Black History Month in Schools
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Black History Month storytelling
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Beaming with pride after telling African folktales for Black History month celebrations at St Winefride’s Catholic Primary School. Pupils were keen to feel and describe Wendy’s African, wooden staff that she used during the story.
Storytelling at Coconut Nursery
Posted onCoconut Nursery welcomed me with a hot cup of tea before storytelling to their babies and toddlers. I felt right at home! For their Black History Month celebrations I re-told the story Jamela’s Dress by Niki Daly. The story is set in Cape Town, featuring the words ‘Kwela’ throughout which refers to the popular South […]
Story Dolls for Early Years
Posted onToday was a fun day of Black History Month storytelling at Willow Children’s Centre in Holloway. I went packed with storytelling props and used these two dolls to help me tell the story of ‘My Two Grannies’ by Floella Benjamin. Teachers said that the babies and toddlers were ‘really engaged throughout’. These are wonderful story […]
Storytelling at Stamford Hill school
Posted onAs part of their Black History Month celebrations, I was asked to do storytelling at Stamford Hill school. I entertained Year 1 and Reception with Anansi and the talking Melon and how Anansi got his stories. The children’s attention was immediately captured when I showed them my huge wooden boat. I explained that we sere […]
Black History Month stories
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Today I spent time with a Year 5 class at Campsbourne Junior School to run an oral storytelling workshop. I’d prepared Black History Month stories which the children could take part in. Some of them had heard the tale of Ananse and the Unknown Assignment by Peggy Appiah from her book ‘Tales of an Ashanti Father’. As […]
Storytelling at Campsbourne School
Posted onTo celebrate Black History Month, I was asked to do storytelling at Campsbourne school. Their Literacy Coordinator asked me to run oral storytelling workshops with their Year 5 classes. I decided to take them to Ghana with a trickster tale. As we were celebrating Black History Month, I shared with them the history of trickster […]