Teacher Professional Learning: Fun Faces: Exploratory portraiture for art in schools

This hands-on workshop invites teachers to explore drawing and clay sculpture as powerful tools for learning, self-expression and wellbeing. Participants will journey from 2D drawing to 3D clay forms, discovering how curiosity, observation and play can deepen creative engagement in the classroom.

Through a guided mindfulness practice, teachers will experience creative processes that nurture calm, focus and joy and learn how to translate these experiences for their students. The session introduces a supportive language framework that shifts away from critique, encouraging noticing, appreciation and celebration of creativity.

Grounded in wellbeing and creative inquiry, this approach can be applied across all areas of the curriculum to inspire confidence, curiosity and connection in learners of all ages.

Important Booking Information  

This Carclew in Schools program is supported by the South Australian Government through the Department for Education. This event is generously subsided for Department for Education teachers.  

Bookings are prioritised for teachers employed by the Department for Education and must be made with your Department for Education email address. 

Places may be offered to Independent and Catholic Education teachers. To be on the waitlist, please book using your school email and select  ‘Wait List: Independent/CESA Teachers’ ticket.  We will be in touch if places become available. 

Banner Image: Carclew In Schools Workshop, Pooraka Primary School, Toni Hassan