In the first stage of the project, you will deliver the Story Seeker Training Programme with your class. This takes the form of an eight-lesson creative literacy and oracy scheme of work. It will prepare the class for their mission developing the essential skills and understanding that they need in order to become fully fledged Story Seekers. It incorporates the filmed theatre performance Meet the Story Seekers which introduces the Story Seekers to the children and sets them on their mission.

The Story Seeker Training Programme is designed to be delivered to a schedule to suit you. If you wish to complete the project in one half term, then we advise aiming to complete the eight lessons over the course of two to three weeks.

The Story Seeker Training Programme is designed to be delivered by teachers at all stage of teaching experience and with varying levels of experience of working with drama and creative experiential learning. Therefore, the activities are described are quite detailed. For teachers who are more experienced or who have more experience of working with drama, a summary is provided for each lesson.

Each lesson should take approximately one hour to deliver so that it can fit into a literacy lesson or can be extended to a two-hour session depending on the time that you have. There are suggested optional extension activities (Why not?) that you can choose from depending on the amount of time that you are able to give to the project.

Some exercises that benefit from more space for the children to move and interact could be delivered in the school hall. However, if that larger space is unavailable, then all the objectives and outcomes of the project can be met within the classroom. In some cases, it may be necessary to push the tables and chairs to the side of the room.

All of the resources that you need to deliver this stage of the project can be viewed or downloaded via the links on the right.