The Story Seeker Training Programme is designed to be delivered to a schedule to suit you. If you wish to complete the project over the course of one half term, then we advise aiming to complete the ten lessons over a period of about four weeks, leaving the final weeks to rehearse and prepare for filming or performance of the children’s stories.

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.

The Story Seeker Training Programme is designed to be delivered by teachers at all stages of teaching experience and with varying levels of experience of working with drama and creative experiential learning. Therefore, the activities are described in quite a lot of detail.

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 of the page.