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| ready for stories |
Summer stories
Stories in
school with Creeping Toad
Summer 2015
celebrating the richness of the
season, here are old stories,
new adventures and chances to create tales that
no-one has ever heard before!
With stories spinning
from the first signs of spring right through to earth giants, summer flowers
and thunder-tigers, here are stories and activities to enchant and
inspire.
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| me, in action at Plas Power Woods* |
I am now taking bookings for the summer term -and would welcome enquiries from schools, clubs, parks and nature reserves looking for public events, and just about anyone really! We all breathe the same air, maybe we can all enjoy the same world!
Where
I am based in Buxton in Derbyshire and organise work spreading out from there. I am due in the north of Scotland for two definite blocks of time
Scotland
April:
20 - 29th
August
24th - September 4th
Other than that will be working across England, with a few days now and then in specific areas - Sussex for example in April and May.
So, if you're interested in a workshop get in touch and we'll sort something out
planning Arts Week? shaking your literacy up a bit? designing a celebration? hoping to get to grips with the stories of stones or the speaking and listening of your children....
Who are workshops for?
Most of my work is with school children from Reception through to the end of Primary , but activities can be adapted to suit Reception or High School students. Equally, public events might be aimed at families or shifted to suit particular audiences - I'm writing stories and poems with adult groups just now on one project and training teachers on another.
What could we do?
A day’s visit to your school might include
storytelling
performances: lasting up to 60 minutes for up to
90 children at a time
stories
out of anything! outdoors
or in, we'll use leaves and pine cones, twigs and stones and shells to inspire words, create poems and
shape a set of stories never told before
(allow 60
minutes for a class session)
story
and book workshops: taking a bit longer (allow 90
minutes for a class) as well as discovering those stories no-one has ever heard
before, now we will build those into the books that no-one has ever read before
and leave the classroom with a library no-one has ever visited before!
pop-up
storyscapes: allow an hour for a class: gathering ideas,
images and words we’ll make quick 3-d landscapes holding
the essence of a story or maybe the thrills of a lifecycle in a setting, key
characters and the words that set the adventure running
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| a shadow puppet visit to a castle |
shadow stories: out of my stories might come new stories:
drawing on whatever theme we are working with to create quick performances of
shadow puppets. Incorporating silhouettes, translucence and transparency, we'll
mix science with story to create an (almost) instant set of story performances
to show or perhaps to film
Ancient Lives: add a voice from the distant past to your history topics with stories
that our Stone, Bronze or Iron Age ancestors might have listened to. Stories,
models, artefacts and drawings can feed into art inspired by cave paintings,
carvings and jewellery
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| inspired by Celtic jewellery |
Old Scotland: sets of stories drawn from a Scottish heritage: tales of clans, of
heroes and villains and the wonder-tales of an ancient Celtic world
your
own themes and ideas: or are you exploring a particular
theme that you would like to involve some stories in? pirates….tropical
islands….ancient Greeks…fairies, frogs and trolls…..where in our school would bears
live?…the Great Fire of London have all featured in recent Creeping Toad projects
How much?
£250 a day: includes storyteller’s fee, travel and
materials. Can be paid on the day or I can invoice you.
Activities can be
adapted to suit groups from Reception through to Secondary
To book: contact me (Gordon) directly at
or by telephone:
landline: 01298 77964
mobile:
07791 096857
you never know who, or what, will end up
in a
Creeping Toad story!
* Plas Power Woods photo c/o Laurence Crossman-Emms
and the Woodland Trust
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