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CPD review: Storytelling in the Primary Classroom from Half Moon

This was an amazing session for primary drama educators who are looking for new activities, says reviewer Paul Bateson.
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Half Moon Theatre are the UK’s leading small-scale young people’s venue and touring company, producing professional plays for young and family audiences. They also run an extensive creative learning programme (including eight youth-theatre groups), and it is part of their CPD offer for teachers that I am accessing for this article.

‘Storytelling in the Primary Classroom’ is for ‘anyone who thinks teachers and children can be storytellers’. An advocate of drama and stories in my own practice, I joined the Zoom call with a mix of teachers in EYFS, Y5, & SMEH provision, interns, MA students, people from charities, mental health organisations and more.

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