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Welcome to Season 2018! Canberra Theatre Centre is thrilled to welcome you back in 2018 for a scintillating season of shows which will activate your students’ imaginations within and beyond the classroom. We have been hard at work re-visioning our approach to education here at CTC and like our Hungry Caterpillar in 2017, we have emerged from our cocoon, recreated as DISCOVERY & LEARNING at Canberra Theatre Centre. We encourage you to explore our brochure and discover the wonderful opportunities for learning awaiting you and your students in 2018. The theatre experience offers so many opportunities to facilitate student learning for the 21st century – an approach which draws on learning across the KLAs to make authentic links with real life examples, excite the senses and ignite the imagination.
It’s going to be a fabulous and vibrant year here at the Canberra Theatre Centre! By connecting with Canberra Theatre Centre’s Education Program, you have the opportunity to offer your students so much more than appreciating live performance. You present them with the chance to explore the world through a range of perspectives – from life as viewed by animals, the environment or from the place of our most vulnerable and most privileged in society. The live theatre experience encourages critical thinking, provides interdisciplinary learning opportunities, sparks creativity, builds empathy and raises ethical questions leading to personal growth.
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This year, we have selected a broad range of stimulating productions that connect with the Australian Curriculum and speak to various key learning areas such as the Arts, English, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences as well as Health and Physical Education – there is something for everyone! On each production page you will find relevant curriculum links and teaching ideas to engage your students. It is our mission to make these experiences accessible, diverse and engaging, and to reach far beyond the theatre. Our Also on the day section offers extended learning opportunities to sit alongside your theatre visit – enriching your teaching programs and deepening the authentic learning experiences for your students. The power of the arts is heightened when students engage actively with concepts and themes above and beyond their experience in the auditorium, so be sure to check out the exciting opportunities for workshops, pre-show discussions, post-show Q&As, backstage tours and Teacher Professional Learning sessions. Finally, we are pleased to continue our close engagement with you, the teachers, through our Primary Teachers Reference Group. We want to hear directly from you about how we can shape the program to be an effective and enriching value-add to your teaching programs. If you would like to be involved in the reference group, be sure to get in contact!
We look forward to seeing you at the theatre! KARLA CONWAY AND PETER VAN RIJSWIJK Canberra Theatre Centre Education Officers
Take Part key Don’t just watch the show, TAKE PART! Look out for these icons to uncover the access and support materials, extension activities and engagement opportunities available for each production.
Connect directly with the performers immediately after the show, to unpack the work and ask the burning questions.
Enrich your teaching across every KLA with these practical and flexible professional development sessions.
Extend your experience beyond the theatre, engaging in real world student programs across the city. Programs listed p21.
Enable children with sensory issues to experience live performance safely, through pre-show preparations, tactile toys, break out spaces, adjusted sound and light to support their needs. Contact education@canberratheatrecentre.com.au to discuss your students’ needs.
Tour the venue, learn how a busy theatre works behind the scenes.
Use your theatre excursion to activate exciting, cross-curricular units of enquiry across every KLA using the range of digital and online resources for each show.
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BOOK NOW TERM 1 5 – 6 APRIL
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THE PLAYHOUSE 55 MINS NO INTERVAL YEARS 1–12 $17.50 + 1 TEACHER FREE PER 15 STUDENTS
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Following sensational sell-out seasons at Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus is ready to captivate audiences around Australia with their latest show JUNK, set amongst a 1940’s rural junkyard. Transforming trash into magical landscapes, JUNK takes you on a journey back to a time when the neighbourhood street was a playground full of adventure and make-believe. Inspired by real childhood stories of growing up in the company’s regional home of Albury-Wodonga, JUNK will take your breath away with jaw-dropping acrobatics, magical shadow puppetry and world class circus skills from this extraordinary cast of young artists aged 10–18 years old.
