Digital resources

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Area
Format

NSW Premier's Debating Challenge finals – primary

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Years 5 to 6
Gain valuable insights by watching the finals of the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge.

NSW Premier's Debating Challenge finals – secondary

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Years 7 to 12
Gain valuable insights by watching the finals of the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge.

NSW Premier's Spelling Bee videos

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Years 2 to 6
Highlights of the 2023 and other state finals. The Premier's Spelling Bee is an engaging way for primary school students to expand their vocabularies and improve their spelling.

NSW Public Schools Dance Ensembles 2021– dance films

Creative Resource Dance Film
Enjoy these stunning video works from our 2021 dance ensembles.

Oboe

Art Bites Music
With
Jonathan Ryan
Upper primary and secondary music

Practice tips and advice to improve playing the oboe.

Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!

Creative Class Dance
Years 5 and 6 dance

Create and analyse dance using a Dr Seuss stimulus.

Operation Art 2021 Exhibition

Creative Resource Visual arts
This online gallery features 723 artworks by students in Kindergarten to Year 10 from 211 schools across New South Wales.

Operation Art artmaking

Art Bites Visual arts
Years 3 to 8
A series of artmaking video workshops using mixed media and everyday objects.

Painting pictures with words

Creative Class Literature and language arts
Years 3 to 6 public speaking

Learn about the art of performance poetry and compose your own slam poem

Perfecting impromptus

Creative Class Literature and language arts
Years 7 to 12 public speaking

Build confidence in delivering impromptu speeches through practise.

Picturing a paragraph – the craft of Complicité

Creative Class Drama
Year 12 drama

Support in undertaking experiential paragraph writing for HSC students

Plain English Speaking Award 2018

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
With
Andrew Lasaitis
All secondary schools

Plain English Speaking Award 2020

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Secondary students aged 15 or older
The award has been providing a platform for senior students to speak up about the issues important to them since 1978.

Playing the recorder

Art Bites Music
With
Susan Sukkar
Lower primary and beginner music

Recorder tutorials for the beginner.

Portrait painting

Art Bites Visual arts
With
Neil Tomkins and Digby Webster
Years 4 to 8, Years 7 to 12 life skills

These inclusive lessons, led by artists Digby Webster and Neil Tomkins, examine their artmaking tips for portrait painting.

Practical teaching resources for your signing choir

Creative Teachers Music Password required
With
Rhonda Hughes
Teachers

Drawn from The Arts Unit 2022 choral series, these videos will support you in teaching your signing choir. There are three videos for each song: a lesson, a performance and a spoken version.

PRC 2017 author interviews

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Kindergarten to Year 7
Engage with the wonderful world of books and enjoy our 2017 video collection, including illustrator battles, drawing lessons and a read-aloud for the classroom!

PRC 2018 author interviews

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Kindergarten to Year 7
A showcase of author and illustrator videos filmed at several events, including the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2018.

PRC 2019 author interviews

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Kindergarten to Year 7
Author interviews from the 2019 Sydney Writers' Festival from the Parramatta Riverside Theatre.

PRC 2021 author interviews

Creative Resource Literature and language arts
Kindergarten to Year 7
Enjoy insightful author talks, including fantastic features on reading, writing and illustrating. Filmed at the Sydney Writers' Festival at Parramatta Riverside Theatre.