Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival

 

The Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival 2025

A creative journey into your local heritage!

This project aims to make connections to our rich and diverse cultural heritage through the medium of storytelling. Participants will create, write and ultimately, tell those stories as part of a storytelling competition which will see us announce a Lancashire Schools' Storytelling champion at a celebration event in the first week of April 2025.

The Lancashire Schools' Storytelling Festival encourages connections to literacy, culture and our intangible heritage.

Congratulations to St Mary's Catholic Primary School Morecambe, who were crowned this year's Storytelling Champions in our exciting Festival Finale, held at Chorley Theatre, last March.

We are now in our fourth year, and we are delighted to announce that this year's Storytelling Festival will have a distinctive Scottish theme as we continue our journey round the British Isles reflecting on the cultural melting pot that is Lancashire. Drawing on inspiration from an array of Scottish folktales and from folktales across the world, schools will be encouraged to create their own stories to tell at our Festival Finale in April 2025. They will also be tasked with discovering a fun folk tale to tell as part of our celebration section of the Festival Finale. Our theme reflects our intention to look at stories that may have been born elsewhere that are now told here in Lancashire today.

Participating schools will be tasked to tell stories in a live scenario and be supported by live and on-line resources before a performance-based competition in April 2025.

The competition is only open to Lancashire County Council School Years 4 or 5. Entries are restricted to one class only.

For more information, please contact John Meredith at Heritage Learning Lancashire on john.meredith@lancashire.gov.uk. or by telephone on 01772 534089.

Let the fun begin!