SMILE: 90 years of Luna Park (2025)

In 2025, our Year 11 Project has been a collaboration with Luna Park Sydney.

The Project in its 11th year has been a very special learning experience for emerging creatives, as students worked in collaboration with Sydney's most iconic amusement park for the Park's 90th birthday.

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DREAM RIDE (immersive film)
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DREAM RIDE (immersive film)

Dream Ride, the immersive installation film created as part of our SMILE project in honour of Luna Park's 90th Birthday, can now be viewed on Bradfield's Youtube channel.

This film brings together art, drawing, 2D animation, 3D animation, dance, performance, cinematography, editing, photography and music. The film journeys through the history and iconic rides of Luna Park, including the Ferris Wheel, Coney Island and Big Dipper, using each as the inspiration for a film.

Verbatim Theatre Radio Play

Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre in which the play’s script is edited together from the exact words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic. This piece is all about the history of experiences at Luna Park and tells the stories of a range of characters. Our play explores different perspectives across a variety of ages, including Milsons Point Retirement Village residents. We gathered a range of unique stories and memories and recorded these in the sound studio. The end result was a verbatim radio play spanning nine decades of the meaningful ways Luna Park has impacted the lives of Sydneysiders.

This aspect of the project was worked on by the Performance students, and was recorded in the Bradfield Radio Room.

Bradfield Senior College · SMILE - Verbatim Theatre Radio Play

SMILE: The Album

SMILE the album is here - available on the Bradfield Soundcloud. 27 tracks, by the Music Skills group, with some guest appearances by our graduates. Check out the album below. Music recorded and engineered by Wade Keighran, who has been working with the music students throughout SMILE, and has sound mixed the Dream Ride film. The music is sensational- check it out.

Bradfield Senior College · SMILE (Official Soundtrack Album)

SMILE: 90 years of Luna Park

Luna Park is celebrating its 90th birthday in 2025. With a rich art history, Luna Park is thriving as an incubation and training hub for emerging creative professionals, embracing the cross-genre nature of today's creative industries.

Bradfield Year 11 students have been invited to collaborate on its celebrations.

An iconic feature of Sydney harbour's foreshore, Luna Park is one of the world's most intact 1930s art deco fantasy amusement parks, and represents 90 years of creative practise across:

SMILE: 90 years of Luna Park Blog

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Thursday, 8 May 2025

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Thursday, 10 April 2025

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Workplace Skills

Project is the practical application of the Certificate II in Workplace Skills, which is undertaken by all Year 11 students at Bradfield

The program, a variety of practical, collaborative experiences, is delivered through our unique Friday project in conjunction with a two-hour weekly lesson. The program includes a 35-hour mandatory work placement where students can practice the interpersonal and employability skills they have developed.

By the completion of this course, students gain a qualification and experience in the workplace as well as the confidence and tools to explore future career and study pathways, seek employment and prepare required documentation.

Ensuring you achieve your HSC is our priority, however we also believe in preparing you for life after the HSC. You will learn about education, training and work, job seeking preparation, workplace communication and resume writing.

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Workplace Skills

Workplace Skills aims to develop the knowledge, skills, values and…