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Why “To invent, all you need is a pile of choose junk and a good imagination” – Thomas Edison this JUNK tells the story of a modern-day changed over time, the power of the finding himself in an abandoned imagination and the importance of show? boy junkyard inhabited by the spirits of risk taking in a safe environment. children from the 1940s. They teach him to play, trust, invent and take risks. As JUNK is based on oral histories that explore real childhood stories, it encourages students to see the power of what can be learned by interviewing others about their experiences. It provides an opportunity to examine how play has
Key Learning Areas THE ARTS
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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CIRCUS |THEATRE | PUPPETRY
Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn
JUNK also inspires students to see the new possibilities that can be created by simply using the environment around them and their imagination. Is a more technically complex world a better world? https://youtu.be/5LQmO0WeRiU
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Drama trust exercises The power of movement to tell a story Elements of theatre
The Arts: Sequence of content F–10 Sub Strands: • Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas The Arts: Sequence of content F–6 Sub Strands: • Developing understanding of practices • Responding to and interpreting artworks
Interviewing family about their childhood experiences and comparing these with their own What is Oral History? Why is it useful? Look at how to write key questions
Year F–6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Sequences of Content • Inquiry skills: Questioning Evaluating and reflecting Communicating • Knowledge and understanding: History sub-strand
Basic gymnastic skills Innovative play using everyday objects to create games
Health and Physical Education: Sequence of content F–10 Strands: Personal, social & community health: • Being healthy, safe and active sub-strand: Making healthy and safe choices Interacting with others • Contributing to health and active communities sub-strand: Connecting to the environment Movement and physical activity: • Moving our body sub-strand: Refining movement skills • Understanding Movement sub-strand: Elements of movement • Learning through movement sub strand: Teamwork and leadership
Post show Q&A following the Thursday 5 April performance.
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BOOK NOW TERM 2 25 MAY
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THE PLAYHOUSE 45 MINS NO INTERVAL EARLY LEARNING – YEAR 3 $17.50 + 1 TEACHER FREE PER 15 STUDENTS IMAG E CRED IT: ANDY RASH EED, EYEF OOD
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CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE PRESENTS
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WHAT IF YOUR DREAM WAS ONE JUMP AWAY? Cat tells us the story of Cow, her dream to jump the moon and the night the famous nursery rhyme was created. Cow tries and tries again, encouraged by the wise and resourceful Cat, and musical and inventive dog, Houston. Her friends band together to help Cow to keep trying while Cow discovers what it takes to achieve your dreams. Exploring the theme of resilience, Yo Diddle Diddle is the first work by Patch Theatre’s new Artistic Director Naomi Edwards.
Why choose this show? Key Learning Areas
Yo Diddle Diddle is a show about perservance and resilience. It combines a familiar story with contemporary hip-hop rhyme and rhythm that will engage students and bring this wonderful story to life on stage. Yo Diddle Diddle provides many
cross KLA opportunities ranging from examining scientific enquiry skills to how language functions to explore ideas and concepts. Consider why perseverance, resilience and encouragement are important attributes, not only in scientific enquiry but as life skills.
POSSIBLE EXPLORATIONS
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Role play using different pages from the text – friendship, talk about feelings, problem solving, make rap song, make own beats with everyday objects etc. play with different rhythms
The Arts: Sequence of content F–10 Sub Strands: • Exploring ideas and improvising ways to represent ideas The Arts: Sequence of content F–6 Sub Strands: • Developing understanding of practices
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Astronomy Experiment with different materials that may help cow Hypothesise and test
Science: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Science understanding: Earth and Space Science • Strand: Science as a Human endeavour: Nature and development of science • Strand: Science Inquiry skills: Questioning and predicting | Planning and conducting Evaluating | Communicating
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Nursery rhymes Language rhymes Rhythm Poetic devices Create a before or after story for a nursery rhyme
English: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Language: Purpose, audiences and structures of different types of texts Text cohesion | Evaluative language | Visual language • Strand: Literature: Features of literary texts Personal responses to the ideas, characters and viewpoints in texts Language devices literary texts, including figurative language • Strand: Literacy: Listening and speaking interactions | Comprehension strategies | Purpose and audience
Angles, time, probability Ball game - try to place ball in cup blindfolded Problem solving to work out strategies
Mathematics: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Measurement and geometry: Using units of measurement | Shape Geometric reasoning • Strand: Statistics and probability: Chance
Basic gymnastic skills Innovative play using everyday objects to create games
Health and Physical Education: Sequence of content F–10 Strands: Movement and physical activity • Moving our body sub-strand: Refining movement skills • Understanding movement sub-strand: Elements of Movement • Learning through movement sub-strand: Critical and creative thinking in movement
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Post show Q&A following the 12.30pm performance.
