“All the staff and children from Nursery to Year 2 had exciting storytelling sessions with Beth. The children thoroughly enjoyed the exciting tales, musical performances, and interactive parts of the session. This is the second time we’ve had Beth visit our school and on both occasions her sessions have been thoroughly enjoyed by all. Thank you Beth.”
Gemma KS1 Lead at Walton Holy Moorside Primary 2023
Beth has been bringing magical, immersive performances of traditional tales to schools, festivals, libraries, heritage sites, museums and special events for over 15 years.
With her magic box of wonder, Beth will conjure and co – create tales from all over the world using drama, props, song and artefacts tailored to your curriculum and each age groups interests.
Immersive, musical storytelling means you get to scratch for grain with little red hen, learn archery with Robin Hood, toast to Knights at the court of King Arthur, run through the enchanted woods of the Baba Yaga witch and sing songs with Irish giants and Welsh mermaids.
This is the perfect way to create community and a sense of togetherness at a school whilst fostering a love of the epic stories that form the bedrock of our literary heritage.
“What a fantastic story-telling session! Beth combined story, drama, music and sound effects to create a superb experience. The children particularly loved the audience participation and the teachers were also inspired to incorporate more drama into the classroom – thanks Beth!”
Hannah Woodward – Mundella School
“Beth included music, rhymes, refrains, role play and actions to engage the children in the stories. Children were inspired and their imaginations firing.”
Matt, Year 1 teacher Dore Primary September
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The yr 3/4 national curriculum requires ‘increasing familiarity with a wide range of books including fairy stories, myths and legends and retelling some of these orally’ (pg 35 2014) and there cannot be a more enjoyable way of doing this than though a live storytelling performance.
Storytelling can really enrich world culture, history or literacy topics and helps children become familiar with the traditional stories that have informed all our favourite writers!
Sessions include:
KS1 – Traditional Tales, Fabulous Folk and Fairy tales, Castles and Knights, Robin Hood Stories, Spring Celebration/Summer Solstice/Autumn feast/Winter Wonder tales, Story Train around the World, Celebration Stories (festivals around the world)
KS2 – Fantastical Folktales from Near and Far, Greek Myths, Viking Legends, Trickster Tales, Magical Creatures & Mythical Beasts, Earth Care and Wisdom Tales, Celebration stories, Seasonal Wonder Tales, Into the Unknown – Facing the Fear
Please enquire at bethstoryteller@gmail.com for more details of each session and if you have a specific topic you would like a session created for.
“Amazing! This was a really engaging workshop… 2 yr olds, nursery, reception and adults were all joining in and singing along. Beth had a really nice manner with the children.” Holly Brook Royd Nursery
Children at Flash Ley Primary said:’Beth was amazing, she could do all sorts of accents to make it funny.”She brought the stories to life.”Beth reminded me of Michael Rosen with how she did actions and voices to make the stories interesting.’
Below are my current prices 2026.
| Session | Prices (not inclusive of travel if outside of Sheffield) |
| One interactive storytelling session (up to 55 mins performance) | £145 |
| Half day Storytelling (up to 3 sessions 30-45 mins) or Storytelling plus workshop | £185 |
| Full day Storytelling (up to 5 sessions 30 – 45 mins) | £285 |
| Full day storytelling plus one hour teacher’s workshop on using oral storytelling in the curriculum for literacy | £345 |
* All schools local to Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster and Chesterfield have no travel costs attached to cost
Beth has delivered sessions at many schools over the last 15 years here is some feedback received.
St Joseph’s Handsworth: “They clearly got a great deal out of the day and came back to the classroom buzzing about it” N Frankish
Arbourthorne: “Thank you very much for your fantastic storytelling sessions this week “ Catherine Nowill
“The children were really engaged and excited by the stories – a lovely fun experience for them.” Carol Jenkins, Balby Primary Year 1
Please also contact for teacher and student workshops on using storytelling in the classroom and scroll down for prices and information about setting up a session.
Pricelist and important information about my sessions!
Points to consider when booking a storytelling session:
- My storytelling sessions are very interactive and energetic and I limit total performance time to 4 hours.
- Each storytelling session needs to be 35-55 minutes for children to get full experience. I recommend 1-4 classes in a session.
- My prices are very reasonable and are inclusive of prep/props/insurance/DBS so do consider booking one full and one half day if you have a big school.
- If teachers and support staff are present in the session it will help make the most of the session in follow-up work
- I’m happy to suggest work to follow-up storytelling. Making props, mini theatre shows, puppets, storyboarding, masks are excellent ways to help children digest the stories.
- Please ensure there is at least one adult with EACH class, ideally two with EYFS.
- I can tell and set up a storytelling space in a classroom or hall – it needs to be a place where there is minimal traffic and noise.
Look forward to hearing from you!
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