Activities for Kids
from 5 April 2012
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Bicentennial Park was created during the 1980s, in time to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988. The 100 hectare natural heritage site provides an important wetland ecosystem with 40 hectares of beautiful parklands. The Park is accessed from Australia Avenue. Bicentennial Park is part of Sydney Olympic Park and offers visitors recreation, nature-based tours, environmental education and outdoor event experiences. The Park offers free entry, BBQs, picnic areas, playgrounds, pathways and cycleways, parking, access to the wetlands, salt marsh and bird hides. Additional features include Lake Belvedere, Peace Monument, Treillage Tower, Sundial, 'Cyrus the Great' statue, the Silent Hearts Memorial Garden and water features.
Thursday 12 April
10:30am–noon
Untangling the Web
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 15-18 year olds, 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds, 3-5 year olds.
Go for a self-guided walk in the mangroves using the clues to untangle the web of information about the five ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Monday 16 April
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Skilled Young Writers
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
The Writing Workshop has a range of quality school holiday activities to challenge and inspire creative kids. This one-day workshop ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Tuesday 17 April
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Rhetorical Writing: The Art of Persuasion
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
Rhetorical Writing: The Art and Science of Imaginative Arguing This full and fascinating day will help skilled young writers develop ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Thursday 19 April
10:30am–noon
Untangling the Web
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 15-18 year olds, 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds, 3-5 year olds.
Go for a self-guided walk in the mangroves using the clues to untangle the web of information about the five ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Monday 23 April
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop – ‘100-year mystery’
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
Write a mystery which lasts 100 years: create ancestors with secrets of gold or power or crime, smart and greedy ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Sunday 01 July
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - "Serious Fun: The Art of Writing Humour"
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
You think you're funny? Well, time to put your pencil where your mouth is… or something like that. Hilarious stories ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Sunday 08 July
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Skilled Young Writers
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
The Writing Workshop has a range of quality school holiday activities to challenge and inspire creative kids. This one-day workshop ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Tuesday 02 October
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Skilled Young Writers
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
The Writing Workshop has a range of quality school holiday activities to challenge and inspire creative kids. This one-day workshop ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Saturday 06 October
10am–1pm
The Writing Workshop - Selective Schools Placement and ACER Scholarship Tests workshop
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
This school holidays writing workshop develops creative writing skills for Year 5 students in 2012 intending to sit the NSW ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
1:30–4:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Poetry Workshop
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
Learn new poetic forms and striking techniques for creating imagery. Presented by award winning author Bernard Cohen, writer of four ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Saturday 22 December
1:30–4:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Selective Schools Placement and ACER Scholarship Tests workshop
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
This school holidays writing workshop develops creative writing skills for Year 5 students in 2012 intending to sit the NSW ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Monday 24 December
10am–3:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Nearly True Story of My Life
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
The Writing Workshop has a range of quality school holiday activities to challenge and inspire creative kids. Turn events from ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Thursday 27 December
10am–1pm
The Writing Workshop - Story Making Fun
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 5-8 year olds.
This fun and inspiring half-day creative Writing Workshop will show you how to write and illustrate your own imaginative stories ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Sunday 20 January
10am–1pm
The Writing Workshop - Selective Schools Placement and ACER Scholarship Tests workshop
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
This school holidays writing workshop develops creative writing skills for Year 5 students in 2012 intending to sit the NSW ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
1:30–4:30pm
The Writing Workshop - Poetry Workshop
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds.
Learn new poetic forms and striking techniques for creating imagery. Presented by award winning author Bernard Cohen, writer of four ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Monday 15 April
11am–1pm
A Very Birdy Journey
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds.
*A Very Birdy Journey – a Trip with the Parkland Animals* Circus Solarus will take you on a journey to ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Tuesday 16 April
11am–1pm
A Very Birdy Journey
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds.
*A Very Birdy Journey – a Trip with the Parkland Animals* Circus Solarus will take you on a journey to ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Wednesday 17 April
11am–1pm
A Very Birdy Journey
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds.
*A Very Birdy Journey – a Trip with the Parkland Animals* Circus Solarus will take you on a journey to ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
Thursday 18 April
10am–1pm
Fizzics Education — Rip-roaring Rockets and Space
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 5-8 year olds.
Make water rockets fly, learn the Newtonian principles behind rocketry and find out about technologies needed to survive in space. ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
10am–1pm
Fizzics Education — Lego Robotics
at Bicentennial Park Education Centre
Suitable for 12-15 year olds, 10-12 year olds, 8-10 year olds.
Using laptops and the brand new NXT Lego Mindstorms robots, children will be able to find out how a robot ...
presented by Sydney Olympic Park
