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Celebrating Literacy

Our interactive literacy workshops provide an immersive and sensory story adventure, igniting a love for literacy, storytelling and creative writing.

Celebrate Literacy in your school with Eastside’s creative workshops, helping your students to explore the joy of stories and books, and developing and maintaining positive attitudes to reading.

All workshops are led by our expert facilitators and build key academic and personal skills including: speaking & listening, writing, confidence and collaboration.

EYFS & KS1 – STORY ADVENTURES

Our interactive storytelling workshops provide an immersive and sensory story adventure, igniting a love for literacy. Let us know which topic you’re exploring, and we will help you choose a Story Adventure to suit your class.

Choose an adventure from: Where the Wild Things Are, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Monkey Puzzle and Whatever Next?

45 mins per class

  • English and Literacy: Speaking and listening skills
  • English and Literacy: Developing communication and language skills
  • English and Literacy: Language through storytelling
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Role play
  • Physical Development
  • Expressive Arts

KS2 – STORY HUNTERS

Lower KS2 – Drama
Upper KS2 – Creative Writing

Our frameworks have been designed with a drama focus for lower KS2, and a creative writing focus for upper KS2, but can be adapted to your class’ needs.

These drama and creative writing workshops will push your students’ imaginations to the limit! Guided by an expert facilitator, your students will work collaboratively to create a whole class story from scratch, developing their oracy and written language skills, as well as their self confidence.

60 mins per class

  • English: Speaking and listening skills
  • English: Developing language and communication skills, by writing and rehearsing scripts for performance
  • English and Drama: Exploring characters
  • English and Drama: Developing ideas
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Collaboration, working as a team

KS3 - FLASH FICTION MASTERS

In these creative writing workshops pupils will work alongside a professional creative writer to produce their own pieces of short fiction on a key topic or theme. The workshops help to promote high quality writing for pleasure through an introduction to new creative writing techniques.

90 mins per class

  • Developing confidence as writers
  • Discussing a range of texts
  • Effectively planning a piece of writing
  • Reading aloud
  • Peer feedback and editing
  • Speaking and listening: Performing own writing

Testimonies

Don’t take our word for it. Hear what teachers and students have to say about our Celebrating Literacy workshops.

Apply today

Interested in booking a Celebrating Literacy workshop for your school? Enquire Now to discuss with one of our team members.

Designed for Primary, Secondary and SEND schools by Eastside’s expert creative practitioners to inject fun and creativity at the heart of school life.