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BPEC has responded to a local authority request for post-inspection support and guidance.
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BPEC has worked with Elm Grove School and Cottesmore St. Mary's Catholic school.
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BPEC has worked with West Sussex Healthy Schools / Citizenship team.
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Enchanting Tales from BPEC’s Storytelling Festival BPEC has been organising a Storytelling Festival supported by the London and South East Regions - Global Dimension and Brighton and Hove City Council. Using lively and exciting South East artists from different ethnic backgrounds, it has worked with six Primary Schools in the Brighton and Hove area, focusing on oral traditions which are relevant to speaking and listening targets on the new Primary Strategy Framework.

The Festival started off at Carden Primary School with 'Spud and Yam' (Winston Nzinga and Kate Corkery), who draw with their name the similarities between two different types of potatoes, building a bridge between foreign concepts with something closer to home.

The classroom was brought to life as Winston played music in the background and Kate told stories packed with body gestures and different voices which were excitedly repeated by the children when they expected a punch line.

Captivating performances from Sujata Banerjee were the following instalment of the Festival, in Aldrington Primary School. Pupils enjoyed participating in her seamless routines of movement and dance, choreographed in a traditionally Indian style of expression and story telling through the body.

The excitement of the dancing was followed up with stories from across the planet and the children listened intently as Sujata relayed the tale of Krishna, the loveliest boy in the entire world. As she spoke of his battle against the evil snake Kaliyan, her spellbound audience was drawn into the story to such an extent that many of them were jumping with fear and some even took the occasional glance behind them (presumably checking for snakes)!

Most recently, St Mary’s Primary School invited St Peter's Community and Infant School to take part in an interactive storytelling performance from Surya Turner, who took the children on a journey to Jamaica, transforming them into the roles of the mischievous Anansi spider and the market woman whom he had stolen three dumplings from. The children danced and sang to Surya’s play, exploring rhythm with different instruments, and of course learning a valuable lesson– stealing dumplings doesn't pay!

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