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Yesterday's Yarns

Completed by 62 learners
Ages 6-10
Live Group Class
This ongoing class transports your learner back to the depths of time with a costumed storyteller and archaeologist, to a period each lesson for a story, turning them into detectives to find the linked mystery object.
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(67 reviews)

Live video meetings
1x per week
3-10 learners per class
30 min

What's included

1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

US Grade 1 - 4
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.

Learning Goals

Learners will learn and relate to stories
Learners will participate in an interactive storytelling
Learners will develop an understanding of life through history
Learners will develop their questioning and observation skills

Other Details

Parental Guidance
This class draws from mythology and original materials with adaption made to ensure suitability for this age group.
Supply List
No materials are needed for this session, if learners would like to bring a toy to join them they are welcome.
External Resources
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    Meet the teacher

    Joined June, 2020
    5.0
    67reviews
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    Teacher expertise and credentials
    I am an archaeologist, storyteller and reenactor, with experience telling stories and facilitating object handing and use for education and families in museums, schools, public venues and online.  I find that stories open windows into the past making it accessible for learners. Furthermore, I believe that seeing an object held and manipulated allows learners to appreciate, connect and understand the complexity of the people who created them more fully. 

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