Workshops

 

Workshops and Incursions

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Leap into an adventure of colour, creativity, and imagination with an interactive series of workshops and incursions from one of Australia’s most exciting and inspiring authors and illustrators.

Dr Cameron is a highly booked speaker in schools throughout Australia, bringing a wealth of experience, passion and creativity to the classroom. Cameron is well known for his ability to mentor students to find the inspiration to ‘get started’, develop amazing descriptive writing skills, and move students to a higher and more sophisticated level of creativity in their writing and illustration.

His genuine interest in the students’ learning is clearly evident in his workshops. Along with a good dash of humour, excitement and enthusiasm, Cameron’s workshops engage even the most reluctant writers.

 

 

Cameron works at the ‘grass roots’ level with all primary school grades. He inspires and engages children through large group presentations as well as smaller, hands-on workshops. Cameron also runs tailored NAPLAN writing preparation workshops with Year 3 and 5 students.

He uses exciting visuals, captivating stories and humorous anecdotes to explore story planning, character creation, writing and illustration. Cameron is known for his ability to develop a rapport with students and match each workshop to the age group perfectly. Cameron is flexible and more than happy to adapt presentations to accommodate a school’s requirements. He provides outstanding pre-visit support, ensuring each school visit is a valuable and memorable experience.

Below is a list of workshop activities to choose from during a school author visit, incursion or virtual visit. Three to four workshop sessions can be run each day. Any combination of workshops can be selected.

Full details about each workshop activity can be found in the School Visits and Workshops Document pdf.

 

Workshops include:

  • A combination of workshop sessions to suit your classes.
  • Personalised and professional service to help you organise the visit.
  • Free educational activities relating to each book which can be used before or after the visit.
  • Specially priced School Book Sets for your library, offering great value.  These sets also include hours of downloadable educational activities.
  • Exclusive book signings for students, parents and staff.

Thank you so much for your visit with us last week. The kids and teachers really enjoyed your sessions – so much so, the teachers commented that this has been the best Author presentation that they have been involved in.

Large Group Presentations

These sessions are designed for medium to large groups and are best run in school halls, libraries or classrooms with plenty of floor space. The presentations have been designed to hold student’s attention by being engaging and exciting as well as educational.

WRITE IT – READ IT – HEAR IT!
PLATINUM PAGE BEATS
THE CREATIVE SPARK
SOS – SYMPHONY OF OUTSTANDING STORIES!
BIG SCREEN BOOK READING
STORIES AND SOUNDS

 

Workshops

These workshops are designed for students in middle to upper primary years, and are hands-on sessions that explore practical ways to enhance students’ writing, planning and illustration.

INKSPIRATIONS: INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS
BANG! BOOM! PEN AND PICTURE POWER
SCORING THE SCENE: EXCITING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRESCENDO!
NAPLAN WRITING STRATEGIES
IMAGINATIVE ILLUSTRATION
WRITING MASTERCLASS
WRITERS’ RETREAT

 

Cameron can work with several classes or select students over one or two days on producing short stories. Combining many of the individual activities on offer, Cameron will take students through the important steps in producing a book. This is a fantastic workshop for classes creating imaginative texts, exploring fairy tales, or classes producing their own picture books for the younger grades to read. By the end, students will have experienced how an author creates a book, developed their own narrative plan, planned the sequence of events for their story, invented and drawn their main characters, designed a book cover illustration and commenced/ completed their short story draft.

 

Cameron is also a speaker at writers' festivals, writers' camps, literacy and book conferences, Teacher Librarian conferences, and special events. Event coordinators are welcome to contact Jenny to discuss cost and availability.

 

Full details about each workshop activity can be found in the School Visits and Workshops Document pdf.