Storytelling Mural- planning and design

I'm currently working at High Oakham Primary school in Mansfield on a project with the Mighty Creatives. The school has asked if I could transform a wall in the playground into something which encourages storytelling during playtime.

I meet with the group of year 5's and came up with a plan...

It turns out that I had meet the same group 3 years ago when they were in year 2 and worked with them as part of a literacy day based around the book "Where the wild things are", where the group made words trees.

We decided to build on this idea and came up with the plan to paint a word tree on to the school wall. On the word tree would be words choosen by the class that fell into four categories, characters, settings, a happening and a genre. These would be the starting point for story telling. On the wall we would also have a blackboard to write stories and a backdrop for acting stories out in front off.

We were all happy with the idea so the next step was to get designing.

We started getting our imaginations working by thinking of ways to change our fingerprints into pictures.

We then went out and looked at the wall and started drawing designs for each section of the Mural.

I then went away and drew the ideas into a plan

next week we start painting.