Thanks to the funding from the
John Thaw Foundation and the Arts Council comes an unrivalled storytelling package at an unbeatable price.
Discover a new way your whole school can benefit from improved concentration, enthusiasm, memory and imagination through the world's oldest, most successfully tried and tested artform...
"The greatest thing you can give a child is the opportunity to do something great." - The Chief Rabbi
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Little Birds is the most comprehensive, cost-effective artist-in-residence programme available, delivered by a storyteller with verifiable experience - and the John Thaw Foundation and the Arts Council have enabled your school to enjoy it for less than the cost of one day's visit by an author! Your whole school can receive:
A programme consists of five 60min workshops spread over one week. At our most basic package, up to 30 children can take part from years 2 to 6. More children can take part, but many schools feel one workshop programme is sufficient. Click here for examples of how schools have selected their 30 children in the past.
Participating children get to develop an awareness of storytelling culture from across the world, identify what makes stories exciting, and ultimately use their own creative play to
make tomorrow's fairy tales!
The programme sees the storyteller returning for an hour each day from Monday to Friday, so your children start to look forward to each new step in their exploration of story and are eager to learn.
Help a class with writing, encourage reluctant readers, support your gifted & talented, a whole "Let's Write" week... our story-making workshops are suitable for so many uses!
INSET
The storyteller will also take 60 minutes afterschool to run an INSET "twilight session" with all your school's teachers (and, optionally, TAs) - whether they are working with the school's little birds or not. The session delivers practical tips for storytelling in the classroom, and opens up discussions of how to use Little Birds techniques across the curriculum - from history to maths...!
Online Support
The encouragement to stay creative and keep writing doesn't leave when we do! In fact, it gets bigger and better...!
Sample our online support now by visiting LittleBirdsClub.com!
And that's not all...
The best stories from all Little Birds residencies are adapted into a family theatre show, A Little Bird Told Me, which tours the whole of the UK and has already been to...
Our theatrical performances give your children the potential to be contributing to a new generation of traditional storytelling repertoire. Move aside, Cinderella!
For more details on the theatre tour, see the glowing review by The Stage or visit www.FlapYourFeathers.com to find out where to see it!
Chip Colquhoun is one of the directors of the national Society for Storytelling and one of the founders of Little Birds and Snail Tales. He has been running this programme for nearly three years, and amassed a huge amount of support and praise from headteachers, parents, and local authority representatives. To see just some of their feedback, click here - but if you would prefer a list of schools who are happy to be contacted, just ask using the form below.
Note: All prices include travel. Snail Tales does not charge VAT.
Please also note: There are no ongoing subscriptions for our online support. Your one-off payment for Little Birds entitles you to full unending access to all our online games, activities and lesson plans.
We do our best to respond by email within 48 hours. Please accept our apologies if we keep you waiting during busy periods. Alternatively, you can phone 01406 550 292.
NB: All requests are subject to availability.