In celebration of National Share a Story Month (NSSM) this May, we arranged several storytelling sessions at primary schools close to a selection of our Harron Homes developments.
Encouraging primary school children to engage with the pleasures of reading and storytelling, National Share a Story Month is an annual event held nationwide in celebration of the power and pleasures of sharing and creating stories.
Celebrated and innovative storyteller and illustrator Mark Fraser delivered the storytelling sessions to pupils across a range of ages from different schools across the North Midlands and South Yorkshire regions.
Dunsville Primary School in Doncaster, located near our Wyndthorpe Chase development, saw the first set of stories delivered. Mark wove tales of home and hearth and belonging, engaging the school’s year 5 and 6 pupils who had just completed their SATs exams.
At Bilsthorpe Flying High Academy, near our Bilsthorpe Chase development, Mark delivered another set of entertaining and imaginative stories, replete with fun props and a lot of interaction from the pupils themselves. Over the course of the day Mark told a variety of fun-filled stories to pupils from years 3, 4 and 5.
Wickersley Northfield Primary School, near The Paddocks, was the final school to have a storytelling session. The year 2 pupils were enraptured by Mark’s mixture of handmade props, paintings and adaptations of centuries-old stories ranging from Cinderella to Rumplestiltskin.
The NSSM initiative aims to bring children and stories together, selecting each year a unique theme that children and book-lovers alike can explore.
This year’s theme is ‘Belonging’, a theme that is key to all of us at Harron Homes, where we pride ourselves on our ability to establish vibrant and neighbourly communities where residents find the right house for them and their family in a development they can truly call home.
Robert Clubbe, Marketing Coordinator at Harron Homes, said: “It’s a wonderful occasion and it was great to see the kids getting swept away by Mark’s storytelling. Belonging is something really key to our company and we’re delighted to be able to give something back to the schools close to our developments.”
“Some of our residents’ children attend these schools, and we hope new residents’ children will do so too: the schools are close to the developments, so we view these places as very much a part of the Harron Homes community.”