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Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn
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CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE, SHAKE & STIR AND QPAC PRESENT
ROALD DAHL’S GEORGE’s MARVELLOUS MEDICINE ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO
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FRI 10.30AM & 12.30PM
THE PLAYHOUSE 55 MINS NO INTERVAL YEARS 1–6 $17.50 + 1 TEACHER FREE PER 15 STUDENTS HAZE, SMOKE & STROBE EFFECTS, LOUD MUSIC RATION BY QUENT IN BLAKE PHOTO CREDIT: DYLAN EVANS | ILLUST
WHAT STARTS AS JUST ANOTHER BORING DAY FOR GEORGE QUICKLY TURNS INTO A MARVELLOUS EXPERIMENT OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! Cleverly adapted from the much-loved book by Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine bounds off the page in a spectacular live show for the whole family. On a good day, George can’t stand his Grandma. She complains all the time, she’s mean and she smells funny. On this particular day, Grandma is much more annoying than usual and George has had enough. “George – make me a cup of tea! George – rub my feet! George – stop growing!” Ugh. Wanting to put an
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end to her constant nagging, George creates a special medicine, greater than any medicine in the history of the world. What he doesn’t expect is that this medicine may actually work – just not in the way he thinks... The award-winning team behind the multi-Helpmann Award nominated Australian production of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts brings you this brand-new stage adaptation from the wacky mind of the World’s No. 1 Storyteller.
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Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn Why choose this show?
See Roald Dahl’s much loved story come alive on stage. You and your students will be enthralled by the wonderful language used to create unforgettable characters and will marvel at the visual elements that add a mischievous and lively dimension to the show. Are you looking for new ways to combine learning across the KLAs? Perhaps you could listen to an audiobook version of the book as a class and explore how language is used to create vivid images of the characters and events.
Key Learning Areas
Consider looking at the features of instructional writing as well as playing with mathematical and scientific concepts and skills. Your students could also research aspects of the pharmaceutical industry – what rules govern the creation of medicines? How does George change his day from the ordinary to the extraordinary? George’s Marvellous Medicine is a gem of a story and this production will make you love Roald Dahl more than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=198yT8BETQs
POSSIBLE EXPLORATIONS
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Explore tone and comedic timing Costume design Set design
The Arts: Sequences of content F–6: Sub-strands: • Responding to and interpreting artworks: Drama
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Research the pharmaceutical industry – regulations and rules Investigate the medicines at home – what are they and what is their use? How are experiments conducted – do some basic experiments to demonstrate chemical reactions and write up the findings
Science: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Science understanding: Chemistry • Strand: Science as a human endeavour: Use of influence of science • Strand: Science Inquiry skills
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Unpack Instructional writing: how to make…? Shape poetry using a typical medicine bottle as inspiration The language of poetry – discovering alliteration Read some extracts from the novel or listen to an audiobook version – how have these been represented on the stage? Sketch to stretch – using drawing to build comprehension of a passage
English: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Language: Text structure and organisation sub-strand Expressing and developing ideas sub-strand • Strand: Literature: Literature and context sub-strand Responding to literature sub-strand Examining literature sub-strand • Strand: Literacy: Interpreting, analysing and evaluation sub-strand: Purpose and audience Comprehension strategies Creating texts sub-strand: Creating texts | Editing
Play with capacity and volume
Mathematics: Sequence of content F–6: • Strand: Measurement and Geometry: Using units of measurement Location and transformations
Map George’s house – what ingredients does he gather and where does he source these?
F–6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Key ideas – Sub-strand illustrations: • Geography F–6/7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Key skills – Sub-strand illustrations: • Geography: Researching, Analysing, communicating
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MATHS HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Post Show Q&A for both performances.
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QL2 DANCE PRESENTS
TWO ZERO QL2 Dance’s Quantum Leap is an award-winning contemporary youth dance ensemble, based in Canberra. Quantum Leap presents original, thoughtful and challenging productions that excite their audiences.
The 2018 production TWO ZERO will continue their track record of creating new, powerful dance theatre performed by young people, for all audiences. Celebrating two decades of youth dance from Canberra’s Quantum Leap contemporary youth dance ensemble, and looking at the next 20. A long time — where will we be? Does looking back help us
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imagine the future? Does looking forward 20 years help us be in the present? 20 years ago the first Quantum Leap ensemble was brought together: to learn, to create, to perform. They are now all over the world, many doing great things in dance, and many others taking that unique experience into other things. Now we are bringing back alumni as choreographers to consider both the past and the future — to create a brand new work with a brand new Quantum Leap ensemble, as well as revisiting highlights from Quantum Leap over the years. What will Quantum Leap dancers be doing in 2038?
