PS S4.3 Handle With Care QUEEN-BEE PREMIUM BUNDLE

Queen-Bee Bundle: Handle with Care

Exploring Identity, Privacy, and Expression Through Sculpture and Mixed Media

Bring creativity, reflection, and authenticity into your Stage 4 Visual Arts classroom with the Queen-Bee Bundle: Handle with Care a complete teaching package designed to engage students in exploring personal and social identity through contemporary sculpture. This premium resource aligns with the NSW Visual Arts Syllabus and supports teachers in delivering a rich and meaningful artmaking experience where students create symbolic “letterbox” sculptures that express the tension between what is shared and what is kept private.

Through this unit, students investigate how artists represent identity, emotion, and self-expression in the contemporary world. They reflect on how materials, symbols, and form can communicate inner and outer worlds, exploring the balance between vulnerability and protection in their own artworks.

What’s Inside?

Digital Resources:

• Unit of Work: A detailed digital program covering concept development, symbolism, material exploration, and sculpture construction. Lessons are guided and syllabus-aligned, encouraging creative thinking and conceptual understanding through the Contemporary Viewpoint and Artworld Concepts.

• Assessment Notification: A ready-to-use assessment outline for the sculptural “letterbox” task and artist statement, complete with marking criteria and clear student guidance.

• Scope and Sequence: A NESA-compliant overview that maps the 10-week learning sequence, key outcomes, and progression of skills and understanding.

Physical Resource:

• Teacher Handbook: A professionally printed guide providing step-by-step lesson support, visual examples, and teaching strategies that promote reflection, critical thinking, and classroom discussion. It aligns directly with the Student Workbook (sold separately) for seamless delivery.

Why You’ll Love It

• Comprehensive and Convenient: Includes both digital and physical resources to support easy implementation and flexible classroom delivery.

• Time-Saving: Every element from lesson guides to assessment and class activities is prepared, freeing you to focus on student engagement and creativity.

• Skill-Focused: Builds students’ confidence in sculpture construction, mixed media application, and visual storytelling while developing understanding of how meaning is expressed through contemporary art.

• Culturally Responsive: Integrates the 8 Ways of Aboriginal Pedagogy by encouraging visual learning, personal symbolism, and community reflection.

• Cross-Curricular Links: Connects with English (self-expression and narrative), PDHPE (identity and wellbeing), and Mathematics (measurement and spatial awareness).

• Creative Extension: Encourages individuality and deeper reflection through written and visual responses that link personal experience to artistic expression.

Transform Your Classroom

Empower your students to explore who they are and how they communicate that identity through art. The Queen-Bee Bundle: Handle with Care gives teachers the tools to guide students in creating meaningful, mixed-media sculptures that balance creativity, emotion, and craftsmanship.

Bring contemporary relevance and creative reflection to your Visual Arts room with Handle with Care, where identity is explored, protected, and expressed through the powerful language of sculpture.