This complete unit is designed to compliment the recent unit rolled out by NSW Education Department 2026.
It is based on the unit of work STAGE 1 UNIT 4 CAPA (Creative Arts) · Drama and Visual Arts
This is the complete unit.
This unit teaches students to explore how artists and performers can reimagine and represent ideas, subject matter or stories, experimenting with creative possibilities through Drama and Visual Arts.
In Drama, students explore how imagination can be used to reimagine objects, characters, settings and stories through performance. They use dramatic elements to communicate ideas and bring stories to life, including an Aboriginal Cultural narrative that expresses connection to Country and Place.
In Visual Arts, students explore how artists represent ideas about the ocean environment through artmaking. They investigate how Torres Strait Islander Peoples express connection to Place in artworks, including ghost net artworks, and explore 3D sculptural forms, materials and construction techniques.
The Creative Arts K–6 sample units are designed as a 16-lesson sequence, comprising of 8 Drama lessons and 8 Visual Arts lessons, with 4 optional consolidation lessons. The lessons are written in sequence to show the flow of learning and the building of concepts across lessons. To implement the syllabus and meet teaching requirements, teachers are expected to teach one Drama and one Visual Arts lesson each week. Sample units have been written to be flexible, allowing for schools to implement lessons from either or both focus areas, depending on their individual context.
Syllabus outcomes
· CA1-DRA-01 makes and performs drama to embody and enact characters, ideas and stories, and describes ways that drama communicates ideas
· CA1-VIS-01 makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks
Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.
What is included in this pack?
- PowerPoint with over 700 slides (editable)
- Student workbook and assessment tasks
- PDF for easy printing
- Teaching notes under each slide
- Quick links to units.
- Sections for each lesson included in the PowerPoint presentation.
- Self Assessment tasks.
- Video links
- Created for use with the IWB.
- Suggested teaching prep for each lesson.
- Outcomes and indicators included for each lesson.
This is a comprehensive unit which will save you hours of preparation time. It is important at the start of each lesson that you read the teaching notes as there is some Lesson preparation needed for some lessons. These include printing sets of cards in some lessons, printing worksheets for assessment purposes so that work samples are available for each child.
Some things you will need for this unit:
- writing materials
- everyday items such as scrap paper, plastic cups, water bottles and caps
- sustainable and manufactured materials such as plastic, bottle tops, straws and chalk (One small bag per child)
- digital camera or device
- everyday items that are soft and malleable such as socks, towels, scrap fabric or paper bags
- artmaking materials such as cardboard, paints etc
- scissors
- tape
- string or wool
- coloured paper or card
- modelling dough (2 handfuls per student) and modelling tools
- white air-dry clay (2 handfuls per student)
- newspaper
- water containers
- wet cloth
- damp paper towel
- modelling tools such as toothbrushes, forks, spoons, skewers, and paintbrushes
- paint shirts
- plastic mesh or similar cut to size (found in hardware stores) Look for holes big enough to thread a pipe cleaner through (two 20cm x 20 cm square per student)
- If these are not available I suggest chicken wire, bird netting, fruit bags would substitute
- white pipe cleaners or freezer bag ties
- collection of white and clear sustainable and manufactured materials collected by students.
- additional white or clear craft materials
- collection of colourful sustainable and manufactured materials collected by students
- additional colourful craft materials
- everyday classroom items such as rulers, chairs, glue sticks and hats
Important note
The font which has been used in this presentation is the Google font Edu NSW ACT foundation which needs to be downloaded onto your computer (this can be done by clicking on the blue link provided). You must restart your device once installed and all of the formatting will be correctly in place. This step is VERY important otherwise your units will be misaligned.
- Due to the 'wordiness' of the document, I have used AI images that CANNOT be edited, in order to make it more user friendly for Kindergarten students.
- Please be aware of this when purchasing this product. The rest of the PowerPoint slides have been made editable.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures: when planning and programming content relating to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures, teachers are encouraged to:
- involve local Aboriginal Communities and/or appropriate Knowledge Holders in determining suitable resources
- use Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander-authored or endorsed publications
- read the principles and protocols relating to teaching and learning about Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures and the involvement of local Aboriginal Communities.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Guide to evaluating and selecting education resources has been developed to assist teachers in selecting appropriate resources for teaching about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, Cultures and Languages respectfully and effectively.
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- Printing and Use: You may print this product for your personal use or for use within your own classroom. Sharing printed copies with other teachers, schools, or organisations is not allowed.
- You MAY make one copy for backup purposes, but not with the intent to redistribute.
- You MAY share the cover image only on blog posts and social media provided there is both credit given to myself with a link to my TPT store.
- Please buy additional licenses if more than one teacher in your school is going to be using it.
- This is not to be sold for commercial use.
- You may not repackage, sell or give away part of all of this product to others.
- You may not offer or share part or all of this product anywhere on the internet as a download or copy including, but not limited to, personal sites or school sites that are on a page that is open to the public, sharing google drive links with others that are not your students or their family, internet or email small sharing groups, shared databases , open education resource groups such as Amazon inspire.
- You may not use on commercial sites such as OUTSCHOOL
Attribution is given to © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2026.
