Building confident writers and transforming imagination into powerful storytelling
Whether crafting magical poems, building compelling characters and plots, or designing vivid imaginary worlds, our Stage 2 incursions inspire students to delve into their imaginations. Programs are developed to build confidence in their creative thinking and immersion in the process and planning of creating stories.
Through fun, engaging experiences, including drama games, vibrant discussion and inspiring guided writing activities, sessions provide students with inspiration for idea generation. We focus on techniques to articulate their ideas and transfer them from imagination to the page. Students will learn practical strategies that they can immediately apply in the classroom, and our follow-up activities enable teachers to extend learning beyond the incursion and embed skills across future writing tasks.
Potion Poetry
“Whisker of dragon, legs of a lizard.
A spider’s bite, the tooth of a wizard…”
Move over Harry! A new squad of wizards is here, and they’re more powerful than ever! In this exciting workshop, students become potion-makers, spell-casters and poetry performers, all in the name of making poetry magic. Through drama games, collaborative challenges and activities that get imaginations firing, students explore key poetry techniques including rhyme, alliteration and onomatopoeia, while inventing eye-watering ingredients, concocting powerful potions, and causing general magic mayhem! (Caution: children may return home as a frog!)
Storytelling Foundations
Our budding learners acquire the fundamentals of storytelling and creative writing including techniques for character development, creating epic settings, and what makes an action-packed plot! Kids will build their confidence in expressing their ideas whilst getting involved in role playing and character immersion, taking away an abundance of tools and inspiration to go forth and keep writing. A great workshop to get your students inspired before NAPLAN!
Mission: Save the Story Worlds!
Across the galaxy, story worlds are collapsing! Your students have been officially recruited as “World Builders”, on a mission to create brand new ones through imagination, collaboration and storytelling.
Students will learn how to create vivid and believable story worlds using the bespoke Story Squad W.O.R.L.D.S framework. They will explore time & place, rules, creatures, and sensory details, learning that great settings don’t just hold stories, they create them.
