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Promise Groups – Winter Term at Peterhead Central Primary School

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Here’s the my second post about this winter term’s #PromiseGroups

As well as Boddam Primary School, I was visiting Peterhead Central Primary School!

The pupils:

– listened to stories of all kinds

– learned to use hand puppets and watched a couple of Jim Henson videos to see how the professionals do it (The Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog was a firm favourite!)

– gave hand puppets characters and voices

– created their own story and decided that instead of a film, they would do a story board!

– worked really hard drawing scenes for the story board

– help me tell the story on Wednesday to the P6 class and showed off the storyboard to the class.

– grew in confidence with stories and with me – knowing that you don’t need to be good at WRITING stories to create them and have fun! 🙂

The story wasn’t intended to be a film, but I put this quick video together so I could show off how hard working they’ve all been. Well done you lot!

@we_care_aberdeenshire

Boddam Primary School’s Promise Group Achievements!

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Here’s the first of two posts cheering on my #PromiseGroups this winter term!

The first of which was Boddam Primary School where the pupils:
listened to stories of all kinds
– created their own stories using story dice, story cards and other story games
– learned to use hand puppets
– gave hand puppets characters and voices
– created their own story
– helped me with words and characters sounds etc and helped me create a script
– narrated and voiced the script for our film
– acted out scenes with the puppets
all of which made a fantastic film of the story which is called “The Animals Kingdom”

You’re only getting the ending here … and what a way to end a fairy tale! 🙂

#WeCareAberdeenshire

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Stories at Banchory Academy

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A wee photo from Friday this time!
Here’s mi – posing in the super library at Banchory Academy Library

I was in for a full day telling three sets of my favourite stories – some spooky, some with a twist at the end, some that needed solving – to the S2 pupils.

Each group were a fantastic audience and kept me highly amused! Particularly chuffed with the enthusiastic pupils who told me about ghosties their great granny saw, about folkloric characters to look up for more tales and to those who sat on the edge of their seats. It was a real pleasure to visit!

A FESTIVE VISIT TO OVERDON CARE HOME

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Hahah – there’s a reason I look like a dafty in this photo! I had my fairy wings and halo on to sing a song to the residents of Overton Care Home. Sheena played guitar and sang, we told stories and reminisced about the residents memories of Christmas when they were wee! This visit was organised by @doricbooks and we had such a grand time visiting – as we always do!!

CHARLIE THE ELF – A SHADOW PUPPET ADVENTURE!

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Oh I’m soooo behind with my socials!

But I just HAVE to share this super image of the shadow puppets the absolute STARS at Aye Aye Club made on Monday night.

These were all from the story of Charlie the Elf who left Ireland behind and travelled across the ocean on the Good Ship Big Leaf – safely cooried up in a cabbage! (and didn’t make it to the gold rush… but got to South America by mistake and became rich mining Uranium!)

Fantastic shadow puppets and we had fun making them move using my wee shadow theatre set-up! (a light, a frame, some clips and a photographic screen that actually went back into its back afterwards)

All part of my two visits from the #sisfstoryripple25

And be sure to visit Aye Aye Club’s page and vote for your favourite joke! This was their good deed for the ripple and they smashed it once again! 😀

Gingerbread Men with my Promise Group!

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Would you look at these amazing gingerbread men decorated by one of my amaaaazing Promise Groups!
What do you think? Proper artists!
They’ve listened to stories, played story games, created their own brand new tale, worked on narrating the script, leaned to use hand puppets and… it’s all gone in to a film which the school will see next Wednesday at assembly.
Such a great group!!

Next up I’ll be working on the other amazing school’s exhibition 😊

Veggie Fun at HANDSS

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Woohoo!! Look at these amazing veggie faces made by members of HANDSS last Tuesday night!

We had a story with loads of vegetables (and fruit!) – where I was ably assisted by Fizzy the Fairy. Loads of great suggestions from the audience. It was a very exotic vegetable garden in the North East of Scotland – with lychees and pineapples!

Then we set to making faces – with veggies!

This visit was funded by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival‘s Big Scottish Story Ripple! #sisfstoryripple2025 – Thanks folks! 🙂

WeToo Elf School!

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The WeToo Elf School 2025 is now open!!
Had some lovely apprentice Elves this morning for stories before popping over to Ninja Central for more.
My session was part of the #sisfstoryripple25 and I’ll be back for another session in two weeks – Saturday 13th December from 10.30 to 11.30 am !

Shadow Puppets at the GREC Language Cafe!

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I had great fun yesterday at Language Cafe!I had great fun yesterday at the GREC (Grampian Regional Equality Council) Language Cafe!
Two weeks ago we made up a new story and this week we made shadow puppets to go with itTwo weeks ago we made up a new story and this week we made shadow puppets to go with it