Embark on a creative safari like no other. Designed to support students as they transition into the vast savannah of high school life, this camp is a chance to explore, create, and discover new strengths in a truly inspiring setting.

These NESA accredited professioinal learning workshops provide invaluable professional development opportunities for teachers, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively teach filmmaking in the classroom.

Teachers will gain expertise in various aspects of filmmaking, such as camera techniques, sound design, and storytelling. This newfound knowledge will allow teachers to inspire and guide their students to explore their creativity and express themselves through film. Additionally, collaborating with specialist film educators fosters a supportive network where teachers can exchange ideas and best practices, enhancing their teaching methods and overall effectiveness.

These workshops empower students to explore, create, and refine their filmmaking abilities. Covering diverse areas such as camera operation, sound design, and storytelling, the sessions are led by specialised film educators. They aim to enhance participants' filmmaking proficiency while fostering a culture of collaboration.

These workshops empower students to explore, create, and refine their filmmaking abilities. Covering diverse areas such as camera operation, sound design, and storytelling, the sessions are led by specialised film educators. They aim to enhance participants' filmmaking proficiency while fostering a culture of collaboration.

Bush studio is a one day workshop for Stages 2 and 3. To meet demand the program will be offered on two separate days. 

Bush Studio: visual arts enrichment is an invitation to students in year 3 to 6 to spend the day immersed in, and be inspired by, the unique urban bushland setting of the Field of Mars Reserve and to experiment with a range of mediums to make engaging and interesting artworks.

Students will be introduced to a variety of work by Australian contemporary artists, including Aboriginal artists, and begin to consider the wide range of perspectives and processes contemporary artists use when making their work. Students will be encouraged to work collaboratively at times, to rethink what drawing can be and do, and to play with the idea of permanence and ephemerality in their artwork. An online gallery at the end of the program provides a platform for students to showcase their artworks and artmaking process. Media used may include drawing, writing, painting, collage, clay and stop-animation.  

This one-day workshop is designed to extend participants' skills and artmaking experiences beyond the classroom. Teachers are encouraged to extend this opportunity to students who display a higher level of engagement in visual arts.

Art Matters workshops provide opportunities for students in Years 5 to 10 to develop visual artmaking skills through participating in intensive workshops, encompassing:

• Validation of the importance of visual arts, including as an intra and interpersonal expression
• Understanding of subject matters explored in artmaking, especially art as a tool to communicate contemporary issues
• Experimentation with a variety of artmaking substances.

The 2-day workshop will be delivered in collaboration with a local artist and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, utilising art education experts from the gallery and the Department of Education. Workshops may focus on painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, mixed media, animation and digital media facilitated by professional artists and school teachers with specialised skills.

Art Matters workshops provide opportunities for students in Years 5 to 10 to develop visual artmaking skills through participating in intensive workshops, encompassing:

• Validation of the importance of visual arts, including as an intra and interpersonal expression
• Understanding of subject matters explored in artmaking, especially art as a tool to communicate contemporary issues
• Experimentation with a variety of artmaking substances.

The 2-day workshop will be delivered in collaboration with a local artist and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, utilising art education experts from the gallery and the Department of Education. Workshops may focus on painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, mixed media, animation and digital media facilitated by professional artists and school teachers with specialised skills.

Bush Studio: visual arts enrichment is an invitation to students in year 3 to 6 to spend the day immersed in, and be inspired by, the unique urban bushland setting of the Field of Mars Reserve and to experiment with digital photography to make engaging and interesting artworks. This one-day workshop is designed to extend participants' creative and photography skills beyond the classroom.

Students will create a portfolio of beautiful photographs as they learn the language of photography, digital photography techniques and photo editing on an iPad. Responding to the urban bushland setting and work of Barkindji photographer Kent Morris students will learn how to remix and manipulate some of their images to create a digital artwork. Students will be given the opportunity to select one photo or artwork to be printed and framed while at the centre.

