The 'Blanket Role’ provides an excellent tool for teaching the content of the Australian Curriculum in an authentic and purposeful way:
Once the students are enrolled, the need to develop the knowledge (head), values (heart) and actions (hands) of the ‘Blanket Role’ provide a context and purpose for deep learning.
Students, as they train in their ‘Blanket Role’, are inspired and guided by the characters in each PEEC story to develop the knowledge, values and actions they identify as essential to taking on their ‘Blanket Role’.
The students’ growing understanding of what it means to take on the ‘Blanket Role’ then becomes the reason for them to engage deeply with the curriculum.
Learning both inside and outside the classroom in the ‘Blanket Role’ enables students to deepen and expand their understanding of curriculum content and ideas (across a range of Learning Areas, General Capabilities and Cross-curriculum Priorities), apply their learning to real situations and places and continue growing as life-long learners, leaders and active citizens.
In summary, Storythread supports teachers and schools in implementing the Australian Curriculum by offering teachers:
Opportunities to deepen and personalise students’ understandings of the curriculum intent, ideas and processes carried within the Australian Curriculum (across Science, English, HASS, HPE and the Arts).
An imaginative way of focusing on the Cross-curriculum Priorities of Sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
Access to a creative, values education process that supports the development of the General Capabilities (specifically Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Literacy).