Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to teach with this week's Epic Tale for fun and effective learning.This week's tale is an Indian folk tale set in the heart of the jungle. To discuss the many Learning Outcomes in the story – from biomes to potato printing – Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS-KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Kelly, a former KS2 teacher from Cambridgeshire; and Janina, a storyteller and mum.Find the story at epictales.co.uk/story/jungleWe'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! By sharing your thoughts, you'll help others find our podcast – and help more children enjoy the benefits of a relaxed but stimulating learning environment – so please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a Learning Outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Chip & Korky: Cracklin' Capers copyright © 2021 Chip Colquhoun and Korky Paul.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out Learning Outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.We're kicking off Season 3 with style! Korky Paul has joined the Epic Illustrating team, and has launched our first Epic Tale of 2021 with vibrant scenes of an underwater kingdom. To discuss the many Learning Outcomes in the story – from anime to Venn diagrams – Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS-KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Ben, a headteacher and charity CEO.Find the story at epictales.co.uk/story/urashimaWe'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Chip & Korky: Cracklin' Capers copyright © 2021 Chip Colquhoun and Korky Paul.

The Epic Learning Podcast is back for a third season... and with a very special and magical addition to the team!In this bonus episode, Epic Storyteller Chip Colquhoun lets you know what's in store – and how you can access a very special free gift* just for listening to this podcast...For further info and to access your free gift, start at epictales.co.uk/learning*Purchase necessary. Subject to availability. Offer is limited to the first 400 subscribers to purchase an Epic Educator subscription.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out Learning Outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.In the UK, the first week of December is National Grief Awareness Week, and in the year of 2020 it's perhaps even more important to discuss themes of loss with your young learners. There is no better way in than the gorgeous Hindu tale of "Yami and Yama" – which will also help them master concepts such as volume, -er and -est suffixes, and more.To discuss this week's tale, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS-KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Laura, a headteacher for an International School in Lanzarote.We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] glass illustration: Dave Hingley.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.We combine our celebrations of World Singing Day and Halloween with a Rock'n'Roll take on a class fairy tale. Discover how the tribulations of Hamelin can help your children conquer positional language, prejudice, and more!This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS–KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.TIMECODESIntros | 0:00"The Spooky Strummer" Excerpt | 2:38Learning OutcomesAll-age PSHCE: stranger danger; discussing scary topics in a safe way; cyber-bullying (8:25) | paying debts; treating others fairly (13:19) | getting carried away (18:41)4–5yrs DT, Drama, Art, Music and PE: expressive art and design; dance; loud and soft; high and low; vocal expression; percussion; rhythm; making rat headbands; cutting and sticking (19:32)4–7yrs Literacy, Numeracy, Science, DT, Drama and PSHCE: "Mantle of the Expert"; counting; estimation; arranging; counting in groups; designing and making rat traps; materials (23:21)4–7yrs Science and PSHCE: humane control of pests; materials; what animals like to eat; carnivores, herbivores, omnivores; looking after pets (25:11)4–7yrs Literacy, Geography and PSHCE: Lauren Child's "That Pesky Rat"; "Don't judge a book by its cover"; prejudice; maps; writing adverts (30:33)7–9yrs DT and Music: music genres; changing musical genres; pitch; rhythm; volume; pace and tempo; musical performance; changing musical instruments; designing and making instruments (31:20)7–9yrs Numeracy and ICT: positional, movement, and directional vocabulary; coding; algorithms; Scratch; Turtle (35:47)7–9yrs Literacy, Science, History and RE: habitats; differences between animals and humans; fact files; Plagues of Egypt; adapting to your environment; changing through the ages; Stone Age; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" (37:18)7–9yrs Literacy and Music: poetry; changing verses; intonation; tone; volume; action; looking for evidence; types of poem; innovating (40:24)7–9yrs Literacy, Geography and Foreign Languages: locating countries and continents; Germany; differences between countries and towns; tourism posters; German (42:22)9–11yrs Literacy: what happens next?; survival guides; changing genres; Halloween; classic fairy tales (43:29)7–11yrs Numeracy: money; open-ended investigations (44:47)7–11yrs History, Music and PSHCE: the plague; Blues music and musicians; respecting other people's opinions; changing musical genres (45:41)We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] glass illustration: Dave Hingley.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

