National Storytelling Week
Resource type: Event
Price band: £
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3
Region(s): All of UK
National Storytelling Week was set up to celebrate the practice and value of oral storytelling. In 2025, National Storytelling Week runs from 1st – 9th February.
National Storytelling Week organisers the Society for Storytelling provides a resource pack to support National Storytelling Week in schools. The pack includes story games, advice on how to use storytelling in different settings and links to videos of experienced storytellers in action.
Cost: Free.
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:
- Explore ways to use storytelling in the classroom to support children’s language development at a UKLA online CPD event on Saturday 1st February. Cost £5.
- Sign up for one of three free, online storytelling workshops with authors Tọlá Okogwu (ages 7-11), Steven Camden (ages 11-14) and Joseph Coelho (ages 5-7) hosted by the National Literacy Trust starting on 3rd February. You can also download accompanying classroom resources to help schools deliver a week-long storywriting project for each age group with the chance to have pupils’ work published in a National Storytelling Week Anthology. Resources available with the NLT’s free membership from 6th January.
- 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.
- Explore the Kamishibai Storytelling resources from Mantra Lingua to encourage pupils to retell popular stories in their own words.
- 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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