Why choose this show?
QL2 Dance are dedicated to igniting and developing young people’s creative energy and skills in dance making and performing, to produce diverse productions that are beautiful and inspiring. Come and support local youth who hail from schools and colleges in Canberra and the region – you might have a student involved! This is the perfect opportunity to build your students’ knowledge and understanding in dance through appreciation. Encourage students to reflect critically by evaluating what they saw, heard and felt during the show and how the production elements communicated meaning.
Key Learning Areas THE ARTS
HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn What was the work trying to achieve? Explore different viewpoints and interpretations of the work through collaborative discussion. What was the relationship between the dancers and the audience? Be inspired to add to your students’ movement vocabulary. Take a movement or theme from the work as a starting point for a creative exploration to spark the imagination. Innovate and extend the activity to build on choreographic, technical and expressive skills.
CURRICULUM LINKS The Arts: Sequence of content F–10 Sub-strand: • Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas: Dance The Arts: Sequence of content F–6 Sub-strand: • Responding to and interpreting artworks: Music Dance Drama Health and Physical Education: Sequence of content F–10 Strands: Movement and Physical activity: • Moving our body sub-strand: Refining movement skills • Understanding movement sub-strand: Elements of movement • Learning through movement sub-strand: Teamwork and leadership
Post Show Q&A following the performance.
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TERM 3
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FRI 10.30AM & 12.30PM
CANBERRA THEATRE 45 MINS NO INTERVAL EARLY LEARNING – YEAR 4 $17.50 + 1 TEACHER FREE PER 15 STUDENTS FOG & SMOKE EFFECTS WANTS TO DANCE BY JACKIE FRENCH ©BRUCE WHATL EY 2006, FROM JOSEPH INE R COLLIN S AUSTRA LIA. AND BRUCE WHATLEY. PUBLIS HED BY HARPE
CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE PRESENTS A MONKEY BAA THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE BASED ON THE BOOK BY JACKIE FRENCH AND BRUCE WHATLEY
ADAPTED BY EVA DI CESARE, SANDRA ELDRIDGE AND TIM MCGARRY
A STORY ABOUT DREAMS, BELIEVING IN YOURSELF... AND A DANCING KANGAROO. FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TEAM BEHIND PETE THE SHEEP COMES ANOTHER HILARIOUS TALE OF A BUSH ANIMAL YOU’LL NEVER FORGET. Josephine is a kangaroo – who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don’t dance, they hop – but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully, Josephine learns that there is another way to dance – ballet. As the ballet company prepares to perform, Josephine sneaks into town to peer through the window as the dancers rehearse, watching for hours and hours as they perfect their
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routine. Then Josephine goes home and practices all night, all alone, until she knows the dance by heart. She desperately wanted to dance like the ballerinas in pink tutus and silk ballet shoes! On the day of the first performance the ballet company was in trouble: the prima ballerina twisted her ankle and the understudy had a splinter in her toe! Who could dance the lead role? Who else could leap that high? Josephine’s talents are called upon to help save the day. Can she do it, and more importantly, does it matter that she’s a kangaroo? A delightfully funny tale that looks at the importance of believing in yourself and realising your dreams.
Why choose this show?
Key Learning Areas
Extraordinary dance and singing brings to life this tale of a bush Kangaroo who dared to dream and pursued her goal even when she was told she could not. Based on the hugely popular picture book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, Josephine Wants to Dance is a brand new Australian musical.
Explore the figurative language that has been used to create a character, who against the odds, dreams of what could be. Investigate the ways in which animals move and the clever way this has been illustrated.
Be enthralled by the dancing and singing as you watch Josephine achieve her dream.
Your students could research the role of costume design in a production.
Take advantage of the opportunity to combine literacy and drama by reading the book as a class and sharing responses to the text.
This musical is perfect for young audiences from Early Learning to Year 4.
POSSIBLE EXPLORATIONS
CURRICULUM LINKS
How has this been translated onto the stage?
