Teachers, Educators and Stage Co-ordinators,
Welcome to my enchanted world! I utilise the art of storytelling and performance to offer ‘edu-tainment’, literature-based incursions.
I have a number of incursions that complement the Australian School Curriculum; namely:
‘Fairytale Education’ – An incursion that turns your students into ‘fairytale superstars’, gaining fairytale comprehensive knowledge and appreciation! Full elucidation – see below.
Book Week/Books Are Magical – A session that reinforces the magic of books and … your students will be taken away from the everyday and meet characters not in our every day! Plus, your students will wind down with ‘The Children Who Loved Books’ story, reinforcing the accessibility to books regardless of money via the most magical place in the world – libraries! Full elucidation – see below.
Harmony Day – A session that celebrates the notion of ‘living in harmony’ and celebrating difference! See below for full elucidation.
Fairytale Education: This fairytale education session includes a dynamic retelling of ‘Goldilocks’, subsequent to students learning the precise definition of the fairytale, its enduring magic and a reflection on why we still need fairytales. Further, students will become part of Fairy Poppilina’s dynamic Goldilocks’ re-telling, dancing the porridge song, marching through the forest like the three bears and using their range of ‘bear voices’, allowing students to explore voice and movement, learn about focus, identify the main idea of this fairytale and learn how ideas can be expressed through role and story. For students studying the ‘fractured fairytale’, there is an optional extra of its explanation and a retelling of ‘Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians’ and also Goldie Rocks such wonderful fractured versions of this classic fairytale! ” This week our school had a visit from Fairy Poppilina to give a magical storytelling reproduction of the fairytale ‘Goldilocks’. Thank you, Fairy Poppilina, for coming out to see us. Everyone had a wonderful time and enjoyed your story (retelling) very much!” Cindy Cropper – Faith Lutheran
Book Week: What better way to add to the celebrations than with a visit from the Book Fairy, Fairy Poppilina? Allow Fairy Poppilina to take your students on a magical odyssey of stories and literary fun, where imagination meets pithy messages and a true appreciation of stories is achieved! The focus is on how stories offer us so many different worlds we can inhabit by opening a book. The session includes an extraneous retelling of ‘The Journey Home’ by Alison Lester (where your students will marvel at meeting many imaginative characters and partaking in many interactive elements, including dancing with a mermaid). There is the inescapable seduction of deep thought (and answers) to questions, such as, how can we make ourselves glad when we feel sad? The literary fun doesn’t stop there! Fairy Poppilina presents another enthralling story where your students will learn the definition of spoilt and meet a debonair dragon in the retelling of ‘Never Say No To A Princess’ by Tracy Corderoy, a story of redemption. Option to swap this for ‘Thelma The Unicorn’ by Aaron Blabey if preferred. The session concludes with a quiet wind down story, ‘The Children Who Loved Books’ by Peter Carnavas exemplifying the accessibility of books, no matter how rich or poor we are due to the existence of libraries. Fairy Poppilina’s Book Week BUMPER story session is a wonderful homage to everything books give us.
Harmony Day: Your students will first learn the definition of harmony with Fairy Poppilina’s personally written catchy tune! “Harmony is a great way to be! It means nobody’s right and nobody’s wrong, we just get along and we all belong!” Then, your students will be taken on a magical odyssey to the four corners of the world. When they fly north, they will don their imaginary winter coats and be offered smoked herring and trout and dance around a Christmas tree (as is the custom in Scandinavia). When they fly south, they will wipe their brows and bang their drums – it is Africa! When they fly east, they will bow, eat with chopsticks and scare bad spirits away with a growl (in accordance with Eastern customs). When they fly west, they will end up in Mexico and catch a sombrero (and learn the Spanish word for hat). The benefits of harmony will subsequently be reinforced (accepting all the differences of other nations and living in harmony is enriching). Then, Fairy Poppilina segues to the story of Charlie Parsley and Pearl Barley by Aaron Blabey by offering the children a paper sheet with these two vastly different book characters. The children are invited to later colour it in. Fairy Poppilina concludes the session with this lovely story of opposites getting along.
International Fairy Day – 24 June .. I know, I know! There is an actual International Fairy Day and why not celebrate with a visit from Fairy Poppilina with magical stories, movement, imaginative activities and more?
INCURSION COST: $8 per student or $450 minimum (whichever is greater) plus travel fee if outside Sydney / Brisbane CBD.
The session is 50 minutes (plus 40 minutes set up and 40 minutes pack up time).
Fairy Poppilina is also found on the ‘findschoolworkshop’ website.
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The Fairy ‘Fineprint’
Session duration is approximately 50 minutes
Maximum number of students per session – 45 (1.5 classes or 1 class)
Fairy Poppilina is able to provide up to three sessions in a day
Fairy Poppilina sets up in one spot for her visit – no moving between classrooms, just one room for the entirety of her time, due to props set up etc
Fairy Poppilina requires 45 minutes bump in and bump out.
