QAGTC 2025 Children’s Challenge Workshops
Workshops – Tuesday 1st July 2025
Choose workshop option for year level.
Choose 1 workshop per child per day. One workshop lasts for 4 hours – 2 hours then lunch and 2 hours to finish at 2.30pm.
If the workshop choice has a levy indicated then you choose the workshop ticket at member or non-member price first and then also the levy ticket for the workshop selected. You can also choose a workshop for the second day + any levy if required.
Workshop duration is from 9.30 – 11.30 (11.30-12.15 supervised lunch break – Children bring own lunch) 12.15 – 2.15pm
You also need to download and complete the Consent and Medical Form and email to office@qagtc.org.au to finalise registration.
TUESDAY 1 JULY 2025
WORKSHOPS
Registration from 8.30 – 9.10
Workshop duration is from 9.30 – 11.30 (11.30-12.15 supervised lunch break – Children bring own lunch) 12.15 – 2.15pm
Pick up time 2.30pm
8:30 – 9:10
Registration and Sign-in
Our Lady’s College is located at 15 Chester Road, Annerley
Registration is from 8.30 am to 9.10 am outside the Library, access from Chester Road.
Parents are invited to attend a parent information session offered by the QAGTC President in the library on the day.
After registration, outside the Library, student/s to go to assembly area and if parents are staying for the Information Session please proceed to verandah area behind the library, on the deck overlooking the oval; have a coffee and wait for session commencement at 9.30 am.
For teacher and student safety, parents are asked not to go to assembly area, or into workshop classrooms please. Drop off and pick up is from the registration area outside the library.
Note if any parent or child is unwell, with respect to others, then please do not attend this event.
9:10 – 9:20
Welcome and Introduction
Assembly of students to receive instructions.
Welcome and Introduction to Workshop Leaders and Program.
Leaders take children to the designated workshop location.
P-3 Workshops
9:30 – 11:30
Room: 1
Gail Young
Fairy Tales can Come True: Dare to Write! DAY ONE
‘Fairy tales can come true’ is an old, old song, but becoming a great writer ‘can happen to you’ on Tuesday and Wednesday, if you dare to write! We will share Favourite Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes and engage with the art of writing to create a dynamic story of your own choice. You will learn skills to persuade the reader to believe your tale is true with every clever word you write.
This workshop is designed specifically for gifted children who have a real passion for writing and who will aim to meet deadlines. You will find out how to write sizzling starts, and clear and interesting paragraphs. Editing skills for publishing will also be highlighted. As young gifted writers, you will celebrate your writing through encouragement for oral presentations, supported readings, and group interactions in an imaginative Pantomime Book Launch Event.
This is a 2 day workshop for students in Prep, Yr 1, Yr 2, Yr 3: you NEED to attend BOTH Tuesday 1st July and Wednesday 2nd July
Requirements:
- You need to bring writing materials (notebook, writing pencils, colouring pencils dictionary
- A copy of a fairy tale or nursery rhyme if you wish.
Room: 3
Bazil Grumble
Create a Circus
Does your child love dressing up and making people laugh? This is a drama workshop with a difference! They will create their very own character complete with wonderful dress ups and learn about many aspects of comedy and clowning including mime and movement, voice and characterization! This is a fun and interactive workshop that will have everyone in stitches! Inspire and empower participants to develop skills in the field of drama that are also transferable to real life situations such as leadership, confidence, self-esteem, clear and effective speech, physical and social development, lateral and imaginative thinking and teamwork.
Requirements:
- Nil
Room: 5
Bazil Grumble
The Amazing Art Race
Explore a wide range of different creative activities with Bazil Grumble. This workshop is a truly action packed creative arts workshop perfect for those who like activities with a lot of diversity and interaction! Participants will work both individually and as a team to experiment with a range of artistic mediums. This session encourages participation, interaction, imagination and spontaneity. At the end on the session, they will create a gallery of their work and parents and caregivers will be given a personalized tour experience by their child giving which will boost their self-esteem while allowing them time to reflect on all that they have achieved in the session.