Use movement and physicalisation to explore the animals in the book Explore tone and comedy Costume design The language of ballet Draw the similes
The Arts: Sequence of content F–6 Sub-Strand: • Developing understanding of practices: Dance | Drama | Music • Responding to and interpreting texts: Dance | Drama | Music
SCIENCE
Explore how muscles move How do animals move?
Science: Sequence of content F–6: • Strand: Science understanding: Biological sciences • Strand: Science as a Human Endeavour: Nature and development of science
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Exploring poetic devices – similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia Examine the illustrations – how important are they for our understanding of the text?
English: Sequence of content F–6: • Strand: Language: Language for interaction sub-strand Text structure and organisation sub-strand Visual language • Strand: Literature: Literature and context sub-strand Responding to literature sub-strand Examining literature sub-strand • Strand: Literacy: Text in context sub-strand Interpreting, analysing, evaluation sub-strand
Explore how muscles move Why practice is important for refining a skill?
Health and Physical Education: Sequence of content F–10 Strands: Movement and physical activity: • Understanding movement sub strand • Learning through movement sub-strand
THE ARTS
HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
MUSICAL THEATRE
Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn
Post Show Q&A for both shows – 10.30am and 12.30pm. Teacher resource kit – this is available next year. Relaxed performance 10.30am only
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CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE AND CDP PRESENT TALL STORIES’ PRODUCTION OF
BASED ON THE AWARD-WINNING PICTURE BOOK BY JULIA DONALDSON AND AXEL SCHEFFLER
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TERM 4 22–23 OCTOBER MON 22 12.30PM TUES 23 9.30AM & 11.30AM + 1.30PM
CANBERRA THEATRE 55 MINS NO INTERVAL EARLY LEARNING – YEAR 6 $17.50 + 1 TEACHER FREE PER 15 STUDENTS
THE GRUFFALO © JULIA DONALDS ON & AXEL SCHEFFLE R 1999 – MACMILLA N CHILDREN ’S BOOKS
A MOUSE TOOK A STROLL THROUGH THE DEEP DARK WOOD
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Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in this magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for hazelnuts, Mouse meets the cunning Fox, the eccentric old Owl and the party mad Snake. Will the story of the terrifying Gruffalo save Mouse from ending up as dinner for these hungry woodland creatures? After all, there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo – is there?
THEATRE
Imagine. Explore. Discover. Learn Why choose this show?
Marvel at the sensational costumes transforming actors into animals of the deep, dark wood. See where these animals live and discover what happens when Mouse encounters predators who are determined to make her a tasty meal. Be intrigued at the ways in which Mouse cleverly outwits Fox, Owl and Snake and then nearly meets her match when she discovers that her imaginary terrifying beast really does exist. How does Mouse avoid becoming the contents of a sandwich?
A great way to combine English, Drama, Music, Visual Art and Science. Students will have the opportunity to explore different forms of texts such as written and performative. Use the story to explore biological sciences; living things, their habitats and their basic needs. Why not create your own masks or puppets back in the classroom with a variety of materials? You can also create your own puppet theatre and reinvent the story through performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89gV-lM3mU&t=1s
Key Learning Areas
POSSIBLE EXPLORATIONS
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Puppetry and mask making Dioramas of the various habitats Create a puppetry performance including the music Improvise and role play
The Arts: Sequence of content F–10 sub-strands: • Exploring ideas and improvising ways to represent ideas: Drama | Music | Visual Arts The Arts: Sequence of content F–6 sub-strands: • Developing understanding of practices: Drama | Visual Arts • Sharing artworks through performance, presentation and display: Drama | Music | Visual Arts • Responding to and interpreting artworks: Drama
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Create a food chain for the animals Research the animals’ habitats What do animals need to survive?
Science: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Science understanding: Biological sciences • Strand: Science Inquiry skills
ENGLISH
Descriptive language is a powerful way to paint pictures in our minds. The word ‘terrible’ is used to describe the Gruffalo. Examine the descriptive language used, create a wall chart of synonyms. Explore how punctuation is used in the book. Look at each type of punctuation and explain why it has been used. The mouse pretends to be ‘the scariest creature’ in the wood. What other ‘scary’ animals can you think of? Why are they scary? As a class write a group story about a scary animal. Using the illustrations from the book write speech bubbles for the animals. Which words rhyme? Build a word bank using rhyming words from the book and other that rhyme with them?
