The Best Is Back!

Last year, Snail Tales received support from Arts Council East to create a set of story-making workshops that would help primary-age children into expert story creators.

One year on, we have a fantastic workshop series that provides children with not just the ability to make strong creative work, but the enthusiasm to do so as well! Teachers and even parents have all commented on the benefits - from increasing literacy skills to building confidence. Here are just some of the comments:

"Our children were given creative freedom in a supportive environment which allowed them to explore their own skills creatively and in a different way to the classroom environment."
- Literacy Co-ordinator, Spinney Primary School

"The children were engaged from the start of workshop 1 right up to the end of workshop 5. I will certainly continue to make reference to the work they've done in future lessons, especially in terms of confidence and the progression in story making. The whole project was thoroughly enjoyable and I would recommend it to others."
- Teacher, Class 5 (yr 5), Thomas Eaton Primary School

"Children are constantly being pushed to write to formula. But if they can get excited by a story, then they don't feel under pressure when asked to write it down... Your work always kicks off some excellent creative activity from my class."
- Yr3 teacher, St Philip's School

This time round, we have been working extra hard to make Little Birds even more accessible for more schools. And that's how we've put together a number of packages that really do make this the best-value story-making workshop series available! For as little as £250*, your school could have:

• five 1-hour workshops for a group of 30 children
• access from home or school to LittleBirdsClub.com for the whole school
• help organising a local showcase for children to share their creativity with families

*NB: price when 2 or more schools from the same area make a booking for the same week.

And as before, Snail Tales are already preparing to mount a theatre tour based on the stories created by Little Birds in the workshops or on the website - meaning any children who take part could see their tale made famous by professional storytellers on stage!

To find out more, and make a booking for your school, just click here!

2009-08-24