Storytelling and Storytelling Workshops
Storytelling and oral culture carry many benefits for children: building empathy, offering engaging and gentle ways to explore topics and issues. But perhaps best of all is exercising the use of the thearte of the mind! I have been blown away by the images they find forming in their heads as a story is told.
Our storytelling workshops promote confidence in literacy and story making of course, but they also give space for children to experience the joy of sharing tales with those around them.
Narrative Learning Adventures
We love collaborating with schools to reveal and celebrate children’s creative curiosity, it’s in our bones. Our Narrative Learning Adventures are immerstive experiences which can take place over one or several days and include the whole school or just one class. They combine live sessions with distance learning adventures delivered by teachers in their own classrooms.
In the past children have guided a tiny mouse through the stars on a mission to fix the moon, interacted with a mechanical woman on a far off factory planet who wants to learn how to make a garden and guided a girl from another world as she explores a mysterious musem – the Museum of Brave and Curious.
If you are interested to find out more, and see how you could become a partner school please get in touch with Oliver for more details.
Testimonial about our Earth Club school adventure:
“Oliver and Hannah delivered four awe inspiring workshops to our class of Year 5s, based around the theme of Earth Dwellers. Each session, we visited ‘Earth Club’ where we were treated with imaginative and engaging stories, told beautifully by the artists, about various earth dwellers, such as: oak, moss and soil. Music was used to enhance the experience and this grabbed the attention of the students, allowing them to participate and enjoy the live performance.
The art that students created was varied and accessible for all. A firm favourite was creating our own paints using nature from the school field; the children were delighted to use pestle and mortars to grind their own paints and it was a pleasure for the adults to see our children collaborating well in their teams. One thing we will remember from this project is that art is not just a reference to visual art but many forms – this was clear throughout our time together.
Working with Oliver and Hannah was great – they were organised and tailored the sessions to meet the needs of the class; they brought all the necessary, interesting equipment; ran highly engaging workshops and also had a fantastic sense of humour!
It would be brilliant to work with them again in future.” Amy, Year 5 teacher