English: Sequence of content F–6 • Strand: Language: Text structure and organisation sub-strand Expressing and developing ideas sub-strand • Strand: Literature: Literature and context sub-strand Responding to literature sub-strand Examining literature sub-strand Creating literature sub-strand • Strand: Literacy: Text in context sub-strand Interacting with others sub-strand Interpreting, analysing, evaluation sub-strand Creating texts sub-strand
THE ARTS
Post Show Q&A following the Monday 22 October performance.
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Before the day Prepare your students for their theatre experience by giving them an overview of the performance they will be attending and some background about the physical nature of the theatre building. If you would like to provide your students with another layer of learning prior to your attendance at a performance, you may wish to consider giving students a real life application for their learning by working through an excursion planning process. Here are some possible points for your consideration:
• Ask them to identify the important things that they and their parents need to know. • What should go in the permission letter that will be sent home? • What do medical forms look like, why are they important components of the excursion process and what information do these forms require? • How do we go about booking transport? • What is the cost breakdown – the budget for the excursion and how will the money be collected? • Risk management – what is this and what needs to be included?
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•A re there specific clothing requirements for the venue? •H ow can you be an effective audience member? What the cultural etiquette of attending a theatre performance? •W hat do theatres looks like? What features belong specifically to a theatre? •W ho might you encounter at the theatre? Who works at the theatre? Investigate roles and jobs associated with the theatre other than actors. Literacy, numeracy, some general capabilities skills and cross curriculum priorities could be addressed through this world connected activity.
JUNK Calthorpe’s House
Also on the day Extension activities
Why not think about a visit to Calthorpe’s House to participate in the Learning Program: Dawn’s Surprise. Calthorpes’ House is a window into a past era. Built in 1927, this original survivor is a treasure trove of domestic history. Explore the ideals of style and taste of 1920s Australia adopted by one early Canberra family, the Calthorpes. Students will join seven year old Dawn Calthorpe as she searches for a place to hide her sister’s birthday present. Will it fit under the radio? Or in Dawn’s bedroom? Journey around the house to discover the present and play the kind of games that Dawn and Del played so long ago. They will learn how the past can be similar and different from today.
The online and outreach Learning Program: Artefact Chat, asks the question, can artefacts tell stories? Explore the past at Calthorpes’ House with your ears by listening to oral histories and becoming artefact detectives. This program is available online, with classroom lesson plans and a virtual tour of each property are available here: artefactchat.historicplaces.com.au There are also outreach Artefact chat boxes containing touch-andhandle items can be borrowed for use in the classroom. These learning experiences are appropriate for students from Foundation to Year 2. To find out more or make a booking enquiry, check out our website: www.historicplaces.com.au/ learning
If you can’t visit Calthorpe’s House, why not bring it to your classroom?
CALTHORPES’ HOUSE 4 Mugga Way, Red Hill, ACT
GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE Questacon
THE GRUFFALO National Zoo and Aquarium
George’s Marvellous Medicine has the potential to excite students’ interest in science and experiments. Why not capture this enthusiasm and extend the teachable moment by arranging a visit to Questacon. You could book to see an Excited Particles show, perhaps: Tasty Science Science time: Inside the Body Alternatively, one of the many other options on offer may align with your curriculum. Visit the Questacon website to explore the education programs. https://www.questacon. edu.au/visiting/nstc/spectacularscience-shows/shows-andaustralian-curriculum To request a booking please go to the Questacon Parkes Group Booking Form or email the Schools Experience Programme Office at group.bookings@questacon. edu.au
Extend and enrich your students’ learning about animals and their specific needs by considering an excursion to the National Zoo and Aquarium to engage in one of the following: WHERE THE WILD THINGS LIVE – Habitats FEATHER FUR AND SCALES – General overview and classification ALL IN THE FAMILY – Life Cycles ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING – General TOUR Visit the website to find out more details about these curriculum based topics and make a booking. http://nationalzoo.com.au/groupseducation/school-visits/
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Planning your Visit Location
Parking
We are located at Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra City 2601. See map on facing page.
Coaches and buses can park at the front of Civic Square, between the Legislative Assembly and the Canberra Muesum and Gallery (CMAG). Smaller buses, vans and private cars can use public metered parking on either side of the theatre.
