National Storytelling week is an annual, national event founded by the ‘Society for Storytelling’. It celebrates the tradition of storytelling and aims to inspire a whole new generation of storytellers. We love a good story here at Milestone and we were all excited to devote time to sharing, listening and activating stories all week long!
At Milestone Academy we celebrated National Storytelling week across all four phases and satellites, with so many engaging and exciting learning experiences taking place. Each class chose a traditional tale and spent the week reading the story and taking part in a range of immersive learning activities related to these tales.
We also had the pleasure of welcoming ‘In a nutshell’, an educational theatre company, who visited us for a full day and worked across all our pathways to share ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The actors achieved this through sensory stories, performances and even created some alternative endings with our Waterfall students.
Here are some of the highlights from what was a truly marvellous week:
Phase One
Koala Class, reading and exploring the story of ‘Goldilocks and the three bears.’
Penguin Class, reading and exploring the story of ‘The three little pigs’ and having a go at building their very own houses using bricks.
Phase Two
Moonbeam Class, reading and learning about the story of ‘The Gingerbread man’, decorating their very own Gingerbread men and enjoying dressing-up as their favourite book characters.
Phase Three
Roman Class, storytelling together and using props such as hand puppets to bring stories to life.
Phase Four
Scotney Class, became immersed in the story ‘How the stars fell into the sky’, a Navajo folklore legend. They made starry night collages and their very own star-shaped biscuits.
Canterbury Class, who chose the story ‘The Princess and the Pea’, retold the story with puppets and peas and had a go at making their very own beds for the princess.