1st Oct 2020 is National Poetry Day! To celebrate, the Oxford Owl's "Traditional Tales" storytellers have co-written a truly Epic poem – starring several fairy tale favourites. How many can you spot and/or recognise?Written by Amy Robinson and Chip Colquhoun; read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk) and Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com)Illustration by Heather Zeta Rose.For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including numeracy and PE, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun and Amy Robinson 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose 2021.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.A wide range of common fairy tale favourites including "Goldilocks" and "Beauty and the Beast" are collected in verse to mark National Poetry Day. Discover how his poem can help your children conquer onomatopoeia, changing materials, and much more!This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS–KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.Find full contents at epictales.co.uk/story/forestpoemTIMECODESIntros | 0:00"Through the Forest" Excerpt | 1:25All-age Learning Outcomes• Literacy: Alfred Noyes "Sherwood"; Robin Hood; inferring from the text; King Arthur (3:17) presenting stories in different formats; dramatising; Anthony Brown's "Into the Forest"; storyboarding; new vocabulary; sound walks; poetry treasure hunts; thinking about your audience; hot seating; guessing games; Twenty Questions (43:04)• PSHCE: inclusion; sharing stories; where stories come from (9:21) | Chris Judge's "The Lonely Beast"; how we perceive ourselves and others (44:30)• Numeracy, Science, Art: Nick Sharratt's "The Foggy Foggy Forest"; shadows; measuring; shadow puppets (35:16)Learning outcomes for ages 4–7• Science, Geography, Art: maps; tree identification (10:37)• Core, PSHCE: problem-solving; Janet & Allan Ahlberg's "The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters" (14:07)• History and Art: medieval times; "Take One Picture"; differences between now and then; the way people lived (14:52)• Literacy: new vocabulary; repeated phrases; onomatopoeia (15:50) | common fairy tales; characters and motivations (25:29)• Music: rhythm; pulse (19:38)• Numeracy, Geography, PE: positional language; following directions; marking a trail; maps; orienteering; your local area (20:48)• DT: designing & making a gingerbread house; working to a brief; joining things; building; evaluating (21:47)• Art: drawing characters; shading; texture; art techniques (22:35)• Numeracy, Science, DT: capacity; recipes; changing materials (24:28)• Art, PSHCE: describing personalities; drawing characters (27:24)• 6–9yrs Science: parts of a flower (32:00)Learning outcomes for ages 7–11• 7–9yrs Literacy: writing poems and verses; fast poems; repeated phrases (32:32) | Kennings; riddles; decoding texts (37:19)• 7–9yrs DT, Art: JK Rowling's "Harry Potter"; creating a forest (37:38)• 7–9yrs History: Ancient Greece; myths & legends; adapting settings (40:09)• 7–9yrs Modern Foreign Languages: introducing French, German and/or Italian; comparing cultures (40:26)• 7–11yrs Literacy: newspaper reports (45:06)• 9–11yrs ICT, DT, Art: animation; LEGO; design & building (45:51)We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] glass illustration: Dave Hingley.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun and Amy Robinson 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

Join 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, an EYFS–KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.Together the panel discuss an ancient tale with surprisingly modern relevance; that of the woodcutter who overheats the world with his magical wishes. Discover how his story can help your children conquer classification charts, persuasive writing, differences between continents, and much more!TIMECODESIntros | 0:00"The Woodcutter's Golden Wand" Excerpt | 1:25All-age PSHCE | 4:14• caring for the environment, Forest Schools (5:31, 7:08, 11:06, 12:57, 15:25, 35:46, 41:18)• be careful what you wish for, you can't always get what you want, greed, selfishness, laziness, "Bruce Almighty" (8:24)• different roles, playing our part, every child matters (11:06)• consequences of actions, custodianship, taking turns (18:28)• mindfulness, mindful thinking (37:52)Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 14:00• Science: naming familiar plants, uses of wood, materials (14:25, 16:06); animals and habitats, ecosystems, minibeasts (24:18); natural materials (20:44)• DT: carpentry, woodwork (15:25)• Literacy: dialogue, speech bubbles, persuasive language (16:06); retelling stories, adapting settings (17:34); interpreting texts, searching for clues in texts, descriptive writing (20:44)• Geography: local area, local wildlife, maps (17:34); holiday destinations, different countries, hot and cold countries, climates (25:22)• DT: natural materials (20:44)Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 25:51• Literacy: punctuating speech, writing conversations, writing plays (26:04); persuasive writing, "Three Billy Goats Gruff" ( 27:19); newspaper articles, report writing, interpreting texts, inferring from texts 28:54)• Numeracy: "Top Trump" cards (27:57)• Science: trees (27:57, 30:29, 35:46); classification charts, materials, research projects (30:29, 34:21); Global Warming (35:46)• Geography: maps, differences between continents and countries (30:29); Amazon Rainforest (35:46)• DT: making games (27:57); uses of wood (30:29, 34:21); building a bird house (32:29)• History: Iron Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age (34:21)All-age learning outcomes | 38:28• Science: habitats, food chains, environmental impact, circle of life, caring for the natural world (7:08, 11:06, 12:57, 41:18)• DT and Geography: making board games based on your local area (18:28)• Numeracy: counting forwards and backwards (18:28); statistics, charts, data collecting (32:29)• Art: different media (35:22); natural media, representing nature, clay (40:29)• PE: conkers (39:21)We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected] a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] glass illustration: Dave Hingley.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

