Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival

Lancashire Schools Storytelling Festival 2023

 

The Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival

A creative journey into your local heritage!

This project aims to make connections to our rich and diverse cultural heritage through the medium of storytelling. Participants will create, write and ultimately, tell those stories as part of a storytelling competition and could become 'Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Champions!'

The Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival encourages connections to literacy, culture and our intangible heritage.

Each year a cultural creative partner is chosen to provide the inspirational springboard for our storytelling adventure. We began our journey at home in Lancashire and in subsequent years have immersed ourselves sin the folklore of Ireland, Wales and Scotland. This year we will be embracing the folklore of South Asia.

Our theme reflects our intention to look at stories that may have been born elsewhere that are now told here in Lancashire today.

Participating schools will be tasked to create an adventure story for a hero or heroine from our chosen culture. They will work as a group to create, write and ultimately tell their tale to a live audience. They will also be given a pre-prepared story to tell as part of a cultural celebration. All this will take place at our Festival Finale in 26 March 2026.

The competition is only open to Lancashire County Council School Years 4 or 5. Entries are restricted to one class per school only.

Involvement includes one online storytelling workshop and two face-to-face workshops in school plus an introductory CPD for all teachers involved.

The Festival Finale will incorporate professional musicians and storytellers performing alongside our participating schools.

For more information, please contact John Meredith at Heritage Learning Lancashire on john.meredith@lancashire.gov.uk. or by telephone on 01772 534089.

Let the fun begin!

Previous winners:

  • Read St John's CE Primary School
  • St Mary's RC Primary School Morecambe
  • Christ Church C of E Primary School, Colne
  • Hapton C.E/Methodist Primary School