I dseign and deliver storytelling sessions for primary schools with your specific requirements in mind to support and enhance conventional curriculum activity, address cross-curriculum issues or meet extra-curricular goals. Students may work with traditional or heroic stories, playground games, action-somgs, craft materials, percussion instruments, singing, call and response games and movement appropriate to the age-group, space available and any specific requests made prior to the workshop.
Sessions can support a wide range of topics, perhaps linked to specific curriculum areas such as:
English speaking & listening skills, group interaction, basic drama skills; inspiring writing and speaking, understanding narrative structure;
MFL songs, poems and stories in French or Spanish;
Maths counting, number sequences and patterns;
Geography and History learning about events, people, and places in the past and how they came to be as they are now;
Citizenship developing self-confidence and relationships;
Religious Education and Multi-cultural work reflecting on stories from other spiritual traditions.
Amazingly, story is so versatile that many topic “boxes could be ticked” within a single session, or sessions can address non-curriculum issues such as AGT worskhops, anti-bullying or cross-cultural understanding.
Current programmes include those listed below: this is not exhaustive and I would bedelighted to work with you to meet requirements not listed.
Cultural:
Australia/Aboriginal
Africa
India/Asia
British Stories
South American (Mexico, Brazil etc)
Seasonal:
Winter Festivals (Christmas, Dwali, Autumn Equinox etc)
Harvest Festival/Autumn
Midsummer
Themes:
Listening and speaking
Making stories in speech, writing and pictures
Celebrating Spanish
End of Term Fun
Able, Gifted and Talented workshops.
To find out more about how these achieve results, don’t just ask me, read an article by educational journalist Sally McKeown in “Teaching Expertise magazine” about Storytelling as an enrichment activity.
Programmes put together to compliment the work of the previous term. For an initial conversation about how I can support both your teaching practice and student outcome, contact me
