Homeschool families are invited to join a new ‘Homeschool at Bundanon’ program for learners of all ages in 2026. This program includes several opportunities.
SECONDARY – Learning Stage 4 and 5
In This Place (Homeschool) – A multidisciplinary program comprising three day visits for place-based learning.
PRIMARY – Learning Stage 1, 2 and 3
Visual Arts Day Visits – An intergenerational art experience for learners, parents and carers.
EARLY YEARS – Pre-school
Bundanon Minis – Bundanon’s existing free art program for children and their significant adult.
PARENTS & CARERS
Designing Visual Arts Experiences for Homeschool (K-6) – Improve your confidence and skills in creating quality visual arts homeschool experiences.
SECONDARY (Learning Stage 4 and 5)
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 2 2026.
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.
THE THREE VISITS
Monday 18 May, 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.
Monday 27 July, 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.
Monday 2 November, 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 APRIL 2026, 5pm. Click here to fill out the form
- Please complete our Expression Of Interest (EOI) by 30 April, 5pm to pre-register for this event.
- Program will be confirmed by start of Term 2 (Monday 4 May). People who submitted an EOI will be emailed a registration and payment link.
- Registration and payment is due 11 May, 5pm.
- Upfront payment of $270 for all three days will be required at registration.
PRIMARY (Learning Stages 1, 2 and 3)
ABOUT
Enjoy inclusive, intergenerational visual arts learning experiences at Bundanon. These day visits are for primary aged learners (NSW Primary Stage 1-3 Visual Art syllabus) and their parent/s or carer/s.
- 17 June, 10 am – 2pm, at the Bundanon Homestead
- 26 November, 10 am – 2pm at the Art Museum
INCLUDES
- A guided visit to the Art Museum or Homestead and Studio (depending on venue above)
- An artmaking experience that responds to the exhibition, led by the Bundanon Learning Team.
- All artmaking materials supplied.
- The June and November dates are unique programs, not repeated events.
REGISTRATION AND COST
- $25 per person, per visit (for all participating adults and children)
- Family ticket capped at $75 for 3+ people in one family group per visit.
- BYO lunch, drink, hat and clothes suitable for all weathers and artmaking.
- Bundanon reserves the right to adjust curriculum based on weather and other risk assessments on the day.
- For more information and to register and pay for a day visit Book.
PRE-SCHOOL (0-5 Years)
ABOUT
Time for the little ones to experience the Art Museum. Join us at Bundanon Mini, an existing free public program. Art appreciation and making activities suitable for children up to the age of 5 and their parents and carers.
- Third Thursday of each month at the Art Museum, 10am – 11.30pm.
INCLUDES
- Access to the Art Museum
- An art making activity with Bundanon’s Learning team.
COST AND REGISTRATION
- Free event, tickets must be booked, spaces limited
- Please be sun-smart, bring a water bottle and a smock for your mini artist (or ask them to wear clothes you don’t mind getting stained).
- This event is weather dependent. In rainy weather, children will complete guided activities in the Art Museum with Bundanon’s learning team. Children must remain accompanied by an adult throughout the program.
- For more information and to register Book
PARENTS & CARERS
ABOUT
Join us for Designing Visual Arts Experiences for Homeschool (K-6). This is a full day of learning for adults covering programming and teaching art for homeschooling (K-6 Syllabus). Using the Art Museum as a catalyst for learning, the day will give insights into place-based learning, the Bundanon teaching and learning philosophy and responding to the NSW Department of Education and Australian Curriculum.
- 18 September, 10am – 2pm at the Art Museum
INCLUDES
Art Museum access
Art Workshop related to experience in the Art Museum. This will also include associated discussion and documentation of the art experience you are engaged in, especially noting its design principles and mapping to NSW and Australian curriculum.
Light lunch provided
COST AND REGISTRATION
- $110 per person
- 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
We require 20 learner registrations to run the program. To gauge interest, we are asking for Expressions Of Interest (EOI) ahead of registrations.
EOI is due 20 JULY 2026, 5pm. Click here to fill out the form.
- Designing Visual Arts Experiences for Homeschool (K-6) requires 20 registrations to go ahead and is capped at a maximum group size of 30.
- Program status will be confirmed by 1 August 2026. People who submitted an EOI will be emailed a registration and payment link.
- Registration and payment is due 30 August 2026.
- Upfront payment of $110 is required at registration.
