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    Quick, to the Museum !
    Christopher Jelley
    • Jan 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Quick, to the Museum !

    Over the coming weeks Storywalks at The Museum of Somerset in Taunton will get back underway, and we'll be kicking off with a tale in the gallery called 'The Moonlight Lifter' which I wrote last year during my Storywalks Museum Pilot Project supported by Arts Council England. Everything kicks off on Tuesday with years 5 and 6 from Dulverton of The Exmoor Federation. The first group will be with me at 10 am sharp and I'll pop them into 5 mixed ability groups and up to the Maki
    Word harvest time
    Christopher Jelley
    • Nov 23, 2016
    • 2 min

    Word harvest time

    Three summers in the making, six tins in the brewing, thousands of walkers and passerby, to create this new book of Exmoor Poetry.
    Very Cleever Kids
    Christopher Jelley
    • May 23, 2016
    • 2 min

    Very Cleever Kids

    Recently I was invited to Storywalk with Old Cleeve school in Somerset which was really rewarding. The school is part of the first school system so children move on after yr 4, and for me it made sense to work from the eldest first. So on day one yr 4 and I enjoyed a Storywalk called 'The Forest Tree King' which is a great little tale with repeating internal form. When back in the class, the pupils rewrote the story elements, after a creative literacy workshop, and then typed
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