National Storytelling Week
Resource type: Event
Price band: £
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3
Region(s): All of UK
National Storytelling Week is an annual celebration of the power of stories and storytelling. Dates for National Storytelling Week 2027 to be announced.
National Storytelling Week organiser the Society for Storytelling provides resource packs to support National Storytelling Week in schools. The packs include story games, advice on how to use storytelling in different settings and links to videos of experienced storytellers in action.
Cost: Free (although a donation would be welcomed).
About the Society for Storytelling: The Society for Storytelling is a charity that exists to support and promote oral storytelling in the UK.
Further resources:
- Watch a series of videos with storyteller Niall Moorjani to support the development of sharing and telling stories with very young children from the National Literacy Trust.
- Sign up for the Story Seekers, a free, fully resourced creative literacy project that invites primary aged children to seek out stories from around the world to retell in their own words.
- Find suggested activities to help pupils of all ages improve their storytelling skills from Scottish Book Trust here.
- Find stories and poems from around the Commonwealth in the four River of Stories anthologies. These fully illustrated, themed anthologies were created by the Commonwealth Education Trust and are now free to download from the National Literacy Trust website.
- For schools interested in hosting a storyteller, the Society for Storytelling provides a directory of storytellers.
- Authors Aloud and Authors Abroad can also help schools find a storyteller to match their needs.
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