voice through play - and enable others to learn about them. Class
teacher Jay Ramsey shares his setting's experience
At St Werburgh's Park Nursery School, Bristol, we view 'Story Square' as a powerful method of storytelling, with the potential to give every child a voice and to enable children to listen to each other.
Story Square - or Helicopter Stories, or Story Telling and Story Acting - is based on the pioneering and inspirational work of Vivian Gussin Paley. Very simply, it involves listening to children and writing down their stories in their own words, followed by facilitating the acting out of the stories with the children.
Paley developed the approach over many years of intense observation, practice, reflection and structural adjustment. What she has achieved stands as a beacon of good practice and an invitation for us all to allow children to benefit from her profound insights.
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