Scottish Storytelling Centre | Learning Experiences

Storytelling and storymaking provide opportunities for sharing thoughts and ideas as a class, group or with an individual. It is a motivational tool which encourages learning, good communication skills and engagement with writing. Storytelling is also an ideal tool for supporting children with special educational needs.

Through listening to and telling stories children extend and enrich their vocabulary and develop their understanding of what is special, vibrant and valuable about their own and other cultures and their languages. There are opportunities to communicate, collaborate and build relationships when children share stories and participate in storymaking activities as a small group and as a class. Retelling stories through different media show children the wide range of ways in which they and others can be creative. Storytelling helps children to reflect on and explain their literacy and thinking skills, using feedback to help them improve and sensitively provide useful comments for others through positive feedback and formative assessment.

The ‘Bothy’ at the Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh will be the venue for 3 live Glow TV Tell-a-Story events when storytellers will ignite the imagination of viewers by telling stories and they will then share their techniques and answer questions to help learners learn to tell stories and plan their own Tell-a-Story Day event.

Tell-a-Story Day is the national celebration of oral storytelling, when people all over Scotland will be making, sharing and listening to stories in schools, libraries, community centres, churches, hospitals, homes, gardens – and some more unusual venues! Tell-a-Story Day is a great way of taking part in the Scottish International Storytelling Festival wherever you are and is a fun way of spending time with family and friends whatever your age.

Enter a magical world of enchanting fairy tales, scary Halloween stories or treasured family legends, and bring your community, workplace or family closer together on Tell-a-Story Day.

The first of the Tell a Story event is on 5th September at 11am

Sign up on Glow TV here

Tell a Story Listen to what the Tell a Story Learning Opportunity is all about

‘Tell a Story Day’ is celebrated across Scotland in October. In the 3 weeks leading up to this national event join Storytellers in the ‘bothy’ at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh via Glow TV. Enjoy listening to the storytellers share tales about nations and territories within the Commonwealth, about personal challenge and achievement and memorable, adventurous and incredible journeys. ‘Journeys’ is the theme for this year’s event. While listening, learn how to tell and perform oral stories. Then take the opportunity to ask the storytellers questions about their ideas and techniques to help you plan and hold your own ‘Tell a Story Day’ event. On ‘Tell a Story’ day we plan to broadcast your stories across Scotland via Glow TV. How do you get selected? Send a video clip of you performing your story and we will get back to you. We can’t wait!

Explore and play with the patterns and sounds of language
Communicate in a clear and expressive way
Select and organise ideas
Share real and imaginative stories using the spoken word
Create and perform a collaborative story
Plan a ‘Tell a Story Day’ event

Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytellers
Young people and educators across Scotland.

Educators can learn more about Tell a Story day here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Storytelling – Tell a Story

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.