirements

• Please arrange vehicle access and a parking spot close to the Bush Christmas room as we bring a large amount of equipment with us.
• We need to set up in one indoor place for all sessions. The school hall is the preferred space. Alternatively, a prepared space on the ground floor is suitable – see furniture requirements below. If two days are booked our equipment needs to be left at school overnight.
• Our staff require considerable time to set-up and pack-down after the sessions, please consider this when arranging the space (eg: no morning band practice!)

Furniture requirements

Please provide:

• A rectangular block of 2 large trestle tables or 6-8 desks for printing calico bags. There needs to be enough space for half the class to stand around the tables. Each bag is the size of a tabloid newspaper page.
• A rectangular block of 2 large trestle tables or 6-8 desks for making wrapping paper. The butchers paper is about A3 size.
• A rectangular block of 2 large trestle tables or 6-8 desks for making clay ornaments.
• Floorspace or tables for colouring in.

Instruction sheet for taking care of the ink on the fabric bags.

Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary

Living thing, habitat, camouflage, feature, eucalyptus, phasmid, leaf insect, gum leaf, gum tree, shelter, stencil, leaf rubbing, ornament,

Syllabus outcomes and content

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2024)

Visual Arts

Outcome

• Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks CAE-VIS-01

Content

Making and exhibiting: Artists make artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas

• Explore painting and printmaking materials and techniques, experimenting with tools to create effects

Other syllabus links

Learning experiences will also support but not explicitly teach the following outcomes and content:

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)

Observations and questions spark curiosity

Outcome

• Identifies and describes characteristics of living things, properties of materials, and movement STE-SCI-01

Content

Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment

• Examine flowers, fruit, leaves, roots and stems of plants and describe their purpose
• Examine animal bodies, their body coverings, and how and what they eat

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024