Snail Tales gets sporty!

Cambridgeshire Culture, the branch of the county council's Children's Services which ensures that all children and young people in the county receive a wide range of cultural experiences, have approached Snail Tales to provide some free INSET sessions to teachers from Cambridgeshire schools. The first will be at 3:30pm on 19 November in Cambridge's New Central Library.

The INSET sessions will be tied in with the Sports Thoughts initiative, which seeks to encourage young people in Cambridgeshire to celebrate sporting achievement by creating sport-related art and media, such as poems, pictures, chants, and even film. Cambridgeshire Culture intends to publish the work online, and in a hard copy publication available from Spring 2010.

Chip will take the opportunity at each INSET session to provide teachers with some basic storytelling techniques, along with hints and tips on how to inspire pupils to get creative with the theme of sport - even if they're not terribly sporty themselves.

And any teacher at the INSET will hear Chip's announcement of a special workshop series being offered exclusively to Cambridgeshire schools: Little Birds Sports, which will combine the highly successful storymaking programme with a sporty bent. So Cambridgeshire children may not just see their creation in a book next Spring, but could see it in the theatre too!

The first INSET session is at 3:30pm on 19 November at the Cambridge New Central Library. If you're a Cambridgeshire teacher interested in signing up for the INSET sessions, please contact Kathleen by Wednesday 21st October, either by emailing kathleen.cavinder@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or phoning 01223 706312.

Cambridgeshire teachers can also find out more about Sports Thoughts by visiting the Portal at Resource Code 4807. Details of Little Birds Sports will be given out exclusively at the INSET, but for an early idea of how it works click here for details of Little Birds standard.

2009-10-15