Arrive Early We recommend you arrive at least half an hour before the advertised performance start time in order to locate your seats and make use of the venue’s facilities. Latecomers should call Front of House on 6243 5739. We will endeavour to admit your group into the auditorium at a suitable break in the performance but in some cases this may not be possible.
School bags are not permitted in the auditorium. A free cloaking service is provided to look after your items, but it is much easier if large items such as school bags are left on the bus.
Lunch
Performance Warnings
Food and drink are permitted in the foyers but cannot be consumed in the auditorium. Packed lunches can be consumed on the steps leading up to the theatre, in Civic Square, or down at Glebe Park.
CTC makes every effort to communicate performance warnings through marketing, website information and at the time of booking at Box Office. Unlike movies, theatrical performances do not have imposed age limits for adult content. It is up to the teacher to make judgements about age appropriateness. If you have any concerns, please ask at the time of booking.
Risk Assessment A risk management document will be emailed to you upon booking and can also be accessed on the School Bookings page at canberratheatrecentre.com.au/education
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Useful contacts EDUCATION 02 6243 5704 education@canberratheatrecentre.com.au CANBERRA TICKETING 02 6290 9377 FRONT OF HOUSE 02 6243 5739
Have you thought about visiting... The Canberra Theatre Centre is located in the heart of Canberra City in Civic Square and is surrounded by other attractions that you may be interested in taking your students to pre or post the performance:
The Canberra Museum & Gallery Education 02 6205 0916 www.cmag.com.au/learning ACT Legislative Assembly Education 02 6205 3016 www.parliament.act.gov.au
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CTC Primary Teachers Reference Group The Primary Teachers Reference Group is an advisory committee of Primary Teachers who act as a sounding board to the Discovery and Learning team at CTC. Their advice assists us to select a diverse range of works for our program, ensuring it caters for all age groups and connects with the curriculum across KLAs. Our aim is to provide a program which ignites the imagination, encourages exploration, promotes discovery and enhances learning through a theatre experience and ultimately, to foster a love of theatre.
The reference group gets advanced access to the program, value-add opportunities such as incursions, teacher resource kits and other activities that support the season. The group meets three times a year at CTC for drinks, nibbles and a performance. In 2018 we propose combining the Primary and Secondary reference groups to discuss commonalities and seek possibilities for cross pollination.
Contact us on 6243 5704 or education@ ntre. canberratheatrece .au m co
ACT Drama Association President: Lucy Cronan Daramalan College Contact details: lucy.cronan@daramalan.act.edu.au lucy@cronans.com 02 6163 6461 (School Phone) 0413 636 421 (Personal Mobile) ACTATE Contact Details: Rita van Haren info@actate.org.au ALEA Contact details: https://www.alea.edu.au/ for general information about the association or actaleasecretary@gmail.com for specific enquiries about professional learning etc.
Professional Learning In 2018 we aim to provide professional learning opportunities which effectively connect your needs with our new mission to imagine, explore, discover and learn. Each term CTC will offer a Teacher forum focusing specifically on the power of using drama processes to engage students in their learning. The skills used
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in drama are transferable across the KLAs and have real life applicability. Stayed tuned for details. If interested, check the CTC website regularly for updates. CTC will email Principals, Literacy/English coordinators and Performing Arts coordinators when workshop dates have been set.
CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE Education officers Karla Conway and Peter van Rijswijk Phone 02 6243 5704, 02 6243 5700 education@canberratheatrecentre.com.au ADMINISTRATION PO box 226 Civic Square, CANBERRA ACT 2608 admin@canberratheatrecentre.com.au CANBERRA TICKETING Phone 02 6275 2777 Fax 02 6230 1098 canberraticketing.com.au
CULTURAL FACILITIES CORPORATION BOARD CHAIR Mr John Hindmarsh CHIEF EXCUTIVE OFFICER Ms Harriet Elvin CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER Mr Ian Tidy BOARD MEMBERS Ms Louise Douglas (Deputy Chair) Ms Harriet Elvin (CEO) Ms Robyn Hendry Mr Eugene Kalenjuk Ms Virginia Hausegger AM and Mr Raoul Craemer
All information correct at time of printing. Compiled by Judy van Rijswijk. Designed by Greer Versteeg.
Canberra Theatre Centre is a part of the Cultural Facilities Corporation