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'Storyteller Dawn Nelson has worked an indescribable magic from Year R all the way up to Y12.'

Bard School

For Yr 3-7 I offer Bard School in which pupils learn how to tell their own story working up the bard levels to develop storytelling, oracy and performance skills. 

Yr 3-4 - Level 1 - Basic Storytelling Skills

Yr 5-6 - Level 2 - Choose Your Own Adventure

Yr 6- 7 - Level 3 - Engaging Your Audience

 

Pupils learn about the oral storytelling traditions from the ancient Irish Filli to the modern day bard. At level one they are shown how to break down a story and start to tell it themselves from memory. Level two shows them how to start creating their own story to tell and level three teaches performance skills so that they may fully engage their audience whilst telling their stories. 

Get in touch to find out how we can work together to bring the ancient art of storytelling to young audiences building oracy and literary skills. 

TESTIMONIALS

Testimonial

Storyteller Dawn Nelson has worked an indescribable magic from Year R all the way up to Y12. From Norse and Greek myths, to local tales and folklore from the land, I have had the genuine joy of watching the children listen, sing and join in with call and response (as if they all knew beforehand that they had a part to play!). 

Young people's ability to focus for long periods is often underestimated because of increasing reliance on technology. What today proved to me is that if you put a brilliant storyteller in front of them with a hoard of fantastic stories, they will listen, they will stop fidgeting, they do fall into the depths of the narrative to emerge triumphant at the other side.

Bryony Hart, Teacher Of English & Whole School Literacy, Portsmouth Grammar School

'Fabulous storytime at Butser Farm today, my boys enjoyed it so much we bought the book.'

 

Amy Goggs, Visitor, Butser Ancient Farm

'Great to work with Dawn again! She very cleverly re-developed our National Tea Day event for online consumption, and this hit our young family audiences perfectly. We had some great engagement with her video chapters of the story of Alice in Wonderland and still cannot believe how she managed to transform her living room into such a brilliant tea party scene. '

Katrina Foxton, Staunton Country Park (during the first lockdown 2020)

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