Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

A wide range of common fairy tale favourites including "Goldilocks" and "Beauty and the Beast" are collected in verse to mark National Poetry Day. Discover how his poem can help your children conquer onomatopoeia, changing materials, and much more!

This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS–KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.

Find full contents at epictales.co.uk/story/forestpoem

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"Through the Forest" Excerpt | 1:25

All-age Learning Outcomes
• Literacy: Alfred Noyes "Sherwood"; Robin Hood; inferring from the text; King Arthur (3:17 ) presenting stories in different formats; dramatising; Anthony Brown's "Into the Forest"; storyboarding; new vocabulary; sound walks; poetry treasure hunts; thinking about your audience; hot seating; guessing games; Twenty Questions (43:04 )
• PSHCE: inclusion; sharing stories; where stories come from (9:21 ) | Chris Judge's "The Lonely Beast"; how we perceive ourselves and others (44:30 )
• Numeracy, Science, Art: Nick Sharratt's "The Foggy Foggy Forest"; shadows; measuring; shadow puppets (35:16 )

Learning outcomes for ages 4–7
• Science, Geography, Art: maps; tree identification (10:37 )
• Core, PSHCE: problem-solving; Janet & Allan Ahlberg's "The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters" (14:07 )
• History and Art: medieval times; "Take One Picture"; differences between now and then; the way people lived (14:52 )
• Literacy: new vocabulary; repeated phrases; onomatopoeia (15:50 ) | common fairy tales; characters and motivations (25:29 )
• Music: rhythm; pulse (19:38 )
• Numeracy, Geography, PE: positional language; following directions; marking a trail; maps; orienteering; your local area (20:48 )
• DT: designing & making a gingerbread house; working to a brief; joining things; building; evaluating (21:47 )
• Art: drawing characters; shading; texture; art techniques (22:35 )
• Numeracy, Science, DT: capacity; recipes; changing materials (24:28 )
• Art, PSHCE: describing personalities; drawing characters (27:24 )
• 6–9yrs Science: parts of a flower (32:00 )

Learning outcomes for ages 7–11
• 7–9yrs Literacy: writing poems and verses; fast poems; repeated phrases (32:32 ) | Kennings; riddles; decoding texts (37:19 )
• 7–9yrs DT, Art: JK Rowling's "Harry Potter"; creating a forest (37:38 )
• 7–9yrs History: Ancient Greece; myths & legends; adapting settings (40:09 )
• 7–9yrs Modern Foreign Languages: introducing French, German and/or Italian; comparing cultures (40:26 )
• 7–11yrs Literacy: newspaper reports (45:06 )
• 9–11yrs ICT, DT, Art: animation; LEGO; design & building (45:51 )

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email engage@epictales.co.uk

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Stained glass illustration: Dave Hingley.

This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun and Amy Robinson 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

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