About Travels With Granddad
Granddad is an interactive storytelling project using puppets for Year One children, created by Pickled Image and Toby Hulse with the financial support of Arts Council England.
Children meet a loveable adventurer in his tent of weird and wonderful souvenirs, and over the course of a half day make stories inspired by the things that they discover.
The project is designed to stimulate and provoke young children’s imaginations, develop their verbal storytelling and stretch their investigative skills. ‘Granddad’ arrives in the school with no prepared history – not even a name – and his character and life are created anew every day in response to the children he meets. His job is to encourage, inspire and validate, by the simple trick of saying ‘Yes’ to as many ideas as possible.
The project is accompanied by a half day’s training for teachers looking at using imaginative and creative play with the children, and new approaches to capturing and evaluating young people’s work in schools.
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- Four Acres Primary
- Gay Elms Primary
- St Pius X Primary
- Fair Furlong Primary
- Hareclive Primary
- Bridge Learning Campus
- Wansdyke Primary
- Bridge Farm Primary
- Henbury Court Primary
- Blaise Primary
- Brentry Primary
- Little Mead Primary
- Fonthill Primary
- Westbury-on-Trym Primary
- Badock's Wood Primary
- St Teresa's RC Primary
- Horfield CE Primary
- Filton Avenue Primary
- Oldbury Court Primary
- St Matthias & Dr Bell's Primary
- Two Mile Hill Infants
- Other Schools
This project is supported by Arts Council England - Grants for the Arts
Granddad's Further Adventures
The Arts Council funded project has been so successful that a new range of activities, including performances for the whole school and INSET training for staff, are now available. Contact us for details and a price list.
