Interactive, child-led storytelling toolkit for schools transforming everyday situations into imaginative worlds.
Humans make sense of the world through story. It’s how we pass on information, impart knowledge and wisdom. It’s how we learn to empathise and share in the emotional journeys of others. It’s an incredibly powerful tool for learning and yet we assume all children have access to stories and play, and this isn’t always the case.
I used to be a teacher, so I knew whatever solution I created needed to require little-to-no planning.
Early years practitioners you’re already superheroes, we hope by joining us we can make your lives a little easier, inspire playful interactions and tick the boxes you need with a resource that has play at its heart and will really make a difference for your individual children, giving them a voice to tell the stories that are important to them.
- Kate Shelley
Story is a super powerful learning gizmo. Tales Toolkit is an interactive, child-led resource featuring easy to remember symbols representing story structure: ‘Character,’ ‘Setting,’ ‘Problem’ ‘Solution.’ Early years children create stories around interests using anything to hand: favourite toy, conker, picture of Grandma…you name it!
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It has transformed the way we work! We talk about characters, settings, problems and solutions as part of our day- to- day interactions in so many aspects of the children's experiences- not just creating stories!As no forward planning is required (other than collecting resources) it helps to maintain a successful work- life balance too!We find Tales Toolkit is providing an opportunity for all children to explore creating and retelling stories. Our boys in particular are more keen to write than we have ever known before, and we are able to focus on language and story structure with our children with EAL. Tales Toolkit is now part of our culture. It permeates everything we do... conflict and resolution, experimentation with new ideas and concepts, dealing with everyday problems and situations!' Tales Toolkit significantly improves attainment and gives children an understanding that the sky is the limit. Children don’t need over planned opportunities - they can be creative with the simplest open-ended materials.’
- Liz Adie
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