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Robin Sharples : Stories for schools
- Storyteller

 

"When Robin told his tale he threw a shaft of quicksilver light over it and made us quiver and shiver..."
Di Stubbs - Beckford Village hall Audience

 

British Folklore and tradition is replete with dragons

  • meet the heroes who fight the dragons;
  • explore the ways in which dragons are used as symbols for evil or consequences of wrong actions;
  • find out what has happened to the dragons - have they simply disappeared?
  • enrich ways of representing dragons in expressive arts through music, lamguage, drama ...

Spend a day with dragons

 

Workshop Activities:

Making monsters, using monsters and mythical creatures in stories
Music, dragon dances
Making Dragons - modelling and drawing...

Stories include:

Lambton Worm
Laidly Dragon
Mordiford Dragon
Laura and her recorder
St George...