Storytelling

As a professional storyteller, I do storytelling sessions in Early Years, Key Stage 1 and 2 classes in primary schools throughout London, and also in schools in Surrey and one in Rome. I created and run a Year 3 and Year 4 after-school Storytelling club in my own school. I help other teachers develop storytelling skills and give lectures in storytelling at the Wandsworth Professional Centre and teacher training colleges. I offer INSET training in storytelling to schools and will be doing this in Rome. I am currently working with Wandsworth Literacy to develop storytelling opportunities in the borough. Occasionally, I run big after-school fund-raising storytelling events. During the school holidays I do storytelling sessions at Balham Library. My storytelling style is very interactive: I involve the children and use lots of props. I can also be booked to do storytelling at children's parties. Email me for rates, references and more details about the 150+ stories I tell.

School INSET Training:

An Introduction to Storytelling: Tips, Techniques and Practical Ideas for Teachers in the Classroom (for St George's Primary School, Rome, Feb 2010).

Download presentation here. (PowerPoint document)

Discovering the Inner Storyteller. How I discovered a passion and skill for storytelling while training to be a primary school teacher. Autumn 2009.

Inspiring Children to Become Storytellers. An account of how, during my first year of teaching, I learned to inspire young children to become storytellers. Winter 2010.

Teaching as Storytelling. A study of how the role of the professional teacher can greatly benefit from blending it with the role of the professional storyteller. Spring 2010.

For Storylines magazine:

Classroom Storytellers. An account of how I developed techniques to inspire young children to become storytellers. Autumn 2009.

The V&A Museum of Childhood:

The Three Wizards. One of the stories I tell in schools and elsewhere is on the museum website at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/childrens_lives/east_end_lives/sharestory/index.php.