For Schools
A press-play learning environment for teachers to deliver The Arts | V9 Australian Curriculum.
About this initiative
What is For Schools?
This press-play teaching tool is set to transform education delivery, empowering teachers to deliver extraordinary experiences for our most important citizens, the children of Queensland.
Filmed throughout regional Queensland, these visually stunning videos and learning tools will take the children on an outback adventure.
Annual Subscription: $1,000 per school (unlimited users)
Program Includes:
- Creative units of work based on The Arts | V9 Australian Curriculum
- Renowned Queensland artists leading each unit, to teach, demonstrate and learn from
- Professional guidance for teachers
- Clear roles and directions for artist, teacher and student
- Inspiring topics for investigation and creativity
- Sequenced lesson plans, adjustable to run over a term or a semester
- Three levels across primary school: Years 1 and 2, Years 3 and 4, and Years 5 and 6, with varied mediums for each level
- Captivating videos with animations, to watch, pause and review as needed
- Student workbook
- Assessment and guide to making judgements
Each unit’s sequence includes:
- Looking at, reviewing and appraising the artist’s work and your own work
- Experimentation
- Visual arts techniques and arts practices
- Visual arts concepts and principles of art
- Making a finished artwork
- Presenting a finished artwork for an audience
- Creating didactics and artist statements
Meet the For Schools Artists
Lee FullARTon
Curriculum Writer
Lee FullARTon
Curriculum Writer
Lee FullARTon is a Queensland-based artist teacher, author, and illustrator who has been making art daily since the age of three. She writes and illustrates children’s picture books, including Mr Chippa the Woodblock Carver of Bagru, and creates accompanying classroom resources for teachers. Lee believes creative engagement changes how we think, observe and connect with others, and she loves helping students find their own voice through story and image.
Lordy Dordie
Years 1 & 2
Lordy Dordie
Yr 1 & 2
Georgina Forbes, known as Lordy Dordie, is a Brisbane-based fine artist, illustrator and surface pattern designer. Her joyful, colour-filled mixed media works draw on nature, pattern and everyday objects, and she loves helping children discover their own creative confidence. Georgina runs art workshops and mentoring programs across Australia, encouraging young artists to explore colour and bold design through playful, hands-on making.
Fiona Mosby
Years 3 & 4
Fiona Mosby
Yr 3 & 4
Fiona Elisala-Mosby was born on Thursday Island in 1985 and is a mid-career Torres Strait Islander artist.
Fiona studied at the Queensland College of Art, majoring in printmaking, especially linocut, etching and screen printing. Growing up on the islands, Fiona was taught traditional weaving techniques by her grandmother and in recent years she continues to explore new media through her work with other artists at Moa Arts.
Fiona is passionate about her culture and is committed to being a strong role model for the younger generation growing up on Moa Island. Through her art she wants to impart her knowledge of culture and traditional ways and tell her stories to other island woman who seeks to preserve and embrace the cultural rights and heritage of her people. ‘Art is my tool to visually communicate my personal values and beliefs’, she says.
Fiona has been represented in several group exhibitions, including Longwater: Fibre Stories at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2020.
She is represented by Moa Arts, Queensland
Ron McBurnie
Years 5 & 6
Ron McBurnie
Yr 5 & 6
Ron McBurnie is a Townsville-based printmaker, painter and educator who studied at Queensland College of Art before teaching for decades at TAFE and James Cook University. His detailed etchings, drawings and paintings draw on the North Queensland landscape and a long tradition of British Romantic printmaking. Ron’s work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and many regional galleries, and he continues to paint and exhibit across the country.
Creativity is a way of thinking and being and remains an essential skill for our ability to connect, adapt and innovate. It’s time to acknowledge the value of the Arts within schools and the immeasurable impact it has on developing young humans.
Rossina Moore
President, Queensland Art Teachers Association
QASSP proudly supports Flying Arts in their endeavours to ensure Queensland primary students experience a well-rounded and vibrant curriculum. Art plays a critical role in engaging, inspiring and enriching our young learners — nurturing creativity, connection and a lifelong love of learning.
Pat Murphy
Former President, Queensland Association of State School Principals
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About Flying Arts
Flying Arts has been teaching and supporting Queensland communities for 55 years.
Flying Arts’ founder, Mervyn Moriarty OAM, is a legendary figure in the Queensland arts community.
“Merv believed that art offers us a means of re-thinking the impossible into being. Of journeying into unknown spaces and places and ideas and images.”
– Professor Pat Hoffie AM