Year/Audience
Middle years - upper primary & lower secondary (Ages: 11–14)
Curriculum Links
English, Arts (film/media studies, drama, music), Health & Physical Education (personal development), Values education
Themes and Topics
- Personal development (transition, adolescence, masculinity, identity and individuality, growing up, relationships, peer pressure, bullying, coping with challenges, positive thinking, acceptance)
Lockie Leonard, DVD
Series 1 DVD (26 episodes, 4 disc-set, 624 mins)
What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum’s a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend’s a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times.
Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school and a house that is truly in danger of disappearing into a swamp… but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay, this weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen.
Through the eyes of Lockie Leonard we view the truly mixed-up, yet very normal life of Lockie, his family and friends.
Lockie Leonard Multi-Literacy Teaching and Learning Resource DVD-ROM (2 disc-set)
The Lockie Leonard Multi-Literacy Teaching and Learning Resource DVD-ROM teacher resource package aims to help students in upper primary school and lower secondary school explore the television series, Lockie Leonard, which is based on the original trilogy of books by Western Australian writer, Tim Winton.
There are over 100 teaching and learning activities with 43 Question sheets and 88 Worksheets for teachers and students to explore the texts and TV series about Lockie Leonard. Additionally, the resource includes more than 70 digital video clips
from the Lockie Leonard TV series.
The teaching and learning resource is divided into 5 strands:
- Storytelling in a television series
- Transition and adolescence
- Identity
- Reacting, responding and creating
- Comparison study of gender perspectives in Lockie Leonard and Mortified
The interactive DVD-ROM also contains:
- An interactive Quiz: The Clock’s Tickin’
- A gallery of stills from the TV series
- Descriptions and images of the characters
- An interactive Map and location descriptions
- Media Kit: including, Poster, Episode synopses, links to online scripts of episodes, Screenwriter’s Bible
- Behind the scenes information about the making of the TV series
