Homeschool at Bundanon

ABOUT

In This Place (Homeschool) invites multidisciplinary explorations of Bundanon, at the Art Museum site. The program explores multiple lenses, identities, and meanings of Bundanon over time. It is delivered via three, interconnected day visits through the school year, starting in Term 1 2027.

This program showcases place-based learning and offers learners the opportunity to engage with Bundanon through a range of subject lenses. Each day visit includes Stage 4 or 5 curriculum content and outcomes across a range of subjects (NSW and Australian Curriculum). This multi-stage approach allows for the experiences to stretch and support a range of learners. A document outlining the program’s learning intentions and links to NSW Department of Education syllabi is provided after registration.

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THE THREE VISITS

Thursday 8 April 2027, 9.30am – 2.30pm at the Art Museum. CONNECTING TO COUNTRY IN THIS PLACE (Visit 1)

• Activity 1: Welcome to Country. Celebrate and engage with local cultural knowledge with First Nations cultural education providers.
• Activity 2: Journal making. Each student will make an artist book/journal, to support reflective practice throughout the program.

Wednesday 19 May, 9.30am – 2.30pm at the Art Museum. CARING FOR COUNTRY IN THIS PLACE (Visit 2) – First Nations, Science, Geography, Visual Art outcomes

• Activity 1: Place as Action. Learn about threatened ecological communities at Bundanon and ongoing care of Country. Participants discuss art as a social act, consider the impact of the Treelines Track, a living artwork at Bundanon by artist Janet Laurence, and plant tube stock at Bundanon’s Junior Landcare bush regeneration sites. Before planting, participants make a series of detailed pen drawings of the tube stock.
• Activity 2: Ephemeral Weather Collaborations. Collaborate with the weather and materials gathered on site to create environmental sculptures.
• Reflective journaling.

Thursday 29 July 2027, 9.30am – 2.30pm at the Art Museum. RESPONDING IN THIS PLACE (Visit 3) –Visual Art, Drama, Music outcomes

• Activity 1: Reconstructing the Landscape engages participants to collaboratively create a large–scale artwork that can include a dance, drama or musical performance element, determined by the practices of the group.
• Activity 2: Consider a wide range of artefacts from Bundanon’s program of live performance. Then get active in a collaborative workshop to devise a short dramatic, dance or musical piece.
• Reflective journaling.

INCLUDES

• Return bus transfer between Stuart Place interchange, Nowra and Bundanon. Bus departs Stuart Place at 9.15am and pickup is 2.30pm from Stuart Place (Visits 1, 2 and 3).
• Day visit program delivery (Visits 1, 2 and 3).
• First Nations cultural education provider (Visit 1).
• A guided visit to the Art Museum (Visit 3).
• All art materials, tubestock and gardening equipment.

REGISTRATION AND COST

• $270 per person, for the full three-day program. Partial sign-up is not available.
• BYO morning tea, lunch, insect and weather protection and water bottle.
• Unfortunately, refunds are not available for non-attendance.
• Bundanon reserves the right to adjust curriculum based on weather and other risk assessments on the day.

Expressions of Interest

In This Place Program requires 20 registrations to go ahead and is capped at a maximum group size of 30. To gauge interest, we are asking for Expressions Of Interest (EOI) ahead of registrations.

EOI is due 30 November 2026, 5pm. Click here to fill out the form

• Please complete our Expression Of Interest (EOI) by 30 November 2026, 5pm to pre-register for this event.
• Program will be confirmed by in December 2026. People who submitted an EOI will be emailed a registration and payment link.
• Registration and payment is due 1 March 2027, 5pm.
• Upfront payment of $270 for all three days will be required at registration.