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Tales Toolkit is aimed primarily at Early Years. However our resources have been used with children as young as 2 years old and up to year 2 with great success (they’ve also been used with lots of creativity and enthusiasm by our friends of all ages!)
Our resources can be used during focus activities and in free flow, across the provision, inside and out, to help children to create stories independently around their interests.
Every school has their own individual personality. Tales Toolkit is easily adapted to children’s interests and needs and can reflect the identity of your local community.
Read on to find out about some of the settings where Tales Toolkit is being used:
Alexandra Primary School and
Special Needs Assessment Centre, North Wales
Using Tales Toolkit since November 2015
Children developed storytelling skills, becoming more thoughtful in creating stories and increasing in creativity.
As the children's confidence grew, staff saw their communication and literacy skills improve - one little girl in Nursery spoke for the first time in school during a Tales Toolkit story.
"I have always been an advocate of storytelling and developing writing skills through talk. I feel that my children have had a unique opportunity to develop these skills at a really early age through simple storytelling and easy to use resources."
Rachel Lloyd, Teacher
Kintore Way Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Southwark
Using Tales Toolkit since April 2016
Staff have seen improvements in their children’s language, social skills and their ability to solve problems independently.
They’ve engaged children who previously found it hard to concentrate and commented on how much enjoyment they’ve gained from Tales Toolkit.
St Saviours Primary School, Tower Hamlets
Using Tales Toolkit since November 2015
Children are using the story structure in different lessons, during independent play and staff have seen improvements in social skills, communication and creativity.
Staff commented that Tales Toolkit has made a difference right across the curriculum.
“Children are more independent, working out solutions for themselves and they have more creative ideas.”
Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre
Using Tales Toolkit since April 2016
"Tales Toolkit offers a framework that supports children’s first steps in making up stories, imaginative play, putting ideas together and into sequence. This framework can be hugely helpful and gives children the scaffold they need."
"We think TTK is a powerful approach to boosting communication and imaginative play of young children, and it fits with our early years ethos."
Julian Grenier, Headteacher
We’re developing parent training - launching in 2019.
Watch this space...
Tales Toolkit Worldwide
THINK EQUAL works towards a future where all children have opportunity to develop their full potential and live free of discrimination and violence
Tales Toolkit is part of the global curriculum THINK EQUAL, due to trial in 2017 in 18 countries.
Our resources will be used in all of the schools involved.
We have lots of support from Think Equal directors and advisors - thank you to Helen Lumgair for her endorsement below
