Storytelling Skills for School Settings

Now more than ever with pressure from government, Ofsted and parents to constantly increase levels of success at school, an increasing number of people in education are rediscovering storytelling and the benefits it can bring to educators and the students they work with.

Storytelling skills for school settings has been developed alongside teaching staff and leadership teams in both primary and secondary schools to help:
• Increase communication between colleagues, children and their parents and carers as well as other school partners.
• Increase creativity, speaking, listening and levels of reading and writing.
• Increase motivation and self esteem
• Promote and increase attendance.
• Help ease transition from primary to secondary

Storytelling skills for schools settings has also been developed to help promote inclusion and value diversity.
Most children love a good story this course will show you how to harness that love of story for the benefit of all within your setting.
By attending this course and learning storytelling skills you will be able to enhance your storytelling skills and enjoy doing it.

 You will also be learning how storytelling skills can help you and your school with:

• Engaging children and adult's imagination
• Motivating reluctant readers and writers
• Bringing out the best in others
• Grabbing and keeping children's attention
• Accessing skills that will increase your creativity, allow you to create new and imaginative ways of enabling learning.
• Communicating memorably with children, colleagues, parents and carers allowing you to challenge stereotypes and perceptions in a fun and productive way
• Developing transition from primary to secondary
• Identifying connections between your school and the wider community.

Impact/Outcomes:
• Understand how you can use storytelling skills to enhance your current skills and enable new ways of learning in your setting.
• Learn how storytelling can be used as a communication tool to cut through organisational language, and allow people of all ages within your setting and the wider community to really connect with each other.
• Consider how storytelling can allow children and adults to express themselves, no matter what their accent or how they speak.
• Understand that storytelling values difference, allowing us to communicate effectively and creatively with all children whatever their current level of literacy including those who have special educational needs and those for whom English is an additional language.
• Learn from a number of successful projects in schools throughout the county.
• To consider how to use storytelling skills in your own role and to encourage others to use them where appropriate.

Programme:

During the session you will:
• Be coached through some basic storytelling skills
• Be told a story
• Discuss examples of good practice and case histories
• Tell your story from your first exercise
• Learn and practice more advanced storytelling skills
• Re-tell your stories
• Develop your own stories
• Discuss and be coached on how you are going to use these skills in your work

 A level 1 storytelling skills certificate from the course leader will be awarded to all participants who successfully complete the course. This certificate from one of the leading storytelling skills trainers in the UK is seen as a genuine benchmark in a fast growing area of communication.

This course would also be ideal as an INSET day delivered on site at schools, with the possibility of a follow up advanced course to those who were interested.

Quote from a past attendee; 

"Gave me some fantastic ideas to take away, including how to engage with children with EAL, engaging and easy to listen to, very interactive and fun, lively and thought provoking, good information on how to make storytelling more interesting, captivating, great, confidence builder, taught me to use gesture, amazingly brilliant"
 

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