 Join 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; Bex, teaching ages 6 to 8; and Rob and Laura, teaching ages 7 to 11. Together they discuss the curriculum links within the entire canon of stories from the Kingdom 1000 series, marking the 1,000th anniversary of England's first equality law. Discover how to help your children conquer book making, leadership, farming... and much more!All-age PSHCE | 3:29• different sides to the same people (7:41, 24:29)• everyone can make good/bad choices, "you are not your mistakes" (8:34)• inclusion, better together, appreciation for other cultures (9:28, 24:29)• leadership, greatness, positive attributes, power & responsibility, honesty, listening & understanding each other (10:11, 38:08, 41:04, 50:07)• multiple perspectives in a story (14:07, 33:58, 59:52)• careful what you say (15:13)• role models, explaining emotions (16:15, 18:19, 20:31, 51:08, 52:35)• coping with loss (16:52, 52:35)• connecting feelings-behaviours-emotions (19:48, 52:35)• wants v needs (38:08)• generosity (44:17)Learning outcomes from all the stories (inc."Eel Catcher's Daughter")• History – timelines (29:28, 39:49)• Science – survival needs, farming (38:08)• Core – working with EAL pupils (39:49)...from "Bede" | 22:27• DT – book-making• History – early books• Core – monks• Literacy – diary writing...from "The Defence of Chester" | 25:51• Core – problem-solving• History – historical cities• DT – design• Georgraphy – maps• Literacy – instruction writing; subordinate clauses...from "Alfred and the Cakes" | 28:02• Core – spies, research• Literacy – writing job descriptions, persuasive writing, poetry, Shakespeare...from "Queen Emma" | 31:54• Literacy – diary writing• PE – obstacle courses• DT – food planning• Numeracy – budgeting• Science – rates of cooling, pressure, surface area..."The St Brice's Day Massacre" | 33:55• Literacy – different perspectives• History – different perspectives; WWI; WWII...from "Knut & the Waves" | 41:04• Literacy – application forms, letter writing• Core – problem-solving...from "The Golden Apple" | 44:17• Literacy – drama into writing• Art – clay• Music – "Love is like a magic penny"...from "Blessed for Success" | 46:20• Geography - maps, comparing places• Numeracy – measuring distances, time, units of measurement• Literacy – diary writing, time connectives, writing instructions• Core – problem-solving...from "Wipe Out" | 51:08• Literacy – persuasive writing, writing feelings, metaphorical writing• Drama – hot-seating...from "Edwy & Elfgifu" | 52:35• Literacy – emotional adjectives, thought tracking, persuasive writing• Drama – hot-seating• History – young kings, Danegeld• Numeracy – currency, monetary valueAll-age creative ideas | 56:00• Music – Anglo-Saxon Eurovision, instrument making • Science – botany• Art – bushcraft; stained glass windows; tapestry• Literacy – storytelling days; book-makingWe'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app.Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected] glass illustration: Dave Hingley.This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Stories all copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021., except "A Not Very Nice Story" copyright © Chip Colquhoun and Amy Robinson 2021. Illustration c

We 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 story is read by Chip Colquhoun, who first adapted the tale from an East Anglian folk tale for his book Who Made England?Illustration by Heather Zeta Rose and Erica Terry-Rose.For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Further storytelling and learning resources—including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children—can be found at epictales.co.ukAfter you've listened to this podcast, please leave us a review—we'd love to know what you think!This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose and Erica Terry-Rose 2021.