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https://peterchand.com/

Peter Chand led a brilliant session on Storytelling. Find more resources on his website and his recording of The Brave Weaver story here - https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/1001-stories/the-brave-weaver

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We worked with the wonderful Wendy Shearer who led sessions around storytelling training and celebrating difference.

'Wendy Shearer's workshop, with her use of props, sounds, puppets, and everyday objects, inspired me to take oral storytelling to the next level. Storytelling has truly become part of our classroom culture.' - Teacher

Find out more about Wendy here - https://wendyshearer.co.uk/about-me/

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Key Findings

Plot Twists

Conscience Alley (arguments for & against)

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Toolkit - Supporting Children's Emotional Literacy

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Toolkit - Supporting Children's Emotional Literacy

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Toolkit - Supporting Participants Confidence

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Toolkit - Supporting Participants Confidence

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Toolkit - Building an effective CPDL Model

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Toolkit - Building an effective CPDL Model

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Evaluation - Creative Artworks

Between the Lines

Key Findings

Plot Twists

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Race and Intersectionality Awareness into Practice: A Creative Inquiry

We’ve reached the final chapter of our CPD series — and what a powerful conclusion it was! This online session brought us together for a dynamic and creative exploration of race, identity, and intersectionality.

Through bold conversations and reflective exercises, we took time to consider our own intersectionality.

This isn’t just a video — it’s a toolkit for ongoing reflection and action.

📽️ Catch up on this inspiring final session below!

👇 Watch the recording and share your thoughts in the comments — we’d love to hear how it resonated with you.

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🎓 CPD Training – Resources Now Available!

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🎓 CPD Training – Resources Now Available!

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Nurturing Resilient Learners Through Play

With the amazing Becky Hill from Clear Sky

As part of our CPD Training Series, we offered this inspiring session on:

💻 March 13th – Online Session

🏫 March 27th – In-Person Session

We’re now sharing the following materials to support your continued learning:

📽️ Recording of the Online Session

📊 Presentation Slides (PPT)

📎 Additional Supporting Materials

We hope you find these resources helpful and inspiring.

Feel free to share with your team, and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

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Story Exchange Cohort - Tatterhood 'hood reveal'

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Senior Lecturer in Drama in Education at OBU

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The Story Exchange: Blog by Lucy Webber, Head of Learning from Story Museum 

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The Story Exchange: Blog by Lucy Webber, Head of Learning from Story Museum 

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Article published in the PHF newsletter on June 12th.

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Acting Head of Learning at The Story Museum in Oxford, Lucy Webber, shares their Teacher Development Fund approach through the learning journey of one of their core teachers, Jade Matthews from St Christopher's C of E school in Oxford.

The Story Museum works with schools to harness the power of stories to support children's learning, well-being and socio-emotional literacy. Through the Story Exchange, storytellers and teachers have become co-learners, with teachers developing skills in oral storytelling and exploring their potential to develop children's emotional literacy.

Here we share the transformative experience of the programme via the learning journey of one of our teachers, Jade Matthews, a Year 2 class teacher, head of Key Stage 1 and reading lead teacher at St Christopher's C of E school in Oxford.

The teachers initially attended storytelling training in the wonderfully immersive museum, learning how to tell a story using a structure rather than a script.

In turn, storytellers learned from the teachers with a particular focus on PSHE and supporting students to understand and manage their emotions. The teachers were paired with a single storyteller for 12 in-school sessions over the two years. In the early days of the project, Jade observed the storyteller and their students' responses.

As the project progressed, Jade worked with her storyteller to co-plan sessions. She began to tell the stories herself and to plan activities to support her class's development of an emotional vocabulary. Discussing emotions within the context of a story released the children from their self-consciousness and she observed them beginning to express their emotions more openly.

Jade was a member of the Teacher Development Fund core-cohort, which provided opportunities for her to connect with organisations nationwide. A middle leader at school, she described how the project enabled her to develop storytelling into her area of expertise, confidently leading her colleagues.

Responding to a challenge to share the project with colleagues, Jade's first idea was to offer an open-door week of storytelling activities which colleagues could observe in her class and then try out in their own. Undaunted by the in-school difficulties in releasing colleagues for this, she tried a new approach: creating story-bag resources for every year group for each of their PSHE themes. These will be available for colleagues to use throughout the school.

Extending the reach of the power of storytelling

Our plans for a Symposium in July include teachers and storytellers co-leading workshops, sharing our learnings with the wider educational network in Oxfordshire. At our final in-museum training, the teachers and the storytellers created visual evaluations of the project.

All of us incorporated themes of growth; an unfurling of skills and confidence as the project progressed.

The Story Museum's new 1001 digital stories website will provide teachers with a powerful search engine to find stories to match themes of emotional literacy and classroom resources which have been developed through the 120+ co-taught in-school sessions throughout the pattern.

It has been a privilege to support this dedicated group of teachers on their journeys through the project.

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Lucy Webber Acting Head of Learning at The Story Museum

The last year has been a significant one for Paul Hamlyn Foundation - full of change and new possibilities, as well as challenges in the external environment.

Our annual report, reflecting on a significant year for the Foundation as we said goodbye to our Chief Executive of ten years, Moira Sinclair, and welcomed our new Chief Executive, Halima Khan.

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Acting Head of Learning at The Story Museum in Oxford, Lucy Webber, shares their Teacher Development Fund approach through the learning journey of one of...

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This Section explores;

Our methodology

Storytelling Evaluation Methodology

CPDL Model

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Hello from The Story Exchange Storytellers & Teachers

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Hello from The Story Exchange Storytellers & Teachers

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Interested to know more about Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Teachers Development Fund our project is part?

Have a look at the Handbook that provides an overview of the programme and shows all the other amazing projects being developed!

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Good to be used an intervention or differentiated homework!

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Storytelling as an evaluation technique!

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Storytelling as an evaluation technique!

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Share your Stories and inspiration here!

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We recommend this talk from Muna Abdi on language when talking about more advantaged societal groups. Have a special look from 23 minutes through to 37 minutes, the other talks aren’t as relevant as it’s from 2021.

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TDF Webinar on Educational Inequity - Wednesday 6th October 2021

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Have a look at the anti-racism video the cohort team saw as part of the training offered by PHF on November 2023

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Anti-racism in speech and language therapy: What is anti-racism?  Presentation by Dr Muna Abdi

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On May 21st, a group of teachers from across the TDF (Teachers Development Fund) cohorts shared their development of arts-based practice.

Dear Matt (Matthew Dillon), represented our project by giving the amazing presentation you can find in this post.

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Jade’s Inspiring Presentation at the Teach Meet – Paul Hamlyn Foundation 

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Jade’s Inspiring Presentation at the Teach Meet – Paul Hamlyn Foundation 

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It was such a pleasure to watch Jade present at the Teach Meet hosted by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation last month. Her session was incredibly insightful, showcasing the meaningful impact of oral storytelling in her teaching and the classroom.

Well done, Jade – and thank you for representing the project with such clarity and passion!

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The Story Exchange Presentation at Oxygen Meeting July 2024

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The Story Exchange Presentation at Oxygen Meeting July 2024

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On 1st July there was an Oxygen Partners meeting where Liz, Lucy and Matt did an amazing presentation of the project! Check it out!

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The Story Exchange presentation - July2024.mov