These NESA accredited professioinal learning workshops provide invaluable professional development opportunities for teachers, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively teach filmmaking in the classroom.

Teachers will gain expertise in various aspects of filmmaking, such as camera techniques, sound design, and storytelling. This newfound knowledge will allow teachers to inspire and guide their students to explore their creativity and express themselves through film. Additionally, collaborating with specialist film educators fosters a supportive network where teachers can exchange ideas and best practices, enhancing their teaching methods and overall effectiveness.

The Arts Unit provides online workshops to assist schools that do not currently have access to local Film By workshops. 

Students make, create, and learn new filmmaking skills. Workshops cover a variety of different topic areas, including the use of the camera, sound, and story. Please note that our whole-day workshops cover the topics in greater depth.

Delivered by specialist film teachers, these workshops are tailored to meet the needs of students in filmmaking and extend participants' skills beyond the classroom.

The Arts Unit provides online workshops to assist schools that do not currently have access to local Film By workshops. 

Students make, create, and learn new filmmaking skills. Workshops cover a variety of different topic areas, including the use of the camera, sound, and story. Please note that our whole-day workshops cover the topics in greater depth.

Delivered by specialist film teachers, these workshops are tailored to meet the needs of students in filmmaking and extend participants' skills beyond the classroom.

Bush Studio: visual arts camp provides an opportunity for public school students in Year 7 and 8 to be involved in an engaging, challenging and stimulating visual arts program led by an experienced visual arts teacher. 

The camp aims to provide students with an opportunity to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment at Ku-ring-gai National Park, Bobbin Head. Students will learn strategies to explore their immediate experience of the landscape to create preliminary works as departure points for resolved studio-based artworks.

Bushwalking in the Ku-ring-gai National Park will provide exciting opportunities for students to directly observe and visually document the subtle nuances of the natural environment using drawing and mixed media. Students will investigate ways to create sculptural works using natural found objects and use these sculptures to facilitate the making of drawings and monoprints. The program will culminate in an exhibition for families, friends and teachers.

Bush Studio: artist in residence is a visual arts camp for students in Years 9 and 10, especially those considering further studies in visual arts. Students are given the opportunity to work alongside a carefully selected artist to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment at Ku-ring-gai National Park, Bobbin Head. Previous artists in residence include illustrator Patrick Shirvington (2023) and abstract, process-based artist Emily Besser (2024).

2025 artist-in-residence Nicole Barakat is a Kfarsghabi, Lebanese artist living on the lands and waters of the Gadigal People. Nicole’s creative practice is rooted in remembering and re-gathering her ancestral knowing. She works with deep listening and intuitive processes with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life. Her artwork engages unconventional approaches to art-making, creating intricate works that embody the love and patience characteristic of traditional textile practices.  Her works include hand-stitched and hand-cut cloth and paper drawings, sculptural forms made with her own hair, cloth and plant materials as well as live work where she uses her voice as a material.

The showcase accepted submissions from students in Kindergarten to Year 12 who were interested in creative practices, including music, dance, visual arts, public speaking, film, and drama. Creative and performing arts projects could be submitted by schools, classes or individual students. These submissions were then compiled into a digital showcase celebrating the creativity of NSW public school students with disability.

The Hunter Wind Ensemble is a regional wind band for public school students in Years 5 to 12 in the Regional North Directorate.

The ensemble provides an engaging and supportive environment for talented musicians to develop their musical skills while performing some exciting wind band repertoire.

The Hunter Wind Ensemble is a regional wind band for public school students in Years 5 to 12 in the Regional North Directorate.

The ensemble provides an engaging and supportive environment for talented musicians to develop their musical skills while performing some exciting wind band repertoire.

The Hunter Wind Ensemble is for public school students in Years 5 to 12 providing an engaging and supportive environment for talented musicians to develop their musical skills while performing some exciting wind band repertoire.