Curious Minds

Goosnargh pupils’ giant fairytale book

CREATING a ginormous cloth book - as big as themselves - has delighted five and six-year-old pupils at Goosnargh Oliverson’s CE Primary School.

 In fact, it is so big, the children are able to clamber onto the book and pretend to crawl into the stories themselves, becoming fully emersed in the adventurous tale they created about the escape and safe return of some hedgehogs to their home.

Thanks to Curious Minds funding, the children were treated to a weekly visit by a professional artist, to carry out the project’s aim of inspiring the children to write using the outdoor environment.

Oliverson’s Year 1 teacher Nicola Hall explained that one of the first activities was to spend a day outside building dens. The children then pretended to capture some escaped animals to put them into the story they would create.

They decided to do this with the large cloth-collage book, which measures approximately 4ft by 3ft, The tale describes hedgehogs having to escape from a lion and snake along the way.

The book is as big as the children and they can put it on the floor and actively get into the story. They are very proud of it and they have presented it to school and parents, it has been fantastic and very inspiring.

Mrs Hall.

(Taken from Longridge and Ribble Valley News - http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/)