Term 2 Top Picks

Brickworks

Think outside the box: Inspire creativity, design thinking, and teamwork.

Select from Brickworks (Foundation – Year 4) or Shelter Brickworks (Foundation – Year 6)

Brickworks

✅ Ideal for Foundation to – Year 4

Students take part in hands-on construction challenges that develop imagination, design thinking, and collaboration. Using themed prompts such as space, dinosaurs, or community worlds, they brainstorm, plan, and build purposeful structures individually and in groups. Supported by our inspiring museum table, students explore ideas, test concepts, and think like real designers while strengthening early STEM skills, creativity, fine motor abilities, and teamwork as they bring their imaginative creations to life.

Shelter Brickworks

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 6

Students take on real-world design challenges by building weather-resistant shelters within a fixed budget and set construction criteria. They plan, select materials, and refine design choices as they work to meet strength, stability, and practicality requirements. The experience encourages higher-level thinking, resource management, and teamwork as students prototype structures and test how well they perform under simulated weather conditions.

Note: Shelter Brickworks is also delivered as an alternative to the outdoor Shelter Building incursion in cases of inclement weather.

Pre and post resource packs provided, supporting your lesson planning for the entire term.

Toys History or Science

Select from Toys Over Time or Toy Science

Toys Over Time (History and Families Focus)

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 2

What better way to demonstrate the connection between history, the present day and the future than with this time travelling play-based learning incursion? Students explore the histories, facts and design variables across a range of toy themes, and discover how toys have evolved by exploring their movements, cultural significance and their place and time in history.

Toy Science (Forces and Materials Focus)

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 2

This STEM-focused incursion is tailored to introduce younger students to the basics of forces, motion, and materials. Through a play-based learning approach, students will explore the historical and scientific principles behind various toys and discuss how toys reflect the changes in the world, showcasing advancements in technology and culture over time.

Pre and post resource packs provided, supporting your lesson planning for the entire term.

Billy Cart Incursions

Experience collaboration at its best with this iconic program!

In our most popular incursion for 17 years, students are encouraged to collaborate, regulate their thinking, and stay focused as they design, race, and problem-solve. Through building and testing vehicles, students explore key forces like gravity, friction, push, and pull while developing patience, communication, and cooperative skills.

Billy Carts

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 6

It’s all about planning, building and testing as students experiment with weight, friction, balance, and momentum to shape performance outcomes. Through hands-on construction and guided challenges, teams make predictions, solve problems, and refine their designs before putting them to the test in friendly races. This highly engaging experience strengthens teamwork, communication, resilience, and STEM thinking, giving students both scientific insights and the thrill of building something that moves.

F–2: Teams build simple machines using Tubelox, timber, and real tools. Students race billy carts with a partner and explore Ezy-Rollers while learning about push, pull, and basic forces.
3–6: Teams build and test mini billy carts, refine timber constructions using ramps and tools, and race billy carts with partners, applying deeper concepts in force, motion, and energy.

Pre and post resource packs provided, supporting your lesson planning for the entire term.

Breathe, meditate and explore mindfulness

Select from Mind and Body or Happy Healthy Minds

Mind & Body

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 6

This inspiring program demonstrates how calm and stillness can boost both attention and mental clarity. In this teacher-guided program, students will follow along with breathing techniques, relaxation activities, and basic poses to improve emotional regulation, concentration, strength, coordination, and flexibility. The program features a variety of activities that students perform together. Each student enjoys their own mat as they move through body scans, breathing techniques and stretching. Together we explore the need to recognise emotions, building healthy relationships, and promoting overall wellbeing. Silent headphones are used to support engagement as they allow students to immerse themselves and remove all other distractions.

Happy Healthy Minds

✅ Ideal for Year 3 to Year 6

Your students will build their confidence through a range of activities focusing on movement, music, laughter, exercise, creativity, concentration, reflection and focus. This unique program promotes not just physical health, but also encourages students to understand the impact of positive relationships, regulation of emotions, and building self-esteem to promote positive mental health. Students rotate through different stations at their own pace, allowing them to discover and engage with activities that best suit their personal preferences. Students explore what mindfulness looks like for their individual needs, learning how different activities can impact their mood differently to others.

Pre and post resource packs provided, supporting your lesson planning for the entire term.

Dance

Select from Hip Hop, World Dance or Silent Disco

Hip Hop (with Headphones)

✅ Ideal for Year 3–6

Students learn simple hip hop routines, jam to fresh beats, and explore the rhythm, expression, and creativity at the heart of hip hop culture. Using silent headphones, the session creates an immersive environment where students feel confident to move, experiment, and refine their coordination. With costumes, upbeat music, and guided choreography, this incursion builds confidence, teamwork, and physical energy in a fun and supportive space.

World Dance

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 6

Students explore the connections between dance, culture, and global celebrations. Through movement, storytelling, and traditional outfits and accessories, they learn how different communities express identity and creativity through dance. While learning routines, students develop coordination, cultural awareness, confidence, and an appreciation for traditions from around the world.

Silent Disco

✅ Ideal for Foundation – Year 12

An immersive, high-energy experience where students switch between three music channels for freestyle dancing, movement challenges, and creative expression. The experience includes dance activities, sing-along fun, dress-ups, and disco lighting, while students through Calm, Active, and Disco zones for a full-sensory experience. With no “right or wrong” moves, students feel free to express themselves, build confidence, and enjoy music in a safe and inclusive atmosphere.

Incursions for Secondary Schools

Challenging programs with a focus on teamwork, problem solving and resilience.

Teams, Trials and Trivia

✅ Ideal for Years 7 – 12

This program is created to engage even students who are normally reluctant to participate. The session runs as a whole-group experience, with teams rotating through competitive stations that combine physical challenges, puzzle solving, and trivia-based tasks. Students strengthen communication, leadership, and teamwork while responding quickly to changing demands in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Clues, Codes & Communications

✅ Ideal for Years 7–12

Students tackle a series of challenging puzzles, multi-step codebreaking activities, and strategic communication tasks that encourage collaboration and sharp thinking. They will navigate their school grounds, analyse complex location clues and try to uncover the code to our final cipher. With layered logic tasks, problem-solving under time pressure, and increasingly abstract navigation tools, this experience sharpens critical thinking, spatial reasoning, and leadership skills in an engaging, fast-paced race for the finish.

Billy Cart Blitz

✅ Ideal for Year 7–12

Students work in teams to design and build full-size billy carts from the ground up, following a structured engineering and design process. They apply principles of force, motion, energy, structural integrity, and material selection as they construct, test, and refine their vehicles. The session ends with a high-energy race that’s hands-on, competitive, and the ultimate engineering challenge!

Shelter Survivor

✅ Ideal for Years 7–12

Shelter Survivor puts students to the test with advanced challenges centred on creativity, teamwork, and effective construction. Teams compete for resources, respond to unexpected environmental twists and rethink their strategies at the end of each simulated night. Students must balance budgeting, design decisions, leadership roles and physical problem-solving. This version increases complexity, teamwork and strategic thinking while remaining fun, active and competitive.