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Discover Children’s Story Centre runs an ever increasing programme of outreach activity for children and families away from our building.
FS, KS1 and KS2 and Community Groups
Discover Story Builders and professional artists can bring their skills and activities in Story Building and creative play into your classroom or community setting. Each session includes an appropriate craft activity.
Sessions include:
- Story Building – using props and children’s imagination to create a new story.
- Using a popular story as inspiration – choose from: One Snowy Night, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Anansi & the Moss Covered Rock.
- Work around our Story Studio exhibitions - themes have included the Caribbean, festivals of light and pirates. Currently Green Drops and Moonsquirters: the UTTERLY imaginative world of Lauren Child is the exhibition in the Studio offering possibilities to explore writing and illustration.
- Coming soon: Welcome to Monsterville
An all day outreach sessions cost £500 plus VAT (£450 plus VAT for Newham schools, nurseries and community groups)
Half day outreach sessions cost £400 plus VAT (£350 plus VAT for Newham based schools, nurseries and community groups)
Call our Community and Education Department on 020 8536 5555 Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm.
At Events and Festivals
Discover has over seven years’ experience in creating fun and interactive events for families. We use a wide range of activities and workshop programmes including storytelling, music, arts and crafts and drama to appeal to everyone. We are experts in family play and have a brilliant team of trained facilitators who make events, workshops and consultations exciting and inspiring. Discover can design and programme events to specific themes or take the lead from a client’s brief. We can decorate the site, provide storytellers, musicians and actors and most importantly bring fun to the party!
Discover has over seven years’ experience in creating fun and interactive events for families. We use a wide range of activities and workshop programmes including storytelling, music, arts and crafts and drama to appeal to everyone. We are experts in family play and have a brilliant team of trained facilitators who make events, workshops and consultations exciting and inspiring. Discover can design and programme events to specific themes or take the lead from a client’s brief. We can decorate the site, provide storytellers, musicians and actors and most importantly bring fun to the party!
Here are some examples of events we have participated in:
- Thrive Festival, Canning Town, Newham: A Where the Wild thing are themed marquee with interactive play space, stories, large scale craft activities and treasure hunts.
- Know the Show: English National Opera: We delivered story and craft activities around the themes in Goethe's Faust.
- Newham Fun Day, Stratford Shopping Centre: A day in our Story Tent (a big yurt) with an illustrator doing a hands on illustration workshop.
- Newham Mayor’s Show, Central Park: Discover headed up a children’s consultation event where families created a large scale model of what they would like Stratford’s High Street 2012 to look like.
- Newham’s Council's Participation Unit: All over Newham in schools, parks, community centres and shopping centres. Themed storytelling and arts and crafts workshops.
Call our Marketing Manager, Racheal Brasier, on 020 8536 5555 to find out more.