Happy New Year. Here we go - 2026! Hope it's a great year for you and the world.
Image: happy participants in Toonworld's Model Making Workshop, incursion. Adapted for students K-12. Available nationally.
It's crept up on us - but it's actually here. 2025 is over tonight. Best wishes for a fabulous 2026 from Shows For Schools.
Meanwhile enjoy your holidays.
Best wishes from all at Shows For Schools.
No matter your religion or if you have any religion, this is a great day for family celebrations. Enjoy!
Thank you so much to the wonderful teachers who book our fantastic shows. We hope you enjoy your break.
We find you often make booking enquiries over the holidays, so although the office is officially on a break until January 2, we'll get back to you within a couple of days.
Bell Shakespeare are one of the few companies who tour nationally into schools and tour extensively into theatres.
In 2026, Julius Caesar is on stages in Melbourne and Sydney.
See all their 2026 productions here
Victorian Opera's education season next year, will feature The Magic Pudding in three Melbourne theatres as well as online, where it is live-streamed to the school at only $1 per student. The company provide online workshops, too. For students P -Yr 8.
Have a great break WA & Tassie!
Look forward to some great shows next year.
Image: Black Swan State Theatre Company's RBG: Of Many. One makes a welcome return in Term 1. Check out all their shows here
Victoria's well-established Complete Works Theatre Company offers some classic plays and Australian Poetry both live and online as well as Literature workshops and live only plays. Check them all out here.
Image: Oepidus The King - live touring Vic only
Have a great break. The rest of those at school go on holidays tomorrow or Friday.
Image: The Players' Such Sweet Sorrow, touring nationally in 2026.
Jan "Yarn" Wositzky, OAM, is a living legend. He specialises in Australian history and culture. He's a musician, storyteller, his shows help the past live for students. His incursions range from first contact with Europeans to Gold to post WW2 immigration.
Suited variously for students P - Yr 12. Se
All other states/territories join Queensland, NT and SA on holidays this week! Woohoo!
Teachers have their heads in 2026 - lots of great events available, just use our search feature.
Image: K -Yr 9 Dino Modelmaking, incursion, Toonworld Education, available nationally.
For Yrs 11-12 in Victoria, this 2 hour workshop lead by an Aboriginal educator will give great insights into the text. Details
Have a fabulous festive and a relaxing, fun holiday. You deserve it!
Image: Rhythm Rascals, Junkyard Beats incursion Victoria. NSW also lucky, there's a Junkyard team there, too with incursions and an excursion. See here.
The amazing Carrousel Theatre are offering Puss in Boots, Aladdin & the Magic Lamp The Jungle Book and Cinderella in Victoria, in so many languages! Jungle Book & Cinderella will also tour into South Australia (August only).
They tell classic stories through e
Today is the anniversary of the UN adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This asserts every person is equal and entitled to freedom and the protection of law.