Creature Feature

Years 9 - 10

One-Off workshop

Students are introduced to surrealism in art, exploring prose poetry and mish mash of uncanny objects and creatures. Students explore thrilling strategies for ideating and  world-building producing their own genre-bending lyrical fiction sure to give you goosebumps. 

Ideal for reluctant writers with an interest in spooky thrillers.

• Australian Curriculum Outcomes

  Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts (ACELT1814)

  Create literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate text structures, literary devices, language, auditory and visual structures and features for a specific purpose and intended audience (ACELT1815)

  Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELT1756)

• NSW Syllabus Outcomes

  Analyses how meaning is created through the use and interpretation of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures (EN5-URA-01)

  Evaluates how texts represent ideas and experiences, and how they can affirm or challenge values and attitudes (EN5-URB-01)

  investigates and explains ways of valuing texts and the relationships between them (EN5-URC-01)

• Sample Student Writing

  Walking

  Walking.  

  All I feel I know is walking. 

  The great halls of this building stretch on and on, empty and soulless grey and white staring back at me from all directions. 

  An attempt to quantify the time I've been in here bends my mortal mind, snapping it in twain. 

  Walking.  

   I continue walking down these halls. There are no windows, only darkness visible past glass. 

  I come across yet another crossroad, the bleak halls separated in twain. I choose one and continue walking. 

  Walking. 

  I come across desks and cubicles, a reminder of people I once knew, long forgotten to the time I've been here. From a time before here. Now all I know is emptiness, nothingness. It's all I'll ever know. 

  Watching. 

  I feel the gaze of millions. Things from beyond and within The Walls. 

  The gaze, judging, scrutinizing. Yet nothing happens. 

  They are watching but I cannot see. 

  Listening. 

  The Walls have ears. I see none and hear none, but they do. 

  They listen to all I do, all I say. I do not choose to speak anymore. 

   Eating. 

   I feel them. The Walls have teeth. I cannot see or hear or taste them. 

  They tear apart me and myself. Removing who I am. Invisible, Intangible, but present. 

  I am being eaten but I am not harmed. 

  Walking. 

  All I know is walking. 

  I continue my endless trek down these halls. 

  The Walls go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and... 

  -Dhilan, Year 9, HERRD Homeschool Group, 2024

This program is not currently available in 2025. To express your interest for 2026, please complete the form below.