Whole School Matters draft manuscript
Community Matters draft manuscript
Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
MindMatters Planning Tools
School Audits and Surveys
Curriculum Links
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Enhancing Resilience 1 links to The Arts

Activities & Sessions

Possible Outcomes 

Picture your feelings: a lesson on metaphor

Talking about metaphor - positive self-talk - page 75

Sample questions - page 76

Poetry in pairs - page 77

Poems (handout) - page 78

Feelings (worksheet) - page 79

Word pictures (worksheet) - page 80

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

This is Australia

This is Australia - page 104

This is Australia - ideas for presentations (handout) - page 105

Drama

  • Roles, characters and relationships are interpreted to define motivation and purpose, using specific vocal and physical techniques.

Media

  • Still and moving images, sounds and words are used to construct and reconstruct meaning in media texts. 
  • Media techniques and practices are used to market, promote, deliver and exhibit media texts.
  • Representations of different beliefs and ideas in media texts are influenced by regulations and by contexts of audiences, producers and institutions.

Visual art

  • Ideas are researched to inform visual responses that consider social and cultural issues.
  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli. 
  • Media areas are used in isolation and in combination to make arts works. 
  • Visual arts elements and concepts in combination are used to create compositions.