Education Partnerships

30 Organisations, showing 1 to 10

Ashwood School

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with choral director Jonathon Welch. The project will involve the formation of a school choir to support an ongoing singing program. The artist will work with students and teachers in music workshops to develop their own songs with performance outcomes in and outside the school. A group of students (approximately 15) aged between 14 and 17 will participate in this project. A series of professional learning workshops will be offered to teachers to ensure the sustainability of the ongoing program.

Banksia La Trobe Secondary College

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with digital artist Sarah Lewis. After learning a range of filming techniques, students will be given a video camera to compose a brief video diary to express how they interpret their world. They will also record sounds to create a soundscape for the video. Working with the artist, they will edit their videos for presentation in a range of contexts such as the Digital Fringe Festival and uploading the videos onto YouTube. This is a Year 9 and 10 project linked with professional teacher learning in digital storytelling to provide teachers with skills to teach similar projects in the future.

Beeac Primary School

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with artist Teresa Culkin-Lawrence. Each student will produce a book of linocut prints illustrating their ideas of other countries and periods in time. Students will research, write and illustrate their work in conversation with the artist who will curate the exhibition. The strongest prints from the books will be selected for the exhibition and collated in a collaborative artists' book. Students' work will be exhibited at Colac Performing Arts and Culture Centre with the artist's exhibition and available for sale. This will be a Year 3 to 6 project (13 students) embedded across the curriculum. It includes professional development for teachers in a range of skills with an aim to do further printing projects in the school.

Benalla Primary School

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with artist Vicky Shukuroglou. Students will investigate and respond to the local environment, recording their findings through drawing, photography and making small objects. The artist will facilitate a creative process for participants, encouraging critical dialogue to refine works to exhibit at the Benalla Art Gallery. A target group of 12 Year 5/6 students will undertake research and work individually and as a group on-site and in school. The project is part of an integrated unit across the curriculum to increase environmental awareness.

Bendigo South East Secondary College

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with digital artists Paul Fletcher and Alex Gibson. This project will see the creation of a new media piece exploring student identity within a global community. It will involve the development of visual and audio narratives through online artistic collaboration with sister schools in China, Thailand, and Germany. The final sound and visual piece will be projected onto a prominent position in the new school grounds. The project will involve 20 Year 9 and 10 students in an elective with broad curriculum outcomes. Professional learning for five teachers will be provided in software, Information and Communication Technology tools and web communication.

Bullarto Primary School

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with puppeteer Emma Pryse. This project involves a large scale puppetry performance exploring local environmental themes. Students will create puppets based on their interpretation of John Marsden's The Rabbits. They will develop this into a play reflecting issues relevant to their area. Students will incorporate their established unicycling skills into the performance at the All Things Goat Festival. This project involves the whole school (27 students), focussing on Years 3 to 6. Teacher professional development will be offered for the whole staff.

Camberwell Girls' Grammar

Received $6,500 for: A collaboration with illustrator Anne Spudvilas. This project will involve the development and publication of an illustrated diary, Coming to Australia, linking newly-arrived families and celebrating students' cultural and linguistic diversity. The artist will mentor students about the gathering of stories and production of a picture book, showing them the use of story boarding and the making of book models. Years 5 to 10 (60 students) will work with the author/illustrator/artist and parents and grandparents will be incorporated in storytelling sessions.

Daylesford Primary School

Received $6,500 for:

A collaboration with film maker Ivor Bowen. Students will learn and use film-making techniques to create seven experimental films for an interactive exhibition. The students will respond creatively to the concept of 'a house and a tree'. A small group of students will be selected to film and edit the responses form the whole school and create soundscapes to accompany the work. The films will be projected on multiple screens within a maze.

Donburn Primary School

Received $6,500 for:

A collaboration with spoken word artists Sean M Whelan and Michelle Dabrowski. This is a performance poetry project on the theme of identity and transition. Students will investigate their role in the school through writing exercises, with a focus on journaling and writing for the stage. The artists' will be directors, writing and rehearsing beside the students toward the production of a live performance. Students will choose words, one-liners or stanzas from their writing and place them into an urban and a natural landscape. The students' experiences will be shared with the school through an online Wiki portal and audio and video recording. This is a Year 6 project (40 students) with a professional development session for 20 staff in teaching performance poetry and the process of writing.

Fitzroy Community School

Received $6,500 for:

A collaboration with musician Sam Menzies. The artist will work with students and teachers in contemporary music and performance arts such as rapping, body percussion and improvisation. Students will produce individual songs and a school anthem which explore the themes of belonging and cultural identity. The songs will be recorded. Students will perform for the school and live on PBS radio. This is a Years 5 and 6 History and Personal Learning project (15 students) with professional learning opportunities for teachers toward the continued use of new song writing techniques in the school.