Try out these ideas to help your class understand the idea of narrative and to ensure that they get to grips with character, plot and setting.

How the platypus got his shape paves the way for some useful circle time discussion.

You’ll be amazed at the quality of writing that recreating an Australian landscape in your school inspires.

Letting children explore the myriad of roles involved in making a film gives them critical insight into just what goes into making their favourite blockbuster.

Invite each year group or class to prepare a short presentation on an Australia theme and you’ve got a whole week’s worth of assemblies.

Turn your class into super sleuths with an enlightening fact-finding mission that will really get their ‘little grey cells’ working.

Use our short radio play and visual resources to set the scene and whet children’s appetite to find out more about the explorer Captain James Cook.

Get out your clapsticks and shakers and create your own Australia-inspired music in class.

Make the most of the outdoors and act out parts of the platypus story in the sunshine.

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