Teachers, Educators and Stage Co-ordinators,
Welcome to my enchanted world! I utilise the art of storytelling and performance to offer ‘edu-tainment’, literarture-based incursions.
I have a number of incursions that complement the Australian School Curriculum; namely:
‘Fairytale Education’, – See my flyer ON INVITATIONS & FLYERS Tab
Book Week/Let’s Go On Story Adventures
Magical Storytelling Workshop
What Makes You AwesoME? – How To Add To Your Own AwesoMEness + Spin Adversity Into Gold! A PDHP-Story-Based Session
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. 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. There are so many allegorical elements and your students will be encouraged to think of ways to turn from ’sad to glad’, ponder on whether helping out is fun, what is the allure of home? Fairy Poppilina’s Book Week BUMPER story session is a wonderful homage to everything books give us.
Magical Storytelling Workshop: This session commences with Fairy Poppilina’s extraneous retelling of the story, ‘The Journey Home’ by Alison Lester – where a boy and girl jump through a hole and end up meeting an array of magical characters during their journey home. Upon conclusion of the story, Fairy Poppilina ‘casts the storytelling spell’ and encourages your students to: 1. Choose one of the magical characters featured in the story (Santa, Pirate Pete, Prince and Princess Politeness, Seafoam-the-Mermaid or Twinkle-the-Fairy (this will be the setting of their stories), 2. Base their story on the chosen magical character completing a chore (shopping, taking a bus, cleaning their home, feeding their pets) OR refer to the story and build on the characters’ chance meetings with a magical character AND then add in a problem (the event/conflict of their stories). This is where opportunities that inspire your students to explore and interact are created, bringing their stories to life! It is also where small invitations based on the students’ interests become so valuable, where your students can settle comfortably to tell their own stories and play around with ideas; essentially throwing those magic beans out the window and leaving them there for the students to discover and explore the beanstalk themselves! 4. Finish with a solution/resolution. All good stories must come to an end and this is usually the most challenging part. Students are easily able to choose their magical character and an event (a chore or further development of the meeting of a magical character) and even create a problem for their character but often leap from problem to problem rather than reaching a conclusion. This is the point where open-ended questions are of great assistance and encourage students to wonder aloud to support them in finding their endings and solutions.
By giving children room to be their own narrators of their very own stories – to engage, retell, explore and develop stories – we give them the power to create their own storytelling magic! Children are the greatest, most creative and inventive authors/storytellers.
Your students will be given a guided form to assist with their story creations. Opportunities to present to the class or other students.
What Makes You AwesoME? Adding To Your AwesoMEness + Spinning Adversity Into Gold! This session commences with the question, “What makes you awesoME?”. Fairy Poppilina then leads into the introduction of two AWESOME book characters from the stories ‘Dogs Don’t Do Ballet’ by Anna Kemp and ‘Noah Dreary’ by Aaron Blabey. Your students will discover what makes these book characters awesoME and discuss personal qualities such as resilience (self-reflection and an ability to rise up after adversity); remaining focused on one’s dream despite the naysayers, It is a session that will leave your students with lots of food for thought (and soul) and, yes, add to their awesoMEness!
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 some magical storytelling, dancing, imaginative activities and more?
INCURSION COST: $8 per student or $450 minimum (whichever is greater). 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.
