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. National Storytelling Week 2027 will be held from 30 January to 7 February. The theme, Every Story Has a Place and Every Place Has a Story, explores the connections between people, places and stories, encouraging participants to celebrate the places that matter to them, uncover forgotten histories and imagine new worlds.
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 and Listen
- 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.
Get Involved
- 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.
Teaching and Learning
- Find suggested activities to help pupils of all ages improve their storytelling skills from Scottish Book Trust here.
Reading Recommendations
- 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.
More to Explore on Literacy Hive
- 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.
- The Children’s Bookshow often features live storytellers through their autumn programme of theatre events.
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