I offer storytelling in primary schools based on the following two formats. (For Citizenship Skills through storytelling click here.)

Curriculum topic support through Traditional Tales. Covering and augmenting such curriculum topics as: ~ Jacobites, local area's Tales, geography, Scottish history, Gàidhlig; islands, seashore, Vikings, WWII in Kintyre, Covenanting Wars, Picts, Mary Queen of Scots, Early peoples, plants. "So lets see where around here this all happened. Who can read a map?" Ardchattan and Barcaldine Schools, Argyll.

Seumas MacDonald the 18th Century Crofter telling Tales of rural life in Mòrar Seumas is a character part, showing fishing and crofting in 18th Century Scotland. Basketry props and Highland plaids are used, as are plants, such as hazel boughs and reeds. Seumas works well for environmental education. Seumas the crofter telling stories of the Eel Trap, Banavie Primary, Fort William. Photo by Iain Ferguson for Lochaber News

Costs

Half day, morning, 86 pounds
Half day, afternoon, 76 pounds
Full day, 120 pounds ,
Prices within Perthshire. Travel added without.

Session format

Both of the above sessions last 45 minutes or 1.5 hours, approximately.
45 mins: Tales with pupils drawing and repeating Tales.
1.5 hours: As above, plus drama and the Highland plaid for pupils to try on.
Half day morning=up to 3 sessions. Half day afternoon=up to 2 sessions.

Sessions take one class or age-range, (P1-3, 4-5 etc) at a time.
Delivered in English with some Gàidhlig, which is translated.

Both formats incorporate, depending on topics
~ traditional clothing in the form of the belted plaid for the pupils to try on
~ songs to join in with
~ interactive stories
~ drama
~ asking questions
~ remembering the Tale

Sessions were designed to support the former Scottish 5-14 Curriculum and the Expressive Arts Guidelines. They are even more suitable for the Curriculum for Excellence style of teaching.

I have told in approaching 100 Scottish Primary Schools in Argyll, Lochaber, Skye, Cowal and Aberdeenshire since 2001. I have several Enhanced Disclosure Certificates from, The Scottish Storytellers Federation and Argyll and Bute Council.

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