Yesterday's Yarns

Each session learners will be transported to another time and place where they will be active participants and detectives, having been shown a mystery object they will be challenged to recognise it in a story.  Their period appropriate costumed storyteller will guide learners as they listen and engage with an interactive story. 
After the story learners will be encouraged to delve deeper into life in the time of the story by finding out about the mystery object to discover the materials, purpose, and role it plays in the lives of ancient peoples.

Story tellers include:
Nean – telling tales set in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
Blae – sharing stories from the Bronze Age
Catia – a storyteller from the Roman occupation telling tales from her own time and the Iron Age
Thorhilde – with myths and tales from the Viking and Anglo- Saxon periods.

Week of:
Week of:
26 April - Neolithic with Neane
3 May - Neolithic with Neane
10 May - Bronze Age with Blae
17 May - Bronze Age with Blae
24 May - Iron Age to Romano British with Catia
31 May - Iron Age to Romano British with Catia
7 June - Viking with Thorhilde
14 June - Viking withThorhilde

* Blae may be visiting and storytelling in a distant village the week of 20 June, if that is the case there will be no classes will not take place that week.

Each week will have a stand alone story and object linked to the period of the storyteller.  Topics or periods to be addressed may be requested, within this range.