Story Exchange Project: Empowering pupil voice through drama worldbuilding - Impact Report

The Story Exchange project was a 2 year project (2021-2023) co-developed between Bowling Park Primary in Bradford and Story Makers Company, a practice-based research centre, at Leeds Beckett University. Working with artists, teachers and children, cross eight inner city schools. The project focused on co-creating an imaginative and culturally relevant curriculum through drama and storytelling with a focus on oracy, language and verbal and non-verbal communication development with children ages 7-10 years old across schools. Five artists co-planned, co-taught and co-reflected with teachers across schools, using a coaching approach as they embedded a story-making curriculum within the foundation subjects.