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Epic Storytime: My Cake, Not Yours!
Epic Learning Podcast - September 07, 2020 15:00 - 18 minutesThe Epic Storytime Podcast is back! Be the first to hear the full stories begun each week at epictales.co.uk – read by fabulous voice actors from across the Interweb. Since 13th September is Roald Dahl Day, we're celebrating the iconic children's author with a folk tale from his home town of Gr...
Epic Learning: Start of year assessments, fractions, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - September 04, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher of ages 4–7 from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgesh...
Epic Learning #Kingdom1000: multiple perspectives, budgeting, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - July 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina are joined by a truly Epic panel of teachers: Helen, teaching ages 4 to 7...
Epic Learning #Kingdom1000: multiple perspectives, budgeting, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - July 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina are joined by a truly Epic panel of teachers: Helen, teaching ages 4 to 7...
Epic Storytime #Kingdom1000: The Golden Apple
Epic Learning Podcast - July 13, 2020 15:00 - 9 minutesWe continue to mark "Kingdom 1000" with an extra medieval folk tale special to Epic Tales. King Edmund returns from battle with the most precious of treasures: a gold apple that promises good luck—but only if you give it away to the person you love the most. So who should he give it to...? The ...
Epic Storytime #Kingdom1000: The Eel Catcher's Daughter
Epic Learning Podcast - July 06, 2020 15:00 - 14 minutesIt's an extra special Epic Tale this week. 2020 is the year of "Kingdom 1000"—celebrating 1,000 years of inclusion and human rights in the UK. And in this Epic Storytime podcast, Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com) reads the story that started it all. This story was first adapted from an East ...
Epic Learning #Kingdom1000: inclusion, Vikings, time, and more
Epic Learning Podcast - July 06, 2020 15:00 - 55 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Amy (also an Epic mum!) are joined by two teachers from Milton Keynes: Helen, wh...
Epic Learning: prejudice, designing to purpose, positional language, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - June 29, 2020 15:00 - 53 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes specialising in children aged 4 to 7...
Epic Storytime: The Three Sillies
Epic Learning Podcast - June 29, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutesIn this classic European folk tale, a handsome young man gets engaged to a beautiful young woman. But that's only the start—and it all goes horribly wrong when the handsome man discovers that his fiancée and her parents aren't very sensible... Adapted from the traditional folk tale by Chip Colq...
Epic Storytime: Ug, Bug, and Dug
Epic Learning Podcast - June 22, 2020 15:00 - 24 minutesSpecial guest storyteller and puppeteer Andy Lawrence from Theatre of Widdershins provides this week's brand new tale. For the cave people of the Oogadugga Oogadugga Oogadugga clan, Stone Age life is comfortable—while the fire keeps going. The fire going out would be a disaster, as none of them ...
Epic Learning: the Stone Age, measurement, persuasive writing, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - June 22, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities.This week we're joined by expert puppeteer Andy Lawrence from Theatre of Widdershins, who shared his original story set i...
Epic Learning Back to School Special: Covid-19 Edition
Epic Learning Podcast - June 08, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutesIt's our Covid-19 Special: as children return to schools with new social distancing rules, we discuss how to help them explore the complex issues at play—both practical and emotional—using two African folk tales: "The Distant Fire" and "The Twins and the Ogre". Epic storyteller Chip is joined ...
Epic Storytime: The Distant Fire
Epic Learning Podcast - June 08, 2020 15:00 - 19 minutesTo pay a doctor to care for his sick mother, 6-year-old Abel accepts a challenge to spend a night atop a mountain with no shirt or fire to keep him warm. Will the distant support of his friend Hakim help him win the prize? In this "Back to School Special: Covid-19 Edition", let your young learn...
Epic Storytime: Brave Mary
Epic Learning Podcast - June 01, 2020 15:00 - 20 minutesA farmer is willing to bet his last penny that his daughter Mary is braver than anyone. A challenge is set to explore the graveyard at night — but even the farmer has no idea where this quest will take his daughter... Let your children enjoy this week's playfully eerie Epic, based on a folk tal...
