Nottingham Contemporary Schools of Tomorrow
To encourage and explore imaginative storytelling, writer Peter Rumney and Early Years teacher, Sarah Davie worked with the Early Years staff, parents/carers and children at Melbury Primary School to produce this delightful publication I'm going to tell you a story. The focus is using everyday objects to create, draw and tell a story. Through play, drawing, and bringing objects to life, the book helps parents/carers to grow stories at home with their children, and develop the infinite, vivid possibilities of the imagination.
To encourage and explore imaginative storytelling, writer Peter Rumney and Early Years teacher, Sarah Davie worked with the Early Years staff, parents/carers and children at Melbury Primary School to produce this delightful publication I'm going to tell you a story.
The focus is using everyday objects to create, draw and tell a story. Through play, drawing, and bringing objects to life, the book helps parents/carers to grow stories at home with their children, and develop the infinite, vivid possibilities of the imagination.
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I’m going
to tell you
a story...
using things I found at home
Schools of Tomorrow 2019 – 23
Nottingham Contemporary and
Melbury Primary School Nursery
“Look what I found!”
“What could they become?”
“What stories could we tell?”
“I can
make
a story
from
“Yes, I’ll be
your friend…
Hugs!”
“She says
‘Will you be
my friend?”
anything”
“Ooh…Bright
and shiny!”…
“It’s prickly!”
“An Upside Down
Hedgehog!”
“Is it a Mouse?”
“Or a Creepy Crawly!”
“Let’s take it
for a walk…”
“A Caterpillar ate
all the flowers...”
“Once there was a
beautiful garden...”
“Just one
flower left!”
What
happened
next?
“It’s wiggling
like a Snake
in my hands”
“What’s
this?”
“I’m a
Princess
fighting
a Snake!”
“What’s that?”
“She’s a Princess in a big dress”
“Look out Princess!”
“I’m coming
to get you!”
The Ssssssnake
ssssssslithers
away into
the foresssssst
Back in your
box Snakee...
“Look!
A Crocodile
waking up…”
“Where’s my
breakfast?!”
“A little Bird sits on
the Crocodile’s nose”
“A Butterfly
goes past”
“But I want
my breakfast!
Roaaar!!!”
“Follow me Bird’,
says the Butterfly.
They fly away.”
“I’m full up now”,
says the Crocodile.
“Time for sleep”…
“Our mouths
tell stories...
let’s get them
moving…”
“bleh,
bleh,
Bleh!”
“Aaaaah!”
“Mmmmmm!”
“Eeeee!”
“Sssssssss!”
“O!”
“Meeeeow!
There was
a Cat...”
“I can use my
“A Horse...”
hands to tell
a story…”
“A Dragon?!...”
“Is it a Snail?...”
“A Bird? Bat?...”
“A Butterfly?...”
“What are the feelings
in my story?”
“I feel Sick” “Sad”
“Angry!”
“Happy”
“I can use anything
to show my feelings”
“What’s this?
A Hat? A Flower?
A Rain Cloud?
A Thunderstorm?”
“Let’s tell
some more
“I’m a Pirate!”
stories…”
“There was thunder
and lightning…
I fell in the sea...”
“Do you like my
Pirate Wig?”
“My Wig
floated away…”
“An Octopus
saved me from
a Shark”
“...and
swam away”
“Back on
my Boat…
what can I see?”
“What’s
this?”
“A Rocket to
the Moon?”
“A Giraffe
reaching for
leaves...
or
a lonely
Firework?”
a Flower?...
“You’re a
Firework too!”
“What happens
next?”
“Let’s Woosh
together!”
Acknowledgements:
This book was created for Schools of Tomorrow by Peter Rumney
(Associate Artist, Learning Team, Nottingham Contemporary) and
Sarah Davie (Head of Early Years, Melbury Primary School and Nursery,
Bilborough Nottingham).
Our thanks to the Early Years staff, children and parents of Melbury
Primary School; Lisa Jacques, Amanda Spruyt, Sandra Austerfield
and the Learning Team at Nottingham Contemporary.
Photography by Catherine Masters, Peter Rumney and Morgan Stockton.
Book design by Peter Duffy.
Schools of Tomorrow at Nottingham Contemporary
is a Paul Hamlyn Foundation programme
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