Transform the way you connect literacy and the arts.
This immersive workshop is designed for primary classroom and art teachers seeking practical, curriculum-aligned approaches that enrich student learning.
Across five hands-on experiences, you’ll discover how storytelling, identity and culture can inspire powerful creative outcomes.
What You Will Gain:
- Practical, curriculum-aligned approaches to integrate art and literacy
- Opportunities to practise a wide range of art skills and techniques as you learn
- Confidence in the application of art practices by watching step-by-step demonstrations and creating alongside Francesca
- Strategies for weaving identity, storytelling and culture into lessons
- Approaches to connect literacy outcomes with hands-on artmaking
- Inclusive methods that support students of all abilities
- Ideas you can adapt across year levels, from Foundation to Year 6
- Tools to build cultural awareness and creative self-expression
- Inspiration to design your own creative, curriculum aligned lessons
Art Skills in Focus:
- Collage, layering and texture-making
- Clay hand-building, carving and symbol design
- Gel plate printing, mark-making and embroidery on paper
- Sculpting with Paper Magiclay and mixed media assembly
- Fabric painting, stencilling and pattern design
- Colour blending, repetition and composition techniques
- Drawing and painting with watercolours and acrylics
- Exploring abstraction, storytelling and symbolism