Puppets with Purpose

Key Learning Outcomes

Through participation in Puppets with Purpose, students will:

🎭 Develop Creative Expression and Performance Skills

• Use movement, voice, and role to create and communicate characters, situations, and ideas.

• Participate in guided improvisation and dramatic play to build performance confidence and imagination.

🪆 Explore Puppetry as a Theatrical Storytelling Form

• Engage with a variety of puppet styles and learn how puppeteers use timing, gesture, and voice to bring characters to life.

• Work with puppets to create and perform original short stories that explore narrative, emotion, and meaning.

💡 Enhance Collaboration and Communication

• Collaborate in small groups to plan and perform puppet scenes, practising turn-taking, active listening, and creative teamwork.

• Use verbal and non-verbal communication to express ideas and respond to others in performance.

🌱 Connect Learning to Wellbeing and Thematic Exploration

• Engage with stories and performance themes that promote empathy, resilience, inclusion, and environmental awareness.

• Reflect on the messages and emotions conveyed through performance, building social and emotional understanding.

💻 Integrate Media Arts and ICT Skills

• Experience how digital projection, sound, and multimedia elements enhance live performance.

• Understand the relationship between live and digital storytelling in contemporary theatre and media.

Curriculum Links

The Arts – Drama

• Explore dramatic action, empathy, and space in improvisations, playbuilding, and performances.

• Develop role, character, and relationships through movement, voice, and puppetry.

• Collaborate to plan, rehearse, and perform dramatic works for audiences.

The Arts – Media Arts

• Explore how media elements (sound, image, movement) can be combined to tell stories and influence audience response.

• Understand how technology and performance intersect in creating engaging visual storytelling experiences.

English

• Explore narrative structure, character, and storytelling techniques.

• Use oral language to share ideas, present performances, and reflect on meaning.

General Capabilities

• Supports the Australian Curriculum’s General Capabilities in Creative and Critical Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, and Literacy through imaginative, performance-based learning experiences.