This workshop attracts a levy of $5 payable on registration.
Requirements:
- Materials provided
Room: 6
Bazil Grumble
Lights, Camera, Action: Drama Fun!
We bring a huge box of dress ups so everyone can enjoy performing and playing a range of fun and interactive games of a theatrical nature! Learn new skills in improvisation, voice and movement, learn team building skills and resilience and have a good laugh in the process!
Requirements:
- Nil
3-4 Workshops
9:30 – 11:30
Room: 8
Mike Dash
BrickHackerZ: Unleash Your Inner Inventor – Hack, Build, Create!
Spark your creativity in the BrickHackerZ workshop by DashX! Hack plastic building bricks into a unique robot—think dragons, robo-chickens, or anything you imagine!
Make your own bricks by drilling, gluing, and wiring them! Then code them to life with drag-and-drop Scratch style programming.
Keep your creation and take home over $100 worth of gear!
Students will build these four BitBloX
- BrainBlock: Arduino microcontroller to power your robot
- BlinkBlock: LED that lights up your creation
- WiggleBlock: Motorized block that turns 180 degrees
- MagBlock: Sensor for a magnetic wand or light-saber
No experience needed—unleash your inner inventor!
More details at: qagtc.dashx.net
This workshop attracts a levy of $20 payable on registration. Maximum class size of 12.
Requirements:
- A Laptop (Mac or Windows – Not an iPad)
3-5 Workshops
9:30 – 11:30
Room: 9
Michael Smith
Full STEAM Ahead in Learning, Fun and Creativity!
This STEAM activity is designed to spark curiosity and creativity in
young learners by combining science, technology, engineering, art, and math in a fun, hands-on project. Students will work together to imagine, design, and build a creative solution to a real-world challenge—such as constructing a bridge from everyday materials or designing a working catapult. Through playful exploration and teamwork, students will learn to think like inventors, test their designs, and discover how different ideas come together to solve problems in exciting ways.
This workshop attracts a levy of $5 payable on registration.
Requirements:
-
Materials provided
4-6 Workshops
9:30 – 11:30
Room: 10
Bazil Grumble
Claymation Creation
Participants will create a Clay Animation sequence which will allow them to learn and develop skills in sculpture with clay, concept development and set and prop construction. The workshop is facilitated using frame by frame digital stop motion animation using the latest animation software which delights participants as it provides an immediate Clay Animation outcome.
This workshop attracts a levy of $5 payable on registration. Maximum class size of 15.
Requirements:
- Materials provided
5-6 Workshops
9:30 – 11:30
Room: 12
Anita Thompson
Draw Animals like a Pro!
Learn skills to be able to draw lifelike portraits of animals. Using pastel pencils and paper and starting with some basic tutorials, you should be able to extend your skills to a pet portrait.
This workshop attracts a levy of $10 payable on registration. Maximum class size of 10.
Requirements:
- Bring along a colour photocopy head shot photo portrait (10 x 15 cm) of your favourite pet and see how you go. A copy of the photo on your phone for detail will be helpful.
Room: 13
Sue Stevens
Getting Organised in Chemistry
All matter (stuff) is made of building blocks called atoms. Different types of atoms form different elements. There are lots of them and we may not have discovered them all yet. Could you predict an element that hadn’t been discovered yet and even predict how it might look and behave? First, we’d have to examine different elements and see if they can be organized so that we might answer these questions.
Come along and deepen your understanding of how our world uses atomic knowledge from medicine through to deep space exploration.
Requirements:
- workbook, pencils/pens and glue
11:30 – 12:15
Lunch
Supervised lunch break
Workshop resumes from 12.15 to 2.15
12:15 – 2:15
Resumption of Workshops
Children return to workshop location and wait outside for teacher to allow entry to room.
Students not to enter room without teacher present.
Workshops continue for the afternoon session.
2:30
Close
Parents collect students from the registration area outside Library.
Do not go to classrooms.