Epic Learning: Overcoming fear, budgeting, materials, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - June 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Pauline (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes spec...
Epic Learning: Rhyme, coding, designing and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - May 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Amy (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes speciali...
Epic Storytime: The Potion of Poetry
Epic Learning Podcast - May 25, 2020 15:00 - 18 minutesThe Viking gods decide it's time to invent stories, and mix a potion of poetry to share with the world. But when it's stolen, the god Odin finds himself up against a troll who now has the power of the imagination... Let your children follow Odin's quest in this week's Epic, based on a Norse leg...
Epic Storytime: Sir Fulladred and the Dragon's Heart
Epic Learning Podcast - May 18, 2020 15:00 - 22 minutesTo become strong, clever, and brave, the only thing Sir Fulladred needs is to eat a dragon's heart. But since he's weak, silly, and fearful, he only stands a chance against the cat-sized Yu Dragon – or does he? Let your children find out in this hilarious and exciting Epic, based on a folk tale ...
Epic Learning: Expanded noun phrases, symbolism, fractions, and more
Epic Learning Podcast - May 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Amy (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes speciali...
Epic Learning: Division, anti-bullying, punctuation, and more
Epic Learning Podcast - May 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Erika (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, a teacher from Milton Keynes specia...
Epic Storytime: Merchant Ali and the 40 Brigands
Epic Learning Podcast - May 11, 2020 15:00 - 22 minutesIn the land once called Persia, you wouldn't want to go through the forest – but Merchant Ali has no choice. Let your children find out what happens to him in our version of this famous Grecian-Arabian tale! "Merchant Ali and the 40 Brigands" was adapted by Chip Colquhoun, and is performed by E...
Epic Storytime: Fish in the Forest
Epic Learning Podcast - May 04, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutesWhat's the best way to keep an incredible secret? How about turning it into an impossible one?! Let your children find out how in this tummy-tickling Russian folk tale. "Fish in the Forest" was adapted from a Russian folk tale by Janina Vigurs, and is performed by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderso...
Epic Learning: Overcoming "blank page" fear, archaeology, and more
Epic Learning Podcast - May 04, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, an EYFS and KS1 teacher from Milto...
Epic Learning: Geographical features, recognising emotions, and more
Epic Learning Podcast - April 27, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Epic voice artist Erika Sanderson (also an Epic mum!) as well as Helen, an...
Epic Storytime | Muddled Jack
Epic Learning Podcast - April 27, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutesWhen Jack gets his first job, everything is going perfectly – until he's given a silver coin. So begins a string of disasters – but how will they end? Find out in this fun adaptation of a traditional tale brought to us by Aberdonian storyteller Pauline Cordiner! "Muddled Jack" was adapted from ...
Epic Storytime | Persephone
Epic Learning Podcast - April 20, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutesPersephone has a once in a lifetime opportunity to become a queen! It's just a shame her mother isn't around to see it. And since her mother is the bringing of rain, Persephone's decision to leave could cause a disaster for the world... "The Dance of Persephone" was adapted from the Ancient Gre...
Epic Learning: Responsibility, geometry, mindfulness and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - April 20, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, an EYFS and KS1 teacher from Milto...
Epic Learning | Responsibility, geometry, mindfulness and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - April 20, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with fun and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, an EYFS and KS1 teacher from Milton Keyn...
Epic Storytime | Anansi's Quest of Quests
Epic Learning Podcast - April 13, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutesCan you believe there was once a time when there were no stories in this world? Anansi the spider was the first to ask the Sky God Nyambe to share them with the world – but could he alone rise up to the challenges set to him? "Anansi's Quest of Quests" was adapted from an African Ashanti folk ...
Epic Learning | Story structure, pivots & levers, and more!
Epic Learning Podcast - April 13, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutesJoin Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out curriculum links from this week's Epic Storytime podcast with easy, fun, and engaging activities. This week, Epic storytellers Chip and Janina (also an Epic mum!) are joined by Helen, an EYFS and KS1 teacher from Milto...
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