Nature’s gift incursion | Stage 2 Creative Arts | Field of Mars EEC

Cost and details

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 4 classes per day. 64 students per session.
School preparation	Schools to provide one extra large learning space, with a screen or projector, for all participating classes for the duration of the day. The space needs to accommodate multiple classes.
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

Activities

Activities may vary depending on student needs, timing and weather.

Art from nature

In the hall or large learning space, students will learn about various artists who use natural materials to create artworks. They then explore these artists' techniques and tools, helping students understand how artworks are made.

Nature's treasures

Students explore their school grounds, finding inspiration in natural treasures like leaves, flowers, and stones. Each student will take photos of these materials to create digital specimens for their artworks.

Imagination workshop

Students will learn to create digital artworks inspired by various artists. They’ll review, edit, and enhance photos using iPad apps, learn to create layers of eye-popping digital imagery with natural materials, and add drawings using a digital pencil.

Students will choose their favourite artwork to be printed on A4 photo paper back at our centre. Frames and artworks will be delivered to school at a later date. Schools will frame their own artwork.

All artworks will also be saved to Google Drive for school access.

Suggested timetable

Time	Classes
9.00 - 11.00	Classes 1 and 2
11.30 - 1.30	Classes 3 and 4

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

This program works best in 2-hour blocks. This might require some classes to start recess/lunch early or late.

More than 4 classes will need to book an additional day.

Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary

intention, focus, context, interpret, refine, represent, viewpoint, line, pattern, shape, negative space, repetition, composition, digital art, perspective

Syllabus outcomes and content

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2024)

Visual Arts

Outcome

• Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks CA2-VIS-01

Content

Making: Artists represent their world through subject matter and ideas in artworks

• Represent subject matter and ideas in artworks, making choices based on own interpretations of the world
• Use drawing materials and techniques to create effects with texture and tone to represent subject matter and ideas
• Explore digital tools to make or manipulate still or moving images, text and/or sounds
• Explore balance, scale and proportion in compositions to represent subject matter and ideas
• Make artworks through collaboration with others
• Demonstrate safe art making practices with respect for physical, social and digital safety

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