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It's Story time for Tresham
02 Feb 2010
To celebrate National Storytelling Week students from Tresham College of Further and Higher Education's Care and Early Years courses in Kettering took part in a variety of activities to highlight the importance of storytelling as a method of teaching, counselling or to simply relax.
To launch the week on Monday 1st February Childcare students displayed storyboards, books and book bags at the Kettering campus. As part of their course Level 3 students prepared a story pack including story tapes for young children with around 20 different activity ideas related to traditional fairytales. Counselling students also led therapeutic group storytelling sessions with other learners.
On Tuesday 2nd February 14 students from the Diploma in Child Care and Education programme performed their own story (Tariq the Tiger) to local school children in Kettering. The group of students performed their short story to Year 1 pupils at Hawthorn School and handed out home made bookmarks to the pupils to encourage them to start reading.
On Thursday 4th February students studying Health and Social Care investigated the hidden stories within tales and considering the ill treatment of children and the possible image they could give to a child today for example Cinderella being the step child with two mean step sisters and stepmother who didn't care for her, Hansel and Gretel being neglectfully abandoned in the woods and then ill treated and the carer role portrayed by Charlie in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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